Results 501-520 of 801 for speaker:Annie Hoey

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Annie Hoey: I sure can. The Chair can tell by my flags that I am in my office in Leinster House. I hope I can be heard okay. I will hold the microphone close to me. I thank the witnesses for all of that. Two things jumped out at me. There was reference to suitable premises. There have been conversations in the Joint Committee on Health with regard to having expanded clinical teams, which I believe...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Annie Hoey: We are caught between the chicken and the egg. The medical students I know who either went straight in at undergraduate level or through graduate entry medicine have left because of the pressure on the system. I have a number of friends in their late 20s and early 30s who have done this. This is in general and not just on the GP system. We are caught in a never-ending loop of pressure on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Annie Hoey: I thank the witnesses for coming in and for their presentations today. Hospital overcrowding and hospital problems are among the most prominent issues in my political awareness. When I was a teenager in the early 2000s, it was floating around, with Brendan Gleeson on "The Late Late Show" talking about hospitals and all these other things. The representatives outlined very clearly in their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Annie Hoey: May I ask a follow-up question about the beds? Mr. Mulvany says there are not beds just floating around. A couple of years ago people were talking about empty wards and so on. Mr. Mulvany says beds have to be built in the various places they need to be built. That will not happen in the next 12 months, if I understand how long it takes to build these things. Are we therefore looking at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Annie Hoey: Unless anyone else wants to speak, those are all the questions I have. I thank the Chair.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jan 2023)

Annie Hoey: Over the last few weeks there have been a lot of disturbances on our streets around who should be here and who should not be here. There is very disturbing news coming from the Department that we may not have anywhere to house asylum seekers. People are coming here for protection and they have been advised not to travel to Ireland because we do not have the room for them. There was an...

Seanad: Wind Energy: Statements (25 Jan 2023)

Annie Hoey: Forgive me; I have to dash out as soon as I wrap up this contribution. We have a strong polluting element in Ireland. We have a duty to change our ways and mitigate the disastrous and existential effects of the climate emergency. We are here to focus on wind energy, as the Minister outlined, and there are three ways we can do this: committing to the "polluter pays" principle; co-opting...

Seanad: Emergency Department Waiting Times and Hospital Admissions: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Annie Hoey: I thank the Minister for attending. I sit on the Joint Committee on Health whose members are contacted daily, via the committee and by personal email, about issues that have all contributed to the latest hospital overcrowding and the crisis in workforce planning. I have seen vacancies at consultant level, eye-watering waiting lists and so forth. My colleague, Deputy Duncan Smith, our party...

Seanad: Protection of Private Residences (Against Targeted Picketing) Bill 2021: Second Stage (26 Jan 2023)

Annie Hoey: I welcome the Minister of State. I thank the Fianna Fáil grouping for introducing this Bill. I echo the comments made about the fact that we need this legislation in the first place. I have a sense of unease regarding the times we are in. We will all have seen the footage of really stark scenes of protests in Ballymun and Finglas, which are in my area, Dublin North West. Some of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Annie Hoey: Are patients, patient advocates or people with real lived experience on the e-health committee? I am not sure if it is quite an advisory committee. Are they involved in this process? How much are actual current patients involved in this process in terms of their own experiences? Have the delays to this cost lives? I do not mean that in an inflammatory way. I can talk personally, as I am...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: General Scheme of the Registration of Short-Term Tourist Letting Bill 2022: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Annie Hoey: Were short-term lets always defined as 21 days? I had a figure of 14 days in my head. Has that always been the case or does this legislation change the figure?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: General Scheme of the Registration of Short-Term Tourist Letting Bill 2022: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Annie Hoey: So this will move it to 21 days. What is the rationale for that? Forgive me if it has been answered. I was in the Chamber.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: General Scheme of the Registration of Short-Term Tourist Letting Bill 2022: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Annie Hoey: Will the seven-day change incentivise or disincentivise people to either come into or leave the market?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: General Scheme of the Registration of Short-Term Tourist Letting Bill 2022: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Annie Hoey: I do not think that the next subject I intend to raise falls into the ambit of this discussion but I will ask about it anyway. I am wondering if any of the discussion around this involves student accommodation being moved into short-term lets. Has there been a discussion on restricting that? The Labour Party has a lot of thoughts on student accommodation being moved into short-term lets...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: General Scheme of the Registration of Short-Term Tourist Letting Bill 2022: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Annie Hoey: I thank Mr. O'Leary.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2023)

Annie Hoey: Beannachtaí na Féile Bríde oraibh ar fad. It is always great to have a bank holiday but particularly one in celebration of a woman. Whether you believe in St. Brigid or goddess Brigid or a combination of both, her history, lore and mythology are very important to many people. I wish to reflect on a matter that has been talked about in both Houses which is what is happening in...

Seanad: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Statements (1 Feb 2023)

Annie Hoey: I thank Mental Health Reform for all its advocacy and the support it provides. I have been contacted by people for whom CAMHS has let them down or has not been right. I have also been contacted by parents where it has worked for their child. The system can work for some people. Unfortunately, we are not here to talk about those people but we are here to talk about the people for whom the...

Seanad: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Statements (1 Feb 2023)

Annie Hoey: It started yesterday. I wrote this speech yesterday morning so I can just scribble that right out and skip to the next page. It has begun in a timely and efficient manner. There must be a reinstatement of the national director for mental health in the HSE who needs to report directly to the CEO of the HSE. The programme for Government contains a commitment to reinstate this position, but...

Seanad: UL Hospitals Group: Motion (1 Feb 2023)

Annie Hoey: I thank the Fine Gael group for tabling this. A lot of what I will cover has come from party colleagues of mine in Limerick or people I know in Limerick who have contacted me to discuss some of the issues they are concerned about. I also have correspondence from a student who got in touch. I ask the House to bear with me as I jump from one device to the other because the people contacted...