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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]

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

Joan Collins: 492. To ask the Minister for Health the number of craniosynostosis surgeries performed at CHI Temple Street in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [43591/23]

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

Joan Collins: 493. To ask the Minister for Health the way the €2.7 million allocated for the implementation of the national strategy for accelerating genomic medicine in Ireland will be spent in 2023, in tabular form. [43592/23]

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

Joan Collins: 495. To ask the Minister for Health the counselling services offered within the adolescent addiction services; and the number of staff within these services. [43606/23]

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

Joan Collins: 496. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite centres in CHO7 in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [43605/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Research and Training (10 Oct 2023)

Joan Collins: 497. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost in 2024 to provide an additional 120 GP training places. [43610/23]

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

Joan Collins: 498. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to establish a centre of excellence for adult deficit hyperactivity disorder; and the costs of these plans. [43611/23]

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

Joan Collins: 499. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vascular stenting procedures carried out in each public hospital in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [43612/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (10 Oct 2023)

Joan Collins: 501. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the establishment of a National Psychology Placement Office; and the funding for this establishment, including staff costs. [43615/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (5 Oct 2023)

Joan Collins: 14. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to intervene and arrange a meeting with the NTA with public representatives and a resident representation regarding the removal of several bus routes in Dublin (details supplied), as to date the NTA has refused to do so. [42970/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (5 Oct 2023)

Joan Collins: 64. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he stands over the NTA’s refusal to meet public representatives and residents following a request from this Deputy to meet the NTA before it attempts to implement changes to bus services (details supplied). [42973/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 Oct 2023)

Joan Collins: After months of repeated reports of systematic non-payment of wages, sick pay and holiday pay, Iceland workers are now facing mass redundancy, as we have seen that company loaded with debt and run into the ground by the boss, Mr. Naeem Maniar. The Government stood by and let this wage theft happen, despite multiple appeals by the union representing workers, that is, the Independent Workers'...

Childcare Fees: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2023)

Joan Collins: 8 o’clock I thank Sinn Féin for bringing this motion to the Dáil. I have been working with a group of small childcare providers in my constituency and I was happy to stand with them, and with hundreds of others, last week at the Federation of Early Childhood Providers' demonstration. The Taoiseach said the demonstration was "not warranted" and caused "great...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2023)

Joan Collins: Absolutely. I agree 100%.

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Agency Bill 2023: Second Stage (28 Sep 2023)

Joan Collins: I am delighted to be speaking on the Bill. I welcome its introduction to create a DSGBV agency. There is widespread support for this move. It is a positive step forward in providing services for the victims of this violence. Ireland has no real infrastructure to deliver co-ordinated DSGBV services, and what services do exist are grossly under-resourced and underfunded. The point has been...