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Seanad: Budget 2024 (Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform): Statements (10 Oct 2023)

Seán Kyne: The Minister of State is welcome to the Chamber. I acknowledge and commend his role and that of the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, in the publication and preparation of the budget, in addition to all the officials in the Department and their Government colleagues for their input. This is clearly a budget that accounts for our growing population, an ageing population and the once-off...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: General Practitioner Services (4 Oct 2023)

Seán Kyne: I welcome the Minister of State and thank the Office of the Cathaoirleach for choosing this Commencement matter. It is regrettable there is no Minister or Minister of State here from the Department of Health. I have raised this matter on at least two occasions going back to 2020 and 2021. It relates to the lack of cover by Westdoc for Moycullen- and Oughterard-based GPs. As the Minister...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: General Practitioner Services (4 Oct 2023)

Seán Kyne: I thank the Minister of State for the reply on behalf of the Department of Health. As I said, it is certainly welcome that the Westdoc service has been expanded to cover the critical 12 midnight to 8 a.m. period and I welcome also the funding that was provided in this year's budget. Since I first raised the issue in 2020, there have been improvements in the service, and I want that to be...

Seanad: Access to Third Level Places and Student Accommodation: Statements (4 Oct 2023)

Seán Kyne: I welcome the Minister of State. I will address some of the changes that were made last year. Without pre-empting the budget, I hope we can see a repeat of some of those initiatives this year. The €1,000 reduction in registration fees was certainly a boost in terms of improving accessibility to our universities for students, as were the changes made in the Finance Bill 2022 whereby...

Seanad: Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Motion (4 Oct 2023)

Seán Kyne: The Minister is welcome. I suppose, at the start of the summer recess, the Minister did not think this would be an issue he would be facing in government. More importantly, it is an issue for the parents and children impacted over a long number of years who, unfortunately, are now suffering, although through no fault of the Minister. Previous speakers mentioned the need to examine how...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Seán Kyne: I welcome Ms Fitzgerald and the team from HIQA. I refer to the reporting of HIQA's work in local radio, local papers and indeed national media. In some ways this is as important as the reports HIQA does. Do our guests agree?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Seán Kyne: As a society with full employment and difficulties recruiting, how much is that impacting on nursing homes? It should not be an excuse, of course, but is it an issue? Does HIQA have to tell a provider that they do not have the staff and therefore they have to leave beds vacant until such time as they have the staff?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Seán Kyne: We all remember the "Prime Time" exposé of a HSE facility in County Mayo in 2014. Gardaí cannot be everywhere and HIQA cannot be everywhere. How does HIQA operate in terms of unannounced inspections? In this case there was undercover footage. The saying is that a picture paints a thousand words. Everyone was able to see what was going on. I believe there was an unannounced...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Seán Kyne: Is HIQA confident that such situations as occurred back in 2014 in the facility in Mayo could not happen today?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Seán Kyne: Does HIQA have a role in relation to protected disclosures, in terms of staff who are present? If I am correct, it does not apply to former staff. There have been some organisations where it would not apply. Perhaps the witnesses could give a bit of testimony on the role of protected disclosures.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023)

Seán Kyne: I thank the witnesses.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by An Taoiseach (28 Sep 2023)

Seán Kyne: I welcome the Taoiseach. I welcome Mr. Tomás Heneghan to the Chamber and I congratulate him on his advocacy on a lot of different matters, particularly Seanad reform and the extension of the franchise in Seanad elections to all university and technological university graduates. It is five years since the Saolta Hospital Group promised that the planning permission for the new emergency...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Farm Inspections (27 Sep 2023)

Seán Kyne: I thank the Cathaoirleach's office for choosing this Commencement matter. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Madigan, to the Chamber although I must express my disappointment that there are three Ministers in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, none of whom are here this morning. Keelderry commonage in east Galway has eight shareholders. An inspection in 2010 found 0%...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Farm Inspections (27 Sep 2023)

Seán Kyne: Just one moment. An official inspected the commonage and gave a 96% eligibility. Both gentlemen, two shareholders, were successful with their judicial reviews. The eligibility found by this inspector from outside of County Galway was the area granted and both received their outstanding payments. This is the crux of the issue. As a precedent was set, two of the shareholders were paid. It...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Farm Inspections (27 Sep 2023)

Seán Kyne: -----but they were not.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Farm Inspections (27 Sep 2023)

Seán Kyne: I appreciate that the Minister of State is not a line Minister in the Department. The correspondence from the Department states that the inspection found that the whole of the 90% of the area was eligible under the revised basic payment scheme rules and the results were applied to all shareholder applications from 2015 onwards. Unfortunately, this only came about because of the judicial...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Sep 2023)

Seán Kyne: I call for a debate on issues within Inland Fisheries Ireland. The organisation advertised a position for a seasonal fisheries assistant, which it does every year. It states clearly that key experience is essential, as is a leaving certificate, level 5 national framework qualification or recognised equivalent, with minimum grade C in at least two higher level papers, to include one of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Sep 2023)

Seán Kyne: Those who give dirt on other people need to be looked after.

Seanad: Road Safety: Statements (27 Sep 2023)

Seán Kyne: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Jack Chambers. I sympathise with all the families who were bereaved over the past year due to road deaths and all those who were injured, in particular those who have had life-changing injuries because of the actions of others and in some cases perhaps, unfortunately, their own actions as well. It is very difficult for all, and in particular their...