Results 121-140 of 228 for speaker:Nicole Ryan

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Nicole Ryan: How is the HSE addressing the risk of parallel systems developing where patients with private connections or knowledge of routes such as the cross-border directive are better able to access timely care?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Nicole Ryan: What mechanisms are in place to ensure clinical governance, continuity of care and patient safety standards are upheld during third-party insource procedures, particularly in diagnostic and surgical care?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Nicole Ryan: In CHI we saw that the clinical standard and governance was not really there. We saw that it had only just put in a clinical committee to look over the ethics and that kind of stuff.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I am calling for the Minister for Health to come to the House for a debate on the future of healthcare on our island. We recently launched a proposal that put the case for an Irish national health and care service. In the context of the increasing discussion around a future united Ireland, healthcare will be one of the defining issues for our people, North and South. It is not sustainable,...

Seanad: Data Protection Act 2018: Motion (8 Jul 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I welcome the Minister of State back to the House. I rise to speak on the motion concerning the draft regulations under section 60(4) of the Data Protection Act 2018. Sinn Féin will be supporting these regulations, but it is important that we are honest about why they are being introduced and what they represent. These regulations are being brought forward not because of a sudden...

Seanad: National Drugs Strategy: Statements (8 Jul 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I thank the Minister of State for being here today. There is no doubt that there is good work being done by a lot of people across the board. As we mark the end of the national drugs strategy, we are compelled to ask what has really changed, what progress have we made and, crucially, where have we failed. If this strategy is coming to a close, we owe it to the people affected, those in...

Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I thank the Minister for being here. It is good to see him back before the House. I am delighted to contribute to the debate on the Defamation (Amendment) Bill. Defamation reform is long overdue. The current framework under the 2009 Act has proven to be expensive, slow and in many ways inaccessible, especially for ordinary people trying to defend their names. However, the Bill in its...

Seanad: Pregnancy Loss (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Second Stage (9 Jul 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I will be sharing time with my colleague, Senator McCormack.

Seanad: Pregnancy Loss (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Second Stage (9 Jul 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I am holding a copy of my seven-week scan. It is the only evidence I have that my pregnancy ever existed. I am not alone in this. I actually count myself lucky. On 22 March last year, my 31st birthday, I found out that I was pregnant. Whenever any woman finds out that she is pregnant and looks at that positive test, she naturally maps out a life for that child. She maps out his or her...

Seanad: Pregnancy Loss (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Second Stage (9 Jul 2025)

Nicole Ryan: What is the point of reference to this Bill?

Seanad: Pregnancy Loss (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Second Stage (9 Jul 2025)

Nicole Ryan: What is the point of reference to this Bill? This Bill is specifically-----

Seanad: Pregnancy Loss (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Second Stage (9 Jul 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I thank everyone who contributed and who has been supportive of this from the get-go. I appreciate it. There is a lot of work to do and I am sure we can do a lot of work together. The Minister referred to one in five women and a gestation of 24 weeks. That does not give me a whole pile of hope because it is one in four and the relevant period of gestation has changed to 23 weeks. He...

Seanad: Pregnancy Loss (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Second Stage (9 Jul 2025)

Nicole Ryan: That would be great because many of us here are on that group and that engagement needs to happen. To the women who took the time to reach out to me, speak to me and share their experiences, their heartbreaking stories, their journeys, words and wisdom, please understand that we hear and we see you. We care and we understand. I promise on the record of the House that in 12 months' time I...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Second Stage (9 Jul 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I thank the Minister for his contribution. Before I move on to the first speaker, I welcome the lovely spectators in the Gallery. They are most welcome to the Upper House. I hope they enjoy the debate. The first speaker is Senator Rabbitte. She has ten minutes.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Second Stage (9 Jul 2025)

Nicole Ryan: Senator Rabbitte is the first speaker on the list I have here.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Second Stage (9 Jul 2025)

Nicole Ryan: Senator Craughwell is the second speaker on my list.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Second Stage (9 Jul 2025)

Nicole Ryan: That is no problem. We will suspend the House.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Second Stage (9 Jul 2025)

Nicole Ryan: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Second Stage (9 Jul 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I welcome Leo O'Neill, who is in the Gallery. He is an Irishman who lives in Estonia and is a guest of Senator Aubrey McCarthy. He is most welcome to the House.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Second Stage (9 Jul 2025)

Nicole Ryan: The next speaker is Senator Cosgrove. I understand the Senator is looking to share time with Senator Harmon. Is that agreed? Agreed.