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Seanad: Welfare and Safety of Workers in the Public Health Service: Motion (22 Feb 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Annie Hoey: ...thought of as smiling, happy people who were there to help us in our time of need. Now, we associate the public health service, unfortunately, with chronic understaffing, an overworked staff and a feeling, certainly based on what we heard at the health committee, of an unsafe environment for workers. With this shift in perception, there has also been an ongoing increase in assaults, be...

Housing and Evictions: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2023)

Duncan Smith: ...to speak on accommodation for international protection applicants. The Labour Party has strong concerns about the profiteering we are beginning to see, with people who want to profit off the misery of people feeling the impact of war entering this space. They are buying properties, trying to flip them over to the State at a high profit and see this as a cash cow, rather than as a...

Co-ordination of International Protection Services: Statements (16 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...to joining with so many others from across the State on Saturday afternoon for the Ireland for All solidarity march, which will show the extraordinary warmth and generosity people across the county feel for those who have come here. However, issues with the accommodation of people arriving here have arisen. As the Taoiseach acknowledged in his opening remarks, some are now being left...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...in touch with can get on with their work and get the mapping done, get consents and start putting infrastructure on the water in order that we can meet our energy needs as a matter of urgency. I feel frustrated and that is what I am trying to say to the Minister.

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Alan Kelly: ...life when she was dealing with all of us as friends, and there are some watching down here, including John Wall, that she never left anything unsaid. Everything had to be said and dealt with; your feelings and how you expressed your relationship with her and to her. Her deal with me was that nothing would be left unsaid. My condition and my promise was that nothing would be left undone....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...of the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, in bringing forward a memo to Government on the establishment of a citizens' assembly on drugs. Deputies and Senators from different political groups feel strongly about the citizens' assembly being a real force for change. We want the voice of the service user, the drug user, to be central to the deliberations of the citizens' assembly on...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...campuses at this time. Last week, we saw what may have been a racially motivated attack at a Luas stop near Technological University, TU, Dublin, which has left a number of students in the area feeling afraid. No student should fear for his or her life in a place of education. It is terrifying that people would target individuals based on the colour of their skin or where they believe...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Fees (14 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...welcome and things are going in the right direction. The Minister is making all of the right noises in terms of reducing third level fees to where they were 25 years ago. Does the Minister not feel that an additional measure or gesture could be made from Government to reduce the fees of a small cohort of students by €1,000, in line with everybody else?

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...supplementary welfare allowance scheme. That scheme is enshrined in legislation for a reason, which is that it would allow for discretion on the part of the local community welfare officer. We feel there is a departmental policy now to try to squeeze that as much as possible. The Minister will say an increase of approximately €17 million has been paid out in additional needs....

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised) (14 Feb 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...responses when it came to the southside - Stepaside Garda station comes to mind - where a Minister could jump in and make things happen. The overall point is about morale within the force. There is a feeling that people are leaving the force because of issues such as Deputy Kenny has outlined, but if morale is at such a point, then it affects the security of the State and people's belief...

Emergency Housing Measures: Motion [Private Members] (9 Feb 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Duncan Smith: ...what the economic situation in the State. We need to build, continue building, and build some more, and continue to drive down the cost for citizens in paying rent or being able to afford housing. We need to continue to do that. We feel a million miles away from that. This motion does not capture the Labour Party's housing policy. This motion is an emergency housing motion for the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (9 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...is made by a Department's deciding medical officer, very often it poses questions as to the legitimacy of that decision. Given the weight of the medical evidence that has been submitted, people feel understandably annoyed where their initial applications are turned down and, in many cases, the decisions are overturned on appeal. There are still quite a number that do not reach oral...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...There is a nurse here and I want to thank her for coming in and sharing her testimony. She has elaborated on the impact the assaults are having on her and her colleagues. Does she go into work every day feeling safe? I cannot believe that in 2023 in a committee, we are asking the question, "Do you even feel safe going into work?" I cannot believe that we are at that. We should not be...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Seán Sherlock: ...scheme is flawed because we know there are so many who are excluded because of this legislation. We know that quite a number of people will not have access to healthcare. All we are seeking, in what we feel is a very reasonable way, is that the Minister shift a little bit towards the position the Opposition is promulgating. Within the very limited means we have, we want to at least...

Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...those of certain ethnic backgrounds. When the Garda Commissioner makes comments about every body cam having facial recognition technology, those are two major changes in one which we need to be careful about. Let me put the position of the Labour Party clearly. We are in favour of body cams on gardaí. We feel they would protect the member of the public and the member of An Garda...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...else they are having themselves and it is quite simply organised thuggery. That is all happening in the milieu of a vacuum around this situation, whether that be from a Government or another level. I feel this is running away from us and the situation in some areas is already out of control. We in the Labour Party had a public meeting on Monday night in Drogheda which was invaded by...

Seanad: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Statements (1 Feb 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...to reinstate this position, but recruitment for this position is not where it needs to be. There has been no national director for mental health since 2016. I was president of USI in 2016, which feels like a lifetime ago. That is a long time for us not to have that national director. We need to reform the Mental Health Act 2001 to ensure children's rights are protected when they access...