Results 281-300 of 4,178 for speaker:Paul Gavan
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport (Arms Embargo) Bill 2024: Second Stage (29 May 2024)
Paul Gavan: Well said.
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport (Arms Embargo) Bill 2024: Second Stage (29 May 2024)
Paul Gavan: Well done.
- Seanad: Housing Commission Report: Motion (29 May 2024)
Paul Gavan: I second the motion. The Minister of State is welcome. I want to start by quoting an email I received this morning. It is from a woman in Limerick who is overholding her current property because she has nowhere to go. She says she has a daughter who has her junior certificate coming up: She recently got mental health breakdown at school as this housing situation is stressful for both...
- Seanad: Housing Commission Report: Motion (29 May 2024)
Paul Gavan: Well said.
- Seanad: Housing Commission Report: Motion (29 May 2024)
Paul Gavan: The Senator does not like to hear the truth, so he is interrupting.
- Seanad: Housing Commission Report: Motion (29 May 2024)
Paul Gavan: Well said.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 May 2024)
Paul Gavan: I will speak about the issue of airports in the west of Ireland. I was at Shannon Airport last week. It is good to see the car park there full again. However, there is still plenty of unused capacity at Shannon and Cork airports, and there is certainly potential capacity at Kerry Airport, yet 88% of all flights that leave this island do so from the east coast. We know all the challenges...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Paul Gavan: I thank the Chair. It is good to see the Minister. I am so frustrated in relation to this issue and it is perhaps because this started for me in 2009, when I was a SIPTU official, and the then Fianna Fáil Government decided to shut down Nenagh hospital's accident and emergency department. We then saw the Fine Gael-Labour Party Government ignore it for the next five years. I want to...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Paul Gavan: The question I asked the Minister was if he accepts that UHL was in crisis when he took office in 2020? It is a question requiring a "Yes" or "No" answer.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Paul Gavan: The Minister has still not answered the question, though. A simple "Yes" or "No" will suffice.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Paul Gavan: The Minister has not.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Paul Gavan: The Minister will not even answer a straight "Yes" or "No" question. I will say it for the Cathaoirleach. I believe UHL was in deep crisis in 2020 and has been now for several years. The hospital trolley figures in 2020, and I am quoting the figures given by the INMO, which the Minister accepted when he was in the Opposition but does not seem to accept any more, were that 9,875 patients...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Paul Gavan: The Minister cited Waterford earlier. The difference is that it has three model 3 hospitals around it, whereas Limerick does not have any. This issue has been brought to the attention of the Minister year after year, and only now, after four years, has he decided we need the review that we and the Mid-West Hospital Campaign group have been telling him we need for years.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Paul Gavan: Between 2019 and 2023, 239 patients died on trolleys.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Paul Gavan: Some 239 patients died on trolleys.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Paul Gavan: No. Our publicly stated position-----
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Paul Gavan: -----called for that review for the last four years and it has taken the Minister four years to accept it. That is not acceptable.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Paul Gavan: If the Minister would answer a straight question, then I would do so.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Paul Gavan: The hospital is short of 200 beds today.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)
Paul Gavan: I am just conscious of time. The trolley count the Minister is quoting, by the way, is a TrolleyGAR figure, which, as we know, excludes people who have not yet been admitted to the hospital even though they are on a trolley. It also excludes people who are on trolleys but outside the accident and emergency department. This is a whole other conversation, however, and I do not want to spend...