Results 721-740 of 5,269 for speaker:Joan Collins

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Traveller Accommodation (1 Dec 2022)

Joan Collins: I agree entirely with Deputy Ó Cuiv. There seems to be a mealy-mouthed response across the board to the Travelling community. If a Travelling family goes to their local authority and says that it needs to change their caravan as it is 20 years old or whatever, they should be able to access the money to do it. It should not be a question of continuing to sleep in the cold. We have had...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Traveller Accommodation (1 Dec 2022)

Joan Collins: Where is it then?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Traveller Accommodation (1 Dec 2022)

Joan Collins: Will the Minister of State provide the evidence about what was drawn down last year and the beginning of this year?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Traveller Accommodation (1 Dec 2022)

Joan Collins: One of the recommendations of the Joint Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community was: The audit [in recommendation No. 68] should include the mobile homes or caravans that are used as permanent dwellings. In the case of people/families wishing to remain living in caravans/mobile homes where they are deficient, they should be immediately replaced by new caravans/mobile...

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Nov 2022)

Joan Collins: I welcome that. The Minister has said it will be completed by quarter 2 and in September 2023, social welfare will be linked into the budget for 2024. I welcome that and, on that basis, I will withdraw my amendment.

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Nov 2022)

Joan Collins: I move amendment No. 8: In page 8, after line 32, to insert the following: “(1) Within three months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall prepare and lay before the Oireachtas a report on the benefits, or not, to benchmark and index welfare rates against inflation.”. The Minister knows I raised this last week and before that. Age Action Ireland has performed a...

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Nov 2022)

Joan Collins: I fully support this amendment. We have a duty of care to health workers, cleaners etc., in particular, to those workers we asked to work in retail shops, and to all those working in areas on the front line. If we received a report on this, we might then seriously consider there should be an occupational illness for people with Covid-19. I have met so many people in my constituency who...

Drugs Policy: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2022)

Joan Collins: I thank the Labour Party for bringing this Private Members' motion to the House. It is the start of a conversation that must go much deeper than what is outlined in the motion. I will explain that in a moment. I seek a commitment from the Minister of State that a citizens' assembly on drugs will be put place in the first quarter of next year. If it is the case that one is to set up, a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (29 Nov 2022)

Joan Collins: 75. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a specific clothing allowance as an exceptional needs due to the energy and cost-of-living crises (details supplied). [59202/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (29 Nov 2022)

Joan Collins: Will the Minister provide a specific clothing allowance as an exceptional needs payment due to the energy and cost-of-living crises? A constituent came to me a couple of weeks ago who was looking specifically for a clothing allowance. I sent the form in to see whether I would get a response on it. The guidance states that the "Additional Needs Payment is a payment to help you with an...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (29 Nov 2022)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister. The information on the additional needs payment gives a list of who can get the payment. The guidance states: You can get the Additional Needs Payment to help you with an expense that you cannot pay from your weekly income. For example: - An increase in your fuel or electricity costs - Essential repairs to property, including motor vehicles ... - Funeral costs...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (29 Nov 2022)

Joan Collins: That is not what it states.

COP27: Statements (29 Nov 2022)

Joan Collins: The Swedish eco-activist Greta Thunberg famously described COP 26 as a load of "blah, blah, blah". She went a bit further with COP 27 describing it as a sham that provides a platform for "greenwashing, lying and cheating". There is also plenty of blah at COP 27, and none better than from our Taoiseach. If you were to believe the Taoiseach, you would think Ireland is leading the world in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2022)

Joan Collins: We have been waiting for a referendum and a wording to come forward for six years. It has been six months since the policy document was published and we still await wording and a date. It is an absolute disgrace. I have received correspondence from water service workers. They say they want a referendum now. The wording must be that the ownership of water and water service are to remain...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2022)

Joan Collins: We have been waiting for years.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2022)

Joan Collins: The workers were not allowed vote for it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2022)

Joan Collins: I raise the issue of the local authority water service workers again. I have raised it a number of times. I raise it today because there are only three weeks until the Dáil recess and the changing of the guard from the point of view of the Taoiseach and five weeks until the commencement date of the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, framework plan that affects up to 3,500 workers. ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (29 Nov 2022)

Joan Collins: 80. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if social protection incomes will be raised by €20 instead of €12 given the high cost of living and in view of buoyant tax revenue (details supplied). [59200/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Welfare Services (29 Nov 2022)

Joan Collins: 84. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will re-allocate community welfare officers back into the community in which they were originally placed, if not full-time but at least for two to three days a week (details supplied). [59203/22]