Results 621-640 of 762 for speaker:Barry Heneghan

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Sector Staff (19 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 1085. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to reviewing public sector sick leave policies to ensure greater flexibility for employees with disabilities who require extended leave due to their condition; if there are discretionary measures available to prevent employees from being placed on nil pay in such cases; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (19 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 1086. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures he plans to take to ensure that necessary and appropriate care is being provided to family members in the context of the planned expansion of the carer’s allowance. [12953/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (19 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 1366. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 795 of 25 February 2025, wherein you stated that a total of €949,718.86 had been spent to end of 2024 on the administrative and staffing costs associated with the running of the Personalised Budget Demonstrator Pilot, considering that €3.5 million was made...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Correspondence (19 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 1399. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her views on safeguarding issues at an organisation (details supplied); the specific steps she will take to ensure that such abuses are never repeated; and the mechanisms to be put in place to ensure that independent charities working with vulnerable populations are held to the highest standards of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (19 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 1749. To ask the Minister for Health to address the situation in relation to the drop-off zone at the entrance to the Mater Hospital Dublin (details supplied) which is now having an impact on the safety and wellbeing of patients; if she will make a commitment that the situation will be resolved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11877/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 1775. To ask the Minister for Health if the long waiting times for blood tests in Beaumont Hospital (details supplied) will be examined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11991/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (19 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 1895. To ask the Minister for Health if he will urgently review and address the severe inadequacies in Ireland’s eating disorder services, particularly the lack of inpatient beds and the absence of integrated community-based supports; if he will commit to increasing the number of dedicated public inpatient beds for eating disorder treatment; and the immediate steps being taken to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Advertising (19 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 1896. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of a campaign (details supplied) which calls for an end to the loophole in the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018 which allows zero-alcohol advertising, using the same master branding as full-strength equivalents, in places that are restricted under the 2018 Act; if she supports the campaign; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (19 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 1897. To ask the Minister for Health the number of complaints about the behaviour of nurses that have been made to the HSE, the Nursing and Midwifery Board and the Office of the Ombudsman in 2023 and 2024; and if she is satisfied that the current system for overseeing and acting on complaints against health and social care staff in the HSE is adequate. [12950/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (19 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 1898. To ask the Minister for Health the immediate steps being taken to improve the treatment of individuals presenting at accident and emergency departments with suicidal ideation, including measures to ensure they are properly assessed, monitored, and provided with appropriate crisis intervention; and if there are plans to introduce dedicated emergency mental health response units outside...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Foras na Gaeilge (6 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 29. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason the Government has chosen to reduce funding for Foras na Gaeilge, given its crucial role in promoting and sustaining the Irish language and culture, particularly at a time when engagement with Irish is growing through education, music, literature, and film; and whether he will commit to reversing these cuts and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (6 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 111. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024 has not been commenced; the timeline for its expected progress; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10189/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (6 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 373. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide assurances that her Department’s exclusion of the only disabled persons’ representative organisations (DPRO) specific to visual and physical impairment, respectively (details supplied), will not be reflected in its advice on DPRO participation to other public bodies; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (6 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 375. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she has any concerns over the credibility of the National Disability Inclusion Strategy due to the exclusion of an organisation (details supplied), from the DPO Consultative Framework, these are the only disabled persons’ representative organisations specifically representing the key constituencies of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (6 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 376. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will explain to the UN Committee why the only disabled persons’ representative organisations specifically representing visual impairment and physical impairment (details supplied), have been excluded from the DPO Consultative Framework since its inception in 2023; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (6 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 377. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she considers the exclusion of two organisations (details supplied), the only disabled persons’ representative organisations specifically representing visual and physical impairments, from her Department’s disabled persons’ representative organisations-specific consultations to be case...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (6 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 378. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how the ongoing exclusion by her Department of the only specialised disabled persons’ representative organisations in visual impairment and physical impairment, respectively (details supplied), is compatible with her Department’s obligations under Article 29 (b (ii)) of the UNCRPD to incentivise...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (6 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 379. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what steps her Department has taken to ensure that the disabled persons’ organisations/disabled persons’ representative organisations her Department is currently closely consulting with on strengthening DPOs/DPROs meet the criteria for being DPROs considering General Comment No. 7, paras. 10-4;...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of People with Disabilities (6 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 374. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she accepts that General Comments of UN Conventions are “legally persuasive” documents as per citations in the Irish Supreme Court and European Court of Human Rights, and that as such, their definitions and clarifications are of utmost importance to the implementation of the UNCRPD in Ireland;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (6 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 391. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on ongoing projects at Beaumont Hospital, extension to radiation oncology, the 100-bed ward block, the 64-bed ICU block and the new emergency department; and if all these projects could be expedited for rapid construction. [4520/25]