Results 1-20 of 123 for speaker:Nicole Ryan

Seanad: EU Regulations: Motions (3 Jul 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I welcome the Minister back to the House. It is good to have him back with us today. We are being asked to debate three significant motions concerning regulations the Government is proposing we opt in to under Article 3 of Protocol No. 21 to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. This is not a debate about whether we need a fully functioning, fair and efficient migration...

Seanad: Sea Fisheries: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Nicole Ryan: Before we start, I welcome Eoghan Clonan and Arjun Santos to the House. It is lovely to see them. It is great to have the Minister of State here. He has ten minutes for his opening statement.

Seanad: Sea Fisheries: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Nicole Ryan: The Minister of State has concluding remarks left.

Seanad: Sea Fisheries: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Nicole Ryan: Before we move on to the group spokespersons, I welcome the Clonakilty women's shed, who are guests with the Minister of State, Deputy O'Sullivan. They are most welcome to the House. I hope they enjoy their day. We will now move on to the group spokespersons and start with Fianna Fáil's Senator Blaney.

Seanad: Sea Fisheries: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Nicole Ryan: As no other Senators wish to speak, I invite the Minister of State to respond. He has eight minutes.

Seanad: Sea Fisheries: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I thank the Minister of State for being here and all the Senators for their contributions.

Seanad: Health (Scoliosis Treatment Services) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I thank the Independent Group for bringing forward this Bill and the Minister for accepting our amendment to put a timeframe around the provision of care. We heard at the health committee about the horrors that occurred in respect of CHI. Many of us are on the committee. We know what has happened. I echo what Senator Clonan said, that the time for action is now. We have done a lot of...

Seanad: Domestic Violence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I move amendment No. 1: In page 3, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following: “(1B) Where a child is present during the commission of an offence under subsection (1), this shall be considered an aggravating factor for the purposes of sentencing.”.”. It is lovely to have the Minister of State here today to take this. I thank the cross-party group for...

Seanad: Domestic Violence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I thank the Minister of State for the update and for accepting the amendment. It is important for many people who may be watching this debate and for the many families who have been through this. Some families in the House may never have spoken out about such things. I also thank him for the update on the plan in the programme for Government because I know what it is like for a child...

Seanad: Domestic Violence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2025)

Nicole Ryan: Next Tuesday.

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

Nicole Ryan: I am going to ask a direct question on accountability. What disciplinary or legal consequences have been pursued in the case where internal audits have been flagged a misuse of funding initiative, particularly in the audits underway in Beaumont Hospital, CHI and Naas General Hospital?

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

Nicole Ryan: In terms of CHI, the audit is complete and we all know what we know now.

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

Nicole Ryan: What is the HSE's response to finding out that many hospitals gave vague answers, such as ongoing or case-by-case, when they were asked how often third-party contracts were reviewed? Does this not indicate a systematic failure in oversight? This is in the report that the committee members saw for the first time last night.

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

Nicole Ryan: Did Mr Gloster not hear me? What is the HSE's response to finding out that many hospitals gave vague answers, such as ongoing or case-by-case, when asked how often they reviewed their third-party contracts?

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

Nicole Ryan: Should there be one, though?

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: Nursing Homes and Care for Older Persons: Statements (26 Jun 2025)

Nicole Ryan: In his opening statement, the Minister of State said there were a lot of nursing homes and care homes that did great work, and I agree with him. We cannot tar every single nursing home with the same brush because there are really hardworking people out there doing good work. However, last week, the Oireachtas health committee was presented with a deeply unsettling picture of how the State...

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (26 Jun 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Donohoe.