Results 541-560 of 628 for speaker:Grace Boland
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Grace Boland: I am very supportive of the work of An Garda Síochána. Its representatives' appearance at this committee is really important in ensuring the trust and confidence of the public in the fantastic work An Garda Síochána does. As the Deputy highlighted, we will want to go through a couple of points with the witnesses. It is important to ensure that issues, including those...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Grace Boland: I agree with that. Let me refer to domestic, sexual and gender-based violence. I represent Dublin Fingal West, which includes the towns of Balbriggan, Skerries, Rush and Lusk, the rural villages and the area all the way down as far as north Santry and a little bit of north Finglas. It is a very mixed area. For a Dublin constituency, it is very different in that it is rural, urban and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Grace Boland: Is there funding going into training more gardaí to deal with this?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Grace Boland: Considering it is one of the top two issues, should every garda be trained in this area?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Grace Boland: I am conscious of my time. I will quickly get through a couple of more questions. Regarding recruitment, the target is to recruit more than 5,000 gardaí over the next five years, which is very much welcome. There is a senior vacancy in the area I represent. The superintendent position has not been filled for many months. Two gardaí are acting up. Given the demographics of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Grace Boland: When does Mr. Harris expect that to happen? It goes to the heart of retention and recruitment as well. We need to make sure that these positions are being filled to encourage recruitment.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Grace Boland: Is that something that the Minister for justice is aware of?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Grace Boland: In the couple of the minutes of left, I will also turn to chapter 6. In reading it, it feels like work needs to be done here on due diligence, including recording the rationale for the various different decisions as to why some events were fully abated and some were not. As the Comptroller and Auditor General has highlighted, it is important for transparency. Some of these are run by...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Grace Boland: Will we see these inconsistencies repeated in the 2024 accounts, but hopefully not from 2025 onwards?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Grace Boland: The rationale has been documented-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Grace Boland: I thank the witnesses for their time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Grace Boland: I thank the witnesses for attending today. While this committee tends to focus on figures and finances, we need to remember that behind every number is a child, a patient, a family and a story. We cannot lose sight of that. I welcome Ms Nugent's comments today about wanting to do better, putting children first and putting families at the centre of decisions. Communication is really key to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Grace Boland: I do not want a child who has a very complex need to be filtered out of a review because that is the opposite of what we should be doing.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Grace Boland: Every child has the right to safety. Every family has the right to peace of mind as to what has happened here. If complexity is being used as a filter, that is just discrimination.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Grace Boland: The mother was not contacted at all regarding her second daughter. She and families like her are left in a vacuum. Children who really are more vulnerable are not being included in the review. I find that baffling.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Grace Boland: Will that be looked at?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Grace Boland: Have the families who have not been included in the review been written to or communicated with and offered the opportunity to be included in the review?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Grace Boland: I appreciate that, but it does not scream "patient-centred approach" to me. I have an issue with that and with the lack of communication with the families. Some families may not even fully realise. There needs to be much more communication with this family. This is only one family who have come to my attention in recent days. I have serious questions and concerns about this. It is not...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Grace Boland: Have any issues been referred to the Medical Council? Have any assessments been done at this stage?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Grace Boland: Some of the children.