Results 61-80 of 228 for speaker:Nicole Ryan

Committee on Drugs Use: Family Supports: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Nicole Ryan: Thank is great and I thank Mr. O'Hara. I feel that sometimes it is a criterion for services to be quite rigid when there is drug use. People who use substances come from all walks of life and it is all people.

Committee on Drugs Use: Family Supports: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Nicole Ryan: No, those were fantastic contributions. I thank the witnesses.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Water Quality (25 Sep 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I am here again today to raise the issue of the boil water notice that has been placed on households and businesses in Macroom. Sadly, it is not an isolated incident. Since 2022, this is the eighth or ninth boil water notice that the people in Macroom have endured. Every couple of weeks the story repeats itself. The boil water notice goes in and families and businesses are massively...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Water Quality (25 Sep 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I thank the Minister of State. I was aware of that. The majority of people in Macroom are aware of the upgrades that Uisce Éireann will be doing. The issue is in the interim, between now and 2026. What seems to be happening is, any time there is really bad weather or flooding, all of a sudden there is a boil water notice. Are we saying to the people of Macroom that they are supposed...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I want to raise a serious issue that concerns the proposed battery energy storage system, BESS, in my constituency in Newmarket in Cork. The proposed site is right beside a sensitive ecological area. It drains into a watercourse that connects to the River Dalua and then onto the River Blackwater, both of which are designated special areas of conservation. These are habitats for species of...

Seanad: Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation: Statements (24 Sep 2025)

Nicole Ryan: The Minister has ten minutes for his opening statement.

Seanad: Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation: Statements (24 Sep 2025)

Nicole Ryan: Before we move to our first speaker, I welcome Councillor Patrick Meade, Cyril Carter and Paul to the Gallery. They are here with Senator Rabbitte. I call on Senator Joe Flaherty.

Seanad: Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation: Statements (24 Sep 2025)

Nicole Ryan: Senator Craughwell's time is up.

Seanad: Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation: Statements (24 Sep 2025)

Nicole Ryan: Before we move on to our next speakers, on behalf of Senator Flaherty, I welcome to the Gallery, Cyril Carter whose father Thomas was a TD between 1921 and 1951. He represented Sinn Féin, Cumann na nGaedheal and Fianna Fáil. Cyril's brother Frank was a TD from 1951 to 1957 for Fianna Fáil. I also welcome Councillor Paddy Meade. Our next speakers are from Sinn Féin and...

Seanad: Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation: Statements (24 Sep 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I offer my sincerest apologies to the Cross-Party Group, which I skipped. It is the first week back. Our next speakers will be from the Cross-Party Group. I believe the Senators are sharing time. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (24 Sep 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I welcome the Minister of State back to the House. I am here to speak on the Bill at Second Stage not as a conjurer of statistics but as someone who has listened to parents, clinicians, advocates and young people who have been failed by a system that often treats their crises as an administrative problem rather than a human tragedy. We support the aim for reform. We welcome parts of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I thank the witnesses for being here today. I will start with primary healthcare. In 2018 an announcement was made by the HSE that it would build a primary healthcare centre in Kanturk. That was seven years ago. It was supposed to be built as recently as this year and it was not because the developer pulled out and it had to go back to re-tendering. The closest primary care centre for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Nicole Ryan: That would be great. I have a follow-up question. Will there be new GP services and diagnostics in it or will it just be that current GP services will be moved into the primary care centre?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Nicole Ryan: That would be great. Last week we had the closure by HIQA of a nursing home in Portlaoise. The HSE notes that 7.5% of public nursing homes are non-compliant with HIQA standards. This is particularly with regard to governance, residents' rights and fire safety. When HIQA was before the committee its representatives said it was 50:50 between private and public. What actions are being taken...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Nicole Ryan: It is the Droiminín Nursing Home in Portlaoise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Nicole Ryan: How is that demonstrated, given the scandals that were revealed on the "RTÉ Investigates", for instance? How is that improvement being measured?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Nicole Ryan: Great. My final question is back to Mr. Gloster. Regarding enhancing services quality, he spoke of a culture change programme. We have heard many times in this committee about changing the culture. We have seen it with CHI, where they were talking about changing their culture. It just sounds like a scapegoat for accountability. Will Mr. Gloster tell us a little bit more about this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Nicole Ryan: Okay, and just to clarify, is this an ongoing programme of training that is given to every staff member and is continuous, or is it just a once-off box-ticking?

Seanad: Migration: Statements (23 Sep 2025)

Nicole Ryan: Migration is one of the most important issues facing Ireland today. It touches housing, public services, education, employment and, above all, the type of society that we build. Migration must be managed properly. It cannot be left to the chaos of global markets, nor can it be dictated by the short-term needs of corporations. States have a responsibility to plan migration in a way that...

Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I move amendment No. 1: In page 6, lines 26 to 28, to delete all words from and including “a” in line 26 down to and including line 28 and substitute the following: “the court may, on the application of any party to a defamation action in the High Court, or a question of fact or an issue arising in such an action, order that the action or any issue of fact in...