Results 281-300 of 1,013 for speaker:Colette Kelleher

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care - Rights, Resources and Regulation: Discussion (15 Nov 2017)

Colette Kelleher: The Alzheimer Society commissioned a health economist to provide a figure so one is available. The cost of informal care for dementia was calculated and I am sure the society could send it to the Department of Health.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care - Rights, Resources and Regulation: Discussion (15 Nov 2017)

Colette Kelleher: I am saying that some exploration of this has already been done.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care - Rights, Resources and Regulation: Discussion (15 Nov 2017)

Colette Kelleher: Professor Eamon O'Shea might have answers to that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care - Rights, Resources and Regulation: Discussion (15 Nov 2017)

Colette Kelleher: I thank all those who presented. My first question is to Professor Eamon O'Shea. He commented clearly that rights and regulations without adequate resources are meaningless and will not create certainty and personalised care. When we ask older people and people with dementia or other care needs what they want, they say they do not want a one-size-fits all solution. They want the kind of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care - Rights, Resources and Regulation: Discussion (15 Nov 2017)

Colette Kelleher: I am really sorry but I must leave as I have another group coming. I will tune in to hear the responses.

Committee on Public Petitions: English Junior Certificate Examination: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)

Colette Kelleher: I am glad I met the witnesses before they came in because I had to leave. I want to congratulate them on their petition and the support they got. As they said, they only needed one signature but they managed to get 12,000 supporters. That told us as a committee and as Members of the Oireachtas that this is a live issue with regard to what they brought to our attention and perhaps...

Committee on Public Petitions: English Junior Certificate Examination: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)

Colette Kelleher: The witnesses felt they were passed around and that no clear answer was given to the question they posed. What would they like us, as a petitions committee, to do to address those shortfalls they have outlined? What would they like us to do in terms of taking further action?

Committee on Public Petitions: English Junior Certificate Examination: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)

Colette Kelleher: The witnesses are clear that the additional 30 minutes is a valid proposition and concern. Should the committee press that issue with the State Examinations Commission?

Committee on Public Petitions: English Junior Certificate Examination: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)

Colette Kelleher: As the intrepid witnesses found out about the committee by using Google, have they any ideas on how we might promote knowledge of the committee, given that it provides quite an effective process?

Committee on Public Petitions: English Junior Certificate Examination: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)

Colette Kelleher: I congratulate the families of the witnesses, who must be very proud. The four young women will be on this side of the fence one day. I was given a badge to commemorate next year's centenary of women having the right to vote. Our democracy and the voice of women is safe when we have young women such as the witnesses who are so clear and articulate about something that is very close to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Funding and Budgeting of Mental Health Services: Health Service Executive (22 Nov 2017)

Colette Kelleher: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. The HSE's operational plan for 2017 states that its vision is to support the population to achieve its optimal mental health and that its mission is to promote and protect the mental health of the population, to provide effective services to those who need them, making best use of existing resources, and to seek to continuously improve those...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Funding and Budgeting of Mental Health Services: Health Service Executive (22 Nov 2017)

Colette Kelleher: It related to weighting performance about stated goals and then, second, how much is needed to achieve the optimum performance. They are two simple questions but no one has attempted to answer them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Funding and Budgeting of Mental Health Services: Health Service Executive (22 Nov 2017)

Colette Kelleher: Is the HSE at 100%, 70%, 60%?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Funding and Budgeting of Mental Health Services: Health Service Executive (22 Nov 2017)

Colette Kelleher: I will put it another way. Does Mr. Ryan think that we have a good mental health service for people in Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Funding and Budgeting of Mental Health Services: Health Service Executive (22 Nov 2017)

Colette Kelleher: Then Mr. Ryan would say that we are a model of good practice in our mental health service.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Funding and Budgeting of Mental Health Services: Health Service Executive (22 Nov 2017)

Colette Kelleher: What resources does the HSE need then?

Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2017)

Colette Kelleher: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. His engagement with us and all the organisations with which we are working closely and the genuineness he is bringing to progressing this important legislation is very welcome. To come back to the issue of consistency, organisations working at the coalface report time and again that cases with similar facts have very different results. This is...

Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2017)

Colette Kelleher: The amendments are intended to improve the provisions and protections provided in the Bill. I thank the Minister of State and also the former Tánaiste who was present for the first debate on the Bill for her work on it. It is important to recognise that violence happens in relationships where people do not live together. I warmly welcome and will be supporting Government amendment No....

Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2017)

Colette Kelleher: I welcome the Government's amendments in this group, which strengthen the language around safety orders. Let us remind ourselves what safety orders are. A safety order is a court order prohibiting a violent person from doing one or more of the following: using or threatening to use violence, molesting or frightening the applicant or a dependent person and watching or besetting a place where...

Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2017)

Colette Kelleher: The amendments in this group relate to communications around children in cases where a respondent has been prohibited from contacting the applicant. A concern has been raised by Barnardos and others that an exception should be made for urgent communication relating to the welfare and care of children. Amendments Nos. 10, 13, 15, 18 and 29 seek to do this but it is done most neatly in...