Results 1,281-1,300 of 3,871 for speaker:Catherine Byrne
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Transgender Health Issues: Discussion (4 Jul 2013)
Catherine Byrne: We accept gifts of any kind.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013) Catherine Byrne: This issue is close to my heart. I look forward to the final report and the measures that will be put in place. I come from an area that has been ravaged by drugs since my early childhood. The time for local and national drugs task forces is gone. The model needs to be broken and we need to consider something completely different. It is difficult to see the work done by some local drugs...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Message to Dáil (10 Jul 2013)
Catherine Byrne: I, too, wish to be associated with it. It is wrong and unfair that this meeting has been rushed and that members have not had adequate time to speak.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 40 - Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (10 Jul 2013) Catherine Byrne: I thank the Minister. I apologise for being somewhat late. I was reared by a family that thought one had to creep before one could walk, and walk before one could run. I think it is important to bear that in mind in the development of any service. One has to creep and then walk and then run, and then things will fall into place. While I join other speakers in welcoming this allocation,...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 40 - Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (10 Jul 2013) Catherine Byrne: I might make my point about youth cafés at this stage.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 40 - Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (10 Jul 2013) Catherine Byrne: What kind of uptake has there been in this regard? That is all I really want to know. It is a very basic question. I am also concerned about the increase in the number of children in care. Although the figures we have been given regarding the number of referrals of children in welfare protection cover a nine-month period only, I think it is important to look at them. It is obvious that...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 40 - Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (10 Jul 2013) Catherine Byrne: I do not absolutely agree with Deputy Robert Troy. Many programmes and youth services have adjusted to their budgets. Most have told me that the cutback has not affected their programme of work with young people. I do not know what the figures are, but when I talk to people on the ground who are working in the services, they say they have a reduced budget and are using other initiatives to...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 40 - Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (10 Jul 2013) Catherine Byrne: The Chairman jumped ahead but I had not turned my page. May I comment on subheads C6?
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 40 - Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (10 Jul 2013) Catherine Byrne: My query also relates to subhead C5. Has the Minister any idea of how many grants have been availed of by organisations? How much grant funding has been paid out, particularly to organisations that work with young people? Is the figure stated in the Estimates the overall figure?
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 40 - Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (10 Jul 2013) Catherine Byrne: Has the money been paid out?
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 40 - Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (10 Jul 2013) Catherine Byrne: No, I just was not sure whether that was the figure.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 40 - Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (10 Jul 2013) Catherine Byrne: I have a reason to ask the Minister about the grant. Last year a playground needed a lot of improvements so I went to many local child care groups to ask would they apply for funding but none of them took up the offer which puzzled me. The playground is still in need of repair but it is in a park that belongs to the council. Does that have anything to do with it?
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 40 - Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (10 Jul 2013) Catherine Byrne: The playground is in a park that belongs to the council.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 40 - Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (10 Jul 2013) Catherine Byrne: All of the children in the local play schools still use the playground.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 40 - Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (10 Jul 2013) Catherine Byrne: Yes.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 40 - Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (10 Jul 2013) Catherine Byrne: That is what I was trying to get at.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 40 - Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (10 Jul 2013) Catherine Byrne: Yes, I understand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cochlear Ear Implants: Discussion (16 Jul 2013)
Catherine Byrne: I thank the Happy New Ear campaign group for appearing before the committee. Blessed is Mr. Shay Kearns among women. The implant is the most amazing piece of technology and provides the gift of sound. For those of us who have the gifts of hearing and speech, it is very hard to imagine what it would be like to live without them. Did I pick up the figure correctly that 250 children or...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cochlear Ear Implants: Discussion (16 Jul 2013)
Catherine Byrne: What budget would be required for this level of treatment? What age group would undergo surgery? If there is a cohort of young people already in the system, how are they being dealt with? I was not at the previous presentation but I would be very interested to learn what the Minister had to say to the delegates. We do not normally reconvene a meeting to meet groups on an ad hoc basis,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cochlear Ear Implants: Discussion (16 Jul 2013)
Catherine Byrne: That was my question. Why can two implants not be done at the same time? What age would a child be when the implant is put in?