Results 181-200 of 208 for cork speaker:Mary Butler

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (11 Sep 2017)

Mary Butler: 751. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied) at South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital, Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36779/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Data (11 Sep 2017)

Mary Butler: 808. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have been referred to Dublin or Cork from University Hospital Waterford for assessment and therapy, by age and gender, in the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36986/17]

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Procedures (13 Jul 2017)

Mary Butler: ...play such a role in the day to day lives of the people of the south east. If a patient presents as requiring cardiac intervention services outside these times, the only option is an ambulance to Cork University Hospital or St. James's Hospital in Dublin. Recently, the death of Mr. Thomas Power brought into sharp focus the absolute single point of failure of the current service, the...

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2017)

Mary Butler: .... The result has been the erosion of community life in rural areas as people are forced to relocate to support their families. This in turn has put enormous pressure on housing in areas such as Dublin, Cork, Waterford and other areas of dense population. Fianna Fáil has long recognised the need to revitalise rural Ireland. This formed a key part of our general election...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2017)

Mary Butler: ...Waterford. Unfortunately, the doors of the state-of-the-art cath lab were closed and there was no interventional cardiologist consultant on duty. Unfortunately, poor Mr. Power was transferred to Cork and died 30 minutes up the road in Dungarvan. He was 39 years of age, newly married and his wife was expecting their first baby. That is what is exercising people at the moment, not the...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (21 Jun 2017)

Mary Butler: ...intervention at University Hospital Waterford is time sensitive so if any patient presents requiring cardiac intervention outside the opening hours, his or her only option is an ambulance to Cork. Last Sunday, Mr. Thomas Power, 39, recently married and expecting his first baby, presented at University Hospital Waterford with chest pains. A decision was taken that he should be...

Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Mary Butler: ...Mr. Thomas Power who had been married for 12 months and whose wife is expecting their first baby presented in pain at University Hospital Waterford in blazing sunshine. He was transferred to Cork University Hospital but only got as far as Dungarvan where he died of a cardiac arrest. The consultant told his sister that if he had been attended to in a cath lab, he would still be alive. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Mary Butler: ...he would move it to nine months. Deputy Niall Collins pushed for 12 months. I believe stipulating 18 months would have adverse implications for students. A student spending 12 months in Limerick, Cork, Dublin, Waterford or wherever might be on a low-hour contract or an if-and-when contract for 12 months but might end up studying somewhere else the following year and might have to go into...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)

Mary Butler: As the mother of a son who qualified last May as a secondary teacher in University College Cork, UCC, and is teaching history, economics and business, I can agree with everything the witnesses have said, and that it is not conducive to helping new teachers blossom into their careers when they are by the phone on a Sunday night. Today I am happy to say he is in Coláiste Éanna in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (9 May 2017)

Mary Butler: .... I am from the constituency of Waterford. Everyone else is from Limerick. We do not have a university in Waterford. We have a fantastic institute of technology, but many students travel to Cork and Limerick. My own daughter is studying in Limerick at the moment and many of the students there work part-time while studying. They can work back where they live during the summer and at...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (22 Mar 2017)

Mary Butler: 229. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied) at South Infirmary Victoria, University Hospital Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14548/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (7 Mar 2017)

Mary Butler: 137. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current Garda numbers per head of population for the cities of Dublin, Galway, Limerick, Cork, Waterford and Kilkenny, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12168/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (7 Mar 2017)

Mary Butler: 138. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the previous Garda numbers per head of population for the cities of Dublin, Galway, Limerick, Cork, Waterford and Kilkenny, for each of the years 2011 to 2016, in tabular from; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12169/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

Mary Butler: ...on page 87 of his report:Waterford Regional Hospital will continue to provide invasive cardiology services for the South East population. Working in collaboration with the cardiology service in Cork the current service should be extended with new joint appointments of cardiologists. Professor Higgins is a key stakeholder as author of the Higgins report and the chief academic officer of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

Mary Butler: ..., but, no matter how we go at the issue, there are still 350,000 or 400,000 people who will have nowhere to go in an ambulance if on a Friday evening at 5 p.m. someone has a heart attack except to Cork or Dublin. As everyone has stated, it is not possible to get to either place within 90 minutes. I would appreciate it if Dr. Herity were to answer these questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

Mary Butler: ...he did not and that patients should be treated in high-volume centres. I seek the witnesses' views in this regard. Dr. Herity also spoke about the length of time it takes to get from Waterford to Cork and referred to real world ambulance times, which he stated were 88 minutes with blue lights flashing. While Senator Swanick put it to him that this target time is an aspiration, Dr....

Bus Éireann: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2017)

Mary Butler: ...taking the service from Waterford on a Sunday evening. My own daughter does it. She travels every Sunday evening to college in Limerick. Whether it is the students travelling into Waterford from Cork, Carlow or Kilkenny, it is imperative that the bus service is there for them. At the weekend, I spoke to many people in rural parts of my constituency whose only lifeline in many cases is...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (18 Jan 2017)

Mary Butler: ...which clearly states, on page 87, that Waterford Regional Hospital will continue to provide cardiology coverage for the south east population working in collaboration with cardiology services in Cork and that the current service should be extended with new appointments of cardiologists. I have the book from which I have taken that information, which was published in 2012. We have...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (18 Jan 2017)

Mary Butler: ...second-class citizens? It is ironic that while we were taking to the streets in Waterford last Saturday, an Air Corps helicopter had to come to Waterford to bring a patient to University Hospital Cork and an ambulance was ferrying another patient to Cork. Why is the south east the only region without 24-7 cardiology cover? Why are we excluded from life-saving care? Make no mistake...

Flood Prevention Measures: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2016)

Mary Butler: ...in frequency and strength as our climate continues to change. Unless we start implementing a co-ordinated flood prevention and insurance strategy, houses and businesses along the Shannon, in Cork and in Waterford will be forced to endure years of uncertainty and anxiety as the flood threat escalates. As the House will be aware, €480 million has been earmarked for flood defence...