Results 41-60 of 124 for speaker:Nicole Ryan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)
Nicole Ryan: Can Ms Hardiman tell us why it has not been set up?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)
Nicole Ryan: Turning to Ms Nugent, and I know she is new to the role, we have seen how the word "culture" is used here as a scapegoat, especially among medical professionals. We have seen it used by HIQA, and it has been stated that the issue is the need to change the culture. How, though, will the culture be changed when the core is rotten? I ask this because it starts at the core and feeds out. It...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)
Nicole Ryan: Is Ms Nugent willing to do that for parents?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)
Nicole Ryan: Is Ms Nugent willing to do those meetings for parents, where they can stand up and ask her these questions directly?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)
Nicole Ryan: Perfect. I now have a question for Mr. Moore. He was quoted recently in The Sun on the subject of the funding as stating, "I had no hand, act, or part in the €19 million but my understanding is that every single penny was used in CHI". As the national clinical lead for spinal surgery, can he explain how he had no hand, act or part whatsoever in the allocation or oversight of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)
Nicole Ryan: Okay, I will go to the HSE.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)
Nicole Ryan: Who had oversight of that funding and how it was spent? That question is for the CHI.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)
Nicole Ryan: It sounds like when it comes to the accountability that Senator Costello mentioned, nobody seems to be accountable for anything right now. It seems to be a case of passing the buck around and see who-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)
Nicole Ryan: That is fine but people need answers to the questions they have. While the “sorries” are welcome, there are parents and children who are worried and at their wits’ ends. They do not know what will happen. They are in the dark and we are being told here that the culture is going to change, it is going to be fixed and then it should be better. That is not good enough....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)
Nicole Ryan: There was nothing because she is still sitting here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)
Nicole Ryan: I understand and appreciate that. However, if I was in a position where I did not do my job diligently, I would not be sitting in front of Ms Hardiman now.
- Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2025)
Nicole Ryan: I also support Senator Stephenson's amendment on supports for survivors of institutional abuse. There are moments in this Chamber when we are called, not just to legislate, but to listen to those whose lives have been shaped by decisions made in rooms like this. Last week, I spoke about a woman from my constituency. I will not repeat her story today. The point is not her pain, but the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Nicole Ryan: Ms Fitzgerald mentioned culture as one of the issues in her opening statement. Does she think four weeks is enough to stop admissions to fix something like culture in these nursing homes? Culture goes beyond four weeks.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Nicole Ryan: Is that four weeks enough?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Nicole Ryan: That is fine but-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Nicole Ryan: Exactly and in an ideal world that would work but we have seen that in this case this has not happened, especially what was on RTÉ. We were talking about Emeis and how it has engaged. Of course it has engaged. It has been called out in public on national television. It has no choice but to engage at this point -----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Nicole Ryan: -----because the outrage is huge around this. The question the public has now is: what does HIQA actually do? If the authority does not have powers to enforce anything, what is the point of HIQA in any aspect of this kind of stuff? Ultimately, these are people, residents and human beings who are working towards the end of their lives and they deserve dignity. Deputy Burke said there were...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)
Nicole Ryan: How many of them?