Results 181-200 of 5,096 for speaker:Joan Collins

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (25 Oct 2023)

Joan Collins: 160. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to clarify if all children in a school (details supplied) will have access to services; and what the plans are to broaden these hours and services in the school. [46819/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (25 Oct 2023)

Joan Collins: 182. To ask the Minister for Health the reason laboratory services are unable to cope with important routine blood testing; and if phlebotomy services are temporarily closing in other hospitals (details supplied). [46823/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (25 Oct 2023)

Joan Collins: 183. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is a change to the GMS payment for family practices (details supplied); if a new arrangement has been negotiated with the HSE and Revenue; and if the HSE has considered the ramifications. [46824/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (25 Oct 2023)

Joan Collins: 185. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is no scheme in place to reimburse the cost of the shingles vaccine (details supplied); and if he will administer a blanket vaccine, as with the over-60s flu and Covid vaccine, or bring in a form of reimbursement. [46826/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (24 Oct 2023)

Joan Collins: 380. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the local employability service in south Dublin which has been supporting community since 2004 has been advised that services are to go to public tendering (details supplied). [46707/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (24 Oct 2023)

Joan Collins: 623. To ask the Minister for Health the reason patients waiting for gynaecology outpatients are being advised that “due to the increased demand for gynaecology services at the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital, waiting time routine appointments may exceed 52 weeks”; and what plans the HSE and the hospital have to resolve these waiting lists (details supplied). [46704/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (24 Oct 2023)

Joan Collins: 624. To ask the Minister for Health if he is concerned that children’s health may be compromised due to the lack of staff in Limekiln Lane Health Centre, the Old County Road health centre and Curlew Road health centre, Dublin 12 (details supplied); the staff level rates and vacancy rates in these three centres; how many staff have been recruited since May 2023; and how many staff have...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Oct 2023)

Joan Collins: A number of constituents have contacted me about the shingles vaccine following the HSE's advertising campaign telling people over 50 that it is important to get the vaccine. One woman went to her GP, thinking she could get the vaccine there, but was told she needed a prescription to take to a chemist. At two different chemists, she was quoted €460 and €480, respectively, for...

Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Joan Collins: We have a moral duty in respect of what we are witnessing happening to the Palestinian people right now. The cutting off of food, electricity and water is the definition of a war crime and a collective punishment. It is a clear sign that when one side has the power to shut off the basic needs of the other, that is not a conflict; it is genocide. This is the continuation of a 75-year...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2023)

Joan Collins: The EU passed that directive in recognition that increases in the minimum wage, as the Taoiseach mentioned, are no substitute for workers' ability to negotiate their own pay and conditions. That means a greater ability for workers to negotiate with their employers through their unions. The Taoiseach said that the minimum wage has been increased, which is welcome. Any increase in income is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2023)

Joan Collins: First and foremost, I want to send my solidarity to the Palestinian people and all living under siege in Gaza now. What the State of Israel is doing now is a war crime. It breaks international law. I can think of no other words to describe it than ethnic cleansing. We are speaking on this issue later but I want to call again on the Government to condemn the Israeli state and to put...

Funding for Persons with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2023)

Joan Collins: I welcome the groups in the Public Gallery this evening who have come to listen to the debate. I thank Deputy Tully for bringing this motion forward. I congratulate and express solidarity with the section 39 workers who deal with health and disability services, the section 56 workers who deal with services to children, and the section 10 workers who deal with homeless services. They...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (17 Oct 2023)

Joan Collins: 203. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the intention of the overtime element of the new ERO legislation was to see security workers paid time and a half for every hour worked over 48 hours (details supplied); and if not, his plans to close this loophole that employers are now taking advantage of to avoid paying their workers time and a half rates. [44995/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Control of Dogs (17 Oct 2023)

Joan Collins: 425. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any of the recommendations from the interdepartmental working group which has been examining issues under the Control of Dogs Act (details supplied) have been implemented and if he will provide details on the recommendation on signage of the by-laws on dogs in parks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44934/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Control of Dogs (17 Oct 2023)

Joan Collins: 646. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if any of the recommendations from the interdepartmental working group which has been examining issues under the Control of Dogs Act (details supplied) have been implemented and if she will provide details on the recommendation on signage of the by-laws on dogs in parks. [44935/23]

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Joan Collins: None of us on this side of the House can say that there are no measures in the budget which people will welcome. There is no doubt about that. It is very much the fundamentals I wish to deal with in respect of the budget and previous budgets. This is a budget to buy time for a broken system which the Government does not have the political will to fix. It is a budget which will increase...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Joan Collins: Anything extra going into people's pockets is welcome, even if they were underwhelming increases of €4 in some cases. What I saw today, however, as did most people in this country, was a Government that is out of touch. We live in a time of declining standards of living. Wages have fallen behind inflation and there are record figures for homelessness and evictions, as well as record...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (10 Oct 2023)

Joan Collins: 323. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a benchmarking report (details supplied) has been submitted to Government; and if so, when the report will be published. [43655/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (10 Oct 2023)

Joan Collins: 490. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant rheumatologists at St. James's Hospital in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [43589/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (10 Oct 2023)

Joan Collins: 491. To ask the Minister for Health the way the €2.1 million allocated in 2023 for the full resumption of dementia specific day care services will be spent, in tabular form. [43590/23]