Results 941-960 of 1,979 for speaker:Nicky McFadden
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jun 2010)
Nicky McFadden: It was with serious disgust that I heard yesterday on the news of the commitment to give â¬2 billion to Anglo Irish Bank of the â¬14.3 billion already committed. Everyone here has commended our wonderful former leader, Deputy Michael Noonan, as I do, but the bottom line and the point he made most ardently in the debate last night was that he was lucky in being the enviable position of...
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 May 2010)
Nicky McFadden: I would be the first to state we must have standards. I applaud HIQA for the way it has tried to raise standards in nursing homes and hospitals. However, I do not accept that the HSE should be allowed to use HIQA to close down public facilities throughout the country, but that is what is happening. Yesterday I visited Loughloe House in which 19 residents remain. Other residents were...
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 May 2010)
Nicky McFadden: The people in question are now elderly and need help.
- Seanad: General Practitioner Co-operatives (20 May 2010)
Nicky McFadden: I raise this issue relating to the MIDOC service in the midland region. MIDOC is an out-of-hours general practitioner service for the people of the midland region which has been in operation for ten years. We in the Athlone area have no hospital â Portiuncula is 15 miles away and Mullingar is 28 miles away. We have no primary care unit. This week the HSE is closing our long-stay...
- Seanad: General Practitioner Co-operatives (20 May 2010)
Nicky McFadden: I welcome the Minister of State's response. Unfortunately there was no reference to the kernel of the issue which concerns the Revenue Commissioners and the tax issue. I ask if the Minister could reply on that issue. The towns of Moate, Tullamore and Edenderry are very anxious to be included in the system.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 May 2010)
Nicky McFadden: This week I witnessed the modern day eviction of 25 elderly residents from Loughloe House in Athlone, County Westmeath, a matter I have raised on the Adjournment to no satisfaction. Today or tomorrow the Health Information and Quality Authority will publish its report, behind which the HSE is hiding and which it is using to close this nursing home. We are witnessing the steady, slow...
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 May 2010)
Nicky McFadden: The Leader should listen to the staff.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 May 2010)
Nicky McFadden: That is what the staff are saying. What the staff are saying is the reality.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 May 2010)
Nicky McFadden: She has not done so.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 May 2010)
Nicky McFadden: The Leader is provoking me.
- Seanad: Ombudsman for Children Report on Children First Guidelines: Statements (19 May 2010)
Nicky McFadden: I welcome the Minister of State. I am concerned about children who have been in care who are released into society at the age of 18. What is our responsibility as a nation and State towards these children? Focus Ireland has pointed out that these children are released from a protected environment into the great unknown without support or care. Is it right that we consider that once...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (13 May 2010)
Nicky McFadden: I consider myself to be an optimistic person. I commend RTE on highlighting the plight and agony of our young mortgagees. The programme on Sunday night showed people in County Longford who were in an appalling situation in being in negative equity and lumbered with having to repay mortgages while living on a derelict site. I concur with Senator Coffey in asking for a debate on indebtedness...
- Seanad: Common Agricultural Policy: Statements (12 May 2010)
Nicky McFadden: I welcome the Minister of State. I echo many of the comments of my colleague, Senator Coffey, on the issue of good quality food, a matter close to the Minister of State's heart. CAP encourages traceability, as was evident during the time of the Brazilian beef issue when we were able to stand over the quality of our beef and poultry products. The spend to Ireland is less than 0.5% of the...
- Seanad: Care of the Elderly (11 May 2010)
Nicky McFadden: I thank the Minister for being present to reply to this matter. I raise this matter in light of the fact that 30 staff members and 25 residents were informed at separate meetings last Thursday that Loughloe House, a HSE-run nursing home, is to be closed within two months. The nursing home has been situated on this site for 30 years. It is a relatively modern building on the banks of the...
- Seanad: Care of the Elderly (11 May 2010)
Nicky McFadden: Until 2016.
- Seanad: Care of the Elderly (11 May 2010)
Nicky McFadden: Could the Minister ascertain how much it would cost to bring Loughloe House up to the standard HIQA requires? I am not talking about St. Vincent's, only about Loughloe House.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 May 2010)
Nicky McFadden: Martin.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 May 2010)
Nicky McFadden: I join with Senator Fitzgerald in calling for the Minister for Health and Children to come to the House today to discuss issues concerning us in regard to accident and emergency services and health in general. Will the Leader co-operate with this House and order a debate on the relevance of politics in society? I raise this issue in the context of the HSE and how it, without any influence...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 May 2010)
Nicky McFadden: ââand without a Health Information and Quality Authority report even being published. Is the Minister even relevant to the HSE? What relevance do politicians have to the HSE? I urge the Leader to arrange such a debate. As one of the people who first raised in the House the issue of head shops, I congratulate the parents who were so brave in highlighting their personal plight. Along...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (5 May 2010)
Nicky McFadden: This morning we attended a poignant commemoration of the events of 1916, during which the Bishop of Down and Connor, Bishop Treanor, spoke eloquently about mistrust. That is the reason for the anarchy in Greece: trust has broken down. In Ireland there is an issue with trust in State agencies, the church and the health service. People do not trust anymore. This is borne out by a survey in...