Results 141-160 of 1,319 for speaker:Paudge Connolly

Postal Services: Motion (Resumed) (6 Dec 2006)

Paudge Connolly: I welcome the opportunity to speak in this debate. The local post office is an integral part of our society and the community's social fabric. It offers an ever-widening range of services to the public. Post offices are much more than simply providers of postal services. In many cases the post office also provides a village shop and newsagent. It makes a far greater contribution to local...

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2006)

Paudge Connolly: The provisions of Planning for the Future was never implemented and neither was A Vision for Change.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2006)

Paudge Connolly: It never happened.

Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)

Paudge Connolly: I would like to ask the Taoiseach about long-stay charges levied on community psychiatric patients who live in health board accommodation.

Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)

Paudge Connolly: It does.

Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)

Paudge Connolly: I believe that it does arise on the Order of Business, since these patients are being discriminated against.

Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)

Paudge Connolly: These patients are being discriminated against. Second, perhaps the Taoiseach might clarify whether seven-day, 24-hour accident and emergency services will remain in Monaghan General Hospital.

Order of Business (6 Dec 2006)

Paudge Connolly: I believe that it does arise on the Order of Business.

Written Answers — Accident and Emergency Services: Accident and Emergency Services (5 Dec 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Question 278: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the hospitals where it is proposed to remove seven day 24 hour accident and emergency services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41322/06]

British-Irish Agreement (Amendment) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second and Subsequent Stages (5 Dec 2006)

Paudge Connolly: I wish to share time with Deputies Sargent and Ó Caoláin.

British-Irish Agreement (Amendment) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second and Subsequent Stages (5 Dec 2006)

Paudge Connolly: I assure the Limerick Deputy that I will take the boat down to Limerick from Monaghan next year, given all the promises we have heard recently.

British-Irish Agreement (Amendment) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second and Subsequent Stages (5 Dec 2006)

Paudge Connolly: This Bill, which makes provision for a slight but important adjustment to the British Irish Agreement Act 1999, is welcome. The 1999 Act was one of the fruits to flow from the Good Friday Agreement which, at the time, constituted an historic compromise between Nationalism and Unionism. The majority of Irish people on this island endorsed the Agreement because it afforded them the...

Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Is it cash-driven rather than needs-driven?

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2006)

Paudge Connolly: On a point of order.

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2006)

Paudge Connolly: That is not what the Minister for Health and Children told Oireachtas Members on 9 November, and county council members.

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2006)

Paudge Connolly: I have absolutely no other way to raise this point. The Minister for Health and Children told us a completely different story on 9 November.

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2006)

Paudge Connolly: The Minister told every Oireachtas Member from Cavan-Monaghan that these services are going in two years. I ask my colleagues to stand with me. I have no option.

Nursing Home Inspections. (5 Dec 2006)

Paudge Connolly: On a point of order, I worked in the psychiatric service for 29 years. Every hospital is informed of the date of inspection one month in advance. That was the situation while I worked there.

Nursing Home Inspections. (5 Dec 2006)

Paudge Connolly: Can we take it the same procedure will apply to nursing homes?

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2006)

Paudge Connolly: The people were told something different on the night——