Results 21-40 of 173 for speaker:Joanna Byrne

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (8 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 441. To ask the Minister for Health if care rationing of new home care packages took place in the CHO 8 area in 2024; if so the reason for this rationing or non-allocation of new home care packages; and if this is not currently taking place within this CHO area. [23050/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 456. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a list of apprenticeship courses provided by each of the ETBs individually and the location where each apprenticeship is taught in each ETB; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22954/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (1 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the LMETB headquarters plans for Drogheda; when the project is expected to commence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21844/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Ambulance Service (30 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: The National Ambulance Service, NAS, is the State provider for pre-hospital emergency and intermediate care as part of the wider integrated health system. It is responsible for care from the point a 911 or emergency call is received, through treatment, transportation and handover of the patient to clinical teams at the receiving emergency department in hospital. As we speak this morning,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Ambulance Service (30 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: Increased investment is very welcome and I acknowledge that aspect of the Minister of State's response. However, at the moment, none of it is being directed to where it is needed. This issue in the Drogheda ambulance station has been going on for more than four years, as the Minister of State referenced. He also referenced that HSE officials were themselves shocked at the end of 2021 at...

Unnecessary Hip Surgeries at Children's Health Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (29 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: Who and what company, Department or hospital benefited from that silence because I cannot make sense of that silence other than a cover up of failures? The expert first appointed to conduct the audit, an NHS consultant surgeon from England, resigned over a lack of clarity and confusion about their work. Was that lack of clarity and confusion by design?

Unnecessary Hip Surgeries at Children's Health Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (29 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: The Minister has to understand that these are questions parents are asking us. Last year, a whistleblower was worried that some of these operations at Cappagh and Temple Street hospitals were purely for financial gain. The whistleblower was proved right when the audit my colleague referenced took a sample of 147 cases from 2021 to 2023 across 14 surgeons and three hospitals.

Unnecessary Hip Surgeries at Children's Health Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (29 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: The draft report found that 79% of hip surgeries in Cappagh were not necessary, 60% at Temple Street were not necessary, 2% at Crumlin were not necessary and all those operations cost about €1,600 each. Those figures are scandalous. We have heard about cowboy tradesmen but does this point to cowboy surgeons? These revelations come at the same time as the completion of HIQA's...

Unnecessary Hip Surgeries at Children's Health Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (29 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: There is a history of journalists in Ireland uncovering scandals, including the RTÉ payments scandal, the tracker mortgage scandal and the revelations in the Pandora papers. When questionable hip surgeries in CHI hospitals were raised by a whistleblower and an audit was conducted, this Government stayed silent. It stayed silent on the unnecessary hip surgeries until this scandal was...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 890. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to review the current quota system in operation for the allocation of SNAs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19422/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 891. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a breakdown of schools in the Drogheda School Planning area who have sought an NCSE review of SNA support for the current academic year; the number of these reviews have been concluded to date; and the number of these reviews that are still ongoing. [19423/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 892. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the SENO recommendation made to provide additional SNA resources to a school in the Drogheda School Planning area (details supplied) has been declined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19424/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 893. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to confirm what advice has been given by her Department regarding the SNA quota at a school in the Drogheda school planning area (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19425/25]

Water Services (Repeal of Water Charges) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: When it appeared in the news that a recent briefing document prepared for the Minister, when he was new to his role, listed the finalisation of the draft household water conservation charge regulations as a high-level priority, my reaction, along with the majority of the country, was that they could not be serious. How many times do Governments need to be told that "No" means no before it...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 550. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional demand for special class and special school places for September 2025 that has now been identified at primary and secondary school level in Drogheda, following new measures set out to support the forward planning of special education provision in Circular 0080/2024; the measures that are now being taken to ensure the necessary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (8 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 553. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a breakdown of current DEIS schools within the Drogheda school planning area (including the location and name of school). [17495/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (8 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 554. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a breakdown of current primary and secondary schools within the Drogheda school planning area (including the location and name of school). [17496/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (8 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 555. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a breakdown of the total number of primary and secondary school students currently enrolled in schools within the Drogheda school planning area (including the location and name of school). [17497/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (8 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 556. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to review the Drogheda school planning area, noting the population increases and further projected population increases, which is potentially impacting students’ ability to secure a nearest primary/secondary school placement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17498/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (8 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 557. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on plans to provide additional primary and secondary school places within the Drogheda school planning area, noting the projected population increases in the area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17499/25]