Results 81-100 of 11,254 for speaker:Matt Carthy

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (24 Jun 2025)

Matt Carthy: 884. To ask the Minister for Health the internal processes that CHI have had in place from 2019 onward to oversee the use of NTPF funds and special waiting-list initiatives; if the CHI executive or board were required to sign off on decisions to use NTPF money for private or insourced clinics; If so, if those protocols followed, for example, if the CEO, CFO, or clinical directors formally...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (24 Jun 2025)

Matt Carthy: 885. To ask the Minister for Health if she has ascertained the way in which CHI ensured that patients chosen for any NTPF-funded surgery or clinic were selected based on medical priority and waiting time; if there were instances where long-waiting children were bypassed in favour of others in NTPF sessions; if she is assured that CHI did not engage in any practice of resetting or manipulating...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (24 Jun 2025)

Matt Carthy: 886. To ask the Minister for Health if she has ensured that CHI utilized National Treatment Purchase Funds monies to reduce waiting times for the longest-waiting orthopaedic patients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34333/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Investigations (24 Jun 2025)

Matt Carthy: 890. To ask the Minister for Health if she has commissioned an investigation into the response of CHI management and board to internal warnings that arose in 2022 that the allocation of €19 million of scoliosis funds were not being utilised for the intended purpose; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34348/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (24 Jun 2025)

Matt Carthy: 891. To ask the Minister for Health in response to reports that CHI orthopaedic surgeons performed hip surgeries at University Hospital Galway and Cork in recent years, who approved sending CHI orthopaedic doctors to Galway and Cork; whether this was part of an official waiting-list initiative or NTPF arrangement; if the same oversight and patient-selection standards applied there as CHI...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (24 Jun 2025)

Matt Carthy: 892. To ask the Minister for Health the number of surgeries outsourced by CHI to private providers in each year since 2020, in tabular form; the total amount paid to each private provider in each year; the governance policies in place to determine each private provider; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34350/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (24 Jun 2025)

Matt Carthy: 893. To ask the Minister for Health whether any CHI-affiliated surgeons were involved in treating CHI patients at any private providers under NTPF contracts at any stage since 2020; to provide details of each instance; whether any conflict-of-interest declarations or audits have been carried out to ensure that outsourcing decisions were made solely to benefit patients and reduce waiting...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Investigations (24 Jun 2025)

Matt Carthy: 894. To ask the Minister for Health whether CHI commissioned any internal investigation since 2020 into orthopaedic waiting-list practices; the details of any such investigations; whether the findings of any such investigation were shared in a timely matter with the CHI board, HSE or the Minister respectively; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34352/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

Matt Carthy: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

Matt Carthy: We will freeze rents-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

Matt Carthy: -----and reduce rents.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

Matt Carthy: The Government voted against freezing rents last night.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

Matt Carthy: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

Matt Carthy: Absolutely.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2025)

Matt Carthy: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (19 Jun 2025)

Matt Carthy: 77. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the engagements that he, or any representative of his Department or associated State agencies, have had in respect of the former BOSE factory at Carrickmacross, considering the latest owners (details supplied) are putting the premises up for resale; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33112/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (19 Jun 2025)

Matt Carthy: 161. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he intends to review the current weekly means limit for the increase for qualified adult allowance for recipients of the State pension with a view to increasing the current means limit of €100, which has remained unchanged for several years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33113/25]

Emergency Action on Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jun 2025)

Matt Carthy: We should just rename this debate the "black is white" debate. The Government is essentially trying to convince us that black is white. To have the audacity, as Ministers have done this evening, to come into this House and claim that their housing plan is working is akin to trying to convince people that the Earth is flat. The thousands of people who were outside this House this evening,...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Matt Carthy: No apologies have been received. Deputies Mark Ward and Catherine Callaghan have indicated that they are doing business in the Chamber and will be here as soon as possible. I remind members to turn off their mobile phones or switch them to flight mode. The purpose of this meeting is to have engagement with the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors and the Garda Representative...