Results 61-80 of 894 for speaker:Michael Cahill

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

Michael Cahill: 329. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to abolish the means test criteria for carers, who provide an invaluable service to their cared on behalf of the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26363/25]

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

Michael Cahill: 339. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to expedite a carer’s support grant application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33371/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (19 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: 397. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently address and support the 166 healthcare workers, who put their lives at risk working during the pandemic, who are now facing an end to long-Covid special leave with pay (SLWP), but whose lives are still drastically and negatively affected by this disease, by extending the SLWP; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33297/25]

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

Michael Cahill: 408. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 321 of 11 June 2025 to outline, of the new approved maximum whole time equivalent (WTE) staff figure of 129,753 for the HSE and Section 38 agencies, the number of those that will be available to the HSE Kerry/Cork region; the number of WTE staff currently employed in the region; what increase will the new approved...

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

Michael Cahill: 411. To ask the Minister for Health if she is fully satisfied with the proposed location for a facility in County Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33372/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: I welcome HIQA witnesses. What we have seen in recent weeks has left many of us shaken. The "RTÉ Investigates" programme exposed a level of suffering and neglect no resident in any nursing home should ever endure. These were not isolated incidents. They reflect systemic issues. We are here today because the Irish public has serious and legitimate questions. They are demanding real...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: I have a couple more.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: I will finish while I am in full flight. Were conflict of interest safeguards in place when contracts were awarded to firms linked with former HIQA board members? In regard to transparency, will HIQA commit to publishing all board minutes, procurement, reviews and audit findings related to agency staffing, governance and ICT spending? There was a subsequent programme on RTÉ. It gave...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: Surely, they should be in before this committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: Chair, it is important that they are invited back in. I am new. I put in a lot of work preparing for today. I acknowledge everybody else did. I would like to get answers to all the questions I asked. This is a huge issue. There is public anger out there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: Five minutes, in the context of such an important issue-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: Will I be able to get written replies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: Chair, going forward, when it is such an important issue around the neglect of our elderly - the care of our elderly cannot be emphasised strongly enough - we should be given more time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: I acknowledge the Minister of State's swift engagement with HIQA following the RTÉ broadcast. I welcome the interim report he requested. However, these events have exposed long-standing weaknesses in both oversight and accountability. I have the following five questions. First, regarding independent oversight, will the Government now commit to independent to commissioning a full...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: I thank the Minister of State. The scandal since the "RTÉ Investigates" programme has left many of us shaken. Constituents are coming to us and increasingly asking about home care, even though they know they will not even be able to manage. I want to emphasise that we have great nursing homes. In my own county, I was on the board of management for the St. Joseph's home in Killorglin...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: 41. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given to a proposal for road improvements (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33080/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: 86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will urgently review and allow the retention of two teachers in a DEIS school (details supplied) in County Kerry as their removal will mean class sizes of over 40 pupils which is unacceptable, and will the Minister make; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33140/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: 87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 472 of 8 April 2025, why the enrolment threshold for an administrative principal is 136 pupils in Dublin, while in Kerry it is 169; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33144/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: 154. To ask the Minister for Health if she will allow for payment of fair deal to a person (details supplied) as the family is very anxious that the person be placed in a Caherciveen hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32958/25]

Emergency Action on Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: We need to zone land and open up planning permission for people, especially for one-off houses. We need to provide affordable houses and social houses. We need to provide private housing, low-cost sites and good-quality modular homes. We need to give choices to our people. I am convinced that good-quality modular homes are part of the solution here. Four or five modular homes can be...