Results 61-80 of 461 for speaker:Joanna Byrne

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tax Reliefs (8 Sep 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 2332. To ask the Minister for Health the support and assistance available to a family based in County Louth (details supplied) who do not meet the criteria for the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme,; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45621/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (29 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 803. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on any works or proposals to open Saint Laurence's Gate, Drogheda to the public, and on improving the surrounding public realm and creating a civic space; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41788/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Archaeological Sites (29 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 1484. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the routine maintenance and conservation of structures (details supplied), as there is significant vegetation growing on them that may damage the structure of all of these historical structures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41789/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (29 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 2500. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she plans to provide a community neuro-rehabilitation team in the Dublin and north-east region noting that they do not currently have one. [43899/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (29 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 2518. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an update on the progress being made on rolling out the national information management system for children's disability network teams; and if manual data collection is currently in place for the Dublin and North East Regional Healthcare Area. [44199/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (29 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 2519. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if there are any plans to collect data for individual disciplines such as SLT, OT, physiotherapy and so on, within the children's disability network teams in the Dublin and North East Regional Healthcare Area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44200/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (29 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 2743. To ask the Minister for Health if, in light of the recent RTE Investigates programme on a nursing home, she is satisfied that HSE safeguarding and protection teams are adequately skilled and resourced to meet their responsibilities in each of the six HSE regions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41787/25]

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: I thank the witnesses for joining us. It is fair to say that HIQA has appeared before Oireachtas committees several times in recent years and it is unfortunate that the same issues keep arising. With that in mind, I will tease out some of its frameworks for measuring performance, if that is okay. Do the witnesses have a figure for how many compliance notices HIQA has issued in recent...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: I am trying to get at how HIQA measures the action the provider has taken. How does it set the bar and measure that the provider is meeting the bar?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: My colleague, Deputy Bennett, asked a question about closures earlier and HIQA outlined some figures. There were two closures in 2020, three in 2021, one in 2022 and three in 2023. Ten notices were issued in 2024 but there were seven closures and there has been one closure in 2025 to date. That is 17 closures in five years. Is that right? Are any of those homes run by the same operator?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: Within that common thread, is there additional monitoring by HIQA to look specifically at those that fall under that common-thread umbrella—--

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: -----and any other centres they may operate that have not gone as far as closure.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: It is very positive that HIQA has identified and is aware of that. I am really pleased to hear it is working on that. In relation to the Emeis managed properties, there was conflicting information. It was said on two occasions that 25 of these are in operation. One person stated that 16 have been inspected since the RTÉ programme and Ms Cliffe mentioned 22.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: Only one property has had to be inspected a second time.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: How many times does something have to be inspected before it is red-flagged or elevated to the next level of concern?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: As regards the inspectors inspecting the properties, it was mentioned earlier that each inspector has a caseload. Is the caseload rotated?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: The same inspectors do not inspect the same properties.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: I draw attention to HIQA’s vision, strategic mission and values. It states HIQA will work to promote human rights, as well as identifying, challenging and reporting on breaches of rights in health and social care services. Given the recent revelations in the RTÉ programme, does HIQA stand over that vision? That is a very hard question to put to our witnesses but it is something...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: I appreciate that. Does Ms Fitzgerald feel that HIQA has lost the trust of the public, particularly since the airing of the documentary?