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Seanad: Domestic Violence (Free Travel Scheme) Bill 2025: Second Stage (22 Oct 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I strongly support the domestic violence Bill 2025, which is compassionate, practical and deeply necessary legislation that will make real and measurable differences in people's lives. At the heart of this Bill, it is about dignity, as Senator Stephenson said. It is about recognising that when a person, most often a woman, makes the decision to flee a violent home, that decision comes with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I thank everybody for being here. My first question is around breast cancer. Yesterday, we had Breast Cancer Ireland in. It did an informative talk about BreastCheck. One of the stark things it talked about was diagnosis for breast cancer is now as low at 15 years of age. It also spoke about the barriers in being so young and trying to get a diagnosis. Sometimes the barrier could be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

Nicole Ryan: On HSE South West and statistics, the national statistic for breast disease clinics was that over 5,000 patients were not seen within the timeframe. In CUH, 335 patients were not seen within the timeframe of ten working days. What is the timeframe - I am sure it is broad - within which people are generally seen if they are not seen within ten days? How far does it range?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

Nicole Ryan: The society gave a comparison with Denmark. What level of annual funding would the society need, in a blue-sky world, to get to where our EU counterparts are?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

Nicole Ryan: The baseline stuff is not done and therefore it is really hard.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Rail Network (21 Oct 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I thank the Minister of State for being here today. This matter concerns the lack of Leap card access for journeys starting from Banteer and Millstreet to Cork city, and the absence of an early train from Banteer, which is an issue that forces students to make impossible choices every week. A woman in my constituency reached out to let me know that her daughter travels to college in Cork...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Rail Network (21 Oct 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I would have to conduct a survey because I do not know how many students are affected. It was just one constituent and one mother who came to me about the matter. Banteer has no bus service at all. The earliest train from Banteer to Cork Kent Station on a Monday morning is at 8.25 a.m., which means that students cannot make their 9 a.m. class because the train only arrives at Cork Kent...

Seanad: Higher Education: Statements (21 Oct 2025)

Nicole Ryan: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Higher Education: Statements (21 Oct 2025)

Nicole Ryan: Before moving to our final speaker, I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Collins, and his guest to the Seanad. They are welcome.

Seanad: Cost of Childcare: Motion (21 Oct 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I second the motion.

Seanad: Cost of Childcare: Motion (21 Oct 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I support this motion, which is not just welcome but urgently needed. Across the constituency of Cork North-West, from Millstreet to Macroom and Charleville to Ballyvourney, I hear stories from parents and providers alike. Families are under pressure. Parents are going out to work to pay for childcare. In many cases, their monthly fees are higher than their mortgage. For a young mother...

Committee on Drugs Use: Intergenerational Trauma: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I thank everyone for their opening statements. As full disclosure, I sit on the ACI board. It is lovely to see you in real life. We do not get many opportunities. My first question is about adverse childhood experiences, ACEs. All of the witnesses spoke about the importance of ACEs. When screening for ACEs in addiction services, sometimes there is a push and pull. A therapist is trying...

Committee on Drugs Use: Intergenerational Trauma: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I thank the witnesses. At what point is early intervention most effective? Is it in schools or maternity services? Where is it?

Committee on Drugs Use: Intergenerational Trauma: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)

Nicole Ryan: Dr. Lambert said that only 1% is spent on addiction and 5.8% is spent on mental health. This is really telling. Until addiction reaches the same level of spending as mental health, it will be increasingly hard - as great as the work is that everybody is doing - to get to that level where dual diagnosis is even a combined thing. Why is this level of spending so low? Is it because the...

Committee on Drugs Use: Intergenerational Trauma: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)

Nicole Ryan: No one else has anything to add? That is great.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Nicole Ryan: It has been quite interesting listening to the debate this morning. I do not think anybody chooses to have a rare disease. When we hear people come in like the SMA group who are baring their souls in the AV room, who are crying, they are looking for something that will improve the quality of their life. It is not going to save their lives. The officials are here saying the case was not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I will go back to exactly what Ms McGrath just referred to previously, a recommendation on a drug and the improvement it had made. We had it right here when Deputy O'Sullivan was asking a question. You guys had made a recommendation to say that it did not improve and that they should-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Nicole Ryan: So you are telling me that you are not making recommendations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Nicole Ryan: What are Ms McGrath's thoughts on this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I will move on from that.