Results 21-37 of 37 for sligo speaker:Catherine Connolly

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (1 Dec 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...Éamon Ó Cuív - to discuss the need to ensure sufficient home carers to provide all home care hours and home care packages approved; and (17) Deputy Marian Harkin - to discuss the unacceptable working conditions at Sligo University Hospital. The matters raised by Deputies Ó Ríordáin, Christopher O'Sullivan, Creed and Guirke have been selected for discussion.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (16 Apr 2024)

Catherine Connolly: ...Deputy Mattie McGrath - To discuss the need to progress three autism spectrum disorder, ASD, class projects in County Tipperary. Deputy Marian Harkin - To discuss the construction of a new Garda station in Sligo town. Deputy Verona Murphy - To discuss actions to address the chronic coastal erosion issue in Wexford in particular. Deputy Danny Healy-Rae - To discuss the serious...

Safe Staffing Levels in Hospitals: Statements (23 Mar 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...of this week have been among the highest so far this year. On Tuesday, 21 March, the number was the third highest. Of that 665 people waiting for a bed, 56 were in Galway. As Dr. Hickey of Sligo University Hospital has not only told us, but continuously tells us, more than 300 people, at the very least, die every year as a direct result of the time they spent on trolleys. On 17...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (2 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...treatment facility; (8) Deputy Brian Stanley - to discuss the retention of part-time fire brigade staff and their terms and conditions; (9) Deputy Martin Kenny - to discuss the extension of cardiac catheterisation lab services in Sligo University Hospital; (10) Deputy Kieran O'Donnell - to discuss plans for bus shelters for all major bus stops in cities, towns and villages in Ireland; (11)...

Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2017)

Catherine Connolly: ...lack of capacity in the hospital, which issue is not parochial or local because the hospital serves 1 million people, means it has been ranked number one on the risk register. Dr. Fergal Hickey in Sligo has said the abnormal has become the normal. In addition, there is a report, independently commissioned by the Saolta group, on the accident and emergency department. The physical...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (25 Jan 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...Jackie Cahill - to discuss the postponed route selection process for the Cahir to Waterford M24; (18) Deputy Marc MacSharry - to discuss provision of funding by the National Transport Authority to commence the third Sligo town bus route, known as the S3; (19) Deputy Pat Buckley - to discuss the progress of the school campus build in Carrigtwohill, east Cork; (20) Deputy Maurice Quinlivan -...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (13 Jul 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...discuss the proposed decision to not send an Irish dressage team to the Olympics this year; (17) Deputies Marian Harkin and Michael McNamara - to discuss the extension of the pyrite scheme to counties Clare and Sligo; (18) Deputies Richard O'Donoghue and Matt Carthy - to discuss the escalating cost of public liability and professional indemnity insurance; (19) Deputy Verona Murphy - to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2019)

Catherine Connolly: ...are 64 nursing vacancies. Today alone, 47 people are on trolleys. I invite any member of the Government to go onto a trolley, even for a day. They should remember the words of Dr. Fergal Hickey in Sligo University Hospital when he said there are 300 premature deaths every year that are directly related to the time patients spend on trolleys. On this day last week, there were 49 people...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (6 Oct 2021)

Catherine Connolly: .... The hospital needs 250 staff. We know this from reports in the press, and from the nurses and the doctors, but not from management. Dr. Hickey, who is a specialist in emergency medicine at Sligo General Hospital, has repeatedly spoken out. He spoke out again yesterday. However, I refer to a statement he made in 2017. He said that up to 350 people would die in the following year if...

Home Heating Fuels: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...in a very cynical way in this context. None of its amendments have ever referred to the number of people who die each year from poverty, bad housing or being left on hospital trolleys. Dr. Hickey in Sligo has said at least 300 deaths every year are directly related to the person having spent two or three days on a trolley. In my city, people are being left for seven or eight days on a...

Emergency Bed Capacity: Statements (24 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: ...that relating to regular staff, particularly when agency staff do not possess the requisite skills. Those were just some of the issues he raised and he was only one of many consultants. He works in Sligo University Hospital. In the case of a person over the age of 75 waiting on a trolley for a period of over 12 hours, this doctor says that there is little chance of that 75 year old...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (22 Feb 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...in hospitals; (11) Deputy Marc MacSharry - that the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media immediately directs Fáilte Ireland to maintain a regional tourism office in the gateway city of Sligo and reverse plans to replace manned offices nationwide with automated tourism information points alone; and if she will make a statement on the matter; (12) Deputy Matt...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (26 Jan 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...; (6) Deputy Marc MacSharry - that the Minister for Transport, Deputy Eamon Ryan, directs the National Transport Authority and provide the necessary funding to ensure the urgent commencement of the third Sligo town bus route known as S3 to provide essential public transportation and access to services for the population of the west ward, which includes many elderly and vulnerable people...

Transport in Galway and Other Areas: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...colleagues have acknowledged that. It is about transformative action and focuses specifically on the OECD report. Indeed, the OECD did not choose Galway, which is significant, but chose Cork, Dublin, Sligo and Kildare. It also pointed out that transformative action was required not just in cities but in all rural and urban areas. The Minister raised the question of what the two managers...

Summer Economic Statement: Statements (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...has been on a trolley for seven days. People have been waiting for two years to get a triage assessment. That could be done in the private hospital in Kilkenny or whatever hospital they use in Sligo. That is a two-year wait for a triage assessment and then a further two-year wait for the surgery, if the person is lucky. This is a city that saw two of its operating theatres go out of...

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...was "construction suspended." It did not start again until 2020 or 2021, and we wonder why there is a housing crisis. On the deficit in democracy, various people have said it. Just two weeks ago in Sligo, the association that represents councillors nationally made very in-depth presentations on the deficit in local democracy compared with other countries. A presentation from a Dr....

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (2 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: ...the narrative of what it took to get the changes we have seen. Those women had to do a documentary with Katie Hannon. Like many other things in life where you remember where you were, there were four of us in a car coming back from Sligo and there was not a word as we listened to what the women related on the Katie Hannon documentary. There was absolute silence. Somewhere in this...