Results 801-820 of 1,730 for speaker:Colm Keaveney
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (16 Oct 2014)
Colm Keaveney: 97. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive their headage payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39573/14]
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2014)
Colm Keaveney: I am sure the Minister will disagree, but many commentators would have the view that this is a very political budget. It is a budget designed to secure votes in a general election using borrowed money. It is a budget that is designed to reward higher earners. The recent by-election in Dublin South-West saw an atrociously low turnout, particularly in certain electoral areas. The turnout...
- Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)
Colm Keaveney: The programme for Government, as published in 2011, provided for €35 million in ring-fenced funding for the recruitment of specialist staff to facilitate the successful implementation of the policy document A Vision for Change. As the Taoiseach is aware, that commitment was rowed back on in 2012 and 2013. The expenditure involved was current in nature and its removal has resulted in...
- Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)
Colm Keaveney: That is not the answer to the question I asked.
- Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)
Colm Keaveney: Where is the money?
- Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)
Colm Keaveney: The Taoiseach should answer my original question.
- Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)
Colm Keaveney: It is not true.
- Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)
Colm Keaveney: The Government took money away from mental health services.
- Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)
Colm Keaveney: It is shameful. The Government took the money from the most vulnerable and lined the pockets of the rich.
- Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)
Colm Keaveney: The Minister should go and cover up his predecessor's dirty tricks.
- Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)
Colm Keaveney: What about the Minister?
- Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)
Colm Keaveney: Is the Ceann Comhairle going to caution the Minister?
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Investigations (7 Oct 2014)
Colm Keaveney: 122. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a copy of the report issued as a result of a scooping exercise carried out in 2009 to assess the nature of employment relating to 14 ESB meter readers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37670/14]
- Topical Issue Debate: Ambulance Service Provision (1 Oct 2014)
Colm Keaveney: I am pleased the Minister of State acknowledges that there is more to be done. I imagine the Minister of State is aware that there are over 84 vehicles in the National Ambulance Service that have approximately 350,000 km clocked up on their odometers. When making comparisons we should not suggest that the geography presents a unique challenge. Let us compare the region to Scotland, which...
- Topical Issue Debate: Ambulance Service Provision (1 Oct 2014)
Colm Keaveney: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, for coming to the House to listen to my concerns. I am sure she will appreciate the considerable level of concern and disquiet at national and, in particular, regional level about ambulance response times and follow-up capital investment for ambulance services in the west. She should be concerned because a recent HSE report clearly...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Staff Recruitment (30 Sep 2014)
Colm Keaveney: I thank the Minister of State for her response. As she is aware, up to 15,000 children are languishing on waiting lists for early intervention teams. The much-lauded concept of the early intervention team lacks the sort of supports that are required to ensure that the multidisciplinary expertise is there across the disciplines described by the Minister of State in order to give children at...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Staff Recruitment (30 Sep 2014)
Colm Keaveney: The HSE service plan was deliberately designed to prevent recruitment. Last year there was a commitment to provide for €35 million in ring-fenced funding for mental health services. That broken promise has resulted in the Minister of State designing a time delay which deliberately prevents the recruitment of staff that would address the waiting lists we have described. In the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Staff Recruitment (30 Sep 2014)
Colm Keaveney: 72. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to issues in the recruitment of counselling psychologists by the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36797/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Staff Recruitment (30 Sep 2014)
Colm Keaveney: The HSE service plan deliberately provides for a time delay in the recruitment of critically important mental health professionals. The object of this question is to establish from the Minister of State what her plans are to accelerate the recruitment of professionals within that sector. One can argue that this is the consequence of the breach of the programme for Government last year when...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Psychological Services (30 Sep 2014)
Colm Keaveney: 110. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to issues with regard to the recruitment of psychologists by the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36533/14]