Results 61-80 of 327 for long speaker:Joan Collins

Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: ...12 Autism Support Group said: We welcomed this step as a more streamlined process with prompt timelines between the Ministers Department corresponding with schools. Currently the 37a process is a long winded one and the longer the time spent with paperwork the longer there are children without appropriate school placement. It's our view that improving the 37a process should also involve...

Autism Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Jun 2022)

Joan Collins: ...here again after all their years of campaigning. However, there is a need for their presence. I see the Minister of State is nodding. I hope this will spur her on to push for action moreso than long-term strategies. We know what we need. We must fill the children's disability network teams, CDNTs. This was supposed to be the new and positive step forward in moving children out of...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart Vótála ag Aois 16) 2021: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Vote at 16) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jun 2022)

Joan Collins: ...educated and study a wide range of subjects. They are very capable of understanding the political system. 3. The earlier young people engage in politics, the greater the chance that they will sustain a lifelong interest and commitment to voting and participation in the democratic process. 4. At 18, young people move away from home to college, training or work and they then fall through...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 May 2022)

Joan Collins: ...for mental health and older people launched the implementation of the Sharing the Vision policy and it should have been well flagged if there was a problem. It should have been addressed a long time ago if we were having staffing problems in the area six or eight months ago. This happened in 2017 and it has to be resolved immediately.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 May 2022)

Joan Collins: ...mental health treatment units, which would be in contravention of their human rights. The reductions will mean young people will face increasing difficulties in accessing care in a situation where long delays can have a devastating effect on families and children in need of early intervention. What has happened makes a mockery of the Sharing the Vision policy, which followed A Vision...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services Staff (19 May 2022)

Joan Collins: ...-hour week and are filling vacancies at weekends. On the issue of the retention of medical scientists in labs, they are losing workers every day and are being forced to fill gaps. For patient safety in the long run, and as part of public health policy, the Government should be thinking outside the box. The only Department that does not seem to have attended these talks is the Department...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services Staff (19 May 2022)

Joan Collins: ...a State registered medical scientist with a level 8 degree. In January 2020, against a backdrop of a severe and growing recruitment and retention crisis among medical scientists, the MLSA renewed its long-standing claim for parity of pay and career progression with clinical biochemists and sought engagement with the HSE and the Department of Health. By way of a timeline of the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 May 2022)

Joan Collins: ...further. It also deals with inequality and we know over a million people were pushed below the poverty line in the past year. He stated Ireland has always been a high cost-of-living country and long-standing issues that elevate our costs include consistent failure in planning and public service delivery. He was asked what targets could be achieved between now and October, and some of...

Subsidies for Developers: Motion [Private Members] (18 May 2022)

Joan Collins: ...30% of the homes for public housing, 20% for affordable purchase and the other 50% will be sold privately, and, no doubt, the State will end up renting a significant number of these homes under HAP, rent allowance or long-term leasing. In the worst-case scenario, an approved housing body will buy the majority of private homes for a vastly inflated cost to house tenants in public housing...

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

Joan Collins: ...more time to get its ducks in a row. Deputy Hourigan is to be congratulated on maintaining her principled position but, obviously, she will not have an opportunity to vote freely on the motion. She, along with other members of the Green Party who had a very strong position on this, will have to make a decision about their place in their party. The Government and the parties...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disability Services (12 May 2022)

Joan Collins: 132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average waiting time for accessing an autism behaviour therapist (details supplied); and if she will take steps to resolve the long waiting times for the new school year in September 2022.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23585/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 May 2022)

Joan Collins: 152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will introduce a long-term plan for the provision of the July provision in each school. [23588/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Apr 2022)

Joan Collins: ...strong word. It is an extraordinary statement but unfortunately it is true. That includes Ireland and Europe. It is now time to recognise that extreme climate change cannot be averted, never mind limited, as long as the current socioeconomic system of capitalism remains in place. It is a system where eight men have as much wealth as 50% of the poorest world population; where in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: 444. To ask the Minister for Health the six sites at which the HSE will establish specialist acute hospital clinics for long Covid; and the services that will be provided in them. [17308/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (31 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: 445. To ask the Minister for Health if the senior occupational therapist position in St. James’s Hospital will be maintained into the future for long Covid patients; if occupational therapists will be an essential service under the model of care for long Covid clinics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17309/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: It is the long term that we have to look at.

Committee Report on Key Issues Affecting the Traveller Community: Statements (3 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: ...I thank the organisation for doing that. President Higgins was at National University of Ireland Galway to mark Traveller Ethnicity Day on Tuesday. A report on the occasion stated: "On a day when the long and sometimes difficult journey of travellers was being honoured, he said it was vital that society would never be slow to point to what has yet to be achieved." I will conclude on...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: I have been contacted by a number of patients who attend St. James's Hospital for long Covid and they advise me that the post of senior occupational therapist, OT, at the hospital's post-Covid clinic is ceasing due to funding issues and that the senior OT will no longer be part of the post-Covid clinic. This has been a really important part of the care for patients. I wrote to the CEO of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (3 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: ...process could not be followed in relation to St. Michael's. I am disappointed that we are still talking about the third quarter of 2022 for the planning application to go in. We do not know how long it will take for the planning application to be approved or not. I urge the Minister to push the council as much as possible to get its act together. Not only is a full-time Dublin City...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (3 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister. Can he give us an indication of how long he thinks the process will take when the planning application goes to the unit? Is he talking about January, February or March 2023, or will it take longer? The Minister said that a new unit has been set up.