Results 541-560 of 5,204 for speaker:Joan Collins

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

Joan Collins: From listening to the Taoiseach's earlier statements, it is clear that even he has lost faith in the ability of the Government to deal with the housing crisis. Out of one side of his mouth, last January he said things could be even worse, but out of the other side comes the Government's policies we are all supposed to be reassured by. The Government knows its policies are not working and...

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

Joan Collins: I object to the Minister for housing leaving the Chamber at this point in time; I really do.

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

Joan Collins: Exactly, he is not the Minister for housing.

Finance Bill 2023: Second Stage (21 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: I will speak to what should be but is not in the Finance Bill. Inflation and prices have risen this month, despite the Government’s assurances that inflation would reduce during the year and its decisions to start removing the few supports people had to help them during the cost-of-living crisis. The Government seems to think that fiddling around with VAT and excise rates, while...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pension Provisions (21 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: 186. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason the 3% increase for retired members (details supplied) has not been cleared at Ministerial level when it has been cleared by the company since July of 2022. [13058/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (21 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: 900. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if families with children and those who are in bad health will remain in a hotel (details supplied). [12515/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (21 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: 1134. To ask the Minister for Health the way the €750,000 allocated in Budget 2023 for trainee counselling psychologist courses will be used (details supplied). [12285/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (21 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: 1141. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that attended the accident and emergency department at St. James's Hospital from the 1 January to the 31 December 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [12292/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (21 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: 1142. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of staffing all emergency departments with liaison psychiatrists for three years, in tabular form. [12295/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (21 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: 1143. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost when he establishes an international expert working group to examine pre-term births to reduce neonatal mortality rates. [12307/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (21 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: 1144. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of running each of the sexual assault treatment units in 2022, in tabular form. [12308/23]

Education (Inspection of Individual Education Plans for Children with Special Needs) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: It is education.

Education (Inspection of Individual Education Plans for Children with Special Needs) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: I will resubmit the questions when we come back after the break next week. There is a distance between what we are hearing officially and what is happening on the ground. Parents feel that the 40-plus children put into that special school were just put into a building and did not get the wraparound services they need. There is an occupational therapy room in the school but no occupational...

Education (Inspection of Individual Education Plans for Children with Special Needs) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: I will begin by reading into the record the contents of the Bill that Deputies Tully, Guirke and Ó Laoghaire have put forward. It reads as follows: An Act to amend the Education Act 1998 to grant additional functions to the Inspectorate to examine and report to the Minister on the prevalence and standard of individual educational plans for children with special educational needs on an...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (8 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: It is shameful.

Protection of Cash as Legal Tender: Motion [Private Members] (8 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: I thank the Rural Independent Group for tabling this Private Members' motion. I support it. While the move away from cash during Covid was understandable, cash remains an important part of life for many people in this country. There is real need for cash in society, whether it be for elderly people who might not know how to access digital services, people with disabilities who need access...

High Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: It seems this Government thinks the cost-of-living crisis has been dealt with for now. It has ignored calls from groups like Age Action and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul for proper increases to core social welfare payments of at least €8 to €12. It ignored calls for the fuel allowance to be given to more people on fixed and low incomes. It took away badly-needed supports...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: The Government has decided to lift the eviction ban in the public interest. Thousands of people face losing their homes when the ban is lifted on 1 April. It is understood that more than 2,000 households might have faced eviction over the winter months. On top of that, extra people have received notices to quit since November. I do not know the exact figure, but I imagine it is at least...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: Where are those 650 emergency beds?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: Will the Minister provide the House with that information?