Results 81-100 of 123 for speaker:Nicole Ryan

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I also support Senator Stephenson's amendment on supports for survivors of institutional abuse. There are moments in this Chamber when we are called, not just to legislate, but to listen to those whose lives have been shaped by decisions made in rooms like this. Last week, I spoke about a woman from my constituency. I will not repeat her story today. The point is not her pain, but the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Nicole Ryan: Ms Fitzgerald mentioned culture as one of the issues in her opening statement. Does she think four weeks is enough to stop admissions to fix something like culture in these nursing homes? Culture goes beyond four weeks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Nicole Ryan: Is that four weeks enough?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Nicole Ryan: That is fine but-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Nicole Ryan: Exactly and in an ideal world that would work but we have seen that in this case this has not happened, especially what was on RTÉ. We were talking about Emeis and how it has engaged. Of course it has engaged. It has been called out in public on national television. It has no choice but to engage at this point -----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Nicole Ryan: -----because the outrage is huge around this. The question the public has now is: what does HIQA actually do? If the authority does not have powers to enforce anything, what is the point of HIQA in any aspect of this kind of stuff? Ultimately, these are people, residents and human beings who are working towards the end of their lives and they deserve dignity. Deputy Burke said there were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Nicole Ryan: How many of them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Nicole Ryan: We have history repeating itself here. The Leas Cross scandal led to HIQA being established. Some 20 years later we are sitting here having the same conversations and HIQA is in place. Has the Department ever withheld or redirected funding in response to repeated failures of governance or quality of care?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I am speaking about any of the nursing homes where issues have ever arisen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Nicole Ryan: How many of those are corporate entities?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Nicole Ryan: So that has been happening.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (24 Jun 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I am here today to raise a matter that speaks to bodily autonomy, trauma-informed care and basic respect for women who have gone through far too much. I refer to the case of Sarah, a woman who underwent a radical hysterectomy in 2019. Her uterus, cervix, ovaries, Fallopian tubes and surrounding tissue were all removed. She has been medically confirmed not by one but by three different...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (24 Jun 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I thank the Minister of State. I would love the Minister for Health to come to me directly on this issue. This case highlights that the person in question has had three different medical professionals saying she does not need to be there and can opt out because there is no need for it. It is causing her trauma. As the Minister of State said, regarding tissue perhaps being left over, etc.,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Nicole Ryan: It is frankly embarrassing that we are having a discussion again about workers who make our democracy visible and audible to the public and yet are treated as second-class citizens in the very building where they serve. These skilled professionals are paid half the industry rate with no pension, no healthcare and no job security. They get their shifts at short notice and are often left...

Seanad: Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (24 Jun 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Seanad Éireann" and substitute the following: “: - resolves that sections 2 and 4, 6 to 12, 14 and 17 of the Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 (No. 39 of 1998) shall continue in operation for the period beginning on 30th June, 2025 and ending on 29th June 2026; and - calls on the Minister for Justice to bring...

Seanad: Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (24 Jun 2025)

Nicole Ryan: It is almost 90 years since the Offences Against the State Act was first introduced in 1939. It was born out of a context that no longer reflects the Ireland we live in today. It was a time of constitutional transition and genuine national emergency. The Ireland of 2025 is not the Ireland of 1939 and we cannot continue to pretend otherwise, yet here we are again, for the 26th consecutive...

Seanad: Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (24 Jun 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Seanad Éireann" and substitute the following: “: - resolves that section 8 of the Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009 (No. 32 of 2009) shall continue in operation for the period beginning on 30th June, 2025 and ending on 29th June, 2026; and - calls on the Minister for Justice to bring forward legislation to give effect to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Clár Oibre agus Tosaíochtaí Údarás na Gaeltachta: Plé (24 Jun 2025)

Nicole Ryan: Tá brón orm mar níl mo chuid Gaeilge go maith. Cuirfidh mé mo cheist i mBéarla. Tá mé i mo chónaí i mBaile Bhuirne agus tá mé sásta leis an mention of Campas Íosagáin because it will be transformative for the community. Naturally, housing will become an issue. Cork County Council has applied for eight social houses in...