Results 961-980 of 5,269 for speaker:Joan Collins

Services for Children with Disabilities: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: I thank Sinn Féin and particularly Deputy Tully for tabling this motion on services for children with disabilities. At the end of last year I submitted a question to the HSE and got a very detailed six-page reply on CDNTs, the SOP, preliminary team assessment, resources and so on. According to that reply, all our problems were solved. It stated that the SOP for the assessment of need...

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

Joan Collins: I want to again raise the issue of the need to set up a cost of living hardship emergency fund to be distributed by community welfare officers in order that families can access the resources they need for things like fuel and food, and for those community welfare officers to be in the community, like they used to be. I welcome the fact community welfare officers are at the airports,...

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

Joan Collins: They cannot access this through the community welfare officer.

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

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

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: Who is giving the Government the advice? Is it the Chief Medical Officer?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: Hospitals are coming under major pressure because of the number of Covid-19 patients in hospital beds. There were 1,395 such patients yesterday. That figure is up 29% in the past seven days. There are 55 patients ICU, up from 44 a week ago. Yesterday, 22,000 positive polymerase chain reaction, PCR, and antigen tests were registered. Anne O’Connor, chief operations officer with the...

Rising Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (22 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this Private Members' motion and welcome the opportunity to speak to it. The significant increases in energy prices, and the knock-on effect on inflation in general, mean many individuals and families now face a severe cost-of-living crisis and there is no guarantee this crisis will go away any time soon. Even if, in their current talks, Ukraine and Russia...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: The Government agreed to have a public hospital on public land.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Traveller Community (22 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: 138. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the electricity rebate will be passed on to members of the Traveller community who pay electricity bills directly to local authorities; and if so, the way that this will be processed. [14437/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (22 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: 299. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the review of the Large-Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14893/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (22 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: 471. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) will be offered a school placement in September 2022. [13942/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (22 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: 515. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an autism class has been proposed for a school (details supplied). [14486/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (22 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: 1032. To ask the Minister for Health the level of staffing of the Armagh Road children’s disability network team; and the breakdown of staffing (details supplied). [14777/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (10 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: 66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the opening date for autism classes in schools (details supplied) in Dublin 12; the reason for the delay in opening the classes; and if they will be open for September 2022. [13665/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (10 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: My question is to ask the Minister the opening date for autism classes in schools in Dublin 12, the reason for the delay in opening the classes and if they will be open for September 2022. This is a follow-up question to the question I asked on the previous occasion regarding the capacity of schools in the Dublin 12 area when the Minister of State felt there was capacity in the area. I met...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (10 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: The autism community and myself are well aware of the good work that has gone on to date. There has been an increase in classes. We welcome that but, as the Minister of State said, there are still pinch points. Holy Spirit Junior Primary School has been out to tender for an autism class for the past number of years, yet there is still no movement on it. I welcome that the Minister of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (10 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: I welcome those few points the Minister of State made about Scoil Úna Naofa. With regard to Drimnagh Castle, an NCSE report a number of years ago stated: The school had reported that it does not have the physical space to accommodate any new classes, and therefore has advised the NCSE that it is not in a position to establish ASD Special Classes. School management report that there...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: It was already voted for in Private Members’ time.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: That is not good enough.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: This is one of the biggest projects facing the country for women.