Results 141-160 of 1,325 for speaker:Ciara Conway

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Protection Services in the Midlands: Tusla (7 May 2015)

Ciara Conway: It seems as though this number of files could not have gone unnoticed unless there was a breakdown in the system.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Protection Services in the Midlands: Tusla (7 May 2015)

Ciara Conway: On the issue of IT, am I correct that the child protection service has its own database and method of collecting information for when somebody presents or is it still operating a paper based system? I know one was piloted in 2003-2004.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Protection Services in the Midlands: Tusla (7 May 2015)

Ciara Conway: Are there children's services committees in all 17 areas?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Protection Services in the Midlands: Tusla (7 May 2015)

Ciara Conway: Is Laois-Offaly one of the places where there is no such committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Protection Services in the Midlands: Tusla (7 May 2015)

Ciara Conway: It is not established.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Protection Services in the Midlands: Tusla (7 May 2015)

Ciara Conway: I am speaking up for my former profession in that it is very easy to blame the social workers. What Deputy Fleming said is very distressing - that people give up. However, as professionals who work with children, we all have a responsibility to protect children. If gardaí, public health nurses or school principals give up on these referrals, the existence of the children's services...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Protection Services in the Midlands: Tusla (7 May 2015)

Ciara Conway: Often when we respond to a crisis we focus on structures. My concern is this must be about the practice, which gets lost. I am delighted Mr. Jeyes meets the inspectors. This all happens at senior level but the children about whom we are speaking live in Laois or Offaly and not in a boardroom in Dublin. The change needs to happen locally. I understand Mr. Jeyes has a responsibility to...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Inter-Country Adoptions (7 May 2015)

Ciara Conway: 115. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding an adoption agreement between Ireland and Russia; the progress that has been made on the issue, to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17943/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (28 Apr 2015)

Ciara Conway: 179. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of the need to dredge the harbour at Helvick Pier, An Rinn, Dungarvan, County Waterford; if he will prioritise and ring-fence funding to be used for this purpose as a matter of urgency in view of the fact that the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is currently unable to launch its lifeboat at low tide and the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation (21 Apr 2015)

Ciara Conway: 512. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update in relation to progress on a community nursing unit to replace St. Patrick's Hospital in Waterford city; if planning has been submitted; if so, when a decision is due; if the tendering process has begun; when same is expected to conclude; if he will provide a time frame for the building of this much needed and long promised...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation (21 Apr 2015)

Ciara Conway: 513. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that St. Patrick's unit in Waterford city will meet the Health Information and Quality Authority environmental standards for re-registration of public residential care services in July 2015; the measures that are being taken to ensure that St. Patrick's unit will comply with these guidelines in view of the fact that at this stage the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation (21 Apr 2015)

Ciara Conway: 514. To ask the Minister for Health regarding St. Patrick's unit in Waterford city, if he will provide, in detail, the contingency plans that are in place should the current unit fail to meet the new Health Information and Quality Authority environmental standards; if he will provide a projection as to the number of patients and clients who could be affected; the arrangements that are being...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Litter Pollution Fines (15 Apr 2015)

Ciara Conway: 754. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of fines for dog fouling that were issued by Waterford County Council, Waterford City Council and Waterford city and county council for each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13875/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (31 Mar 2015)

Ciara Conway: 228. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will introduce a scheme of educational supports and training to assist full-time carers of children with disabilities and other special needs, whose children are now of an age that they no longer require full-time care, and who never claimed a carer's allowance but now have no entitlement to a social welfare payment. [13164/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Records (26 Mar 2015)

Ciara Conway: 193. To ask the Minister for Health the current location of the medical records, including the birth registers and the ​maternity ​theatre registers, ​and the type of records held, ​on site and off site, ​relating to maternity and obstetric services provided at ​St. Munchin's Regional Maternity Hospital in County Limerick in ​each of the years...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Mar 2015)

Ciara Conway: As Deputy Mary Mitchell O'Connor outlined, the committee's main agenda is health promotion. On a number of occasions the special rapporteur for child protection has sat in front of us and the only recommendation he has made is that we ban sports sponsorship by drinks companies to protect children. I am sorry if I countenance his opinion above all others that have been offered. He has made...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Mar 2015)

Ciara Conway: It does not damage one's health or kill people.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Mar 2015)

Ciara Conway: We are talking about health policy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (24 Mar 2015)

Ciara Conway: 603. To ask the Minister for Health if he will supply cardiology department treatment figures for all hospitals in the State, with the exception of University Hospital Waterford, that carries out coronary procedures and percutaneous coronary intervention services; if these figures can be supplied for each cardiology department for the years 2008 to 2014; and if he will make a statement on the...

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhionannas Pósta) 2015: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Mar 2015)

Ciara Conway: My good friend and colleague, Deputy John Lyons, spoke about the equal right to civil marriage, regardless of sexual orientation and gender. Equally, it is a great source of pride for parents around the country to submit their child's wedding photograph to the local paper, whether it is the Longford Leaderor the Waterford News and Star. I cannot wait for Deputy Lyons's ma to be able to send...