Results 21-40 of 2,834 for at speaker:Willie O'Dea

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Coast Guard Service (20 Sep 2023)

Willie O'Dea: 78. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will ensure that the terms and conditions of current workers will be protected following the recently awarded ten-year helicopter service contract to a company (details supplied) to operate the Irish coastguard helicopter rescue 115 based at Shannon Airport; if he will insist that TUPE applies, given that it was...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jun 2023)

Willie O'Dea: On 21 February, HIQA made an unannounced visit to University Hospital Limerick. The press release about the report arising from that visit stated: The emergency department remained very overcrowded with 72 patients on trolleys and chairs ... This level of overcrowding continued to impact on the privacy and dignity of patients... Obviously, that is unacceptable. The Taoiseach may or...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (30 May 2023)

Willie O'Dea: 653. To ask the Minister for Health when the GP clinic at the dispensary in the village of Murroe will be re-established (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25607/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 May 2023)

Willie O'Dea: The unacceptable situation at University Hospital Limerick continues unabated, with unacceptable delays, excessive use of trolleys and so on. The situation is now being compounded by the fact that ICU nurses are on a work-to-rule because of the conditions under which they have to work. At the beginning of this year the Minister for Health committed to providing a surgical hub in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (10 May 2023)

Willie O'Dea: 170. To ask the Minister for Health when a full-time paediatric neurologist will be appointed at UHL; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21914/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (18 Apr 2023)

Willie O'Dea: 1581. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase the capacity of the department of clinical genetics of Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, given that at present people living with a rare disease wait over two years for a diagnosis after a referral for genetic testing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17320/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Mar 2023)

Willie O'Dea: ...the Government in conjunction with the ending of the eviction ban. The first is the tenant in situscheme whereby the local authority can acquire a house with a sitting tenant and rent it back to that tenant at a reasonable rent. The second is the first refusal scheme whereby a tenant has first refusal in the event of a landlord wanting to sell a house. Will the Taoiseach tell me whether...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (23 Mar 2023)

Willie O'Dea: 145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the reimagined senior cycle of education for post-primary students, equity and excellence for all: where the student is at the centre of their senior cycle experience; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14190/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (8 Mar 2023)

Willie O'Dea: 82. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport who owns the large freight crane at Colbert Station, Limerick; the future plans for it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11985/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jan 2023)

Willie O'Dea: I am sure the Taoiseach will agree that the dedicated mortgage advisers employed by the Money Advice and Budgeting Service, MABS, do a tremendous job at very little cost to the taxpayer, but is he aware that they have no security of tenure? Their contract is simply renewed annually and the practice is to tell them only at the last moment whether or not their contract will be renewed....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jan 2023)

Willie O'Dea: I thank the Taoiseach for his attendance at a recent meeting concerning University Hospital Limerick. It was much appreciated. Arising from the proceedings of that meeting, will the Taoiseach provide an approximate timescale within which the 303 beds which have been deemed necessary to stabilise the hospital will be in use? When will the elective hub committed to by the Government become...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Nov 2022)

Willie O'Dea: ...under two years ago a company called Rehab Logistics in Raheen in Limerick, which provided sheltered employment for vulnerable people, went out of business and made its 38 staff members redundant. At the time, a redundancy package was agreed between the workers and Rehab Ireland and both parties signed off on that. That agreement was subsequently endorsed by the Labour Court and the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (29 Nov 2022)

Willie O'Dea: 617. To ask the Minister for Health when cleaners that worked at UHL will receive their pandemic bonus payment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58771/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Nov 2022)

Willie O'Dea: 322. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider establishing a full public inquiry into deaths during the Covid-19 pandemic at both public and private nursing and care homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58627/22]

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2022)

Willie O'Dea: I am glad that is all cleared up now. The Ceann Comhairle is welcome back. I am delighted to see him. I strongly support the remarks of Deputy Joan Collins in respect of community welfare officers. The net effect of the administrative changes that have been made in that regard has been to make the poor poorer. That is my day-to-day experience of how those changes have worked. I am...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Nov 2022)

Willie O'Dea: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for enabling the House to commemorate the life and work of the late Vicky Phelan. It is much appreciated. The budget provided for a once-off €500 payment for certain categories of social welfare recipients. All those social welfare recipients can do training courses, short courses lasting three or four months, under the aegis of SOLAS to enable...

Finance Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Willie O'Dea: This is substantial legislation. I welcome the Finance Bill, of course, which is a detailed and substantial piece of legislation. I will not get to say much about it in my allotted three minutes. I am sympathetic to the remarks made on various sides of the House about the benefit-in-kind scheme. I do not know if that has been properly thought through. I urge the Minister to look at it...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2022)

Willie O'Dea: Ireland has a very high level of unaddressed hearing loss. Almost one in ten of the adult population has significant hearing loss and needs audiology intervention. In 2021, the World Health Organization recommended that national governments in each country establish a national hearing plan for their populations and demonstrated in its report that this would represent excellent value for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Oct 2022)

Willie O'Dea: 143. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to reports that in order to claim illness benefit for Covid-related illness, a PCR test is not accepted, and that an individual is expected to attain a medical certificate from a doctor at considerable cost; if she will revoke this requirement; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (6 Oct 2022)

Willie O'Dea: 356. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that therapeutic venesection is not being provided at present in the mid-West; when this vital and normal service will be provided in the mid-West for patients suffering from haemochromatosis and who are currently iron-overloaded, which is endangering their health; and if he will make a statement on the matter....