Results 161-173 of 173 for speaker:Joanna Byrne

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (8 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 413. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the details of any planned future expansion at a hospital (details supplied) that would alleviate pressures and challenges being faced in the accident and emergency department, and would increase capacity to manage high volumes of people who present by ambulance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23011/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (8 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 414. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the total number of vacant posts currently unfilled across all departments at a hospital (details supplied); and the length of time these posts have been vacant for, in tabular form.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23012/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (8 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 438. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in County Louth currently waiting for HSE home support; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23047/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (8 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 439. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the number of persons who were waiting for HSE home support in County Louth for March in each of the years 2020 to 2025 respectively, in tabular form. [23048/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (8 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 440. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the funding allocated to County Louth HSE home support services for the years 2020 to 2025 respectively, in tabular form. [23049/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (8 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 441. To ask the Minister for Health if care rationing of new home care packages took place in the CHO 8 area in 2024; if so the reason for this rationing or non-allocation of new home care packages; and if this is not currently taking place within this CHO area. [23050/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 456. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a list of apprenticeship courses provided by each of the ETBs individually and the location where each apprenticeship is taught in each ETB; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22954/25]

Housing and Critical Infrastructure: Motion [Private Members] (13 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: Today, we put forward a detailed motion on housing and critical infrastructure. Examples were given and statements from bodies involved in the delivery of homes, such as Uisce Éireann, the Irish Home Builders' Association and the Commission for Regulation of Utilities, were given, but the Government's amendment to this motion is a rinse and repeat of its response to all motions in this...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: I echo my colleague's sentiments on Horse Racing Ireland. I read through the note, which is quite detailed, but the more the detail goes on, it poses more questions. Is the historic loan of €1.6 million included in the grant funding of €12.5 million earlier or is that separate?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: Despite the historic €1.6 million loan, why in 2020 did it go further with the €9 million? There are a lot of grey areas in that, particularly with the stringent criteria that is around the €1.6 million in respect of key timelines and criteria for repayments. It goes as far as to set out what might happen if the repayments are not met by the end of 2026, going into the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: There are questions that still need to be asked here of Sport Ireland despite a note accounting for a change in accounting policy and the ring-fencing of grant aid. The underutilisation of €4 million in 2022 and the further underutilisation of nearly €6 million in 2023 involve staggering amounts of money that could have been, and probably should have been, fed down the chain to...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: I will take a moment to mention Kyran Durnin who should be celebrating his ninth birthday with his family and loved ones today but who instead is subject to a major Garda investigation to try to determine his whereabouts and whether he is even still alive. I know Kyran's family is holding a candlelit vigil in Drogheda this evening. Our thoughts and prayers are with them. There is a need...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Local Community Safety Partnerships (15 May 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 134. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on the establishment of local community safety partnerships in Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24264/25]