Results 30,221-30,240 of 33,115 for speaker:Catherine Connolly

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: If I happened to need nursing care when the bottom fell out of the market the 22% would be much less than 22% of my house today so the 22% is utterly dependent on a fluctuating market. That seems most unfair. I am 22% at one stage but my neighbour would be much higher five years later because the economy has picked up orvice versa. Is that not right? I just want to clarify the issue. I...

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I do not agree with Mr. O'Brien on that but I agree that services are needed to keep people out of nursing homes.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: What percentage of HSE staff in nursing homes are agency staff? I saw the information in the briefing document.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I understand that. I am 17 years working as a local representative. I am fully familiar with the situation. I am tired hearing about it, although I am not referring to the witnesses. Agency staff is a major issue. The situation has come about as a result of Government policy and not employing people. I would like the percentage-----

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: That may well be true at this point but I have spent some time on a health forum and I know there was an embargo, that staff were not employed and the HSE went down the route of taking agency staff at a great cost. My specific question is what percentage of staff in nursing homes are agency staff? It is okay if the witnesses do not have the information. They can get it.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Áras Attracta was not covered today. The reference to it just arose out of a question. Is that right?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: As it has been raised, could the witnesses clarify the position on the review?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I will finish on this point. In terms of bringing the fair deal scheme approach to homes-----

Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Yes, but if Mr. O'Brien was talking about such a mechanism I would not agree because people in their homes would be told they would be charged for being minded at home, after paying taxes all their lives. To return to what was raised by my colleague, which I also raised, one cannot have a system where one talks about choice where there is no choice, and one cannot have a review without...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Project Funding (9 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 340. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding that has been made available by his Department to support targeted rural tourism initiatives in Galway city and county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11767/17]

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Ireland’s past shame is its present shame. I am not sure if the Taoiseach is completely and utterly out of his depth or that he just sticks to prepared scripts. I do not know what the issue is. I have not asked the Taoiseach anything about a coroner or the Garda. I specifically asked him about publishing an interim report that his Minister has had since September last year. She...

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: What about the interim report?

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: As has been pointed out, today is International Women's Day, a day when we should be celebrating and acknowledging the progress made in gender equality, but more particularly the remaining issues that have to be addressed. Más féidir leis an Taoiseach éisteacht, bheinn buíoch.

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: There are outstanding issues regarding equal pay and bodily integrity. There was a strike today outside Leinster House over the remaining issues related to Repeal the Eighth. Domestic violence issues are costing the economy €2.5 billion a year. Instead, on this special day we find ourselves once again discussing how the State has misused and mistreated the women of Ireland. Prior...

Commission of Investigation (Certain Matters Relative to Disability Service in the South East and Related Matters): Motion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: It is difficult to stand here on International Women's Day to speak about such a topic. I welcome the debate, if the word "welcome" is appropriate when the circumstances are so horrific. I cannot agree to the motion as tabled, although I acknowledge there is a need for an inquiry. The amendments tabled by Deputies Clare Daly and Wallace are reasonable and reflect the need for a proper...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Funding (8 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 74. To ask the Minister for Health the additional resources that have been made available by his Department to the National Ambulance Service in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11885/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Data (8 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 118. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the primary care programme; the number and location of primary care centres in Galway city, county and the islands; the status of the roll-out of primary care centres for 2017 and each of the next five years in Galway city, county and the islands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11886/17]

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Ceisteanna Óige: Díospóireacht (7 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Gabhaim buíochas le Aoife Ní Mhathúna, Deirdre Ní Shúilleabháin agus Molly de Búrca. Rinne mé botún beag níos luaithe. Tá an triúr acu ón scoil chéanna.

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Ceisteanna Óige: Díospóireacht (7 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: B'shin mar a tharla. Is féidir leo dul ar ais arís go dtí an Ghailearaí.

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Ceisteanna Óige: Díospóireacht (7 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Tá sé ag feabhsú. Bhí sé sin ag teastáil uaim. Muna bhfuil aon cheist eile, ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabháil arís le Ronán Mac Aoidh, Eilís Ní Ruiséil, Conor Ó Gallchóir, Eibhlín Nic Cormaic, Leah Ní Mhuirgheasa, Mícheál Ó Gríofa, Darragh Lankford, Rachel Lingwood agus Ciara Ní...