Results 361-380 of 12,033 for speaker:Regina Doherty

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (5 Dec 2012)

Regina Doherty: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to introduce any secondary school initiatives to deal with obesity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54604/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (5 Dec 2012)

Regina Doherty: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to introduce any national school initiatives to deal with obesity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54610/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Regulation (11 Dec 2012)

Regina Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the changes in auditing and regulatory practices that have been enacted since the banking crash in 2008 and since the appointment of a person (details supplied) as head of regulation at the Central Bank of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55186/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (11 Dec 2012)

Regina Doherty: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school leavers with Down's Syndrome will have access to full training services from September; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55265/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (11 Dec 2012)

Regina Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health the number of doctors who have contracted to offer general practitioner services in the proposed primary care centre in Ashbourne County Meath; the number of staff and categories of staff who will work in this centre; the range of services that will be offered; if there will be dianostics available in the centre such as x-ray, endoscopy, dexa scanner and so on;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (11 Dec 2012)

Regina Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health the number of doctors who have contracted to offer general practitioner services in the proposed primary care centre in Ashbourne County Meath; the number of staff and categories of staff who will work in this centre; the range of services that will be offered; if there will be dianostics available in the centre such as x-ray, endoscopy, dexa scanner and so on;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (11 Dec 2012)

Regina Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health the number of doctors who have contracted to offer general practitioner services in the proposed primary care centre in Ashbourne County Meath; the number of staff and categories of staff who will work in this centre; the range of services that will be offered; if there will be dianostics available in the centre such as x-ray, endoscopy, dexa scanner and so on;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (12 Dec 2012)

Regina Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health his views on appointing a paediatric urologist consultant to Temple Street Children's Hospital Dublin; when he expects this role to be filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55821/12]

Report of the Expert Group on the Judgment in the A, B and C v. Ireland Case: Statements (Resumed) (17 Dec 2012)

Regina Doherty: I thank Mr. Justice Sean Ryan for the work and commitment he and his team put in during their deliberations, given their terms of reference. For me, as a new Member of the House, he produced a report that was exceptionally easy to read and understand, particularly given the difficult topic on which he had to deliberate. We have been talking about this subject for years. It is an intimately...

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Dec 2012)

Regina Doherty: I propose to share time with Deputy Lawlor. This is a much easier topic for me to speak about than the last debate. I am grateful for the opportunity to speak. Many factors contributed to the health care spend in Ireland. Costs of technology, hospitalisations and hospital-based services, fees and drug costs are all major factors that drive the cost of care higher. To be effective, health...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: School Equipment (18 Dec 2012)

Regina Doherty: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if she will consider the mandatory inclusion of defibrillator equipment in all secondary schools and sports club facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56409/12]

Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Regina Doherty: That legislation has been passed.

Private Members' Business - Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Dec 2012)

Regina Doherty: Ireland's 161,000 family carers play a vital role in our health and community care sectors. Carers contribute about €11 million every day, providing 900,000 hours of care daily and saving the State more than €4.7 billion every year. The recent 2011 census found we have a 16% increase in the number of carers since 2006. They put in an estimated 3.5 million hours every week,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Gardasil Vaccine (HPV) and Meningococcal Group B Vaccine: Discussion (20 Dec 2012)

Regina Doherty: I thank the witnesses for coming here today and for presenting to us. Notwithstanding the differences of opinion, I agree with my colleague who said that parents have a choice. It is incumbent on all of us as parents to ensure we are best informed before we make a choice. That is part of parenting. I do not blindly accept other people's opinions because opinions differ. Anyway, it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Gardasil Vaccine (HPV) and Meningococcal Group B Vaccine: Discussion (20 Dec 2012)

Regina Doherty: I do not mean this to be disrespectful in any way, shape or form, and I am just trying to understand the issue, but what does it mean when a representative of a Department says that the Department has been looking at something for three years? I have asked previously for details of the occasions this matter has come up and been discussed and how it has been further advanced in the past three...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)

Regina Doherty: I thank the witnesses for attending. With regard to the threat of suicide, how many terminations due to the threat of suicide have actually been carried out in Ireland since the X case judgment? The witnesses spoke earlier in regard to the need for a termination where the threat to the life of the woman could only be averted by a termination. When they talk about the risk assessment, can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)

Regina Doherty: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. Against the backdrop of the witnesses' description of the superb level of medical care and intervention that is currently on offer in Ireland, which is a given, Dr. Mahony in particular said there was something that was stopping her today from making sound medical judgments and decisions relating to the medical care of and interventions for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)

Regina Doherty: I thank our guests for coming before us. Professor O'Keane actually referred to the elephant in the room, namely, that suicide in pregnancy is very rare. However, this is not to state that it does not occur. We have not addressed the needs of all of those people to whom reference was made. It is ironic that we are here to discuss matters which arose as a result of the judgment handed down...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)

Regina Doherty: That is right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)

Regina Doherty: My question will follow on from Deputy Dowds's. Professor McAuliffe mentioned that, when the substantial threat or risk to the life of the mother was immediate, professionals knew exactly what to do, but that there was a grey area when the threat was not immediate. Professor McAuliffe stated that, in certain scenarios, she sent the latter category of women to another jurisdiction to be...