Results 341-360 of 1,049,001 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Tom Kitt OR speaker:Simon Coveney OR speaker:Martin Heydon OR speaker:Pearse Doherty) in 'Committee meetings'

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy for raising that matter. I am sorry to hear of the obvious distress that would have been caused to the Deputy's constituent who had to contact her. From a funding point of view, we are providing, and will continue to provide, record levels of funding to the HSE. The funding that was provided for this year, and which will be provided next year, is a comprehensive attempt...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Holly Cairns: They have no funding to address the staff shortages.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The funding is coming from the Government to recruit more and more people for the HSE. I will ensure that the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, is aware of this matter. I believe he is, given that it was referenced in the Dáil last week. I will do so again.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also want to ask about staffing in the health service. In July, the Government announced a lifting of the recruitment embargo in the HSE. However, over the past few weeks I have started to receive desperate calls from staff in multiple departments in my local hospital about a recruitment embargo being imposed in St. Michael's Hospital that is endangering patient safety and means workers...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: In the middle of the year, we provided additional funding to the HSE for not only this year, but in advance of budget 2025, to ensure it is better funded than it had been before and to respond to the funding difficulties that began to develop at the start of this year. The HSE can only recruit those it is funded to recruit. It is not an embargo. It is the way every other Government...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Even if they are understaffed and unsafe.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: It does not matter how much money we make available to the HSE in the Deputy's world. It does not matter what we do. It is a fundamental part of how we have to spend the country's money that in order to recruit somebody to do a role, the money has to be there to pay for it. The budget that we make available to every part of our public services contains a recruitment budget that we need our...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Denis Naughten: As the Minister knows, I have raised the bizarre situation whereby there are no plans to relocate the genomics lab at Crumlin Children's Hospital when other services move to the St. James's Hospital site. It has now come to my attention that we are sending Irish samples to the United States, the UK, France, Spain, Germany and Finland for genomics testing. There are concerns about how the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy is a person with a great interest in scientific matters and has a lot more expertise than I do in this area. I hope he knows that the HSE, if it is procuring genomics testing in other parts of the European Union or elsewhere in the world rather than Ireland, will only do so if such testing is carried out in laboratories in which it has confidence. It will only send samples to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Sabrina Kelly, a mother of two children with special needs from Clonmel, has been failed by the National Council for Special Education and the Department of Education. She is struggling to get a school place for her youngest son, Josh. He is five years old and was due to start school this month. He was eventually offered a place in Powerstown National School beside Clonmel. However, the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: As I rehearsed with the Minister earlier, the Government, and he, as Minister for public expenditure, are presiding over the building of the most expensive hospital in the world. Of course they have also presided over the construction of what I imagine has to be most expensive bicycle shed in the world, at a cost to the taxpayer of €336,000, paid out by the OPW, which comes under his...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Deputies: Hear, hear.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Of course I accept that the spending of so much money on a bike shed has caused great anger among the public. It was not a decision that I made but I am responsible for the use of the country's money. I understand that the Office of Public Works recently engaged with the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission. I believe a report from it will be forthcoming on the subject and will lay out...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Business of Joint Committee (24 Sep 2024)

Simon Coveney: I think we would all like to be associated with that.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Maternity Protection (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2024: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Sep 2024)

Simon Coveney: I thank the Chair. At the outset, I wish to acknowledge that everybody wants to be helpful here but we also want to ensure that the committee is doing its job. I know what it is like to try to move legislation forward when there are time challenges relating to drafting elements of it. I have sat before committees on more than one occasion, asking that there be a recognition that further...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Maternity Protection (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2024: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Sep 2024)

Simon Coveney: That is helpful. I hope the committee can work with the Minister on that. It would also be great if the Minister could share as early as possible what the amendments look like, particularly with the Senators who were involved in the Private Members’ Bill in the Seanad, so we try to get as many people on board as early as possible. My fear is we will have a debate around process and...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Maternity Protection (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2024: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Sep 2024)

Simon Coveney: If I may, I will ask a brief practical question. Is the legal draftspersons office okay with the strategy that the Minister is proposing, namely, that we move ahead with the main block of the legislation and then introduce the amendments on non-disclosure agreements on Committee Stage? Is that the agreed strategy? That is how these things work.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Maternity Protection (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2024: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Sep 2024)

Simon Coveney: It is important that the committee hear that. Given what the Minister is saying, we can have a bit of faith that he will try to make this happen. Being a Minister and a party leader gives him a great deal of clout when trying to make something happen before an election date. I am certainly a lot clearer on where we are at. It has demystified some of the curiosity the committee had. For...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Question put: "That the proposed arrangements for this week's business be agreed to." The Dáil divided: Tá, 70; Níl, 54; Staon, 0. Tellers: Tá, Deputies Hildegarde Naughton and Cormac Devlin; Níl, Deputies Pádraig Mac Lochlainn and Mattie McGrath.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Tá Colm Brophy, James Browne, Richard Bruton, Colm Burke, Mary Butler, Thomas Byrne, Dara Calleary, Ciarán Cannon, Jack Chambers, Niall Collins, Patrick Costello, Simon Coveney, Michael Creed, Cathal Crowe, Cormac Devlin, Alan Dillon, Stephen Donnelly, Paschal Donohoe, Francis Noel Duffy, Bernard Durkan, Damien English, Alan Farrell, Frank Feighan, Peter Fitzpatrick, Joe Flaherty,...