Results 821-840 of 865 for speaker:Anne Ferris

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill: Discussion (21 Oct 2015)

Anne Ferris: I welcome Ms Grainia Long and Ms Mary Nicholson from the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and invite them to make their presentation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill: Discussion (21 Oct 2015)

Anne Ferris: I thank Ms Long. I call on Ms Deirdre Malone of the Irish Penal Reform Trust to make her opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill: Discussion (21 Oct 2015)

Anne Ferris: I thank Ms Malone. I invite Ms Catriona Doherty from the Children’s Rights Alliance to make her opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill: Discussion (21 Oct 2015)

Anne Ferris: The time is just up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill: Discussion (21 Oct 2015)

Anne Ferris: I now welcome Mr. Niall Counihan and Ms Jacinta De Paor from Facing Forward.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill: Discussion (21 Oct 2015)

Anne Ferris: This committee has done a lot of work on domestic and sexual violence, generally dealing with adults. We have not done a lot of work relating to children because the Joint Committee on Health and Children deals with that area. It is all very interesting but, as Ms McDonald said, it is an EU directive and it is vital we ensure our law is tight enough and does not fall short of the directive....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill: Discussion (21 Oct 2015)

Anne Ferris: And training for the judges.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (3 Nov 2015)

Anne Ferris: 853. To ask the Minister for Health the consent procedures afforded to parents of schoolgirls who are offered the human papilloma virus vaccine; the extent to which the consent procedures currently and previously included access to information on known side effects of the drugs in question; his views on the matter of consent procedures connected to the human papilloma virus vaccine; and the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (3 Nov 2015)

Anne Ferris: 854. To ask the Minister for Health the extent and content of any interaction between his Department and the European Medicines Agency, regarding the review of human papilloma virus vaccines announced in July 2015; the interaction between the agency and any other State body on this review; the likely duration and scope of the review; his plans to publicise the review by the agency more...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (3 Nov 2015)

Anne Ferris: 1140. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is aware of any local authority which, further to the publication of the national broadband strategy, has completed and submitted a county broadband strategy to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38135/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (10 Nov 2015)

Anne Ferris: 436. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the long delays being experienced with the registration process in the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland and the pressure these delays are putting on health care service providers; the reason for these delays; if he will ensure that the applications submitted by persons (details supplied) are expedited as quickly as possible, given...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (10 Nov 2015)

Anne Ferris: 453. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the explanation he provided to Seanad Éireann on 3 November 2015 regarding the extent to which parental consent for human papilloma virus vaccines can be considered informed consent, how his Department reconciles the requirement to satisfy average or below-average levels of adult literacy with the obligation placed on parents to navigate an...

Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)

Anne Ferris: What happens in America?

Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)

Anne Ferris: They get great chances. What about the rest of us? They have a chance.

Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)

Anne Ferris: I ask the Taoiseach to give us an update on the adoption (tracing and information) Bill. There are thousands of people in this country, including myself, who are anxious to see progress on this Bill and would like to ensure that it goes through all Stages before the spring.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (17 Nov 2015)

Anne Ferris: 421. To ask the Minister for Health the average annual cost of providing an enhanced medical card for hepatitis C sufferers; how this compares with the annual cost of providing a standard medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40439/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Employment Equality (Abolition of Mandatory Retirement Age) Bill 2014: Discussion (18 Nov 2015)

Anne Ferris: I thank the organisations and individuals who have made very powerful presentations on their own stories. They are very moving and it is a very personal issue for them as they approach retirement age. I had not realised staff in the Irish Prison Service had to retire at the age of 60 years. When I introduced the Bill last year, many people contacted me to tell me their stories. I was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Employment Equality (Abolition of Mandatory Retirement Age) Bill 2014: Discussion (18 Nov 2015)

Anne Ferris: Some 40% of all doctors working in Canada are over 55 years of age.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Employment Equality (Abolition of Mandatory Retirement Age) Bill 2014: Discussion (18 Nov 2015)

Anne Ferris: It is huge.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Employment Equality (Abolition of Mandatory Retirement Age) Bill 2014: Discussion (18 Nov 2015)

Anne Ferris: We have to finish up now. I thank the witnesses who came here today. Senator White alluded earlier to the marriage bar that was brought in to force women out of their jobs when they got married years ago and was subsequently lifted. There was a major debate on the lifting of the marriage bar. The argument was that men would lose their jobs or not get them if married women were allowed to...