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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2023)

Marian Harkin: Once again, I raise the issue with the Taoiseach of more and more private and voluntary nursing homes closing - 18 last year, two this year already - because they are no longer viable. Before the current cost-of-living increases, it was recognised that fair deal scheme payments to nursing homes were inadequate. There was an 8% increase in inflation last year and 7% is forecast this year....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2023)

Marian Harkin: I raise the urgent need to regularise the contracts of adult education tutors employed by education and training boards, ETBs, and the establishment of a salary scale that accounts for their years of service. The Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Deputy Harris, is in the Chamber. He will know I have raised the matter with him and submitted...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2023)

Marian Harkin: I thank the Tánaiste for his reply. He mentioned the 3,300 tutors employed in ETBs. Approximately 2,500 work full time. I know that the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform uses the 3,300 figure when it talks about the costs but the other 800 tutors are on two four-hour contracts. That is a small point. The Tánaiste is right that...

Co-ordination of International Protection Services: Statements (16 Feb 2023)

Marian Harkin: I want to recognise, insofar as any person not directly affected by war can recognise, the horror and the pain of the loss of family, of friends and of a home; it is your life literally disappearing in front of your very eyes. It is important to say that is the context in which we speak. The challenge facing Ukraine, Europe and Ireland is unprecedented, and that is the right word to use....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (15 Feb 2023)

Marian Harkin: 172. To ask the Minister for Health to release the number of cariban prescriptions that have been processed through the drugs payment scheme for the years 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, in tabular form. [7564/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (15 Feb 2023)

Marian Harkin: 171. To ask the Minister for Health what is the process in writing by which pregnant women experiencing extreme nausea and vomiting can obtain the drug cariban (details supplied). [7563/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (15 Feb 2023)

Marian Harkin: 173. To ask the Minister for Health for a timeline as to when the lymphoedema service will recommence at Sligo University Hospital. [7566/23]

Health (Amendment) (Dual Diagnosis: No Wrong Door) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Feb 2023)

Marian Harkin: From Sinn Féin, I call Deputy Ó Murchú, who is sharing time with Deputies Martin Browne, Patricia Ryan and Pat Buckley.

Health (Amendment) (Dual Diagnosis: No Wrong Door) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Feb 2023)

Marian Harkin: The Bill will be read a Second Time on this day 12 months.

Anniversary of Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Motion (22 Feb 2023)

Marian Harkin: I am pleased to support this motion, which unequivocally condemns the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation on 24 February 2022, one year ago this Friday. As an Irish citizen, I strongly support the right of Ukraine to defend its territorial integrity and its independence. As a European citizen, I strongly defend the European values of human rights, equality, the rule of law,...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad (23 Feb 2023)

Marian Harkin: 215. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the case of an Irish citizen imprisoned in Iran (details supplied); the efforts being made to assist this person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9315/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Feb 2023)

Marian Harkin: All of us are used to meeting delegations. I just spent half an hour outside the gates speaking to sheep farmers from all over, some from Sligo and others from Donegal and Mayo. It is a long time since I met such a dejected group, some of whom are at their wits' end. Many of them are on the floor and are losing money. They watch French farmers and other European farmers get up to...

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2023)

Marian Harkin: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion on the unacceptable situation in the National Ambulance Service, which is completely stretched across the country. The service is at crisis levels in certain areas where wait times are simply unacceptable. Last week, Mr. Robert Morton, the director of the NAS, gave evidence at the Joint Committee on Health. When he was asked about...

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2023)

Marian Harkin: In accordance with Standing Order 80(2), the division is deferred until the weekly division time tomorrow evening.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Action Plan (28 Feb 2023)

Marian Harkin: I think Deputy Connolly has taken a third slot. Are we on another question?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Action Plan (28 Feb 2023)

Marian Harkin: Are we on the first oral question?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Action Plan (28 Feb 2023)

Marian Harkin: I think we have taken that. Deputy Connolly is up next for the next oral question.

Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Marian Harkin: I welcome the legislation. I wish the Minister of State well in her new role and the very best in guiding this important legislation through the Oireachtas. I am not sure if it is her first Bill but, one way or the other, I wish her well. I hope she will be open to at least listening to some of the arguments put forward on amendments, changes and, perhaps, improvements to the Bill. In...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Impact of Brexit on Ireland: Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Marian Harkin: I better get my skates on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Impact of Brexit on Ireland: Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Marian Harkin: It certainly is, and we certainly need to gather such momentum, from the discussions we have had today. As for my second question, Mr. Drennan spoke several times about the need to use IT and to have integrated systems but, to take two of the IRHA's proposals linked together, he asked about a new public-private body at an Irish level that would operate an early warning system for both the...