Results 221-240 of 1,477 for speaker:Grace Boland

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (2 Oct 2025)

Grace Boland: 430. To ask the Minister for Health the practical steps being taken, and future planned actions, to expand specialist endometriosis services and improve support services for women; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52729/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (2 Oct 2025)

Grace Boland: 431. To ask the Minister for Health the implementation of the National Endometriosis Framework; the status of the five regional hubs and two supra-regional centres; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52730/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (2 Oct 2025)

Grace Boland: 433. To ask the Minister for Health if she will commit to funding and expanding access to expert-led excision surgery for endometriosis patients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52732/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (2 Oct 2025)

Grace Boland: 435. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which her Department is ensuring that endometriosis patients have access to multidisciplinary care teams, including physiotherapists, psychologists, dietitians, and pain specialists; if additional funding will be allocated to expand these supports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52735/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (2 Oct 2025)

Grace Boland: 432. To ask the Minister for Health the number of funded posts currently filled in each of the regional and supra-regional endometriosis centres; if her Department has a timeframe for full staffing of these services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52731/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (2 Oct 2025)

Grace Boland: 434. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department collects data on the number of women travelling abroad for endometriosis treatment under the EU cross-border directive; if not, whether she will commit to tracking this data to better understand unmet need; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52733/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Urban Public and Sustainable Transport: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Grace Boland: As Mr. Regan knows, I am focused on public transport in north County Dublin. I am a big fan of public transport. I want to do everything I can to support the witnesses' organisations but I also need to highlight the issues and severe challenges in north County Dublin. The Fingal area has the third largest population in the country. People forget that. The population is rapidly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Urban Public and Sustainable Transport: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Grace Boland: It would not be a matter of extra services but diverting existing buses and making the route shorter and more efficient.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Urban Public and Sustainable Transport: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Grace Boland: People cannot get on the bus.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Urban Public and Sustainable Transport: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Grace Boland: I would appreciate that. I appreciate the NTA is probably receiving an awful lot of correspondence but I have found its responses a bit piecemeal. Is there a specific window in which we can expect responses? I do not know when to start hassling and following up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Urban Public and Sustainable Transport: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Grace Boland: I had asked about cancelled and partially cancelled buses on the 33, 33A and 33X routes but did not get a response to that correspondence. I have gone back in to ask for a response. In my research, I found a site, buscancellationsdublin.eu. Helpfully, the site gave me a list of all the cancelled and partially cancelled services since January. In the past two months, 49 buses have been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Urban Public and Sustainable Transport: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Urban Public and Sustainable Transport: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Urban Public and Sustainable Transport: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Grace Boland: My question is on 101X service. In this regard, I am going to read an email. It is typical of the emails I receive very regularly. It states: I am writing to you ... because I am at my wits end with Transport for Ireland and their complete failure to provide express bus services to the people of Balbriggan and Balrothery. The anxiety this is causing me is unbearable and I need your...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Urban Public and Sustainable Transport: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Grace Boland: Why are there single-decker buses?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Urban Public and Sustainable Transport: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Grace Boland: They are single-decker buses. In this case, I am referring to two single-decker buses. Balbriggan is a town of 25,000 people and it is the youngest large town in the country. An awful lot of people are also living further up the line at Balrothery. A huge number of people are trying to commute to DCU and to work. We need double-decker buses. There are supposed to be double-decker buses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Urban Public and Sustainable Transport: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Grace Boland: I appreciate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Urban Public and Sustainable Transport: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Grace Boland: I appreciate that, but looking at the statistics it is happening every day. In fact, several buses are cancelled every day on this route, which is not a particularly well-serviced route. I know we are talking about urban services but north County Dublin is quite rural. Kids and adults are waiting at bus stops without shelters in rural north County Dublin with no buses. When people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Urban Public and Sustainable Transport: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Grace Boland: How is that measured? How is it captured that those people could not get on at Balbriggan and Balrothery on successive days and successive buses?