Results 61-80 of 415 for speaker:Rory Hearne

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (15 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: 955. To ask the Minister for Health if she will examine the case of an older person awaiting an audiology appointment due to rapid hearing loss (details supplied); when they can expect an appointment given their circumstances; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39281/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (15 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: 956. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for a routine audiology/hearing appointment, by regional health area and integrated healthcare area; the average waiting time for a routine audiology/hearing appointment by hospital, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39282/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (15 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: 957. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for an urgent audiology/hearing appointment by regional health area and integrated healthcare area; the average waiting time for a urgent audiology/hearing appointment by hospital, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39283/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (15 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: 958. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients waiting longer than three, six, nine or twelve months for a routine audiology/hearing appointment by regional health area and integrated healthcare area and by hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39284/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (15 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: 959. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients waiting longer than three, six, nine or twelve months for an urgent audiology/hearing appointment by regional health area and integrated healthcare area and by hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39285/25]

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (10 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: The connections between the housing crisis, homelessness and domestic violence have been shown over and over again. The state of the housing emergency is having direct impacts on women and their children being unable to flee situations of violence. Indeed, front-line domestic violence services repeatedly raise concerns that the housing crisis is forcing victims to either stay with the...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: I am very conscious of time. I want to support this amendment and reiterate the deep concern we have been highlighting around the speculative development that is happening. It is very clear to anyone who studies the real estate and property market that there are actors in it who are not just about building homes. A part of real estate development is accumulating sites and planning...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: In terms of the 18-month period, how will local authorities enforce that?

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: I move amendment No. 8: In page 12, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: “Construction within a specified timeframe 16. In line with a use it or lose it principle, development must begin construction within a specified timeframe after receiving planning permission. Penalties for non-compliance will include the withdrawal of permission for the development.” ...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: I move amendment No. 4: In page 10, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: “(d) A contractor must publish an annual profit and loss account, an auditor’s report, and a balance sheet in order to qualify to provide dwellings for the purchase of which funds may be made available by the special purpose vehicle.”. The amendment seeks transparency in relation...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: I move amendment No. 1: In page 4, between lines 31 and 32, to insert the following: “The written statement referred to in subsection (2) shall allow for the zoning of land for the particular use of providing affordable housing as defined in Parts 2 and 3 of the Affordable Housing Act 2021.”. My party colleague Deputy Cian O'Callaghan and I put forward this amendment....

Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: CSO figures published today show Ireland's national income rose by 4.8% last year and GDP rose by 7.4%. According to these fiscal indicators, Ireland is doing well, but in reality there are two Irelands. There are those who are doing okay, a minority, and there is the majority, who at some level are struggling in one way or another to cover the basic costs of living. In fact, even the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (9 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: 38. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to correspondence received by a teacher (details supplied), if she will clarify the position relating to the provision of incremental credit; if clear guidance will be provided by her Department in respect of whether incremental credit can be awarded in this case, in advance of the teacher having to go back on the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Primary Care Services (8 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: I thank the Minister of State for that. I appreciate the Minister for Health, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, is responding by saying she will address this and take action. I am disappointed there was not a specific response to the constituency of Dublin North-West or the rationale for why that area in particular has such high lists. The Minister of State might take that back to the Minister to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Primary Care Services (8 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: The figures released by the HSE this week to my colleague, Deputy Quaide, reveal a truly shocking level of waiting times for essential primary care services for children. My constituency of Dublin North-West has recorded the longest waiting time in the country for psychology services for a child, with one waiting 706 weeks, or 13 and a half years, for psychological care. I cannot understand...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: What is the smallest apartment the Minister of State has ever lived in? What was it like when he was living there? The idea that young people can slum it for a while in a dark small shoebox and build up to something better is deeply disturbing in many ways. The expectation is that young people and not-so-young people, people in their 20s, 30s, 40s or increasingly their 50s, will live in...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: Under Standing Order 35(3), I propose an amendment to the Order of Business for Thursday afternoon. The Minister for housing needs to come into the Dáil to answer questions-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business that the Minister for housing come into the Dáil for a debate and questions on apartment standards and future homes. They are going to have profoundly negative implications for generations to come, condemning generations to living in dark shoe boxes-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: It is going to lead to further delays. This is an absolute disaster; it is going to heap disaster upon disaster.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Rory Hearne: What?