Results 701-720 of 1,477 for speaker:Grace Boland
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)
Grace Boland: HIQA has not had any contentious disputes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)
Grace Boland: Does Ms Fitzgerald know how many employees have left in contentious situations, such as where NDAs would have been required, etc.?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)
Grace Boland: Please do.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)
Grace Boland: Two law firms work for HIQA. What type of advice do they provide? HIQA has an in-house service.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)
Grace Boland: I am sorry but I am conscious of time. I am not trying to put Ms Fitzgerald off.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)
Grace Boland: HIQA went through a procurement process for the legal advisers and has a negotiated discounted rate with them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)
Grace Boland: Does HIQA negotiate a rate with barristers and the counsel it instructs?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)
Grace Boland: HIQA can negotiate with them, just so Ms Fitzgerald knows.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)
Grace Boland: The costs were low in 2023. There was an increase in 2024, but it is still relatively low.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)
Grace Boland: Will HIQA remind me of the number of inspectors it has?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)
Grace Boland: How does HIQA ensure there is no conflict with those inspectors? For example, to ensure there is no familial relationship to any of the entities they are inspecting, or perhaps the inspectors may have worked there before. How does HIQA ensure that does not arise? Will Ms Fitzgerald confirm that both of those facts would be a conflict of interest?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)
Grace Boland: How does HIQA ensure that those conflicts do not arise?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)
Grace Boland: Does Ms Cliffe think that is sufficient? Knowing everything she knows now, does that need to be reviewed? I assume HIQA will continually, maybe annually, review these policies to make sure they are updated.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)
Grace Boland: I thank Ms Cliffe. Thanks, Chair.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (17 Jul 2025)
Grace Boland: 144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps her Department have undertaken to reduce the pupil teacher ratio in an effort to maintain teaching posts while there is a temporary dip in primary school enrolment numbers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40137/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Jul 2025)
Grace Boland: 162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm that pupils with a diagnosis of dyslexia will be allowed additional time to complete their State exams in 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40136/25]
- Pride: Statements (16 Jul 2025)
Grace Boland: I am here in solidarity and in celebration, but also in concern. Pride is not just a parade, a flag or a month on the calendar. It is the living legacy of generations who fought for dignity, freedom and equality. The rights they fought for were so hard won, but as we have seen across Europe and beyond, those rights are frighteningly easy to lose. This year marks ten years since Ireland...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Irish Aviation Authority: Engagement (16 Jul 2025)
Grace Boland: I thank the witnesses for coming in today. I am a TD for Dublin Fingal West so Dublin Airport is in my constituency. It is fantastic that we have such a facility in our constituency. It provides a lot of employment, but it does have an impact on the local community in relation to traffic, noise and its general environmental impact on the area. I want to get a general understanding about...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Irish Aviation Authority: Engagement (16 Jul 2025)
Grace Boland: The prescribed flight path.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Irish Aviation Authority: Engagement (16 Jul 2025)
Grace Boland: How do we work out if the flights are adhering to those flight paths and what is the authority’s role?