Results 6,561-6,580 of 9,550 for speaker:Jack Chambers
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Personnel Data (20 Jun 2019)
Jack Chambers: 45. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of Defence Forces members referred to the HSE for psychiatric services and placed on a waiting list to see a psychiatrist since 26 July 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25903/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medical Services (20 Jun 2019)
Jack Chambers: 46. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the mental health supports and services available for ex-servicemen and ex-servicewomen for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25904/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: State Claims Agency Data (20 Jun 2019)
Jack Chambers: 47. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of cases lodged with the State Claims Agency for a condition (details supplied) in each of the past ten years in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25943/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority (20 Jun 2019)
Jack Chambers: 182. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request the NTA to respond to queries raised in correspondence regarding cycling infrastructure (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25861/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority (20 Jun 2019)
Jack Chambers: 186. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request the NTA to respond to a previously submitted query (detail supplied). [25870/19]
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Beds Closures (19 Jun 2019)
Jack Chambers: The Minister of State's words are the opposite of the reality. She stated that she will enable people to live at home and that she is committed to supporting people living in dignity and independence. These cuts are the opposite of that. The Government continues to do that, despite a €17 billion budget. The perception among the staff is that the health and safety report suited the...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Beds Closures (19 Jun 2019)
Jack Chambers: The Minister of State, Deputy Catherine Byrne, is aware of St. Mary's Hospital in the Phoenix Park and the important role it plays in community healthcare across the Dublin region.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Beds Closures (19 Jun 2019)
Jack Chambers: It provides an important discharge facility for patients of the Mater hospital, Connolly Hospital, Beaumont Hospital and other hospitals across the city. It acts as a bridge between the acute hospital system and people returning home after a stroke, people with dementia or an acute intervention in the hospital system. It helps people who are well but who need that bridge to facilitate their...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Drugs Availability (19 Jun 2019)
Jack Chambers: 211. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a service is no longer being provided under the medical card scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25821/19]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision and the International Protection Application Process: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)
Jack Chambers: I thank the officials for appearing before the committee. To follow up on one of Senator Conway's questions about emergency accommodation, what is the average and maximum time spent in such accommodation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision and the International Protection Application Process: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)
Jack Chambers: Ms Buckley mentioned a figure of nine months. Would anyone have spent longer than that in emergency accommodation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision and the International Protection Application Process: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)
Jack Chambers: Does Ms Buckley accept that the Department has one set of standards for direct provision centres and less governance control over emergency accommodation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision and the International Protection Application Process: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)
Jack Chambers: The Department has an issue with increasing numbers in emergency accommodation for increasing periods of time. What governance arrangements is it developing to ensure it will develop standards for emergency accommodation in order that we will not have the scenario Senator Conway mentioned of people being shipped like cattle around the country to facilitate private providers? That is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision and the International Protection Application Process: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)
Jack Chambers: The fact that it happened at all-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision and the International Protection Application Process: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)
Jack Chambers: The fact that human beings who were already vulnerable-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision and the International Protection Application Process: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)
Jack Chambers: -----were put in that scenario cannot be defended.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision and the International Protection Application Process: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)
Jack Chambers: The point remains that it should have been a trigger to ensure the Department developed proper protocols and governance arrangements for emergency accommodation. Clearly, as Ms Buckley mentioned, people who have come here have been left at the behest of others who have shown total disregard and disrespect for their basic physiological needs and human rights. For anyone to be thrown around...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision and the International Protection Application Process: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)
Jack Chambers: Has everyone in emergency accommodation been assessed by a general practitioner?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision and the International Protection Application Process: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)
Jack Chambers: How is the right to an education being vindicated for children within emergency accommodation to meet their educational needs?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision and the International Protection Application Process: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)
Jack Chambers: What would an ad hocarrangement involve for, say, a seven year old child in emergency accommodation?