Results 321-340 of 1,044,726 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Ciarán Cuffe OR speaker:Jennifer Whitmore OR speaker:David Cullinane OR speaker:Michael Collins) in 'Committee meetings'
- Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (24 Sep 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: I accept that, but we are looking at a case where we could have convictions overturned and a huge amount of work that has been done-----
- Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (24 Sep 2024)
Catherine Connolly: There are many ways of raising important issues.
- Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (24 Sep 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: Well, I think these are questions that relate to the Minister and I would like her to take the opportunity at a later stage to answer them and to tell us when she became aware and what can be done.
- Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (24 Sep 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Deputy, please. This is the Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill.
- Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (24 Sep 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: Okay. As I said, we are in support of this. We see it as an absolute necessity from the point of view of ensuring certainty in sentencing. As I said previously, however, when we are talking about the coercion of children into criminal activity, we know that we do not have the tools that are necessary in dealing with this scenario at this point in time. The Government has spoken about a...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)
Catherine Connolly: The Minister to respond.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)
Alan Kelly: Why is the Minister not asking the board about those sums and why the board keeps losing to BAM?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)
Catherine Connolly: We are way over time, Deputy. The Minister to respond.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)
Alan Kelly: Second, why was there a request to bring in a judge to adjudicate on whether this individual should stay in place?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: It is worth making the point that in terms of the total value of claims that have been adjudicated in this period, the net change in the value of the contract is a small amount of the total claims that have been made by the contractor.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)
Alan Kelly: It is €500 million.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: On the standing conciliator, to whom I assume Deputy Kelly is referring-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)
Alan Kelly: I referred to the independent adjudicator.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: Standing or independent; it is the same point. It is not really a question for the board as to whether it has confidence in that independent adjudicator. Indeed, it has challenged the decisions that were made by the adjudicator recently through the initiation of High Court proceedings. As I said in answer to questions earlier, I expect and support the board to take all the steps it needs...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I ask Members for their co-operation. There are three more contributors and we are way over time.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: I raise the very serious issue of posts that are waiting to be filled in hospitals in Kerry. University Hospital Kerry has 50 vacant posts for nurses and carers. In Tralee Community Hospital, there are five vacant posts for nurses and there is no director of nursing in place. Dingle Community Hospital has three vacant nursing posts. We wish to have some Irish-speaking nurses appointed to...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: We need the HSE and the hospitals to ensure that the posts they recruit for are posts that are budgeted. That is the general stance in regard to the funding of posts within our health service, as it is across the rest of government. I will raise the specific hospitals the Deputy mentioned with the Minister for Health.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: Beds are closing.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)
Marian Harkin: Ballynacarrow is a village on the N17 in County Sligo that immediately needs traffic-calming measures, yet nothing is happening. In 2024, Sligo County Council allocated €264,000 to safety improvement works for the entire county. That is a great deal less than the cost of the bicycle shed out the front of this building. While there is no traffic calming in Ballynacarrow, Sligo County...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)
Paschal Donohoe: Deputy Harkin knows I do not know the answer to her question. She knows I do not have the information regarding traffic-calming schemes, no matter how important they are, in every village in the country.