Results 201-220 of 6,611 for speaker:Seán Kyne
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Seán Kyne: Ms Ní Sheaghdha acknowledges in her statement that there has been an increase in the number of nurses and midwives. She explains that the number got back to 39,000 in mid-2019. According to the HSE, the increase is plus 9,300 to 47,584.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Seán Kyne: Ms Ní Sheaghdha-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Seán Kyne: The OECD talks about Ireland having the second highest number of nurses among EU countries. I know the INMO disputes that. Was it based on the same analysis Ms Ní Sheaghdha just highlighted?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Seán Kyne: Ms Ní Sheaghdha stated that we need a fund-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Seán Kyne: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Seán Kyne: Could Ms Kelleher state whether there has been an increase in the number of radiation therapist places in recent years? Have new college places come on stream?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Seán Kyne: So there are 30 places in Trinity and 12 in UCC. Are the 30 filled in Trinity?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Seán Kyne: But the 12 in UCC are not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Seán Kyne: How many were filled?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Seán Kyne: What would it take to increase from eight to 12? What is needed? What is the solution?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Seán Kyne: How many additional places could Trinity provide?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Seán Kyne: With the six additional practice tutors.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Seán Kyne: Ms Ní Sheaghdha talked about the need for a multi-annual workforce plan and for growing the nursing and midwifery workforce by a minimum of 2,000 whole-time equivalents annually for the next three years. Is that realistic, given the existing capacity?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Seán Kyne: Sorry to interrupt. Is there a copy of that report?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)
Seán Kyne: Will Ms Kelleher send it on? Thanks.
- Seanad: Sitting Arrangements: Motion (1 Oct 2024)
Seán Kyne: I move: "That, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, the sitting shall be suspended until 3.15 p.m. and that the Order of Business shall be proposed on the resumption of the sitting."
- Seanad: Budget 2025 (Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform): Statements (1 Oct 2024)
Seán Kyne: The Minister of State is very welcome. I welcome the announcements in budget 2025. We have certainly come a long way from my first years in these Houses in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. It was a different world back then, but we put in place the foundation stone to allow for the budgets we see now and the necessary increase in spending to account for demographic changes. If you look at the...
- Seanad: Budget 2025 (Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform): Statements (1 Oct 2024)
Seán Kyne: The total time allowed for statements is 90 minutes. I ask Members to confine themselves to three minutes each. There are four speakers remaining. Next is Senator O'Hara.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Sep 2024)
Seán Kyne: The Order of Business is No. 1, Gambling Regulation Bill 2022 - Committee Stage (resumed), to be taken at 11.45 a.m. and to adjourn at 2.45 p.m., if not previously concluded; and No. 2, Motor Insurance Insolvency and Compensation Bill 2024 - Second Stage, to be taken at 2.45 p.m., with the time allocated for the opening remarks of the Minister not to exceed ten minutes, group spokespersons...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Sep 2024)
Seán Kyne: I thank all Senators for their contributions on the Order of Business. Senator Fitzpatrick started off by raising Leinster House spending, and Senator Boyhan commented on that as well. Senator Boyhan was right in one regard - we all saw the bike shed being built, yet no one, including him, queried its cost. No one imagined what the costs would be and everybody assumed they would be...