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Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (5 Jul 2023)

Patricia Ryan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the motion on the EU restoration law. It is our collective responsibility to safeguard protected areas and to nurture biodiversity, as without it, farming is not possible. However, the balance between preserving our natural world and ensuring the livelihoods of our farmers remain uncompromised is critical. They have, after all, been on the front line...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Patricia Ryan: I thank our guests for being here. Given that pensions make up the largest portion of age-related costs, could any action be envisaged such that corporation taxes on profits made by the domestic banks that were recapitalised at the expense of the National Pensions Reserve Fund be paid directly into a purpose-built, ring-fenced pension reserve fund and, instead of exempting those same banks'...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Patricia Ryan: Yes.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Patricia Ryan: In view of the current spate of mortgage interest rate increases, will the profits be made by the banks and the financial institutions as a result of those rate increases be viewed as windfall profits for the purpose of being considered as eligible for the fund?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Patricia Ryan: I thank Mr. Leahy. I apologise - I had other questions but I am aware of our vote and the witnesses' timeframe.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Patricia Ryan: I thank the witnesses for being here.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (5 Jul 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 154. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 154 of 21 June 2023, if she can clarify queries with regard to the deportation orders granted from 2018 to date, 790 in total, as the issue queried originally was not answered in the first instance; how many of those orders have been fully executed, and the people subjected to them...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (5 Jul 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 169. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what can be done to help a person (details supplied) who has two special needs adult sons with profound intellectual disabilities. [33100/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (5 Jul 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 215. To ask the Minister for Health if he has or will conduct a review of pharmacy dispensing fees and the extent of service provision by community pharmacists; if he has or will engage with an organisation (details supplied) on the matter; the dates on which he has or will engage; if he will establish a review which encompasses the scope of services provided or which could be provided by...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (5 Jul 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 216. To ask the Minister for Health if he can confirm his availability for a meeting with an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33101/23]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2022 (28 Jun 2023)

Patricia Ryan: I thank the witnesses. I will come from a different angle. My brief is older people. According to page 19 of the report the target for delivery of intensive home care packages was missed by an incredible 66%. Only 80 of the targeted 235 home care packages were delivered. Will the witnesses advise me on what needs to be done and what measures the Government needs to take to ensure these...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2022 (28 Jun 2023)

Patricia Ryan: It is certainly not doing well. That is my opinion from reading this. I was quite shocked to see the targets being missed by 66%. I also see in the report that almost 40% of the targeted number of home support hours in 2022 went undelivered. What measures must the Government take? I suppose the witnesses will tell me we need to go back to the Department of Health on this also.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2022 (28 Jun 2023)

Patricia Ryan: Has Dr. Moran come across targets being wrong?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2022 (28 Jun 2023)

Patricia Ryan: I would like an explanation for the 75% failure to meet set targets for the movement of those with disabilities in congregated residential care settings to community-based settings, and to know what measures would the Government need to take to bring Ireland in line with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2022 (28 Jun 2023)

Patricia Ryan: I know, yes.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2022 (28 Jun 2023)

Patricia Ryan: I thank the witnesses very much for highlighting it. It is very interesting for us as members of the committee to see this. It makes me wonder whether we are asking the right questions of the right people. I very much thank the witnesses. Earlier we spoke about equality budgeting. How are the equality indicators chosen?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2022 (28 Jun 2023)

Patricia Ryan: I thank the witnesses.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jun 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he can confirm that the public inquiry into nursing home deaths during Covid, which he promised in January of this year, has been or will be established; and if he can confirm the date of same before Dáil Éireann's summer recess. [31512/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Work Permits (28 Jun 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 42. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what assistance measures he can put in place, or what measures he would consider, to assist bus companies (details supplied) with the high costs of applications for work permits for drivers, having had to source them from outside this jurisdiction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31500/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (28 Jun 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 60. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will expedite the process of issuing work permits to drivers at a company (details supplied) in order that the company can address chronic staff shortages which are causing significant problems with providing an efficient reliable bus service between County Kildare and Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter....