Results 141-160 of 173 for speaker:Joanna Byrne

Unnecessary Hip Surgeries at Children's Health Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (29 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: There is a history of journalists in Ireland uncovering scandals, including the RTÉ payments scandal, the tracker mortgage scandal and the revelations in the Pandora papers. When questionable hip surgeries in CHI hospitals were raised by a whistleblower and an audit was conducted, this Government stayed silent. It stayed silent on the unnecessary hip surgeries until this scandal was...

Unnecessary Hip Surgeries at Children's Health Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (29 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: Who and what company, Department or hospital benefited from that silence because I cannot make sense of that silence other than a cover up of failures? The expert first appointed to conduct the audit, an NHS consultant surgeon from England, resigned over a lack of clarity and confusion about their work. Was that lack of clarity and confusion by design?

Unnecessary Hip Surgeries at Children's Health Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (29 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: The Minister has to understand that these are questions parents are asking us. Last year, a whistleblower was worried that some of these operations at Cappagh and Temple Street hospitals were purely for financial gain. The whistleblower was proved right when the audit my colleague referenced took a sample of 147 cases from 2021 to 2023 across 14 surgeons and three hospitals.

Unnecessary Hip Surgeries at Children's Health Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (29 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: The draft report found that 79% of hip surgeries in Cappagh were not necessary, 60% at Temple Street were not necessary, 2% at Crumlin were not necessary and all those operations cost about €1,600 each. Those figures are scandalous. We have heard about cowboy tradesmen but does this point to cowboy surgeons? These revelations come at the same time as the completion of HIQA's...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Ambulance Service (30 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: The National Ambulance Service, NAS, is the State provider for pre-hospital emergency and intermediate care as part of the wider integrated health system. It is responsible for care from the point a 911 or emergency call is received, through treatment, transportation and handover of the patient to clinical teams at the receiving emergency department in hospital. As we speak this morning,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Ambulance Service (30 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: Increased investment is very welcome and I acknowledge that aspect of the Minister of State's response. However, at the moment, none of it is being directed to where it is needed. This issue in the Drogheda ambulance station has been going on for more than four years, as the Minister of State referenced. He also referenced that HSE officials were themselves shocked at the end of 2021 at...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (1 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the LMETB headquarters plans for Drogheda; when the project is expected to commence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21844/25]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: I echo the previous sentiments of my colleagues in congratulating the Cathaoirleach on his appointment as Chair of this committee. Everybody knows that this is probably one of the most powerful committees of the 28 political panels. On a personal level, I am particularly honoured to be appointed by our party leader to this committee, as I am sure is everyone around the table here. I assure...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Bodies (8 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 91. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide details from all agencies under his remit of capital projects that cost more than €500,000 and were either abandoned or materially failed to be delivered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22926/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Bodies (8 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: This question is to ask the Minister to provide details for all agencies under his Department's remit of capital projects costing more than €500,000 that were either abandoned or materially failed to be delivered, and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Bodies (8 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: I commend the Minister on instructing his Department to initiate this exercise and on providing transparency regarding what may be a huge waste of public money by multiple bodies under the aegis of his Department. Unfortunately for him, these wastes of money seem to follow him. When he was previously Minister with responsibility for the OPW, there were issues with money being wasted, such...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Bodies (8 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: The Arts Council's €7 million IT project failure and RTÉ's €3.6 million IT project failure are the headlines, instead of €10.3 million being spent wisely and well. Let us think of all the sports clubs, musicians and arts and cultural bodies that could have done so much with more than €10 million. It simply cannot continue, and I commend the Minister on his...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 890. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to review the current quota system in operation for the allocation of SNAs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19422/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 891. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a breakdown of schools in the Drogheda School Planning area who have sought an NCSE review of SNA support for the current academic year; the number of these reviews have been concluded to date; and the number of these reviews that are still ongoing. [19423/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 892. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the SENO recommendation made to provide additional SNA resources to a school in the Drogheda School Planning area (details supplied) has been declined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19424/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 893. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to confirm what advice has been given by her Department regarding the SNA quota at a school in the Drogheda school planning area (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19425/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (8 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 16. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on any possible movement to provide a new railway station on the north side of Drogheda, considering the huge population growth on Drogheda's north side along the PANCR; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22503/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (8 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 122. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide a timeframe for the publication of the large-scale sports infrastructure fund reserve list for 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22924/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (8 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 138. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide a timeframe for the next round of the large-scale sports infrastructure fund grants opening; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22925/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Properties (8 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 303. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an update on potential property identified in respect of the proposed new Garda station in east Meath; if the OPW has now completed their review of the completed market trawl for suitable sites and if he will confirm what next steps are planned to progress this matter [23009/25]