Results 361-380 of 2,297 for speaker:Patricia Ryan

Home Care and Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2023)

Patricia Ryan: As Sinn Féin spokesperson for older people, I see at first hand the effects of the failure of this Government and previous governments to properly plan for home care and home help for the elderly. There are people in hospital now who could be at home, but because there are no staff for their fully approved home care packages they remain in hospital, putting further pressure on...

Home Care and Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2023)

Patricia Ryan: It is an absolute disgrace. These are people who need to be in hospital and need to be brought home to get proper care. We cannot, and should never, use the term, but that is what is happening. These people need dignity and need to be approved further care. When will we see the implementation plan to enact the cross-departmental strategic workforce report? Can we see some urgency on...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (21 Jun 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 69. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he intends to allocate funding from his Department’s €97 million surplus for road maintenance; how much of that will be allocated to Kildare County Council, which, in response to representations made by this Deputy, has stated that it has nothing in the budget to fix a very badly deteriorated and pot-holed section of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (21 Jun 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 132. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide, in tabular form, the numbers of social housing units allocated to approved housing bodies in the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; the methodology used for such allocation; and what measures could be taken to ensure smaller approved housing bodies with specific remits, such as (details supplied) and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (21 Jun 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 154. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deportation orders granted in the State in the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; of those orders, how many have been fully executed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30212/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (21 Jun 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 225. To ask the Minister for Health if he can clarify the reasons employees of a company (details supplied) have been deemed ineligible to receive the pandemic special recognition payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30214/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (21 Jun 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 226. To ask the Minister for Health how many private nursing homes have closed in County Kildare in the years 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [30216/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (21 Jun 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 227. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the locations of the 47 community specialist teams, 60 in total, currently operating in each CHN or CHO, in tabular form; and the locations and projected dates of coming into operation of the remaining 13 teams. [30217/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (21 Jun 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 228. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been informed there is a minimum waiting time of eight weeks at the Mater Hospital in Dublin to receive an urgent ultrasound to their throat; if he will explain how urgent something has to be when a two-month wait is required before such urgent treatment can be accessed; and if he will make a statement on the...

National Minimum Wage (Equal Pay for Young Workers) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2023)

Patricia Ryan: I too thank the Deputies for bringing forward this Bill. I welcome the opportunity to speak on legislation that seeks to abolish the age-based discriminatory practice of underpaying workers under the age of 20. Sinn Féin has long advocated for the removal of these discriminatory pay rates. We brought a motion before the Seanad last term but it was voted down by Fianna Fáil and...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Taxation of Assets and Wealth: Discussion with Oxfam (14 Jun 2023)

Patricia Ryan: That is okay. I apologise. I was late because I was in another meeting. I have been reading statements. I thank everyone for their time and indulgence. If I ask a question that has already been asked, I apologise for that as well. When defining which wealth and assets would fall under the umbrella for higher or equitable taxation, what cost factors to the economy and to the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Taxation of Assets and Wealth: Discussion with Oxfam (14 Jun 2023)

Patricia Ryan: I thought we had ten minutes for questions. I was just about to ask a second question when the Cathaoirleach moved on to another speaker. I apologise if I picked that up wrong. May I ask one more question?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Taxation of Assets and Wealth: Discussion with Oxfam (14 Jun 2023)

Patricia Ryan: I thank the Cathaoirleach. In Oxfam's briefing paper, Survival of the Richest, recommendations 2 and 3 talk about imposing the highest possible tax on the 1%, that is, the richest of the richest. How does Oxfam envisage stopping those obscenely rich folk from merely avoiding taxes? It is one thing to tax wealth that is measurable in the form of assets and goods in the State. Is it...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Taxation of Assets and Wealth: Discussion with Oxfam (14 Jun 2023)

Patricia Ryan: I thank the witnesses.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (14 Jun 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 51. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures or reliefs he could consider or put in place to prevent pensioners and others on low fixed incomes being further energy-impoverished by "standing charges" imposed on them by gas providers, even when there is no gas being used, as a €20 standing charge per month is a significant sum out of a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (14 Jun 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that a school (details supplied) is to lose a teacher for the coming school year, resulting in the two largest classes having to be divided up, despite enrolment numbers in excess of 25 for the past two years; if anything can be done to prevent this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28786/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (14 Jun 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 109. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of additional funding that has been given to Kildare County Council to purchase homes under the 'tenant in situ' scheme since the lifting of the 'no fault' eviction ban on 1 April 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28788/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (14 Jun 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 131. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider intervening in the very serious case of a young mother (details supplied); the measures he can take to help this woman and her family; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28789/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Jun 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 165. To ask the Minister for Health the number of physiotherapists and physiotherapy services available to MS sufferers, and those with other neurological conditions in CHO7 for the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and the cost of funding same. [28790/23]