Results 181-200 of 404 for appointment speaker:Peadar Tóibín

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: ...that area 1 was doing it. I quote from the report: "This ultimately meant that nobody in Tusla spoke to Ava about her alleged experience of sexual abuse". CAMHS discharged her after the second appointment as it had no evidence of mental illness. She went missing at the age of 14 and her body was found a few days later. The report on the death of Luke is heartbreaking. He experienced...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (23 Jan 2019)

Peadar Tóibín: ...Louth and Meath had just over half the staff they needed to fulfil their duties. In the midlands and counties Louth and Meath there are over 50 children waiting for over a year for their first appointment. The Minister of State must understand mental health matters are urgent and that those involved require support and treatment fast to ensure things will not deteriorate. This figure is...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Child and Family Agency (15 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...parliamentary assistant was very recently contacted by an individual who sent an image that appears to show the alleged child sex abuser, the person who allegedly abused Ms H, as having recently been appointed to a role within a sports club. The screenshot sent has been furnished to the Minister of State's Department. The individual who contacted us wanted to know how an alleged abuser...

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: ...2 patient, meaning she should have been seen in ten minutes. However, due to the volume of patients in that location, it was ten hours before she was actually seen. Even when she received her appointment with the doctor, it took a full hour for the antibiotics to be given to her. Sepsis can be treated very simply with antibiotics. In 2022 in Ireland, antibiotics that would have saved...

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: I was pleased with several of the appointments to Cabinet with a remit in this area because I considered them people of real ability. However, the inaction on climate change is the greatest disappointment to me in terms of the activity of this Government. Climate change is, beyond any shadow of a doubt, the most serious issue facing our planet. Hundreds of thousands of people are losing...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: ...cancer screening. I spoke to a woman this morning who was meant to get a skin cancer test done in April to check if there had been any changes in her skin but that was postponed until June and the appointment has now been put back to December. Obviously, many people in such a position will find themselves materially worse off from a health perspective by the end of this year and into the...

Cancer Care: Motion [Private Members] (2 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...of the next worst sentences that anybody will hear in the health service is being asked if one has private insurance or public insurance. If you have private insurance, you are likely to get an appointment in the next fortnight for your condition but if you just have public insurance, you are likely to be put into a lottery and will never know when you will be reached. Another aspect of...

Microenterprise Loan Fund Bill 2012: Second Stage (27 Jun 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: ...for the State to see. The legislation gives the Minister the power to dismiss board members from the microfinance fund, which will be a subsidiary of Social Finance Foundation, but not the power to appoint board members. However the regulatory impact analysis states that the chairperson of the Social Finance Foundation subsidiary, Microfinance Ireland, will be appointed by the Minister...

Gender-based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jan 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...to get to grips with this issue. I also wish to mention domestic violence. A number of documents released to my office have shown that in the first four months of lockdown, the number of people contacting the Rape Crisis Network Ireland helpline increased by 15%, while appointments increased by 11%. Barnardos also wrote to the Minister saying that it had examined its intensive family...

National Maternity Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (23 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: ...their colour, creed or orientation, should be able to be who they are to the full extent, without fear or favour. My colleague, Deputy Matt Shanahan, asked me to raise the incredible ongoing situation of partners of mothers still being unable to attend appointments, or the birth of their children, in certain hospitals in this State. It is absolutely wrong that this debate has been...

Confidence in the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Dec 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: ...for what's left of the respite grant, as it will pay for the property tax, not like last year, when it paid for a break for us all. I am grateful for my car, as it helps me get my son to all his hospital appointments and for the hundred euros that I conjure out of thin air every week, as that is what it now costs me to keep my car on the road. I am delighted that, despite my lack of...

Current Issues Affecting the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: In recent days, I spoke to the family of an elderly man who went to a GP with a respiratory illness. He went to the GP centre to look for an appointment with the doctor and was told to come back in January. Yesterday, I spoke to 79-year-old woman who has an infection. She rang the GP and was told to come back in January. Last night she rang the doctor on call but there was no answer from...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Jun 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: .... It is clear that this will not happen under the current system. The system from which it originated does not have the necessary inputs. Change will only happen if we inject more diversity into the appointments process. Over the years, there has been a fair amount of unease among the general public regarding the level of political influence and control over this process. That is a...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: ...application without notice to the parent or parents of the minor concerned. (8) In this section— “minor” means a woman who has not attained the age of 16 years; “parent” includes-(a) a guardian appointed under the Guardianship of Infants Act 1964, (b) any other natural or legal person acting in loco parentis in respect of the pregnant minor under any...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (10 Jun 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: .... The Government has taken an extraordinary length of time to commence the Construction Contracts Act 2013. How far the Government allowed the construction industry to collapse into chaos is an incredible indictment. It took two years for the Bill to pass through the Houses and a further two years for the appointment of a cathaoirleach to the panel of adjudicators, as required under...

Our Lady's Hospital Navan Emergency Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...to the Minister of State because he knows it as well as anybody else; it is nearly impossible as a person new to the county to get a GP. People are going to Dublin and elsewhere to get GPs. If someone wants an appointment with a GP, it could take up a fortnight to obtain one. Does anybody in their right mind think that a person suffering an emergency, or an accident or ill health, will...

Customs Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: ...to clarify the meaning of that section. Sections 44 to 46 suffer from what is a common flaw in some legislation. Appeals are effectively dealt with in house through the appeals commissioner appointed by the Minister. I note the legislative programme has a Bill which will presumably bring about some change to this system. In the meantime this legislation only allows an appeal to the...

Rural Equality Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (4 May 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: ...and it has not yet told the WDC exactly what it is looking for it to do in the future. Mr. McGuinness's statement cannot have been easy, especially given that he is a friend of the Taoiseach and was appointed by the Taoiseach in 2012. Níl sa phlean gníomhaíochta d'fhorbairt tuaithe a fhoilsíodh ag tús na bliana ach bileog de shean-bheartaithe, gan breis airgid...

Dog Breeding Establishments (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Nov 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...Dogs must be permitted to have the company of other dogs where this is safe. Our Bill amends the definition of "authorised person" in the Act of 2010 so as to ensure that persons who act as authorised persons under that Act are specifically appointed under it to fulfil this role. We significantly increase the penalty for breaking the law in terms of puppy farms. Profits from breeding...

Health (Covid-19): Statements (23 Apr 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: ...professionals in airports properly risk-assessing people entering the country? I raise the issue of the nursing homes. Nursing homes are in absolute crisis. Dr. Marcus de Brun, who was appointed to the Irish Medical Council by the Minister for Health, said that these are "the biggest political blunders in the history of the Irish State", that nursing homes "have featured as something...