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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Seventh Report on Child Protection 2014: Discussion (29 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Seventh Report on Child Protection 2014: Discussion (29 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: I want an opportunity to respond.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Seventh Report on Child Protection 2014: Discussion (29 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: Hold on, Chairman. You enabled or facilitated a Deputy to make a charge against me. I want to make one simple point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Seventh Report on Child Protection 2014: Discussion (29 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: Huge improvements were made in child welfare and protection by previous Governments. The previous Government appointed Dr. Shannon in his role as independent child rapporteur. I am sorry if adverting to deficiencies in the current system upsets certain members of the committee but I will not be silenced if I feel I should raise matters and be an advocate on behalf of vulnerable, less...
- Housing Affordability: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate, which is quite timely. It is important that all sides of the House get an opportunity to contribute to Government policy. For the purposes of this debate, I will focus my contribution on three areas. One area is the issue of mortgage arrears. We cannot have a debate in the House without focusing on that issue. We need to examine the...
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: Today, more than 50 nurses and midwives went outside the Midland Regional Hospital in Mullingar on their lunch break to protest at the conditions in which they work.
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: They provide an invaluable service. Since the Government has come to power, the bed capacity has decreased, activity has increased because of the downgrading of Roscommon hospital and Navan hospital-----
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: The budget-----
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, could I please finish without interruption?
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: The resources-----
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: Resources have not been increased to match. If they had, 50 people would not have had to give up their lunch break today to protest in the rain at the state of the health service.
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: I wish to ask about the health reform Bill. When will the Government introduce legislation and live up to its promise that the money will follow the patient-----
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: -----and that the health service will improve? What we have witnessed and what has been proven by a report received in the past 24 hours is that the health service has disimproved since the Government came to office. Could I make a comment in regard to the matter?
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: The 50 people who were outside in the lashing rain today were there to take a stand on the conditions in which they must work and the people who are lying on trolleys in corridors with no dignity whatsoever.
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: That is what the Government has done for the health service in Midland Regional Hospital in Mullingar.
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: I did not actually say that.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (27 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: 355. To ask the Minister for Health if the announced employment of additional home help staff will be employed from the current panel (details supplied). [3473/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (27 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: 477. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will prioritise the building of a school (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [3768/15]
- An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhaltaí de Thithe an Oireachtais) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill and I compliment Deputy Mathews on bringing it forward. This is essentially about political reform. It is important that we are having a debate about political reform, although it is also somewhat ironic. One of the big trophies this Government has claimed in respect of political reform is that it brought in the Friday morning sitting to...
- An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhaltaí de Thithe an Oireachtais) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jan 2015)
Robert Troy: Now the Minister of State wants to tell us how to speak.