Results 61-80 of 5,269 for speaker:Joan Collins

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (19 Sep 2024)

Joan Collins: 74. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a step-by-step explanation of how the Housing Agency’s cost rental tenant-in-situ scheme operates, particularly in relation to the independent valuation; if the Housing Agency has its own valuators; the limit that the Housing Agency can bid; and if a percentage tolerance is built into the Housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (19 Sep 2024)

Joan Collins: 96. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the calculation of the acquisition cost guidelines for the Dublin City Council area in relation to the cost rental tenant-in-situ scheme; and if he will provide practical examples. [36779/24]

Childcare: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2024)

Joan Collins: I am sharing time with my three colleagues. I am supporting the Private Members' motion from Sinn Féin on this childcare payment, as I would support any Private Members' motion calling for more money to be put into people's pockets. Childcare is one of the biggest costs to working families and it is a growing cost that is pricing parents, particularly women, out of employment. It is...

CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)

Joan Collins: The Apple tax ruling shows who this country is run for. This is a country run by the rich for the rich. We are a wealthy country but working-class people and communities and rural communities see very little of this. The top 1% in Ireland has €232 billion in wealth whereas the bottom 50% owns €9 billion. There is an inequality crisis in Ireland. There is a deep need for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Constitutional Amendments (18 Sep 2024)

Joan Collins: 410. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he intends to hold a referendum on the public ownership and management of water and the right to housing. [36788/24]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Workplace Relations Commission (23 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: 4.To ask the Taoiseach if timelines for pay restoration and WRC payments (details supplied) will be provided. [31327/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (23 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: 595.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she agrees that a school (details supplied) has to expand its autism-special needs classes as it does not have enough to cater for children in the community. [30992/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (23 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: 655.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 243 of 2 July 2024, if a school placement will be expedited for a child (details supplied). [31560/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (23 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: 668.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 66 of 11 July 2024, if she will provide the number of known children who have to date no school place for September 2024, by catchment area; and the number of vacant places by catchment area, in tabular form. [31749/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (23 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: 1622.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a proposed investigation task force (details supplied). [31191/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Legislative Measures (23 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: 1674.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to clarify the proposed veterinary medicine statutory instrument (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32394/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Co-operation (23 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: 1982.To ask the Minister for Health the reason the reimbursement of €1,928 for cataract surgery under the cross-Border directive has been reduced by the HSE to €863 (details supplied); and if he will request that the decision be reversed. [30970/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (23 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: 2124.To ask the Minister for Health to provide the full complement of therapists, public health nurses, and so on, that make up the health staff in Curlew Road health centre; the number of health staff from all grades that have been transferred to Armagh Road and/or Old County Road health centres; the number of health workers that have been recruited since April 2023; and the number that have...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (11 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: I welcome that Uisce Éireann will now be audited. It is about time. Its 2023 accounts will probably not go to the public accounts committee until next year, however, as it will not produce its report until the end of 2024. I am putting on record the issues that are happening within Irish Water. The Minister of State made the point it is not a publicly owned regulated utility. That...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (11 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: According to Irish Water-Uisce Éireann's 2023 annual report, published last month, there was €10.57 million paid in bonuses to the company's staff, a 7% increase on 2022. We know from previous annual reports these bonuses are stacked towards the top earners. In 2021, bonuses averaged €6,560 per staff member, yet the top earners received €19,171 each. There was...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (11 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: I know we are quite tight for time. Perhaps the Minister of State will come back on a few of these things in a few minutes or later on. There have been no NCSE applications in a number of secondary schools in the Dublin 12 area. Will the Minister of State use the section 37A process on those schools? I think she knows the names of the schools. I gave them to her as part of the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (11 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: 66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children with special needs, to date, who have no school place for September 2024, by catchment area; her plans to ensure these children get places near to where they live; and the number of places vacant to take these children, by catchment area. [30278/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (11 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: This is a very specific question to specific issues in my own area in Dublin 12. I would welcome the Minister of State’s response.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (11 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: I have looked back at the announcements made last December when the previous Minister of State, Deputy Madigan, stated that the Department would increase services into the schools. The Minister of State said the NCSE announced a new campaign on 16 October 2023 to recruit additional special education needs organisers and this recruitment is well under way. Can she tell me how many additional...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (11 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: 78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will use the 37A process on three schools (details supplied). [30276/24]