Results 81-100 of 113 for speaker:Teresa Costello

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Promotion (10 Jul 2025)

Teresa Costello: I welcome the opportunity to raise the matter of ExWell Medical. It is a transformative, medically supervised exercise programme supporting people right across our communities. ExWell was founded in 2019 by Dr. Noel McCaffrey, following on from an initiative at Dublin City University. Since then, it has grown and now serves more than 7,500 participants weekly across 48 centres nationwide,...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Promotion (10 Jul 2025)

Teresa Costello: I thank the Minister of State for his response. In the next iteration of the national physical activity plan I would like to see a focus on exercise for older people. The benefits to people of being more active are a no-brainer. People in my community are worried about being able to afford their ExWell sessions. They are living on a pension and trying to make the positive change we all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Legal and Policy Gaps in Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Teresa Costello: I will fire through my questions. I have just realised I am extremely chaotic; my questions are everywhere. My first point is more of a statement than a question. I have been heard culture and cultural issues being mentioned but I never hear personal responsibility mentioned any more. Do people actually take a look at how they are behaving? Does anyone reflect on how they carry...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Legal and Policy Gaps in Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Teresa Costello: The age-friendly co-ordinators.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Teresa Costello: I raise a matter of urgent public health concern, which is the continued use and abuse of sunbeds in Ireland. Last week, the Institute of Public Health published a troubling report that provided an overview of sunbed use in Ireland and policy options to reduce skin cancer risk. I will take this opportunity to commend the institute on its critical work and to acknowledge the depth of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: ACT Smartphone App: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Teresa Costello: I welcome Ciara, Saoirse and Laoise to the committee. What you have done is amazing. Your personal experience is the most important thing because that gives you the drive to move forward. I wish you all the best of luck in the future. No doubt, you will have a huge impact.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products (24 Sep 2025)

Teresa Costello: To refresh memories, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, DMD, is a progressive neuromuscular disease that causes the weakening of muscles over time. It almost exclusively affects boys, with symptoms typically appearing between the ages of one and three. In Ireland today, around 110 people are known to be living with DMD and most of them are under 18. A child living with DMD struggles to walk, run...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products (24 Sep 2025)

Teresa Costello: I thank the Minister of State for his answer. With regard to the questions that I asked, is the pathway through the North a realistic option? It has been flown, so to speak, as a bespoke pathway. At present, there is a delay somewhere because the NCPE is waiting for a HTA to be submitted while the manufacturer is telling me it has a meeting next week. These are children whose parents sat...

Seanad: Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (24 Sep 2025)

Teresa Costello: I welcome and support the Bill, which represents an important opportunity to modernise our mental health legislation and strengthen the rights of people who access mental health services. It is the most comprehensive overhaul of our mental health laws in more than 20 years. The Bill builds on the foundation of the 2001 Act but goes much further in ensuring our mental health laws reflect a...

Seanad: Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (24 Sep 2025)

Teresa Costello: Yes, I am not finished. I was acknowledging numbers have decreased but it is still far from ideal and runs contrary to international best practice. While the Bill sets out new safeguards, it does not appear to explicitly prohibit admission to adult wards. My worry is when Deputy Butler is not the Minister of State and another person is her post who may not have that focus whether he or she...

Seanad: Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (24 Sep 2025)

Teresa Costello: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (24 Sep 2025)

Teresa Costello: Tomorrow at 9.30 a.m.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Teresa Costello: I thank the witnesses for their statements and for being here today. I want to start on a positive note. I want to talk about accident and emergency waiting times. I will go local. In Tallaght Hospital there has been a hugely significant improvement. I know that because I have had personal experience of it. Earlier in the year, I waited 33 hours in accident and emergency and on Tuesday...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Teresa Costello: Is the current model wrong?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Teresa Costello: I would like to have an answer to the question on givinostat within the time as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Teresa Costello: That is part of the question I was asking. Where is the delay? The manufacturer is telling me-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Teresa Costello: The HSE is willing to accept it. The manufacturer is telling me it has to wait for a meeting.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Cancer Services (1 Oct 2025)

Teresa Costello: I thank the Minister of State for being here today. October is breast cancer awareness month so it is very timely that I am raising this issue today, the same day that I will attend my annual mammogram. I will most certainly be repeating myself today as I have spoken previously about the delays in scanning in symptomatic breast clinics. I will continue to repeat myself because the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Cancer Services (1 Oct 2025)

Teresa Costello: I thank the Minister of State for her response. I have concerns. There is a specific issue with the symptomatic breast disease clinics. It is about when a girl, generally of 36 years or under, presents after being referred by her GP with a lump and is sent away without a scan that day. I think something has changed over the years. Years ago when I was diagnosed, I never met anybody who...