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Our Lady's Hospital Navan Emergency Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2022)

Damien English: Second, can we address the risk concerns in Navan by investing in Navan? Let us fully tease out and analyse that. We are all naturally biased. As a Navan Teachta Dála, I want Navan hospital to be the best. Can we address the concerns or can we not? If we cannot, is the capacity elsewhere to take our patients or are we only transferring the risk from one place to another? It is...

Our Lady's Hospital Navan Emergency Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2022)

Damien English: These are GPs I have listened to for a long number of years, as has Deputy Tóibín.

Our Lady's Hospital Navan Emergency Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2022)

Damien English: Sorry, Chair, can I finish my contribution here? There are GPs saying it is right and GPs saying it is wrong. Let us tease this through. We want to make the right decision. Most of us in here want to do the right thing for health, not for politics. Is the capacity elsewhere? Is the ambulance service in place to accommodate this? Will it ever be in place? Have we got guarantees as to...

Our Lady's Hospital Navan Emergency Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2022)

Damien English: Deputies received a letter telling them it has been done.

Our Lady's Hospital Navan Emergency Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2022)

Damien English: We are implementing the changes Deputies suggested.

Our Lady's Hospital Navan Emergency Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2022)

Damien English: Most of them. Deputies got a communication regarding the Health and Safety Authority.

Our Lady's Hospital Navan Emergency Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2022)

Damien English: Read it again.

Our Lady's Hospital Navan Emergency Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2022)

Damien English: It was only about two weeks ago.

Our Lady's Hospital Navan Emergency Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2022)

Damien English: Check it again.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Help Service (14 Jun 2022)

Damien English: I thank Deputy MacSharry again. He is asking a fair question regarding whether we can get some quicker decision-making on this matter as well. It is not just an issue concerning pay and conditions, but the Deputy has identified these aspects as the main reason. Part of the work the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, is doing involves trying to determine these reasons. It also includes...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Agriculture Industry (14 Jun 2022)

Damien English: As the Deputy will appreciate, I cannot give that commitment tonight, as much as I might want to do so. I will take his very clear request back to the Minister for Finance and the Department. This issue has been flagged in the engagements that have been taking place with the agricultural community over the past few weeks. The Deputy has proposed a clear target of bringing the price below...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Help Service (14 Jun 2022)

Damien English: I thank the Deputy for raising this very important issue, which affects many people, and their families, who are in need of home care throughout the country. It is an issue that has been discussed a great deal in this House with the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, who has been addressing it in a number of ways. The Minister of State could not be here...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Inland Fisheries (14 Jun 2022)

Damien English: It is essential that the examination of the quite separate matter of section 18 of the Inland Fisheries Act 2010 proceeds in an independent and impartial manner without distraction and is not diverted by attempts to raise unconnected matters that have already been fully addressed. I accept that Deputy Ring holds a different view. I will pass that back to the Department. I can only work...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Agriculture Industry (14 Jun 2022)

Damien English: I thank Deputy Kenny for raising this important issue. As he correctly said, it is an issue in many parts of the country, including his area of counties Leitrim and Sligo and my own area of County Meath. Farmers, like anybody in business, are under extreme pressure with the price of energy, the price of fuel and the prices in general. The Deputy is right that there have been some good...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Inland Fisheries (14 Jun 2022)

Damien English: I thank Deputy Ring for raising this issue. I will answer it on behalf of the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, who, due to Covid, cannot be here. I will have to go through his script. I might not be able to answer all the questions the Deputy has raised.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Inland Fisheries (14 Jun 2022)

Damien English: I might not be able to answer all the questions the Deputy raised but I will certainly bring back the rest of them to the Department as well. On behalf of the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, I thank the Deputy for the opportunity to, once again, set out the factual position on this issue. At the outset, it is important to note that these matters were originally raised in Seanad Éireann on 5...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Inland Fisheries (14 Jun 2022)

Damien English: I can only apologise that the Minister is not here. I can only give Deputy Ring the script because I do not have the details. I would not have the knowledge of this to be able to give the Deputy any other answers. I tried to address some of the issues the Deputy raised as best I possibly could but, as I said, I will bring back his concerns to the Minister. The concerns are genuine and I...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Care Packages (14 Jun 2022)

Damien English: I thank Deputy O'Sullivan for raising this scenario. We know there are many people who have been approved for hours and need help and it is Government policy to keep people at home as long as possible and to give them the care and support they need to be able to do that. We are very much focused on that and we will work with officials and all Departments to try to make it happen. ...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Care Packages (14 Jun 2022)

Damien English: I thank the Deputy for raising this very important issue. He is right it is one that we are aware of, as a Department and as a Government. It has been raised often through questions in the House, with the Taoiseach, Deputy Micheál Martin, also saying that this is something he felt might be addressed and looked at through the permit process this year. As the Deputy knows, the Minister...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 May 2022)

Damien English: A new work group was set up by the Tánaiste in recent weeks to look at the whole area of self-employment. It brings together all the members of the Labour Employer Economic Forum, LEEF. The first meeting took place took two weeks ago, which I chaired. The work group is reviewing all of these issues and will bring forward recommendations, through LEEF, to my Department and the...