Results 1,041-1,060 of 1,341 for speaker:Erin McGreehan

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Sector Staff (25 Feb 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 585. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rationale for preventing an individual who works in the public sector to apply for the work and access support grant considering that reasonable accommodations and supports are not guaranteed in the public sector and the offering of such supports for a public sector employee is down to internal budgetary restraints and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (25 Feb 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 861. To ask the Minister for Health the specific policy and procedure that apply to the discharge of patients by taxi from the psychiatry unit at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda; and if the policy is adhered to in circumstances (details supplied). [7320/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (25 Feb 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 862. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review a policy and procedure specifically concerning the psychiatric unit at Drogheda Hospital (details supplied) and provide a report on this review. [7321/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (25 Feb 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 863. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify the policy in the psychiatry unit at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda specifically concerning communication with inpatients during their stay and the role of the key nurse assigned daily to a patient; if their role is solely confined to the distribution of medications; and if not, if it is to care for each patient as an individual and their...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (25 Feb 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 864. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing vacancies with the psychiatry unit at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda and the way this impacts on numbers of inpatients that the unit can care for. [7323/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (25 Feb 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 865. To ask the Minister for Health to issue a review on the practices within the psychiatry unit at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda when an individual arrives seeking urgent treatment during a mental health crisis; and the actions that are taken to care for each individual to engage with and ensure that they do not leave the unit without being assessed by a suitably qualified person....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (25 Feb 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 866. To ask the Minister for Health the policy within psychiatry unit at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda when a person who has presented looking for help and treatment during a mental health crisis leaves and sadly dies by suicide; if it is practice that an automatic review into the case occurs; if so, the duration of that review; and if not, the reason. [7325/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (27 Feb 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what engagement she has had with the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform in relation to pensions for school secretaries and caretakers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8591/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (27 Feb 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 114. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how the number of appeals in relation to disability payments compares to appeals for other social protection payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8431/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (27 Feb 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 147. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to introduce an annual cost of disability support payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8430/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service (26 Feb 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 36. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the efforts being made to establish a unit of the Naval Reserve in Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5810/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Cybersecurity Policy (26 Feb 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 34. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence how the Defence Forces are contributing to enhancing cybersecurity; the collaboration in place that the Defence Forces has with educational stakeholders in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5811/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (4 Mar 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 20. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Disability will meet next. [8486/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (4 Mar 2025)

Erin McGreehan: Right across the disability sector, there are huge problems. Will the Taoiseach's committee look at a full implementation of the laws in this country under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UNCRPD, and also under our public sector duty? I do not know of even one court case taken since the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, IHREC, was...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (4 Mar 2025)

Erin McGreehan: The public sector duty and the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (4 Mar 2025)

Erin McGreehan: Yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Mar 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 35. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education will meet next.. [8485/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Mar 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I would like to ask about a slightly different matter, namely, childcare provision. There are huge difficulties in the area, as the Taoiseach knows, and services are struggling with staff attrition, burn-out, compliance and regulations, while dealing with the impact of the many pay freezes and the introduction of the new childcare programme that may reduce their capacity to serve children in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Control of Dogs (4 Mar 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I want to address an important issue which affects communities across the countryside, namely, the need for robust dog control legislation. It is required for many reasons, including protecting our livestock. Robust dog control legislation can protect our vulnerable livestock, such as sheep, from being attacked and killed by dogs. These attacks not only result in financial losses for...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Control of Dogs (4 Mar 2025)

Erin McGreehan: I thank the Minister of State and acknowledge the work done in the past Dáil regarding the banning of dogs. I also thank him for acknowledging the Bill I introduced in the Seanad. I believe it is a good template for what we can do and work off. I hope the Department of agriculture can take over this entire brief and for it not to be across the three Departments as it is at present....