Results 9,201-9,220 of 12,066 for speaker:Mary Butler
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
Mary Butler: Unfortunately it still happened and I believe Nursing Homes Ireland requested a moratorium regarding staff. I know the HSE cannot prevent a staff member moving to another job but at this time of an unprecedented pandemic it had a huge effect on the ability of nursing homes to be properly staffed during the peak of the crisis.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
Mary Butler: Does Mr. Walsh accept that patients being transferred in March and April from acute hospital settings to nursing homes should have been tested for Covid-19? Does he accept this non-testing would have contributed to higher mortality?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)
Mary Butler: I want to reiterate the second part of the question. Does Dr. Kennelly accept that this non-testing, even after 18 March, would have contributed to higher mortality in nursing homes?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)
Mary Butler: We are joined from committee room 1 by officials from the Department of Justice and Equality to deal with the response to the Covid outbreak in direct provision centres. I welcome Ms Oonagh Buckley, deputy Secretary General, civil justice and equality, Mr. Michael Kirrane, assistant secretary and head of immigration service delivery, and Mr. Mark Wilson, principal officer, international...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)
Mary Butler: I remind members that they have ten minutes, inclusive of responses from the witnesses.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)
Mary Butler: We have to move on. The next speaker for the Sinn Féin slot is Deputy Pa Daly who is taking ten minutes.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)
Mary Butler: I am sorry, Deputy, but we have to move on. I have allowed an extra minute.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)
Mary Butler: The next slot is Fine Gael's. I call Deputy Carroll MacNeill, who has ten minutes.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)
Mary Butler: We will now move on to the Labour Party's slot; Deputy Duncan Smith that he has five minutes.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)
Mary Butler: We will move on to the Social Democrats slot. I call Deputy Catherine Murphy.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)
Mary Butler: Thank you, Deputy Smith, we must move on. I call Deputy Shanahan from the Regional Group.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)
Mary Butler: I thank Ms Buckley. I call Deputy Michael Collins for the Rural Independent Group.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)
Mary Butler: I thank Deputy Pringle and the witnesses. We have to move on. I want to be fair to everyone. We move to the Fianna Fáil slot again. I call Deputy Donnelly, who has five minutes.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)
Mary Butler: We move back to Sinn Féin. Deputy Carthy has ten minutes.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)
Mary Butler: That answer will have to be furnished in writing because we are up against the clock.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)
Mary Butler: Does Deputy Burke mind ceding his last minute? I want to get the last speaker in and time is pressing. Would you mind?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)
Mary Butler: The answers are coming from a different room. It is difficult.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)
Mary Butler: I must wrap up the debate and suggest that Ms Buckley answers the final question in writing.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)
Mary Butler: I thank all our witnesses for their attendance and for the information provided for today's meeting. Is it agreed to request the Clerk to seek any follow-up information and carry out any agreed actions arising from this meeting? Agreed.
- Covid-19 (Health): Statements (21 May 2020)
Mary Butler: The prospect of a second wave of coronavirus infection throughout Europe is no longer a distant theory. I understand that we are also making our plans here. It is imperative that nursing homes, residential homes and care homes be given much higher status when these plans are being drawn up. I welcome what the Minister announced in his opening speech, that there will be a nursing home...