Results 41-60 of 130 for speaker:Natasha Newsome Drennan

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: But this year the Minister is saying that the payments for the hectares have gone up.

Emergency Action on Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jun 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: Has the Minister of State ever stepped back and reviewed the performance of Fianna Fáil in running the Department of housing over the past few years? I refer to a performance review, so to speak, because from the outside looking in, the performance of Fianna Fáil in the Department of housing is looking disastrous and in need of a complete overhaul. Across Kilkenny, we have...

Nursing Homes and Care for Older Persons: Statements (12 Jun 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: Last week, we witnessed highly distressing scenes of neglect and abuse at two Emeis-operated nursing homes in Dublin and Portlaoise. These were scenes the Government had long assured us were consigned to history. First and foremost, my thoughts are with the individuals and families affected. I hope counselling and health services have been made available immediately to them. If not, the...

Ending the Central Bank’s Facilitation of the Sale of Israel Bonds: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: Genocide is taking place in Gaza. There is widespread ethnic cleansing happening across Palestine. Israel is an apartheid state. Almost every week, weapons are being transported through Ireland to Israel and these weapons are being used to continue that genocide and ethnic cleansing and to uphold the brutal system of apartheid. There is absolutely no denying this. While there is no...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: On that, I ask Ms Garvan tell me a bit about the online prescription. I am a farmer, so I can go online and say I want wormers. Is that how it works? Do I still have to go through a vet? What kind of a system is Ms Garvan talking about?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: From whom?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: And that script can go wherever I choose.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I still get charged for that script. Prescriptions cost money. Who is going to pay for that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I do not need a vet to tell me that one of my animals needs a worm dose.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: Perhaps some people need more education on it. I have horses and cattle. We have been trained. I worked as a veterinary nurse. I know enough about what wormers my horses need. Is it the case that we are going to require dung samples before we are allowed to get a dose? How far are we going to take it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I wonder. Most of my horses were quite fine as they were. Does Ms Garvan think this will push people to buy wormers in the North? I go back to antibiotics, which were got through a vet. What data have been found to show that this is better for human health and animal health? What information has been collected in that regard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: From antibiotics. Ms Garvan says there is a 28% reduction in antibiotic use. What difference has that made to our health and to animal health? Is it possible to say that? Every animal has a tag and a passport. On our farm, we are using the same amount of antibiotics that we always used in the event of animals being sick. I find it hard to see how there has been a reduction of 28%. Is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: Most of the time when a child goes into hospital, they are given the wrong antibiotics to start with. It is about three days before the results of the blood tests come back, which show what the correct antibiotic should be. If a vet comes to my yard and a calf or a horse is sick, the general response is to throw an antibiotic at them. These are vets. If the animal does not get better...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: Merchants are at the heart of the community, especially in rural Ireland. Both the equine vet and the cattle vet are run off their feet. We ring them and they are racing. It could be all hours of the night and they are racing around. They are already run off their feet. It is madness.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (11 Jun 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: 119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills that staff allocation a school (details supplied) will have for the upcoming school term beginning in September 2025 through to 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30857/25]

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: Across Kilkenny, almost 100 council-owned homes lie empty. Over 60 of them will remain empty throughout 2025. Almost one third have been boarded up for over a year. Dozens of families and people in dire need of housing have been blocked from a home of their own this year. While the Government will try to pass the blame on to the local council, the fault and blame lies solely at the feet...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (10 Jun 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: 1020. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will be made on an application for an entry visa under the critical skills programme for a person (details supplied) who submitted their application on 23 November 2024; the maximum timeframe for processing an entry visa application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29666/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (10 Jun 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: 1021. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will be made on an application for a spousal visa for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29667/25]

Flood Relief: Statements (29 May 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I welcome this opportunity to contribute on the crucial issue of flood relief schemes. My home county of Kilkenny has borne the brunt of devastating floods far too often in recent times. We do not need to look too far into the past; we all remember the damage done across Kilkenny by Storm Babet in 2023, when the banks of the River Nore broke, leaving Kilkenny city suffering heavy flooding...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (28 May 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: The volume of traffic on this route has increased hugely. For 2024, we are looking at a figure of 15,000. That should be 8,000 or 9,000. This route has hugely exceeded what it was built for. There are also 11 local road junctions along this road now. This road was not built for those. We have what is the main route for Wexford traffic coming in to go to the hospitals. More than 80...