Results 1-20 of 91 for going forward speaker:Frank Feighan

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Sports Facilities (5 Mar 2024)

Frank Feighan: I thank the Minister of State, and I look forward to the application process. He said that the Government's fundamental aim in its national sports policy is to increase the levels of participation in sport and physical activity across the population. This has a specific focus on less represented groups, including women and girls. A lot of good progress has been made in Sligo, and I want to...

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (25 Jan 2024)

Frank Feighan: ...Germany or Holland, in the summer or winter, I always ask why we cannot have their facilities in Ireland. We can have them only if people like the witnesses, from various communities, get up and go with an idea and bring it to their local authorities and the Government. I believe funding is available. A lot of work has been done over the years, but, with the Green Party in government, I...

Investment in Football: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2023)

Frank Feighan: I thank the Deputy Ó Ríordáin and the Labour Party for bringing this motion forward and I thank Members for coming here today. As a former secretary of Boyle Celtic, and the first to get a grant from the lotto of £20,000 for the County Roscommon District League in 1987, I can say that this a most important motion. Soccer has come out of the doldrums since the ban. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disabled People's Organisations and the Implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (1 Jun 2023)

Frank Feighan: I thank the witnesses. It is great to have them here. I have listened intently and I do not want to go back over what other members talked about. I am new to this committee, given I was previously a Minister of State at the Department of Health with responsibility for the national drugs strategy and health and well-being. This committee is very much united, and both the Chair and the Vice...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation (25 May 2023)

Frank Feighan: ...quite clear to Steve Baker, the Minister of State for Northern Ireland, that this is simply unacceptable. We listened to members of Wave and many victims' groups that are horrified by it. We have very good support in the House of Lords and among many MPs. Steve Baker said there would be a few amendments to that Bill. I have not yet seen those amendments but I look forward to seeing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability Inclusive Social Protection: Discussion (11 May 2023)

Frank Feighan: ...but as I probably have missed one or two things, if I repeat some of the questions please forgive me. I am delighted to see Mr. Meere and he said he had some journey and I really admire anyone who goes back to university. In the job here, we have an interview every four or five years with 50,000 people and I often wonder if I could go back to third level education, so well done. Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Frank Feighan: ...John Bradley saying there was limited communication over the years between Northern Ireland and southern Ireland that led to that lack of shared knowledge. Knowledge is everything if we are going to have an agreed Ireland. I have always felt that Ireland, despite having so many hundreds of thousands of people working in the UK, had a siloed effect too until we joined the EU. I genuinely...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Engagement with Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2023)

Frank Feighan: ...here and thank them for the great work they are doing. The shared island initiative has been innovative and successful. I have been a member of the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement for well over ten years. Over that ten years, we have been talking about the Narrow Water Bridge project. I was at the location with members of the Fine Gael Northern Ireland...

Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Motion (21 Feb 2023)

Frank Feighan: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, for bringing forward this motion approving the establishment of a Citizens’ Assembly on Drugs Use. I also thank all of the other stakeholders, the Members of the Dáil and Seanad and the many people who have pursued this in a very measured way. I am delighted that, after many years, the citizens’ assembly will start. I want...

Dublin City Safety Initiatives and Other Services: Statements (Resumed) (17 Nov 2022)

Frank Feighan: ...city. There was huge positivity here today, and that is lovely to see. I think of places such as Trinity College, the Guinness museum and brewery, and Christchurch and St. Patrick's. I think of going to Croke Park, Dalymount Park and Lansdowne Road, as we still call it, and even Glenmalure Park and Richmond Park. Those are really happy memories. Dublin is our capital city and we are...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (29 Sep 2022)

Frank Feighan: I outlined earlier the unprecedented level of investment made by the Government since 2021 to improve diagnostic and post-diagnostic care and support for the 64,000 people with dementia throughout Ireland. Last Wednesday was World Alzheimer's Day. This provided an opportunity to reflect on what more we need to do to ensure people with dementia can live well as valued citizens of this...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Abortion Services (19 May 2022)

Frank Feighan: ...the revised model of care for termination of pregnancy services from a clinical and patient safety perspective. The purpose of the review was to consider whether the revised model of care should be retained going forward. This review was completed and submitted to the Department. Having regard to the experiences during Covid-19 and the review work undertaken, consideration of the model...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (5 May 2022)

Frank Feighan: ...at University Hospital Limerick, the latest figures in March 2022 show that this applies here also, with 100% of urgent and high-grade referrals seen well within the set targets. There is ongoing work to continue to build capacity in the services to ensure that this remains the case, and further improve timeframes for low-grade referrals that are currently slightly outside national...

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Frank Feighan: ...of the numerous constructive observations on the Bill. In addition, the relevant officials from the Department have been taking notes of all queries, comments and issues raised today as they look forward to the passage of the Bill to Committee Stage. Much reference was made to the issue of international surrogacy by essentially all the speakers. I reiterate that it was the Minister,...

Social Welfare (Payment Order) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Feb 2022)

Frank Feighan: ...about opposing the Bill but, rather, acknowledging that the matters it covers are currently under review by the child maintenance review group, allowing time for group to conclude its work and allowing the Government time to consider the group's recommendations in their entirety rather than make piecemeal changes now. Child maintenance is a hugely important issue for families where parents...

Easing of Covid-19 Restrictions: Statements (2 Feb 2022)

Frank Feighan: I am sharing time with the Minister of State, Deputy Butler. I very much welcome this opportunity to update the House on the Government's easing of the Covid-19 restrictions. I am joined by the Ministers of State, Deputies Butler and Rabbitte. Ireland has reached a major crossroads in our management of the Covid-19 crisis and, as we reflect on our journey to this point, we should...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Departmental Funding (20 Jan 2022)

Frank Feighan: ...have been notified of a recent email, purporting to be from the North Inner City Drugs and Alcohol Task Force, informing local services that the task force is no longer in a position to function. This follows the resignation of the outgoing chairperson and the impasse that has arisen regarding the appointment of a new independent chairperson. The Department is concerned with this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

Frank Feighan: The Chair has highlighted this issue on many occasions. The points he has articulated, along with Deputies Lahart and Brophy and many others, came out in the report. I am looking forward to calling out. I was hoping to call out before Christmas. Unfortunately, I got Covid and I was off for three weeks. As well as this, we had the lockdown. I want to go out as soon as I can and meet...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

Frank Feighan: ...highlighted that issue. The Chairman spoke about emerging trends. We have, in one aspect, tried to deal with emerging trends through the funding of €850,000 over three years and the €240,000 going to the relevant community healthcare organisation, CHO. The emerging drug trend and drug checking working group published a report in September. It contained a considerable...