Results 21-40 of 330 for cork speaker:Denis Naughten

Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: .... It has not led to a reduction in the supply of loans. A report on interest rate restrictions on credit for low-income borrowers by the Centre for Co-operative Studies in University College Cork says: [T]here is no empirical and undisputed evidence that interest rate restrictions result in an increase in illegal moneylending. In the UK, it was feared that the price caps on payday...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Denis Naughten: ...supposed to be that we actively encourage people to go minor injury units, or their local GP to be referred and treated in their local hospital, where possible. However, if one lives in Blanchardstown, Roscommon, Kildare, north Cork, Limerick or south Tipperary, happens to have private health insurance and is unfortunate enough to have such insurance with Irish Life Health whose policies...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Transport (16 Sep 2021)

Denis Naughten: ...It would take that person four hours to get to Ballinasloe travelling from Roscommon town, into Galway city to the cathedral, then walking a kilometre over to the main bus station, then getting the Cork service to Oranmore and then a connection from there to Ballinasloe. There is a bus service going from Westport through Castlebar and Roscommon that terminates in Athlone. If that...

Covid-19, Mental Health and Older People: Statements (29 Apr 2021)

Denis Naughten: ...Hospital as the major trauma centre in this country, something I very much welcome. However, there is a fundamental issue here. How do we get patients to the trauma centres in the Mater Hospital or in Cork? We have not been investing in our ambulance service. The Minister of State, Deputy Butler, has already said that ten ambulances are involved in the vaccination of the housebound....

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2021)

Denis Naughten: ...problem are based on the bulk of emissions coming from industry, cities and intensive agriculture. In Ireland, 37% of the population live in rural areas. We have just two cities with a population of more than 100,000, namely, Dublin and Cork. Whichever way one looks at it, the climate challenges in Ireland are all about land use, in particular dispersed land use. We have extensive...

Rural and Community Development: Statements (18 Nov 2020)

Denis Naughten: ...tourism brand. We will have the Shannon master plan, which will be published in the next couple of weeks and the Beara-Breifne Way master plan, looking to be Ireland's answer to the Camino, and running from west Cork, right up through the middle of the country, through east Galway and Roscommon, to Blacklion in County Cavan, and hopefully continuing on to the Glens of Antrim. We also...

Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (4 Nov 2020)

Denis Naughten: ...only benefit the legal profession, not the patient. Back in the spring of 2002, 18 years ago, I had a meeting with the then Minister for Health, now the Taoiseach, with Margaret Best from Cork. The then Minister, Deputy Micheál Martin, gave a commitment to investigate the feasibility of providing support for parents but especially their children who had been damaged by State-run...

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Budget Statement 2021 (13 Oct 2020)

Denis Naughten: ...I hope will build co-operation across the island and develop key cross-Border projects, it must include the development of the Beara-Breifne Way, which currently runs from the Beara Peninsula in west Cork to Blacklion in County Cavan. The way needs to continue from there along the Ulster Way to the Glens of Antrim, completing the Ulster Way and ensuring that the route, which would be...

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: ...they patrol our territorial waters, which are nine times bigger than the island we reside on. It is impossible to do this even with the fleet they have, not to mention that some of those ships are tied up in Cork Harbour. We are going to have additional challenges such as the one the Minister is facing at the moment in Brexit. That brings into focus again the operational capacity,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sex Offenders Notification Requirements (10 Sep 2020)

Denis Naughten: ...Arbour Hill Prison this morning, can toddle down to O'Connell Street and put a letter in the post addressed to the Superintendent's office, An Garda Síochána, Bandon Garda station, Bandon, County Cork informing them they are going to reside at 55, Atlantic View, Malin Head, County Donegal. Once they are in that premises for between one day and seven they are in compliance with...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (23 Jul 2020)

Denis Naughten: ...to wait an average of three and a half months for a probate application to be processed. If one is unfortunate enough to live in County Kilkenny, the process can take four and a half months. In Cork city it is taking two and a half months. In Waterford, which the Minister of State has already mentioned, it takes three and a half months to process a probate application. Clearly this is...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (10 Dec 2019)

Denis Naughten: ...we were obliged to bring forward legislation to protect that principle. I never thought we would be in a situation where community rating would not apply to people from Roscommon, Tipperary, west Cork, Monaghan or Clare because one insurer, Irish Life, has decided it does not want to cover the level 2 hospitals. It is wrong that this is allowed. There is absolutely no justification for...

Select Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2019)

Denis Naughten: ...the fact that their own local hospital is not covered by the insurance policy. It should not come down to people having to specifically name a hospital. For example, if I am on holidays in west Cork, why should I not go to Bantry hospital rather than go to Cork where there will be problems in the accident and emergency department? We should encourage people to use our level 2 hospitals...

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (19 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: ...this amendment relates at length on Committee Stage. The issue has moved on since then but, in a nutshell, the Irish Community Rapid Response charity runs the second air ambulance service based in County Cork. The Minister will be aware that over the weekend we heard that the Irish Community Rapid Response's spare helicopter, which is based in a hangar in Cork, will now be relocated to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (13 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: ...county of Galway have to wait, on average, three and a half months for it to be processed. If one is unfortunate enough to live in County Kilkenny, the process takes four and a half months. In Cork city, it takes two and a half months and, in Waterford city, it takes three and a half months. These are areas of the country where there is demand for housing yet the probate system is...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2019)

Denis Naughten: ...of a second air ambulance service in the southern part of the country. That happened earlier this year when a charity, Irish Community Rapid Response, established an aeromedical service based in County Cork. On average, the service flies 50 missions a month. This has taken pressure off the air ambulance service based at Custume Barracks in Athlone. Its objective is to ensure the air...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harnessing Ireland's Ocean Wealth: Marine Co-ordination Group (22 Oct 2019)

Denis Naughten: ...offshore renewable resources it will have planning authorisation for while Donegal will have a significant amount, as will Mayo, Sligo and down along the coast? One cannot have an inconsistency from Cork County Council to Leitrim County Council in terms of fully exploiting this. There must be a standard position across the country. It cannot be down to the particular view taken by a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Air Ambulance Service Data (3 Oct 2019)

Denis Naughten: ...; the number of missions flown in each year of operation and to date in 2019; if assurance will be provided that its role will be expanded on foot of the operation of the second air ambulance in Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40270/19]

EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2019)

Denis Naughten: ...farmers. If the Mercosur deal is ratified, the equivalent of 1 million head of cattle a year will be transported up to 11,000 km from South America. Brazilian ranchers clear an area the size of County Cork every year to meet a European market that already produces enough beef to meet demand. It is a bad deal for Irish beef farmers and the climate.

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2019)

Denis Naughten: ...Fáilte Ireland in its ambition to develop and grow this brand. Key to that is marketing the Beara Breifne way, which is Ireland's answer to the Camino. It runs from the Beara peninsula in west Cork, up through the middle of Ireland to Blacklion in County Cavan and on to the glens of Antrim. That needs to be marketed globally, just as was done for the Wild Atlantic Way. In tandem...