Results 41-60 of 5,269 for speaker:Joan Collins

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister but I am not very happy with that response. He refers to this being a specific WRC case. The case has been adjudicated upon. The centre has been told to pay Marianne the 85 cent extra, that is €14.85 per hour. That has gone through and it has been done. What I am raising is that we have a public body not implementing the WRC adjudication. If one has public...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: The centre was able to pay a private company to represent it, is able to pay other workers a pay increase but it will not implement the WRC adjudication.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: I have been dealing with the case of Marianne Byrne, a worker at the Cobh Heritage Centre in Cork. Marianne is a low-paid worker who has given 26 years of dedicated service. She was offered a 50 cent per hour increase by her employer after 16 years without a pay increase. Colleagues in a similar position were given raises of €1.50 an hour. Cobh Heritage Centre justified this paltry...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: Double child benefit payments should not just be for Christmas as the Minister referred to in her Christmas babies speech. They should be for childhood. That is why the Government should have implemented the second tier of child benefit recommended by the ESRI and many other organisations fighting for children's rights. That is why, in order to make real progress and reduce child poverty,...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: My contribution will be an overview of the budget and its context. It was a huge opportunity for the Government to examine the fundamentals in our society that need to be addressed. Instead, this budget is the final nail in the coffin for any idea that Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party Government has any plans or intentions to address the problems the country is facing. They...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (1 Oct 2024)

Joan Collins: 201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to allocate extra time for students with dyslexia, dyscalculia and other learning difficulties in second level education (details supplied). [38791/24]

Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)

Joan Collins: I hope this Bill is the first step in counteracting what I think is a process of profit-chasing by the banks by removing vital in-person infrastructure and services. I hope it is the start of the urgent action needed to ensure everyone has access to cash and banking services and is able to use cash across the economy. Most people have felt the effects of year after year of branch...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Joan Collins: I also support Cara and her call for the optional protocol of the UNCRPD to be ratified. I ask the Tánaiste to do that before the end of this Dáil's term. I want to follow up on an email I received from a constituent about the fact that the fuel allowance has not increased since 2020. Between 2020 and 2022, household energy bills more than doubled, totally eroding the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Joan Collins: It has not increased the actual amount.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Joan Collins: I refer to targeted supports.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Joan Collins: They were once-off payments that do not deal with the issue.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Legislative Programme (24 Sep 2024)

Joan Collins: 112. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will introduce the horse-drawn carriages Bill, which was listed on his legislative programme for summer 2024. [37958/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (24 Sep 2024)

Joan Collins: 175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to escalate a new school bus route (details supplied) and grant approval for same. [37545/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (24 Sep 2024)

Joan Collins: 542. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 7 of 2 May 2024, the progress made on the issue of pay restoration and the WRC agreement for workers (details supplied); when these workers will be paid now that the Department is aware of this issue and is exploring the way the matter can be resolved in a timely manner. [37896/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Sep 2024)

Joan Collins: I was listening intently to the debate this morning on the tenant in situ scheme. I need to ask the Minister a specific question. I have been dealing with the Housing Agency. A family living in my estate is approved for the Housing Agency's cost-rental tenant in situ scheme. The two-bedroom house went on the market for €290,000. It appears the Housing Agency bid for it but a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Sep 2024)

Joan Collins: Yes.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Sep 2024)

Joan Collins: I do not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Joan Collins: Yes, I do.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Joan Collins: That is why we have the problem.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2024)

Joan Collins: Shame.