Results 6,081-6,100 of 21,489 for speaker:Alan Kelly
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (12 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: 84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if autism spectrum disorder units will be allocated to single sex secondary schools; and if it is a condition that ASD units can only be assigned to co-education secondary schools. [52198/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (12 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: 97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if autism spectrum disorder units can be allocated to single sex secondary schools; if not, if it is a condition that ASD units can only be assigned to co-education secondary schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52369/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (11 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: 179. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements made to replace a person (details supplied) who is due to leave his position; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51902/19]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: I will raise two issues with the witnesses on this round of questioning. The first issue is overcrowding in the mid-west, which is catastrophic and the second is matters arising from the RCOG report published last week. A total of 190 extra beds have been promised and 83 were announced recently. How many of those beds are for the mid-west and where are they located? The minor injuries...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: Let us measure how irrelevant it is in the coming months. People do not go to the accident and emergency department in Limerick or Nenagh-Ennis because of the difference between €100 and €75. It is not the case and I know that because I live there. Will Mr. Reid visit University Hospital Limerick, UHL, with a delegation of this committee in the coming days?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: I appreciate that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: Fair enough. Mr. Reid has answered my question and I appreciate that. I also appreciate the fact that we have quarterly committee meetings with the Minister. Unfortunately, this might be the last one but I appreciate-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: We will see. I appreciate that Mr. Reid has agreed to visit UHL because several committee members would like to go the hospital with him in the coming days. I am not interested in dramatics but in solutions. I have written to Mr. Reid about UHL and the mid-west more generally. Deputy Harty is also from the mid-west and knows that what is going on there at the moment is catastrophic. I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: That is slightly high but I get the Minister's point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: I was asking for it for six months.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: No, the Minister is not. I will give him an example.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: The pathway for St. John's, Ennis and Nenagh-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: Yes, I know but-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: There are tonnes of them but the Minister has to change the pathways to do that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: Let those proposals be put forward but they have not been.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: I have put them forward.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: The management cannot put forward proposals if it does not have the resources to man the beds in the first place. It is impossible. The Minister is asking management to put forward proposals when it does not have the resources. It is impossible.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: That is the 60 beds that Senator Kieran O'Donnell promised on radio with me would be in place by this year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: I will play it back.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Alan Kelly: I am not playing politics.