Results 261-280 of 11,390 for speaker:Mary Butler

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (18 Feb 2025)

Mary Butler: As this is an operational matter I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (18 Feb 2025)

Mary Butler: I recognise the important contribution SOSAD make to counselling service in north-east Leinster. SOSAD’s financial situation was brought to my attention last Autumn, and I arranged to meet them along with my officials from the Department of Health in November 2024. Funding to organisations such as SOSAD is arranged through the section 39 process via local HSE Mental Health...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (18 Feb 2025)

Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly as soon as possible.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Primary Care Centres (13 Feb 2025)

Mary Butler: The need for a new primary care centre in Gorey was identified as part of the overall development programme and had progressed. The Deputy mentioned HSE incompetence, but the selected provider encountered difficulties regarding viability of the project. More than one project was involved; I know that for a fact. This is under an operational lease model. It is a new model the HSE is...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Primary Care Centres (13 Feb 2025)

Mary Butler: I thank the Deputy for his question.  This is my first time speaking to him as a Deputy.  Congratulations.   The Minister for Health has asked me to thank the Deputy for raising these matters and for the opportunity to update the Dáil on these important issues.  The Government is clear that primary care centres are a very important part of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (13 Feb 2025)

Mary Butler: I thank the Deputy for raising this important matter in the House this evening. I am very familiar with the work of Save Our Sons And Daughters, or SOSAD, which makes a significant contribution to the provision of counselling services in north-east Leinster. It is important that this be acknowledged, as I have done previously. SOSAD is not currently funded by HSE Louth Meath Mental...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (13 Feb 2025)

Mary Butler: I thank the Deputy for her advocacy on behalf of the SOSAD suicide prevention group. I do not want to see this service close. I cannot be clearer than that. I understand how uncertainty around services can be very distressing for service users and their families. SOSAD is providing vital supports to many. I reiterate the point that I do not negotiate with individual organisations...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (11 Feb 2025)

Mary Butler: I move: That, notwithstanding anything in the Order of the Dáil of 5th February, 2025, setting out the rota in which Questions to members of the Government are to be asked, Questions for oral answer, following those next set down to the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, shall be set down to Ministers in the following temporary sequence: ...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Feb 2025)

Mary Butler: I thank the Deputy for his question. He is right that the importance of men's and women's sheds cannot be underestimated. Ireland has the highest percentage of men's sheds per capita in the world. They were founded originally in Australia but they have really taken off. We found it hard after Covid to get sheds back up and running but they are back up and running and they are so important...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Feb 2025)

Mary Butler: I move: Tuesday's business shall be: - Motion re Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions (without debate) - Statements on Programme for Government (resumed) (to adjourn after 2 hours)Tuesday's private members' business shall be the Motion re Government Response to Storm Éowyn, selected by Sinn Féin. Wednesday's business shall be:- Statements on Programme for Government...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (11 Feb 2025)

Mary Butler: As this is an operational matter I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (11 Feb 2025)

Mary Butler: As this is an operational matter I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (11 Feb 2025)

Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (11 Feb 2025)

Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (6 Feb 2025)

Mary Butler: As this is an operational matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Butler: I move: That— (1) the rota in which Questions shall be addressed to members of the Government pursuant to Standing Order 48(2) shall be as follows: 1. Minister for Foreign Affairs 2. Minister for Finance 3. Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform 4. Minister for Education 5. Minister for Defence 6. Minister for the Environment, Climate...

Restoration of Bills to Order Paper: Motion (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Butler: I move: That, pursuant to Standing Order 205, the Bills which lapsed on the dissolution of the 33rd Dáil, and are set out in the Schedule to this motion, shall be restored, at the stage specified in the Schedule below and notice of them shall be published pursuant to Standing Order 37. SCHEDULE Bill Title: To be restored at: 1. Credit Review Bill...

Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2025: Waiver of Pre-Legislative Scrutiny (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Butler: I move: That, in accordance with Standing Order 181(2), initiation of the Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2025 may proceed pursuant to Standing Order 180 notwithstanding that the draft heads or general scheme of the Bill have not been given to the Committee empowered under Standing Order 103 to consider Bills published...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Butler: I move: Wednesday's business shall be: - Motion re Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions (to be taken without debate and any division claimed to be taken immediately) - Motion re Restoration of Bills (to be taken without debate and any division claimed to be taken immediately) - Motion re Pre-legislative Scrutiny waiver for Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (5 Feb 2025)

Mary Butler: As this is an operational matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.