Results 321-340 of 1,347 for speaker:James Geoghegan

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

James Geoghegan: Is the problem not that the inspections regime in relation to the two nursing homes that were the subject of the “RTÉ Investigates” programme fundamentally and catastrophically failed, to such an extent that the actions Ms Fitzgerald witnessed in the TV programme were, as she just said, some of the worst things she had ever seen? Notwithstanding the regulatory regime we...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

James Geoghegan: Does Ms Fitzgerald think HIQA’s inspectors are good enough? Are they sufficiently qualified to do what they are supposed to? What are their qualifications? Do they all have nursing qualifications or gerontology qualifications? Has HIQA looked at that in terms of the people who carry out HIQA inspections?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

James Geoghegan: That is not being changed.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

James Geoghegan: I thank the witnesses for the replies they have given so far. Did I hear Ms Cliffe correctly? Did she say that six residents of Beneavin Manor required one-to-one care in November and that by the following April, 18 residents required one-to-one care but there was no commensurate increase in staffing?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

James Geoghegan: The nursing home had a sufficient number of staff to deal with the increased number of residents who required one-to-one care. Is that Ms Cliffe's conclusion?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

James Geoghegan: I am asking about now, after the fact and after the "RTÉ Investigates" programme. I am asking about the situation now, whatever about when the inspection took place. Is it Ms Cliffe's conclusion that the nursing home had at all times enough staff to deal with-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

James Geoghegan: What happened here? Was it reckless behaviour by one or two members of staff, as is being hinted at here? Was it bad management of this particular centre? What went so catastrophically wrong?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

James Geoghegan: Has anyone-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

James Geoghegan: Are all those people still in place? Has anybody left? Have there been any resignations? Has any single person been held to account for what we witnessed in that programme?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

James Geoghegan: What about the managers who are responsible for all of this? Ms Cliffe explained it was more an issue with the managers. I do not want to paraphrase what she said, but she made a clear determination in respect of management, culture and governance. Have any of the managers been held to account?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

James Geoghegan: Is that not problematic? In 2019, "RTÉ Investigates" did another programme with public service value. It was another horrific programme about crèches and what was going on in a particular crèche. Within a number of months, the owner of one of those crèches had resigned. She fell on her sword. We have not seen any of that. We are left to harangue the witnesses to...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann (17 Jul 2025)

James Geoghegan: 219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request Bus Éireann to consider adding a stop for the route 2 service from Arklow to Dublin Airport at UCD Belfield; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40634/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (17 Jul 2025)

James Geoghegan: 247. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated amount a three-year waiver on capital gains tax for the sale of above-the-shop units in Ireland would cost under various scenarios with regard to the number of units sold; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40631/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Jul 2025)

James Geoghegan: 350. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline her plans for a building (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40632/25]

Pride: Statements (16 Jul 2025)

James Geoghegan: Both of the previous speakers mentioned allies. That is how I come to this debate also. One of the big decisions I made when I was elected as a city councillor in 2019 was that, where possible, I would attend, at the very least, Dublin Pride every single year. To my eternal shame, I never attended Pride before I became a councillor. As a public representative, I felt it important to...

Compulsory Purchase Order Bill 2025: First Stage (16 Jul 2025)

James Geoghegan: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Compulsory Purchase Order Bill 2025: First Stage (16 Jul 2025)

James Geoghegan: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the assessment of compensation payable on account of the compulsory acquisition of land; to provide for the acquisition of land by vesting order; to provide for the making of advance payments to owners, lessees and occupiers on account of compensation owed to them as a consequence of the compulsory acquisition...

Compulsory Purchase Order Bill 2025: First Stage (16 Jul 2025)

James Geoghegan: You have upgraded me there, too. Thanks, a Cheann Comhairle. Under this Bill, vesting orders will be served within one week of being made, compensation must be determined within six months by an independent valuation tribunal rather than a non-transparent panel of arbitrators, and once compensation is awarded, it must be paid within two months. Second, the Bill establishes the right...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

James Geoghegan: The AI summit hosted by President Macron in February was a big moment for Europe, demonstrating innovation and a change of approach at a European level. I put it to the chair of the AI council at the AI committee that Ireland could host a similar AI summit during the hosting of the EU Presidency. That is something that has been taken up by the Minister of State with responsibility for AI,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)

James Geoghegan: 24. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [34130/25]