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Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (27 Sep 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: ...Government needs to do a whole lot more to deliver the overlapping aims of addressing sustainability and climate change, bolstering energy security and resilience and creating a just and affordable system. The facts, while stark, are simple. The cost of energy is sky high and out of line with the rest of Europe. Arrears are spiking, with the latest figures from the Commission for...

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Second Stage (12 Dec 2019)

Denis Naughten: ...in January 2016, I referred to a recent - at that stage - "survey of doctors conducted by the Medical Council [which] showed that only half would report instances of significantly impaired or incompetent colleagues". I suggested that this was "a damning indictment of the profession and of the culture" that existed in the profession at the time. I continued: Where there has been...

Seanad: Civil Liability (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2018: Second Stage (4 Jul 2018)

Simon Harris: ...a serious patient safety incident and for any apology. The apology cannot, for example, be interpreted as an admission of liability and neither can it be used against the provider in clinical negligence actions. It is about providing a safe space for someone to say something went wrong, here is what happened and to say he or she is sorry. Neither can the information and apology...

Fatal Road Traffic Collision in County Monaghan in 2011: Statements (31 May 2018)

Gino Kenny: ...before 2 August 2011 would know Shane should be alive today. We should not be talking about Shane O'Farrell: he should be living his life with his family. One would have to be completely incompetent or complicit to accept as an accident the circumstances that led up to the events of the 2 August 2011. This was an accident waiting to happen because of gross negligence and missed...

Building Standards, Regulations and Homeowner Protection: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2017)

Catherine Martin: ...of people in Ireland have been affected by poor quality housing following the building boom of the past 20 years; - the record of the current Government and the previous Government is one of clear failure to properly regulate the building industry and of regression of building standards; - there is a commitment in A Programme for a Partnership Government to provide quality housing; -...

Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2017)

Clare Daly: ...could have represented an excellent opportunity to address the deficiencies in the existing lump sum model for compensation by replacing it with periodic payment orders, but in order for such a system to work, the periodic payments have to be linked to the right index. It will not work otherwise. It must ensure that annual payments remain pegged as closely as possible to the future cost...

Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second Stage (10 May 2017)

David Stanton: ...by the courts about the absence of legislation to enable periodic payments orders in appropriate cases. At the outset, I acknowledge the work carried out by the High Court working group on medical negligence and periodic payments in bringing this matter to the fore. Since the publication of the working group’s report on this issue, the Department of Justice and Equality has worked...

Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Statements (28 Jan 2016)

Pat Rabbitte: ...valuable public hearings would have collapsed if some of the more simplistic criticisms had prevailed. I will return to this critical issue of inquiry by parliamentary committee. Let us take as read the failure of the Central Bank, the incompetence of the Financial Regulator and the dereliction of duty and negligence of the Fianna Fáil and Green Party Government. The rot started...

Seanad: Courts Bill 2015: Second Stage (7 Dec 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...not oppose the legislation, the purpose of which is to address the problems associated with the significant increase in the number of cases coming before the High Court, including judicial reviews, medical negligence cases, asylum applications and company law-related applications. However, it would prove more fruitful to tackle the causes of these problems before they reach court....

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Enda Kenny: ...Hall. This was a scandal. I do not believe, however, that every single developer or contractor should be branded in the same way as those who put together Priory Hall. It is not just in one instance that negligence or incompetence occurred because there were systems failures along the line. Deputy Martin raised an important point about Horizon 2020 and the agri-sector, which has...

Topical Issue Debate: Commission of Inquiry (27 Nov 2012)

Finian McGrath: ...concerns are these. Fr. Niall Molloy who died in Clara, County Offaly, on 8 July 1985, died as a result of a series of fatal blows to the head. The original investigation team committed errors of negligence and incompetence. There was a failure to retain vital evidence found at the murder scene. There was a broken watch which would have determined the time of the killing. There was a...

Commission of Inquiry into Banking Sector: Statements (20 Apr 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Nyberg report published yesterday places the blame for Ireland's financial crisis squarely in the hands of Ireland's troika of incompetence, that is, the Central Bank, the Financial Regulator and the Department of Finance. Regulation was weak, banks were greedy, profit was king, the media were complicit and so on. While the Nyberg report places blame on the Irish players for the...

Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2010)

Enda Kenny: ...last Sunday is a bad deal for Ireland. It has been forced on us because the Taoiseach and his fellow Ministers ran up such debt over the last ten years. Their inept supervision of the banking system, along with their negligence and arrogance, led to the collapse of that system. The Government refused to face the reality of these problems and the extent of its failures. As part of the...

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Second Stage (4 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: ...insane sums of money on the security of properties whose values could never be maintained, are not allowed to return to their old ways. We must ensure that people who have behaved with gross incompetence are not allowed with ease to involve themselves independently in business matters. Everything possible must be done to ensure that debts incurred are discharged. The same applies to the...

Macro-Economic and Fiscal Outlook: Statements (27 Oct 2010)

Enda Kenny: ...having held two days of meetings at Farmleigh House and Government Buildings. At present, depression, anxiety, concern and fear stalk the land. This is because of the Government's catastrophic failure to deal with reality in the clear-eyed fashion to which the Taoiseach referred. Hundreds of thousands of people have genuine fears and concerns about their future and security. They have...

Seanad: Report by Commission of Investigation into Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin: Statements (3 Dec 2009)

Ivana Bacik: ...to the small proportion of abusers who were convicted. At best, the church turned a blind eye to their activities and at worst it facilitated them over several decades. We should condemn the failure of both church and State authorities to deal adequately with the horrific sexual abuses against children. I will speak briefly about the findings of the report before addressing the lessons...

Medical Practitioners (Professional Indemnity)(Amendment) Bill 2009: Second Stage (14 Oct 2009)

Liz McManus: ...and care for very sick women. In the year in question, 2007, the HSE was not even capable of keeping within its budget. A supplementary estimate of €244 million was drawn up because of a failure of management that drew criticism from the then Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Cowen. He said he was not satisfied that the HSE was giving sufficient priority to tackling the causes of its...

Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Second Stage (23 Feb 2007)

Liam Twomey: ...dealt with by the council do not go much further than the discussion and mediation type process mentioned by the Minister, but a small number of cases are incredibly significant. These concern negligence, incompetence and abuse of power. These cases are the ones we must root out and the ones with which we are concerned in this legislation. There are currently approximately 9,000 doctors...

Health Services: Motion. (14 Nov 2006)

Liam Twomey: ...for our health service. I feel strongly about this issue and I am absolutely shocked at the way Ministers have responded. A reign of terror against elderly patients was benignly described as a systems failure by the HSE. On Friday, the Minister, Deputy Harney, poured out what can only be described as useless regret when she stated: "We are learning lessons from this, and we are...

Morris Tribunal: Motion. (21 Jun 2005)

Joe Costello: ..., bullied, blackmailed, assaulted and framed by gardaí in the course of a murder investigation where no murder had occurred. The House also heard that senior gardaí in Donegal were complicit or negligent in the sham investigation. The House heard that Garda headquarters had responded inefficiently and ineffectively. In addition, the House heard that the Department of Justice, Equality...