Results 21-40 of 113 for speaker:Teresa Costello

Seanad: Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (24 Sep 2025)

Teresa Costello: Tomorrow at 9.30 a.m.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Teresa Costello: I thank the witnesses for their statements and for being here today. I want to start on a positive note. I want to talk about accident and emergency waiting times. I will go local. In Tallaght Hospital there has been a hugely significant improvement. I know that because I have had personal experience of it. Earlier in the year, I waited 33 hours in accident and emergency and on Tuesday...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Teresa Costello: Is the current model wrong?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Teresa Costello: I would like to have an answer to the question on givinostat within the time as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Teresa Costello: That is part of the question I was asking. Where is the delay? The manufacturer is telling me-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Teresa Costello: The HSE is willing to accept it. The manufacturer is telling me it has to wait for a meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: ACT Smartphone App: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Teresa Costello: I welcome Ciara, Saoirse and Laoise to the committee. What you have done is amazing. Your personal experience is the most important thing because that gives you the drive to move forward. I wish you all the best of luck in the future. No doubt, you will have a huge impact.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Teresa Costello: I raise a matter of urgent public health concern, which is the continued use and abuse of sunbeds in Ireland. Last week, the Institute of Public Health published a troubling report that provided an overview of sunbed use in Ireland and policy options to reduce skin cancer risk. I will take this opportunity to commend the institute on its critical work and to acknowledge the depth of...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Promotion (10 Jul 2025)

Teresa Costello: I welcome the opportunity to raise the matter of ExWell Medical. It is a transformative, medically supervised exercise programme supporting people right across our communities. ExWell was founded in 2019 by Dr. Noel McCaffrey, following on from an initiative at Dublin City University. Since then, it has grown and now serves more than 7,500 participants weekly across 48 centres nationwide,...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Promotion (10 Jul 2025)

Teresa Costello: I thank the Minister of State for his response. In the next iteration of the national physical activity plan I would like to see a focus on exercise for older people. The benefits to people of being more active are a no-brainer. People in my community are worried about being able to afford their ExWell sessions. They are living on a pension and trying to make the positive change we all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Legal and Policy Gaps in Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Teresa Costello: I will fire through my questions. I have just realised I am extremely chaotic; my questions are everywhere. My first point is more of a statement than a question. I have been heard culture and cultural issues being mentioned but I never hear personal responsibility mentioned any more. Do people actually take a look at how they are behaving? Does anyone reflect on how they carry...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Legal and Policy Gaps in Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Teresa Costello: The age-friendly co-ordinators.

Seanad: National Drugs Strategy: Statements (8 Jul 2025)

Teresa Costello: I thank the Minister of State for coming in. As we approach the final year of this strategy, it is essential that we reflect not only on progress made at national level but also on how the strategy is functioning on the ground in communities like Tallaght, where both the promise and the pressure of the strategy are visible every day. The current strategy rightly prioritises a public health...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Jul 2025)

Teresa Costello: This week, I attended the Irish Cancer Society pre-budget launch. As always, I had the privilege of speaking to cancer survivors and listening to their lived experiences. One issue that was raised with me, not for the first time, was the lack of adequate supports for women who have had breast cancer and are now facing menopause. For many of these women, menopause is not just a natural...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Teresa Costello: I want to touch on a few things quickly. Regarding outsourcing and insourcing, what is the HSE going to do to change the culture regarding overtime? If people are being paid a premium through insourcing, why would they not just do overtime when it is offered to them? How is the HSE going to change that culture? The witnesses spoke about the ratio of patients returning to hospitals....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Teresa Costello: It is not with regard to the screening programmes. It is actually when they present to the symptomatic breast clinic, so when they have a lump in their breast, they are sent away that day with the lump and told to come back, and that a scan will be sent out to them. Eleven or 12 years ago, when I went, I was scanned on that day. If I had not had cancer, I would not have been a return....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Teresa Costello: I think that needs to be investigated because people are asked to sign forms when there is no way of electing to be treated privately.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Teresa Costello: If there is time, could Deputy Cullinane's question be answered too?