Results 561-580 of 5,269 for speaker:Joan Collins

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pay-related Jobseeker's Benefit Scheme: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Joan Collins: I generally agree with the notion of 60%, or whatever, of a person's income because it protects people from a cliff edge, especially if he or she has expenditure responsibilities. However, there are issues with it and I wish to raise some of them. Maybe some of them will dovetail with what has been said. The main problems are it is a two-tier system, the duration of the payment, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pay-related Jobseeker's Benefit Scheme: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Joan Collins: An extra €1.30 will not have a huge impact on people's income. I am sorry for interrupting. That is just a comment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pay-related Jobseeker's Benefit Scheme: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Joan Collins: Yes, I am happy, thanks.

Department Underspend and Reduced Delivery of Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 Apr 2023)

Joan Collins: When this Government decided to lift the eviction ban at the end of last month, it made a decision to allow a level of homelessness that would have been thought unconscionable before. We have had so many people in our office in the past month with notices to quit, people from all walks of life facing eviction with nowhere to go. They face eviction because it is Government policy now. They...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Joan Collins: I apologise to the Cathaoirleach for coming in late. I have just joined the meeting, so I have not been able to listen to the debate. I will leave it to the members who have been there from the beginning. I will let them ask the questions. It would be rude to do otherwise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Joan Collins: I will ask a question based on what the last speaker said about there being enough expertise. We have seen that come through in our meetings over the past number of months. There have been conferences and we were told there are opportunities and plans are being put in place. What is it that is breaking down? What is it that is allowing the gaps to stay there, even though there seems to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Joan Collins: Does Dr. Matthews mean an implementation strategy or something like that, or checks every so often that things have been put in place-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Joan Collins: -----and what happens on a training level?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Joan Collins: Reinventing the wheel.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Joan Collins: As well as political will, probably, to ensure that it happens.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Joan Collins: We are being told all the time there is no problem with resources or money, yet, in an area where there is a demand, we are not getting the resources. We should try to highlight that. I would like to hear what the representatives think about today's meeting. Task forces were set up in respect of the drugs strategy 25 years ago. All statutory bodies and all the people who had a stake in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Joan Collins: No, I agree with the Cathaoirleach. We did the same thing at the Joint Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community. We agreed we would have a follow-up but that was difficult because it had to be statutory and it has taken almost two years to set that up. At the end of this committee, the follow-up on implementation is starting on 1 June. It is big wheels and cogs.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (18 Apr 2023)

Joan Collins: 504. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter in relation to accommodation for a school (details supplied); if the prefabs will be allowed to go ahead so that the school has the needed extra space on site for September and not elsewhere; if she will find a solution that gives the school and children the space they are entitled to in the future and if the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Fee Paying Schools (18 Apr 2023)

Joan Collins: 505. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how many private schools there are in the State; if she will provide a list of them; and how many have provided special classes for children with disabilities and autism. [16749/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (18 Apr 2023)

Joan Collins: 1392. To ask the Minister for Health when the €1,000 workers pandemic recognition payment will be paid to agency workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16524/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (18 Apr 2023)

Joan Collins: 1410. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16589/23]

Education and the School Building Programme: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: I support the motion being put forward by the Labour Party. There has been far too little action from the Government for the thousands of families waiting for new schools, school modernisation, or school places. The situation is not improving. It just goes to show how seriously the Government is taking this. I received a reply to a parliamentary question from the Minister for Education...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Rights of the Child (29 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: 122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will ensure that the child-friendly booklet on the optional protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child will be made available in schools nationwide alongside awareness campaigns (details supplied). [15631/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of the Child (29 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: 140. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when in 2023 he intends to ratify the second optional protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, namely, the optional protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, OPSC in 2023; and as it stands now, what are the specific legislative barriers that are preventing...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Missing Children (29 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: 141. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to ensure that the 116 000 EU missing children hotline number be on public display at airports and ports. [15611/23]