Results 621-640 of 10,577 for speaker:Barry Cowen

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (8 Dec 2022)

Barry Cowen: 107. To ask the Minister for Health when the 2023 HSE service plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61073/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (8 Dec 2022)

Barry Cowen: 114. To ask the Minister for Health the action that is being taken to address the shortage of care workers in home support and long-term residential care for older people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61072/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (30 Nov 2022)

Barry Cowen: 182. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and when the person concerned can expect an appointment for a PET scan at St. James's Hospital, Dublin. [59674/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (29 Nov 2022)

Barry Cowen: 740. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect a hospital appointment. [59522/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Horn of Africa: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (29 Nov 2022)

Barry Cowen: I thank the Minister and his officials for making themselves available today. I have a question on foot of the representations made by some of the NGOs. The Minister mentioned the commitment to help and assist the UN in the peacekeeping role or to provide whatever might be required to meet the huge demands placed on the countries that have been impacted. I wish to focus on the criteria...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Nov 2022)

Barry Cowen: 995. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on a case (details supplied); and when the person can expect an appointment. [54514/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (8 Nov 2022)

Barry Cowen: 1105. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the case of a child (details supplied); and when they can expect an appointment. [54907/22]

Energy Security: Statements (27 Oct 2022)

Barry Cowen: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate on energy security. My interest in this area was particularly heightened following the decision of An Bord Pleanála some years ago to reject applications by ESB to co-fuel peat and biomass at Lanesborough and Shannonbridge. That decision brought forward and cliff-edged the decarbonisation of Bord na Móna by some eight years....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vision for the Future of Irish Farming: Macra na Feirme (26 Oct 2022)

Barry Cowen: I have a few questions. I will start with the matter Mr. Geraghty has just been speaking about. He said the objective of the regulations is to reduce the use of these antiparasitic products. Does he believe that he is best qualified to ensure that happens?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vision for the Future of Irish Farming: Macra na Feirme (26 Oct 2022)

Barry Cowen: Did Mr. Geraghty not say or did someone not say last week that the investigation of stools and so forth would give a vet plenty of information to determine the need?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vision for the Future of Irish Farming: Macra na Feirme (26 Oct 2022)

Barry Cowen: Is Veterinary Ireland an all-Ireland entity?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vision for the Future of Irish Farming: Macra na Feirme (26 Oct 2022)

Barry Cowen: Has it had any issue with RPs dispensing antiparasitics in the past?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vision for the Future of Irish Farming: Macra na Feirme (26 Oct 2022)

Barry Cowen: Does Mr. Geraghty believe that if they are not to be used under the new regulation, that is an error?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vision for the Future of Irish Farming: Macra na Feirme (26 Oct 2022)

Barry Cowen: Does Mr. Geraghty agree with that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vision for the Future of Irish Farming: Macra na Feirme (26 Oct 2022)

Barry Cowen: Mr. Geraghty states that it has been an issue for RPs in recent times to have the responsibility they have and they have not dispensed properly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vision for the Future of Irish Farming: Macra na Feirme (26 Oct 2022)

Barry Cowen: Is it not possible for the RPs to be adequately trained and upgrade their training to be in a position to meet with the sentiment Mr. Geraghty has expressed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vision for the Future of Irish Farming: Macra na Feirme (26 Oct 2022)

Barry Cowen: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vision for the Future of Irish Farming: Macra na Feirme (26 Oct 2022)

Barry Cowen: As they did in the past.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vision for the Future of Irish Farming: Macra na Feirme (26 Oct 2022)

Barry Cowen: I do not recall any evidence of any complaints being made about the work they were doing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vision for the Future of Irish Farming: Macra na Feirme (26 Oct 2022)

Barry Cowen: Will the product be available with the vet as always?