Results 161-180 of 5,632 for freedom of information

Investment in Healthcare: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

John McGuinness: I am delighted we are having these statements because it gives us all the opportunity to put on record what we believe should be done in health or our views on the various aspects of the policies of health. I am sure there is nobody else in this House who will appreciate more than the Minister himself that what gets counted gets done. Is that what we are doing? I have been here at various...

Seanad: Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Frances Black: The Minister of State is very welcome. Obviously, the attacks on innocent Israeli citizens have to be condemned by all right-thinking people. I echo this condemnation. However, I am acutely aware that while we sit here debating the correct language to use and the correct diplomatic approach to take, genocide is unfolding before our eyes. Israel's defence minister described the people of...

Trends in Mortality and Estimates of Excess Mortality: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: This has been a useful exercise, in that a lot of information has been put out there by the Minister of State and others. Deputy Colm Burke had no difficulty in reeling off a lot of useful figures. Particularly since we entered the Covid period we have been dealing with a lot of disinformation and misinformation. There have been some who will abuse the data and others who fall prey to...

Seanad: Provision of Free HRT Treatment: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...Players Association on how female players are not being treated on parity, and here we are talking about another issue where we are not treated on parity. As others have said, the experiences of menopause are incredibly diverse from one woman to another. It is a pervasive challenge that many women face. I welcome the discussion and thank Senator O'Reilly for tabling the motion. There...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay Commission Recommendations on the National Minimum Wage: Discussion (18 Oct 2023)

Paul Gavan: ...away. It is great to see Mr. Courtney again. If I may, I want to start by taking up an issue that arose the last time he appeared before the committee. I will quote from the transcript of the meeting where he said to me: "Some actually say to us that they do not want to be put in a situation where if one increases their wages or their living wage to a certain amount, that it costs...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Ms Aoife Conduit: I thank members for the invitation to address the committee as part of the pre-legislative scrutiny process for the general scheme of the education (supports for survivors of residential institutional abuse) Bill 2023. I am an assistant secretary in the Department of Education with responsibility for a number of areas, including the State’s response to residential...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (18 Oct 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The Report, entitled 'A Review Into Certain Planning Matters in Respect of Donegal County Council', by Mr. Rory Mulcahy S.C., received by my Department in June, 2017, remains under consideration. This matter is extremely complex and requires very careful consideration. My Department is engaging with various stakeholders on this matter, namely the Attorney Generals Office and the Office of the...

Funding for Persons with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The measure of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable. It is 22 years since the Supreme Court ruled that the son of Kathy Sinnott, who had autism and an intellectual disability, was not eligible for schooling past the age of 18. One of the most striking headlines I ever read in a newspaper was that by Victoria White in the Irish Examinerto the effect: "Happy 18th Tom, the State has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Canada: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

Professor Jocelyn Downie: I thank the committee for the opportunity to speak with it on the topic of assisted dying in Canada. By way of background, I am a professor emeritus in the faculties of law and medicine at Dalhousie University in Canada. I am a member of the Order of Canada and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. I have been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Departmental Matters: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence (17 Oct 2023)

Cathal Berry: Correct. The budget from October 2022 left us with the impression that the funding was X, but his understanding is that it was X minus €32 million. That would be of concern to this committee, if it were true. Is it the case that an attempt was made, and was the attempt successful? Can we get copies of that correspondence? I presume the reporter got it on foot of a freedom of...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Data Protection (17 Oct 2023)

Leo Varadkar: In reply to Parliamentary Question No. 133 of 3 October, 2023 the Deputy was notified of two instances of a data breach identified within the Department during the past decade. The case in 2016 arose on foot of a complaint by an individual made to the Data Protection Commission (DPC) in 2017. The complaint concerned an allegation that a breach had occurred by way of the unauthorised...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Government's disastrous approach to housing has meant record rents, record numbers of adults in their 20s, 30s and 40s stuck living in box rooms and childhood bedrooms, record numbers of people living in homeless emergency accommodation and now, shamefully, record numbers of children growing up without a home. At the same time there has never been such an opportunity to solve the housing...

Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)

Seán Canney: I thank the Cathaoirleach for allowing me to speak. I am not a member of this committee. I welcome Mattie Quinn and Pat O'Looney, who are here. Anna Cronin, the other soldier among them, is at a wedding today in County Kerry and cannot be here. I also welcome the witnesses, especially Mr. Fitzmaurice, who is new to the role of the chief officer of CHO 2. Mr. Ryan's opening remarks...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Current Issues Facing Members of the Defence Forces: Representative Association of Commissioned Officers (3 Oct 2023)

Mr. Conor King: The likes of a bounty, or whatever it is colloquially called in different armed forces, is something on which we have made a very detailed and costed submission. I do not have it to hand but I can send it to the Deputy afterwards. As I said earlier, we were invited to make submissions on the various projects of the high-level implementation plan, one of which was termed...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Data Protection (3 Oct 2023)

Micheál Martin: My Department can provide the following information in relation to data breaches. When the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force on 25 May 2018, my Department was required under Article 33(5) to document information relating to personal data breaches. The number of data breaches in my Department in each of the past seven years and to date in 2023 are outlined in the table...

Committee on Public Petitions: Reform of Mental Health Services: Discussion (28 Sep 2023)

Pat Buckley: I hear Mr. O'Sullivan's pain. I was lucky enough to be spokesperson on mental health in the last term so I am well aware of budgets and where money should be spent and where it is actually being spent. There are choice words that I would not use in this committee because I would not be allowed to use them. I see Mr. O'Sullivan's point about CORU. Whatever number it will be, you have to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2023)

Mr. Michael D'Arcy: As the Deputy knows well, this is a challenge. If I may assert a limited level of knowledge, learned a long time ago when studying political science at University College Dublin, UCD, it is very hard to get away from economics in the North being political. With the UK outside the European Union and the nature of the UK constitution, every item of legislation is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023) See 4 other results from this debate

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for the presentations and, in particular, solidarity with the families. When did CHI receive its first freedom of information request relating to the high rates of complications and the use of unlicensed implants?

Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (27 Sep 2023)

Réada Cronin: I will speak about amendments Nos. 35 and 36. I commend my colleague on the wording because it echoes back to the words of the Proclamation in the hall outside about the right of the people to the ownership of Ireland. I will speak about two issues in my constituency, Kildare North, involving two key heritage sites, one of which is Connolly's Folly. I am raising this issue as I was once a...