Results 381-400 of 1,051,244 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Ciarán Cuffe OR speaker:Michael McGrath OR speaker:David Cullinane) in 'Committee meetings'

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

Paschal Donohoe: I will have to come back to the Deputy on the matter. It is a specific issue and he is looking for a specific figure I do not have at the moment. I will find it and make sure the Deputy gets it.

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

Alan Kelly: I return to this strange letter from the Minister for Health to the Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform, the Taoiseach and many others regarding the children's hospital. Why has the Government not asked the board why the independent adjudicator keeps awarding large sums in favour of the contractor? It is a pretty obvious question. Sums of €17 million and...

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

Michael Healy-Rae: Another shed out the front. A bike shed for a party leader. That was kept quiet.

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

Ivana Bacik: I want to return to the desperate situation unfolding in Lebanon and the ongoing carnage we are seeing in Gaza and the West Bank. I heard Munier and Gadier Zabad speak on "Morning Ireland" this morning. They are among the Irish families fearing for their safety and are now trapped in Lebanon with no way out while under brutal Israeli bombardment. We are seeing an horrific escalation of the...

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

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy raised the status of the occupied territories Bill with me earlier this afternoon and I did not respond to her. I am glad to have the chance to do so now. She will be aware, given her legal eminence, of the fact that trade competence sits with the European Union and the Commission of the European Union rather than us at national level. The Taoiseach has, given the obvious...

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

Holly Cairns: Recently, a constituent reached out to me. Her daughter had an epileptic seizure and she called an ambulance, but had to wait for four hours. That is not an isolated incident. Response times for ambulances are too long, especially in rural areas. Due to staffing shortages, the service depends on workers on non-rostered overtime. This issue is particularly acute in the south west....

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...

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.