Results 381-400 of 461 for speaker:Joanna Byrne

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (15 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 638. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer’s allowance appeal decision in respect of a person from County Louth (details supplied), noting that the appeal was received by the appeals office on 31 July 2024. [39007/25]

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: I thank the witnesses for joining us. It is fair to say that HIQA has appeared before Oireachtas committees several times in recent years and it is unfortunate that the same issues keep arising. With that in mind, I will tease out some of its frameworks for measuring performance, if that is okay. Do the witnesses have a figure for how many compliance notices HIQA has issued in recent...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: I am trying to get at how HIQA measures the action the provider has taken. How does it set the bar and measure that the provider is meeting the bar?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: My colleague, Deputy Bennett, asked a question about closures earlier and HIQA outlined some figures. There were two closures in 2020, three in 2021, one in 2022 and three in 2023. Ten notices were issued in 2024 but there were seven closures and there has been one closure in 2025 to date. That is 17 closures in five years. Is that right? Are any of those homes run by the same operator?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: Within that common thread, is there additional monitoring by HIQA to look specifically at those that fall under that common-thread umbrella—--

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: -----and any other centres they may operate that have not gone as far as closure.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: It is very positive that HIQA has identified and is aware of that. I am really pleased to hear it is working on that. In relation to the Emeis managed properties, there was conflicting information. It was said on two occasions that 25 of these are in operation. One person stated that 16 have been inspected since the RTÉ programme and Ms Cliffe mentioned 22.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: Only one property has had to be inspected a second time.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: How many times does something have to be inspected before it is red-flagged or elevated to the next level of concern?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: As regards the inspectors inspecting the properties, it was mentioned earlier that each inspector has a caseload. Is the caseload rotated?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: The same inspectors do not inspect the same properties.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: I draw attention to HIQA’s vision, strategic mission and values. It states HIQA will work to promote human rights, as well as identifying, challenging and reporting on breaches of rights in health and social care services. Given the recent revelations in the RTÉ programme, does HIQA stand over that vision? That is a very hard question to put to our witnesses but it is something...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: I appreciate that. Does Ms Fitzgerald feel that HIQA has lost the trust of the public, particularly since the airing of the documentary?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: I am out of time. I thank the witnesses.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (8 Sep 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 628. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to detail all the OPW-owned sites in County Louth. [45498/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (8 Sep 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 1360. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current processing times for disability allowance, carer's allowance and social welfare appeals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45494/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (8 Sep 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 1561. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí and their rank, in all stations in County Louth, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45495/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (8 Sep 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 1562. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí currently detailed for community policing in Dundalk, Drogheda and Ardee stations, respectively. [45496/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Sep 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 2295. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided to each regional and local drugs task force in each of the years 2020 to 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45492/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Sep 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 2296. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided to the north eastern regional drug and alcohol task force in each of the years 2016 to 2025, in tabular form. [45493/25]