Results 281-300 of 1,325 for speaker:Ciara Conway

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Ambulance Service Review: Health Information and Quality Authority (2 Dec 2014)

Ciara Conway: We asked about national standards.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Ambulance Service Review: Health Information and Quality Authority (2 Dec 2014)

Ciara Conway: Who made those appointments?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Ambulance Service Review: Health Information and Quality Authority (2 Dec 2014)

Ciara Conway: People were slotted in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Ambulance Service Review: Health Information and Quality Authority (2 Dec 2014)

Ciara Conway: Or degrees.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Ambulance Service Review: Health Information and Quality Authority (2 Dec 2014)

Ciara Conway: We should, as a matter of course, ask whoever is responsible for HR in the HSE to come before us immediately because this situation is outrageous.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Ambulance Service Review: Health Information and Quality Authority (2 Dec 2014)

Ciara Conway: My question is an amalgam of the issues raised by Deputy Ó Caoláin and Senator Colm Burke. I am sorry to refer back to Deputy Ó Caoláin's tragic personal story. The report mentioned that people do not have technical expertise. Is Mr. Quinn saying that people in the ambulance response unit do not have the technical expertise to deploy an ambulance that is closer than the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (26 Nov 2014)

Ciara Conway: 47. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason equipment needed for citizens, and specifically children, with special needs is charged at the higher VAT rate; his plans to reduce the rate of VAT on special needs equipment in view of the fact that it places an extra financial burden on support groups, particularly voluntary groups; if there is any means by which voluntary organisations that...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments (26 Nov 2014)

Ciara Conway: 85. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties that have been caused nationwide and that are anticipated in coming weeks due to a delay in appointing nine Circuit Court judges to fill vacancies that have arisen recently; if she will commit to making these appointments as a matter of urgency; the timeframe regarding same; and if she will...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospice Services (25 Nov 2014)

Ciara Conway: I thank the Minister of State. I am really delighted that the palliative care unit is in the capital plan for the HSE. Other governments reneged on their promises to the south east and Waterford in this respect. The fundraisers and activists behind this issue are glad to see a finishing line. In respect of life-limiting illnesses, the Minister of State is absolutely right that this is not...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospice Services (25 Nov 2014)

Ciara Conway: I am glad to have the opportunity to raise this matter, which I have raised previously at the Joint Committee on Health and Children. Currently, Waterford is without a hospice and it is not only Waterford that is affected but the whole region of Waterford, Wexford, Carlow, Kilkenny and Tipperary, taking in a population of 0.5 million. As we approach 2015, we are still in the shameful...

Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2014)

Ciara Conway: Deputy Mattie McGrath is getting his water from Waterford.

Topical Issue Debate: Free Travel Scheme Eligibility (18 Nov 2014)

Ciara Conway: Agreed.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Data (18 Nov 2014)

Ciara Conway: 271. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a breakdown of the numbers of prisoners currently being held in solitary confinement in the prison system here, whether for the purposes of ensuring their own protection or otherwise; her views on this as an appropriate and humane action in view of the acknowledged impact of isolation on mental health; and if she will make...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Drugs Crime (18 Nov 2014)

Ciara Conway: 282. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has statistics or findings that would suggest methodone is being sold illegally or if there is a black market for this heroin substitute here; the steps she is taking to combat this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43938/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Staff (18 Nov 2014)

Ciara Conway: 328. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his attention has been drawn to opposition to plans to introduce a graduate placement scheme for social workers on the basis that it implies that newly qualified, CORU registered social workers are not fully qualified and entitled to take their place in the workforce at the appropriate salary level together with the assertion that it...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (18 Nov 2014)

Ciara Conway: 380. To ask the Minister for Health the supports and treatments that are available to support methadone users here; the initiatives under way to help citizens combat their methadone addiction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43939/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (18 Nov 2014)

Ciara Conway: 390. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the addictive properties of methadone which give rise to its own set of addiction problems, if the Health Service Executive is considering alternatives to methadone as a treatment for heroin addiction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44033/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Food (18 Nov 2014)

Ciara Conway: 418. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on efforts to establish a Health Service Executive working group to develop a sustainable and patient centred healthy food policy to be implemented throughout all its hospitals and facilities which will encompass procurement, catering, cooking, serving and waste minimising; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44203/14]

Allegations Regarding Sexual Abuse by Members of the Provisional Republican Movement: Statements (12 Nov 2014)

Ciara Conway: I attended one of my first political gatherings as a young 13 year old child. It was a peace rally in the wake of the Warrington bombing. My mother and father packed the buggies and prams into the car as there were quite a few of us and we stood proudly with our candles in Ballybricken in Waterford calling for peace in our country in the wake of so many young lives being needlessly lost. ...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Records (11 Nov 2014)

Ciara Conway: 359. To ask the Minister for Health the location of the medical records, including the birth registers and the ​maternity ​theatre registers, for each year from 1951​ to ​1995,​​ inclusive, relating to maternity and obstetric services formerly provided at ​Airmount​​ Hospital, County​ ​Waterford, ​under...