Results 541-560 of 12,033 for speaker:Regina Doherty

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Regina Doherty: It depends on how long people wish to debate it.

Equal Status (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (3 Jul 2013)

Regina Doherty: I must be honest. I had to read the Bill a number of times to try to figure out its purpose, and I am still not sure about that. I think the author of the Bill is trying first to extend the nine discrimination grounds in the Equal Status Acts to include a number of additional grounds such as the rural ground and the convicted prisoner ground and, second, to create a duty on existing public...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Response Times (3 Jul 2013)

Regina Doherty: 214. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the Navan Ambulance Control Room; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32359/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (3 Jul 2013)

Regina Doherty: 215. To ask the Minister for Health when the proposed new ambulance control centre will be opened in Tallaght, Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32360/13]

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Regina Doherty: I wish to concur with Deputy Conway on Deputy Boyd Barrett’s comments. This legislation is for someone like me, Deputy Conway and all child-bearing women. The last thing we need on our mind is a worry whether a doctor will immediately intervene. This legislation gives legal clarity when there is a doubt over how a doctor can intervene with regard to the risk to the life. It is not...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Regina Doherty: I am not politicising it.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Regina Doherty: I will be moderate. Words are extremely important and how we use them in the committee is important. Half the women in this country are of child-bearing age. How we reflect on what we are doing with this legislation is extremely important.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Regina Doherty: I appreciate that there is nothing that can be done about this provision. I disagree, however, that to be at once pro-life and to have concerns in this regard is a bizarre position to take. To put it simply, any such concern is borne out of one's humanity. While people might not agree with abortion, they certainly understand the reasons women find themselves considering whether to take...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (4 Jul 2013)

Regina Doherty: 258. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to Lyme disease, where treatment is available here; and if he will provide a geographical report in tabular form. [32659/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (9 Jul 2013)

Regina Doherty: 232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding July provision application in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33436/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (9 Jul 2013)

Regina Doherty: 334. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a domiciliary care allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33437/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Parent Held Record (9 Jul 2013)

Regina Doherty: 483. To ask the Minister for Health when the parent held record will be rolled out to all local health authorities here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32928/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Health Nursing Service (9 Jul 2013)

Regina Doherty: 484. To ask the Minister for Health if there are key performance indicators for public health nurse visits to pre-school children and to national school children; the responses he will take to those indicators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32929/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Health Nursing Service (9 Jul 2013)

Regina Doherty: 485. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public health nurses who have or are caring for patients in excess of the recommended number of 2,500 patients; the geographical spread of same; the reasons for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32933/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Generic Drugs Substitution (9 Jul 2013)

Regina Doherty: 490. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients with epilepsy who have been switched to generic epilepsy medication; if he will provide the information by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32959/13]

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 40 - Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

Regina Doherty: I congratulate the Minister and her team on a successful year. In light of the constraints faced by this country, it is a measure of the commitment of the Minister and the staff of the Department that they have been able to punch above their weight in securing resources for the Department's budget. I wish the Minister well with the new family and child agency. We are all very excited about...

Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Regina Doherty: That is why everyone needs to shoulder their share.

Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Regina Doherty: The matter is before the courts now.

Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Regina Doherty: How are they being struck off? They are being moved from here to there.

Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Regina Doherty: It does not matter.