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

Joan Collins: I have raised several times the severe lack of certain services across the Dublin 12 area due to a localised lack of public health nurses. We have seen resources taken from one centre and given to another, as was the case with the temporary transfer of nurses from Curlew Road in Drimnagh to Armagh Road in Crumlin. There is one public health nurse for child checks and one for older persons....

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

Joan Collins: The question was on the primary care centre.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 May 2024)

Joan Collins: Last night, the Tánaiste said in this House: Today, we mourn with [the families] the great loss suffered by the victims of the bombs of 17 May 1974. We offer our humble acknowledgement of the obstacles [they] have overcome and the mountain [they] have climbed to get your campaign to where it is today. We recognise our own past shortcomings as a State and political system. On this...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 May 2024)

Joan Collins: Yesterday, we welcomed some members of the families of the 27 victims of the Dublin bombing and the seven who lost their lives in Monaghan, along with representatives of the Justice for the Forgotten group, to the Dáil for the debate on Sinn Féin's motion for the 50th anniversary of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings. I welcomed that motion and the families welcomed the fact that the...

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Joan Collins: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this motion. I wish to warmly welcome the survivors, relatives and members of the Justice for the Forgotten group who are in the Public Gallery this evening. I had the privilege of meeting them today for the first time. I have to say that I am disappointed in myself and I apologise to them for not playing more of a role and linking in with them as a...

Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)

Joan Collins: I thank the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach. First, I thank Deputy Harkin for bringing this motion to the Dáil Chamber today. It is a very important discussion to take place. The Minister of State really only referenced the nursing home area in this, and the motion also raised the issue of childcare.

Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)

Joan Collins: Okay.

Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024)

Joan Collins: That is no problem. I did not hear the Minister of State say that. I generally feel that what we are seeing in our childcare and nursing home sectors are the same old repeated failures of this Government and successive governments under Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, with the PDs wagging the tail of the dog a few decades ago with their neoliberal agenda of privatisation of our public...

Progressing Special Education Provision: Statements (9 May 2024)

Joan Collins: I received an email from the Dublin 12 Campaign 4 Autism Inclusion about today's debate. The group asked me to raise special education provision in the Crumlin and Drimnagh areas. They feel they have been forgotten, even though a special needs school, for which they campaigned, opened in Crumlin recently. They say that Dublin 12 still needs autism classes, especially at secondary schools...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (2 May 2024)

Joan Collins: Where does the funding come from to pay these workers, if not the HSE?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (2 May 2024)

Joan Collins: I thank the Minister of State.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (2 May 2024)

Joan Collins: 7. To ask the Minister for Health the reason youth service workers employed through the City of Dublin ETB channel of funding in the drugs and alcohol task forces have not received the October 2023 WRC 8% pay rise or had their wages restored to pre-2009 cuts levels; and what detailed measures the Government is putting in place that pay rises are specifically accounted for in channels of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (2 May 2024)

Joan Collins: I ask why youth service workers employed through the City of Dublin Education and Training Board channel of funding in the drugs and alcohol task forces have not received the October 2023 WRC 8% pay rise or had their wages restored to pre-2009 cuts levels. What detailed measures is the Government putting in place so that pay rises are specifically accounted for in channels of funding?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (2 May 2024)

Joan Collins: That is interesting. I raised this issue on Leaders' Questions again a couple of weeks ago. The way the funding seems to operate with section 10, section 39 and section 56 organisations and all the private charitable status groups makes it difficult to see where an 80% increase in an area has to be met through existing funding. My understanding is the Department of Health has the funding....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (2 May 2024)

Joan Collins: Pre-2009 and the crash, all these workers were linked in with public sector pay and got increases as public sector workers got their increases. That is my understanding from talking to people in the canal drugs task force and other task forces. That link was broken in 2009. I am sure the Minister of State will agree it is a serious issue that these workers have not had their pay restored...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 May 2024)

Joan Collins: The Minister replied to me last May saying that the HSE had established a community nursing national oversight group in 2022. What has that group done? We have known that there is a crisis in public health nursing for the last two, three and four years. What are we doing to fundamentally resolve that issue? It is a postcode thing. Children in areas like Drimnagh, Crumlin, Walkinstown and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 May 2024)

Joan Collins: GPs will not accept parents going to them to look for developmental checks. Parents have tried that. That is not an option.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 May 2024)

Joan Collins: It is left to the parents to ascertain if their children are not well.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 May 2024)

Joan Collins: 22. To ask the Minister for Health the emergency measures the Government will put in place to ensure developmental checks resume in Dublin 8, 10 and 12, given the severe lack of child developmental checks in the area. [19450/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 May 2024)

Joan Collins: It sounds a bit like "Groundhog Day". I have been raising this issue for the last year. I raised it in last March and April in relation to the Curlew Road, Armagh Road and Old County Road health centres. We were told that two teams were to be put into Armagh Road, or rather that there were 4.6 public health nurses between Armagh Road and Curlew Road and they were going to be put into the...