Results 1-20 of 324 for long speaker:Joan Collins

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)

Joan Collins: ...of those who lost loved ones. I welcome all those injured in the fire who carry the physical and mental pain of that night 43 years ago. I am glad the families and the parents have fought for so long and hard and never gave up. They have campaigned for truth and justice. They are here today having earned the rightful verdict of unlawful killing and this apology from the State so we can...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Joan Collins: ...its own merits as the funding streams struggle to see the implementation of a pay deal agreed last October. We need immediate action from the Government to ensure pay increases are passed on. The long-term effects throughout services and the risk of further strike action – action diverted last October as a result of Government inaction – are a disaster for workers and...

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Joan Collins: ..., as well as the medics and so on who have helped. The bears strong similarities with how the State treats the record number of people in homelessness, who now number more than 14,000. This is a long-term crisis. As long-time housing activist Diarmuid Mac Dubhghlais noted: This has sadly been a feature of Dublin homeless life for many years now, where we have seen Irish homeless...

Protection of Employees (Trade Union Subscriptions) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: ..., I would be open to an amendment to that. He said the Bill defines the “Act of 1977” as the Unfair Dismissals Act 1977 and we have that in section 8 of our Bill, although he said it is not there. The Minister of State said the Long Title of the Bill refers to “the written notice of the information required under section 6” when the written notice is required...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: ...would be living in those conditions for another two years? I know Dublin City Council is doing something positive with it but those families are being asked to live in those conditions for a long time even though they are probably be looking forward to better conditions after that. Is there any way this committee can work with the Minister to speed these things up?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Feb 2024)

Joan Collins: ...For people living with progressive conditions such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease, access to these teams could help prevent unnecessary disability. There is now more of a need, with long Covid. Can the Tánaiste give a date for the planned community team to be put in place in CHO 7? If the Tánaiste cannot give that date today, will he inquire and give a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Schemes (31 Jan 2024)

Joan Collins: Does the Minister of State know how long that process is going to take because this is happening now?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jan 2024)

Joan Collins: ..., THMs, with the State failing in its obligation to rid public and private water supplies of toxins. The court said that THMs are of concern for human health and the environment, since the long-term exposure to high levels of chemical compounds in drinking water may pose risks such as cancer, in particular, bladder and colon cancers, and can cause gastric problems and skin irritation....

An Bille up an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Joan Collins: ...welcomed. We should not be too self-congratulatory. Parts of our Constitution are not just archaic but wrong. The vast majority of people have recognised that they are archaic and wrong for a long time. I saw two quotes from Mr. Éamon de Valera, one about "the laughter of happy maidens" and the other about "the life that God desires that men should live". They were the two...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Joan Collins: ...and Mediation and Environmental Justice Network Ireland to the committee on housing states: The Bill attempts to fulfil promises made in the Program for Government and appease construction and property industry lobby groups who have long complained that excessively bureaucratic processes, over-regulation, restrictive nature protections and “NIMBYs” or...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (6 Dec 2023)

Joan Collins: ...for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how many children are currently waiting for a speech and language assessment in each health district of Dublin city and county; and how long are they waiting. [53981/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (6 Dec 2023)

Joan Collins: 148. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how long after an assessment does a child in each health district of Dublin city and county have to wait until they start the recommended speech and language therapy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53982/23]

Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (28 Nov 2023)

Joan Collins: ...military project. People do not want Irish men and women dying in foreign wars and the triple lock is a fundamental pillar stopping us from being dragged into them. There has been a decades-long push by successive Governments to drag us closer and closer to US and NATO foreign policy. We see it in the shame that is the US use of Shannon Airport for its aggression, going back from now...

Health Service Recruitment Freeze: Motion [Private Members] (21 Nov 2023)

Joan Collins: ...from the HSE budget? What does this look like for people on the ground? I have a letter from the Coombe hospital's gynaecology section, in reply to a question I put from a constituent, saying that waiting lists are so long because of a lack of clinical nursing specialists. It goes on to say this is now compounded by a widespread recruitment freeze. That letter is from the...

Imposing Sanctions on Israel: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2023)

Joan Collins: ...law again and again while Ursula von der Leyen stands on the world stage and offers Israel unconditional support. We have a moral duty to end this genocide. We cannot be a party to it. We can no longer allow our taxes to go to a state that is murdering children and babies and has implemented a decades-long regime of apartheid and ethnic cleansing. Despite the propaganda from both...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child Protection (7 Nov 2023)

Joan Collins: 1057. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth as Ireland has had a very long time to prepare for all that is needed to comply with Article 9 of the second optional protocol to the UNCRC (OPSC), if he has a plan in place, or does he envisage that it will not take too long to put in place. [48268/23]

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Motion (27 Sep 2023)

Joan Collins: ...its affordable-purchase and cost-rental home target by 70%. This year, it has removed the ban on no-fault evictions as it writes policies to grow the rental market. Across the developed world, a long-term ban on no-fault evictions is a litmus test for a stable rental sector. Instead of having one, the Government gives us insecure tenancies, build-to-rent regulations that lead to...

Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 Sep 2023)

Joan Collins: ...the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, to account for the crisis we are in now and have been facing for the past ten or 12 years. It has been clear for a long time that the housing crisis is out of the Government's control. Every report we get sees homelessness hit record after record. Rents and mortgages continue to skyrocket. Every day,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (21 Sep 2023)

Joan Collins: 53. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a person (details supplied) has been waiting so long for their operation. [40651/23]

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Jul 2023)

Joan Collins: ...can also negatively affect the right of medical service providers to access their place of work safely. Evidence shows that the effect of anti-choice protests outside abortion clinics can have long lasting negative effects on a person’s health and well-being and can deter women from accessing the medical care they need. I cannot sum it up better than that. I respect everyone's...