Results 721-740 of 2,486 for speaker:Patricia Ryan

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (8 Mar 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 245. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on the eye care waiting list from the CHO7 area; the number waiting for more than six months, the number waiting for more than one year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11893/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (8 Mar 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 246. To ask the Minister for Health if anything can be done to help people with diabetes who cannot afford dressings when they have skin breakdown due to their diabetes, given that dressings are currently not covered by the medical card (details supplied). [11894/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Defibrillators Provision (8 Mar 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 247. To ask the Minister for Health where all automated external defibrillators, AEDS, are located; if they can be added to the national database; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11895/23]

High Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2023)

Patricia Ryan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important motion. I thank my colleagues Deputies O'Rourke and Doherty for tabling it. Energy costs remain extortionately high for households. Frankly, it is not good enough that the Government has announced no meaningful supports for ordinary people until October. It is not good enough that energy companies enjoy excess profits at the expense of...

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Patricia Ryan: While the Bill is not perfect, we see some of the measures outlined as a step in the right direction. I will speak on these measures and outline the reality. Sinn Féin welcomes giving clear effective oversight for accountability in the upper ranks of An Garda Síochána. There cannot be said to be justice without checks, balances and, if needed, the right to appeal to a higher...

Future of Regional Pre-Hospital Emergency Care: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2023)

Patricia Ryan: I too thank the Regional Group for tabling this motion on the future of regional pre-hospital emergency care. I welcome the opportunity to speak on it. First, I echo the thanks and commendations given by my colleagues to our healthcare workers, especially our front-line healthcare staff who work so diligently to save lives. I represent a rural part of Kildare and Laois where the quick...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Patricia Ryan: Listening to Deputy Canney, who talked about the retrofits, I am conscious of air to water pumps going into houses, particularly local authority houses. Recently, in my constituency, air to water pumps were put into houses. While it is great to see that happening, unfortunately, the windows were falling out, with the result that they might as well be heating the garden. There needs to be...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Patricia Ryan: A recent Bloomberg article states that Ireland is in danger of missing its climate targets. To put a percentage on it, based on the current projections, how likely are we to meet those targets?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Patricia Ryan: I am concerned that the poorest are still paying a lot of money. We need to make some sort of move on that, in my view.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Derelict Sites (1 Mar 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 91. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of derelict homes on the Curragh Camp in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10484/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Derelict Sites (1 Mar 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 92. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he intends to deal with the dereliction on the Curragh Camp in the near future; if so, the timeframe for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10485/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Mar 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has an opening date for the new build for a school (details supplied) at a location in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10480/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (1 Mar 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 151. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí assigned to the Newbridge, Kildare and Athy areas of County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10481/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (1 Mar 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 153. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda personnel in Newbridge Garda station per working shift to serve a town of almost 30,000 people. [10483/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (1 Mar 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 152. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on crime prevention resources in the Newbridge area of County Kildare. [10482/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (1 Mar 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 185. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE home help carers in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10477/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (1 Mar 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 186. To ask the Minister for Health the reason it has taken so long to fill a social worker post for a hospice (details supplied) in the Curragh, County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10478/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (1 Mar 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 187. To ask the Minister for Health if the social worker position for recruitment in a hospice (details supplied) in the Curragh, County Kildare will be filled by a basic or senior grade social worker; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10479/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Feb 2023)

Patricia Ryan: Last year, I asked the Tánaiste, who was then Taoiseach, to intervene personally to address Garda numbers in Kildare and Laois. Unfortunately, we are back here again. On Wednesday, 21 December, there was a serious issue where a garda was needed. Nobody answered the phone initially and then no car was available to attend from the nearest station. In January, there was an attempted...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Patricia Ryan: I thank our guests. My question is for Mr. Gibbons and his colleagues of the ICTU. I note from his opening statement that he believes several of the proposals in chapter 9 are at odds with the general thrust of the commission's work. Given the tax expenditures he referenced, such as the entrepreneur relief, SARP etc., are of significant annual cost to the taxpayer, will he expand on why he...