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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (22 Jan 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: 1303. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied) who, having been referred by University Hospital Limerick to the neurology department at University Hospital Cork for treatment of a brain tumour, has yet to receive an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46179/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (22 Jan 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: 1381. To ask the Minister for Health if an MRI appointment will be expedited for a child (details supplied) who, having been referred to University Hospital Limerick to address knee swelling, has yet to receive an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46583/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (22 Jan 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: 1382. To ask the Minister for Health if a rheumatology appointment will be expedited for a child (details supplied) who, having been referred for a paediatric rheumatologist appointment at Children's Health Ireland at Crumlin, has yet to receive an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46584/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (22 Jan 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: 1383. To ask the Minister for Health if a gastroenterology appointment will be expedited for a child (details supplied) who, having been referred for a gastroenterologist appointment at Children's Health Ireland at Crumlin, has yet to receive an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46585/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (22 Jan 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: 1400. To ask the Minister for Health if a surgery appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46678/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (5 Feb 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: 672. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that the renewal of a public service card needs to be done in person and no longer via phone or online, appreciating the challenge this poses for elderly citizens; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2637/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (5 Feb 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: 720. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection about the case of a person (details supplied) who, having applied for and being refused an invalidity pension, appealed this decision and has been denied her request for an oral hearing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3127/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (5 Feb 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: 1241. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied) who having undergone cataract surgeries at Kingsbridge Hospital, Lisburn Road, Belfast in 2019 has been declined reimbursement of cost having applied through the Cross Border Directive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3075/25]

Programme for Government: Statements (6 Feb 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: As this is my first time speaking in this new Dáil, I want to thank the people in Limerick who elected me for a third time. I thank my family and friends and those who campaigned and supported me in that, whether they gave me their first preference or a different preference. "Go raibh maith agat" to everybody for sending me back here for a third time. On health, the programme for...

Housing Policy: Motion [Private Members] (12 Feb 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank the Labour Party for tabling this important Private Members' motion. Housing is the number one issue that we all deal with every day. Any of us who has a constituency office knows the stress, trauma and disaster that has been forced on the people of our country. It has been an absolute nightmare. When I was first elected in 2016, along with University Hospital Limerick, housing...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (11 Feb 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: 675. To ask the Minister for Health when an ophthalmology appointment will be made for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4563/25]

Mental Health: Statements (18 Feb 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: I wish the Minister of State the best in her new role. I hope she and the Government will treat mental health as a priority. I think all of us in this Chamber are agreed that a lot of work needs to be done. A person’s mental health is as important as their physical health. If a person is disabled in one aspect of their health, then it will have an impact on the other aspects unless...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2025)

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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Feb 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: It will come as no surprise to the Taoiseach that I wish to raise the ongoing crisis in University Hospital Limerick. As we sit here, 113 people are on trolleys there. These are people who were assessed as in need of a bed but no bed was available for them. The trolley crisis at University Hospital Limerick continues to impact patient safety and well-being, as the Minister is well aware....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (18 Feb 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: 687. To ask the Minister for Health about the case of a person (details supplied) who was referred in November 2023 to the gastroenterology section of University Hospital Limerick, and has yet to receive an appointment date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5483/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Flexible Work Practices (19 Feb 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: 85. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if consideration is being given to strengthening the provisions of the Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023 pertaining the right to request remote working, appreciating the increase in the number of companies insisting that employees return to the office environment; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Living Wage (19 Feb 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: 86. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the plans in place to move to a living wage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6584/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Animal Welfare (26 Feb 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: In a Dáil debate on 13 December 1977, the late Mick Lipper, a Deputy from Limerick, raised the issue of wandering horses in Limerick and asked what actions the then Minister for Justice would take regarding serious problems created by them. Here we are, 47 years later, talking about the same problems. At least 1,431 wandering or stray horses have been collected in Limerick city...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Animal Welfare (26 Feb 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank the Minister of State for his response and understanding of the issue. He did not get to it in his speech, but I am glad he mentioned the ongoing project in Moyross, which does good work in that area. However, it is only a drop in the ocean in dealing with the issue. Wandering, unkept and uncared-for horses have been a plague on working-class areas of Limerick for decades, as I...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Feb 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: I raise the issue of vacant local authority homes, of which there are always thousands across the State. There are 200 of them in Limerick at the moment, and 200 is always the number of vacant houses there. These are local authority homes that, for whatever reason, are not in use. The process of local authorities applying for funding from central government needs to be changed and...