Results 261-280 of 408 for speaker:Joanna Byrne

Unnecessary Hip Surgeries at Children's Health Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (29 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: Who and what company, Department or hospital benefited from that silence because I cannot make sense of that silence other than a cover up of failures? The expert first appointed to conduct the audit, an NHS consultant surgeon from England, resigned over a lack of clarity and confusion about their work. Was that lack of clarity and confusion by design?

Unnecessary Hip Surgeries at Children's Health Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (29 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: The Minister has to understand that these are questions parents are asking us. Last year, a whistleblower was worried that some of these operations at Cappagh and Temple Street hospitals were purely for financial gain. The whistleblower was proved right when the audit my colleague referenced took a sample of 147 cases from 2021 to 2023 across 14 surgeons and three hospitals.

Unnecessary Hip Surgeries at Children's Health Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (29 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: The draft report found that 79% of hip surgeries in Cappagh were not necessary, 60% at Temple Street were not necessary, 2% at Crumlin were not necessary and all those operations cost about €1,600 each. Those figures are scandalous. We have heard about cowboy tradesmen but does this point to cowboy surgeons? These revelations come at the same time as the completion of HIQA's...

Unnecessary Hip Surgeries at Children's Health Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (29 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: There is a history of journalists in Ireland uncovering scandals, including the RTÉ payments scandal, the tracker mortgage scandal and the revelations in the Pandora papers. When questionable hip surgeries in CHI hospitals were raised by a whistleblower and an audit was conducted, this Government stayed silent. It stayed silent on the unnecessary hip surgeries until this scandal was...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 890. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to review the current quota system in operation for the allocation of SNAs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19422/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 891. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a breakdown of schools in the Drogheda School Planning area who have sought an NCSE review of SNA support for the current academic year; the number of these reviews have been concluded to date; and the number of these reviews that are still ongoing. [19423/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 892. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the SENO recommendation made to provide additional SNA resources to a school in the Drogheda School Planning area (details supplied) has been declined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19424/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 893. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to confirm what advice has been given by her Department regarding the SNA quota at a school in the Drogheda school planning area (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19425/25]

Water Services (Repeal of Water Charges) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: When it appeared in the news that a recent briefing document prepared for the Minister, when he was new to his role, listed the finalisation of the draft household water conservation charge regulations as a high-level priority, my reaction, along with the majority of the country, was that they could not be serious. How many times do Governments need to be told that "No" means no before it...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 550. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional demand for special class and special school places for September 2025 that has now been identified at primary and secondary school level in Drogheda, following new measures set out to support the forward planning of special education provision in Circular 0080/2024; the measures that are now being taken to ensure the necessary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (8 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 553. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a breakdown of current DEIS schools within the Drogheda school planning area (including the location and name of school). [17495/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (8 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 554. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a breakdown of current primary and secondary schools within the Drogheda school planning area (including the location and name of school). [17496/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (8 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 555. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a breakdown of the total number of primary and secondary school students currently enrolled in schools within the Drogheda school planning area (including the location and name of school). [17497/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (8 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 556. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to review the Drogheda school planning area, noting the population increases and further projected population increases, which is potentially impacting students’ ability to secure a nearest primary/secondary school placement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17498/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (8 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 557. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on plans to provide additional primary and secondary school places within the Drogheda school planning area, noting the projected population increases in the area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17499/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (8 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 558. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on primary projects planned within the Drogheda school planning area (details supplied). [17502/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (8 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 559. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on post primary projects planned within the Drogheda school planning area (details supplied). [17503/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (8 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 560. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on post primary school projects underway within the Drogheda school planning area. [17504/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (3 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 49. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider increasing the betting tax levy by 1%, and noting the disparity in funding for sports, commit to directing a portion of these funds into Irish football with a view to improving facilities, upgrading training grounds and modernise stadiums; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10152/25]

Housing Emergency Measures: Motion [Private Members] (2 Apr 2025)

Joanna Byrne: It should come as no surprise that Sinn Féin supports the principle behind this Private Members’ motion, as many of the policy proposals are in line with Sinn Féin’s housing policy. Of course, correction is needed. The Government’s overall housing policy has not worked to date and will not work in the future. To think otherwise is to ignore the facts. While...