Results 81-100 of 5,269 for speaker:Joan Collins

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

Joan Collins: 105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 224 of 28 May 2024, and her statement that the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is working with the mother of the young child trying to get a school placement (details supplied), if she will liaise with the NCSE to attempt to find a place for the child in the new school. [30279/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: I have raised this issue before but I want to raise it again before the recess. Workers in community and voluntary sector posts not in receipt of funding through HSE channels are not technically section 39 organisation workers. I refer to workers in organisations such as local drugs and alcohol task force groups. Such workers have been excluded from pay restoration and WRC processes. In...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: That would be appreciated.

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: I welcome this motion and I commend the Social Democrats for bringing it forward. Adopting a zero-tolerance approach to domestic, sexual and gender-based violence is absolutely crucial in the context of what we have seen in recent times. Every week there seems to be another issue of violence against women or undermining of women in their sporting careers, their workplace, or when they are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (10 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: 282. To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied). [30115/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: Last month, we saw the "RTÉ Investigates" programme on the horrific and illegal conditions at the Shannonside Foods Limited abattoir in Straffan, County Kildare. The plant has now shut down, which I welcome. Having looked through the record of the committee on agriculture meeting on the matter, I was left with serious concerns as to how this situation was allowed to arise. These...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: This is a very healthy discussion, teasing out the issues here. The IPA report highlighted the issue of illegal dumping in particular. We do not have details on what it actually costs to collect that waste. That cost, or the cost across different cities, is not included in any of the reports we have. I reckon it is quite substantive. It is local authorities that collect that waste, not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: Should a campaign be run on this issue? To give a simple example, we held two public meetings in Ballyfermot and Crumlin. We went out with a sheet to ask people to sign a petition on the re-municipalisation of waste. There is huge support for that among communities in Ballyfermot and Crumlin based on the huge cost increases by private waste collection companies over the past number of years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: I was elected to Dublin City Council as a councillor in 2004, as part of the anti-bin charges campaign. At the time I remember that the polluter pays aspect was a strong argument made to bring in charges and change the waste collection services. To me, the polluter pays principle means that the polluter pays, and not when you recycle green bins, brown bins, or you bring your stuff to the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Agreements (9 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: 501. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the ongoing delay in Ireland ratifying the Budapest Convention, which, apart from cyber crime, is also a renowned convention to stop child pornography; and to provide a likely date for when we will proceed with this. [29466/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Agreements (9 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: 523. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the ongoing delay in Ireland's inability to ratify the Budapest Convention (details supplied); and the date when Ireland will proceed with this. [29465/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Reviews (9 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: 520. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she intends to scrap article 19A of the Criminal Evidence Act 1992 (details supplied); and if she will ensure that article 19A does not apply to child victims of sexual abuse. [29443/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Reviews (9 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: 521. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she intends to remove Article 19A of the Criminal Evidence Act 1992, whereby in certain criminal cases the private counselling/therapy records of the victim of sexual abuse can be made available to the accused (details supplied). [29449/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Agreements (9 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: 522. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the likely date of ratification of the second optional protocol on the UNCRC on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, as Ireland is now one of only 20 countries yet to ratify the protocol. [29462/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (9 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: 670. To ask the Minister for Health the situation regarding beds at St. James's Hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29149/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: 672. To ask the Minister for Health the reason patients from an area (details supplied) are being directed to Santry; and the number of patients who have been redirected from a named health clinic to the Santry south side. [29160/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: On 18 April, I asked the Minister of State, Deputy Butler about the lack of public health nurses across the Dublin 8 and Dublin 12 areas, especially regarding childhood development checks. The reply given to me by the Minister of State was that it was not a funding issue or a moratorium issue, it is due to a lack of public health nurses for that area. She said she would bring my concern...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: You said you would intervene.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: There has to be an interim solution.