Results 281-300 of 801 for speaker:Annie Hoey

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Annie Hoey: I wish to discuss a much smaller group of people. I am aware of women who are at risk of having the BRCA gene. I have a trio of sisters whose GP is refusing to refer them for screening because they are too young. One of them is aged 38. They cannot get into another GP practice. It is a small area. Where do people like that go when they come up against a blockage? The older sister is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Annie Hoey: The GP is not even engaging with the referral process. Aunts both sides of the family have had breast cancer. The sisters do not know where to go or what to do. Is the advice to get a different GP, during this trying GP time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Annie Hoey: Of course. I understand. We are talking about screening-----

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Future Business Model Plans and Long-term Vision for the Media Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2023)

Annie Hoey: I thank everyone. It is a very interesting and important piece of the jigsaw puzzle in terms of what is missing in our media landscape. I am furiously writing notes as I always end up doing at these things and thinking of more questions. I remember that RTÉ poll and being so horrified about it and thinking that if they had asked about my community whether they would be okay if there...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Future Business Model Plans and Long-term Vision for the Media Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2023)

Annie Hoey: There was a mention of unpaid internships. I am sure that is across all of the areas the witnesses work in and represent. I believe it is immoral to not offer people remuneration for their time. There is another layer of societal discrimination based on socioeconomic, age, or whatever factors, which is blocking people from getting into it. This is putting work onto the witnesses'...

Seanad: Emergency Department Waiting Times and Hospital Admissions: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Annie Hoey: I thank the Minister for attending. I sit on the Joint Committee on Health whose members are contacted daily, via the committee and by personal email, about issues that have all contributed to the latest hospital overcrowding and the crisis in workforce planning. I have seen vacancies at consultant level, eye-watering waiting lists and so forth. My colleague, Deputy Duncan Smith, our party...

Seanad: Protection of Private Residences (Against Targeted Picketing) Bill 2021: Second Stage (26 Jan 2023)

Annie Hoey: I welcome the Minister of State. I thank the Fianna Fáil grouping for introducing this Bill. I echo the comments made about the fact that we need this legislation in the first place. I have a sense of unease regarding the times we are in. We will all have seen the footage of really stark scenes of protests in Ballymun and Finglas, which are in my area, Dublin North West. Some of the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jan 2023)

Annie Hoey: Over the last few weeks there have been a lot of disturbances on our streets around who should be here and who should not be here. There is very disturbing news coming from the Department that we may not have anywhere to house asylum seekers. People are coming here for protection and they have been advised not to travel to Ireland because we do not have the room for them. There was an...

Seanad: Wind Energy: Statements (25 Jan 2023)

Annie Hoey: Forgive me; I have to dash out as soon as I wrap up this contribution. We have a strong polluting element in Ireland. We have a duty to change our ways and mitigate the disastrous and existential effects of the climate emergency. We are here to focus on wind energy, as the Minister outlined, and there are three ways we can do this: committing to the "polluter pays" principle; co-opting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Annie Hoey: Are patients, patient advocates or people with real lived experience on the e-health committee? I am not sure if it is quite an advisory committee. Are they involved in this process? How much are actual current patients involved in this process in terms of their own experiences? Have the delays to this cost lives? I do not mean that in an inflammatory way. I can talk personally, as I am...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: General Scheme of the Registration of Short-Term Tourist Letting Bill 2022: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Annie Hoey: Were short-term lets always defined as 21 days? I had a figure of 14 days in my head. Has that always been the case or does this legislation change the figure?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: General Scheme of the Registration of Short-Term Tourist Letting Bill 2022: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Annie Hoey: So this will move it to 21 days. What is the rationale for that? Forgive me if it has been answered. I was in the Chamber.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: General Scheme of the Registration of Short-Term Tourist Letting Bill 2022: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Annie Hoey: Will the seven-day change incentivise or disincentivise people to either come into or leave the market?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: General Scheme of the Registration of Short-Term Tourist Letting Bill 2022: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Annie Hoey: I do not think that the next subject I intend to raise falls into the ambit of this discussion but I will ask about it anyway. I am wondering if any of the discussion around this involves student accommodation being moved into short-term lets. Has there been a discussion on restricting that? The Labour Party has a lot of thoughts on student accommodation being moved into short-term lets...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: General Scheme of the Registration of Short-Term Tourist Letting Bill 2022: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Annie Hoey: I thank Mr. O'Leary.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Annie Hoey: I thank the witnesses for coming in and for their presentations today. Hospital overcrowding and hospital problems are among the most prominent issues in my political awareness. When I was a teenager in the early 2000s, it was floating around, with Brendan Gleeson on "The Late Late Show" talking about hospitals and all these other things. The representatives outlined very clearly in their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Annie Hoey: May I ask a follow-up question about the beds? Mr. Mulvany says there are not beds just floating around. A couple of years ago people were talking about empty wards and so on. Mr. Mulvany says beds have to be built in the various places they need to be built. That will not happen in the next 12 months, if I understand how long it takes to build these things. Are we therefore looking at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Annie Hoey: Unless anyone else wants to speak, those are all the questions I have. I thank the Chair.

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare (Dogs) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Dec 2022)

Annie Hoey: I express my personal support for the Bill and that of the Labour Party. It is very timely and welcome legislation. We have had quite a number of animal welfare discussions in the Seanad over the years and I am sure it will come as no surprise to anyone to hear where I fall on this Bill. I commend Senator Boylan on all her work, not only on this Bill but on animal welfare generally and...