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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (17 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Can I get clarification from the Leas-Cheann Comhairle as the Chair here today? The issue is that nearly 100 health professionals have written to the Minister - I am not going to go into it. Therefore, it is really important that the Minister himself is present. We have a right to ask for a deferral until he is here.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (17 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Is that right being upheld-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (17 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: -----or is it subject to-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (17 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: It is being upheld.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (17 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Will this be deferred until tomorrow?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (17 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: If the Minister is available.

Funding for Persons with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Every time I meet a family that has children with disabilities or additional needs, there is a common thread, which is that they have to battle every day of their lives. They are battling in some cases to keep their child alive and to get the best prospects for their child. They are also battling the education system, the health system and the State. We need to get to a point where that no...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (17 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a decision not to assist a school (details supplied) with an urgently needed set down area for children to be safely left off due to it being deemed that it was more suitable to carry out work via SWS, can be reviewed; if she is aware of the urgency of the situation given that a near fatal accident occurred as children were crossing the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Our Defence Forces are facing a crisis and personnel numbers are critically low. Under the Tánaiste's watch, more people are leaving the Defence Forces every year than are being recruited. The Commission on the Future of the Defence Forces set out a very clear roadmap to address this crisis. It capital terms it set out the need for a €250 million investment each year for the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: In what way am I wrong?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: It is the commission's €250 million.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Yes, the €70 million-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: It is €250 million every year.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: You gave them no extra money this year than you did last year.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: You built it up by zero this year.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: You built it up by zero this year.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: You built it up by a total of zero.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: How much did you build it up this year? Zero. You are the Minister for Defence. At least Donnelly went looking for the money.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: At least Donnelly went looking for the money.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: What land is the Tánaiste living in? He can walk into any of our hospitals any day of the week, any week of the year and he will see patients on trolleys or in chairs who have been admitted to hospital but cannot get into a bed. Why? Because the beds do not exist. The Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, told the Government that we need 1,000 beds right now and approximately...