Results 461-480 of 5,145 for speaker:Joan Collins

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (28 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: 96. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will provide evidence that the reduction in positive outcomes for appeals to the Social Welfare Appeals Office related to disability has nothing to do with whether the appeal has been heard orally or conducted in writing. [15196/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (28 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: 106. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in the context of concerns over improper control of her Department over the independent Social Welfare Appeals Office, if there has been a change in Government policy relating to the operation of the Social Welfare Appeals Office. [15192/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (28 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: 113. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the ‘SW56 Introduction to Social Welfare Appeals Office’ information leaflet is no longer sent to appellants to the Social Welfare Appeals Office when their appeals are registered or available on the Social Welfare Appeals Office’s website. [15193/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (28 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: 129. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide evidence around her Department’s assertions that staff members moving into the Social Welfare Appeals Office were experienced staff from within her Department. [15197/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (28 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: 139. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason it is no longer made clear on the Social Welfare Appeals Office’s website that appellants can request an oral hearing. [15195/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (28 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: 306. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the provision that is being made within the tenant-in-situ scheme for tenants who are renting a property with a HAP in one local authority area but receive the HAP and are therefore on the housing list of a different local authority. [15085/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (28 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: 400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the procurement process has been halted for a contractor for a school (details supplied). [14939/23]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Primary Care Services (23 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: This is an absolute disgrace. It is similar to moving the chairs on the Titanic at this stage, from the point of view of the HSE. One primary care centre cannot retain or recruit staff and staff are being pulled out of Curlew Road to fill the gap in that centre. It is crazy. Elderly people are being left anxious about where they will get their care from. They are mainly people with...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Primary Care Services (23 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: I am disappointed that neither the Minister for Health nor any of the Ministers of State at the Department of Health are here because this is an important issue. I am sorry the other Minister of State is leaving because it is to do with the lack of services in Armagh Road primary care centre, which is linked to the special school on Armagh Road, Our Lady of Hope School. We were informed by...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (23 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will deliver a comprehensive programme of in-person continuing professional development to support curriculum change together with specific funding for further school resources. [14237/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (23 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: 85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way the Department will ensure coherence in the system in order that the implementation of the new primary curriculum is prioritised and initiative overload does not occur; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14238/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (23 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will guarantee a reduction of primary class sizes to the EU average of 20, considered as vital for the successful implementation of the framework by an organisation (details supplied) as well the restoration of promotional posts of responsibility; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14239/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (23 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: 117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the dedicated time teachers will be given to engage with, understand, implement and embed the primary curriculum framework. [14236/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (23 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: 123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has been in contact with the Minister of State at the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and the Minister of State at the Department of Health with responsibility for Disability in relation to the ongoing lack of available therapists or therapy services at a school (details supplied); and if so, the...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: I welcome the removal of the acute public in-patient charge. This is a very positive move. I will be supporting the Bill. I also welcome the public contract for consultants. I congratulate the Minister on that; it is a big step. The Bill gives us a chance to reflect on the mess our healthcare system has become over the past few decades. More than two decades ago, when the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: Today is United Nations World Water Day, which promotes water services as a fundamental human right. The theme of the day this year is accelerating change. The Taoiseach recently stated on RTÉ that the right to housing referendum would most likely not be taking place this November along with the referendum on gender equality. He said that the Housing Commission has not yet produced...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: In November.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: The Government has had seven years to do so.

Reform of Carer's Allowance Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (22 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: This motion is full of very detailed, researched information on carers and their lives in Ireland. I will highlight the most important figure in the motion, that is, the €20 billion saved by the State through the 1 billion hours of unpaid care that takes place in families throughout the country each year. Successive Governments have long relied on the unpaid work of hundreds of...

Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: I thank Deputy Ó Broin for tabling this motion. I welcome the Minister back to the Chamber. It was totally disrespectful that he left.