Results 81-100 of 1,477 for speaker:Grace Boland

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Grace Boland: This committee sees systemic issues across the public service in the deployment of IT systems. Has the IFMS deployment overrun? Is it over budget or delayed? Have there been lessons?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Grace Boland: Are those lessons learned written down and captured? Are they then fed back to the Department of public expenditure or the Office of Government Procurement? The public service as a whole needs to learn from the deployment of these projects.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Grace Boland: We need to do that. We are seeing serious issues right across the public service and there does not seem to be any one Department taking the lessons learned from a series of issues, including the overruns and delays.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Grace Boland: I do not have any hospital to ask the witnesses about. I would like to say that the area I live in is one of the youngest in the country. Balbriggan is the youngest large town. It is the most culturally diverse town. Our primary care centre and CDNT are chronically understaffed, which has been a persistent issue for a long time. The waiting lists are from four to seven years. There are...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Grace Boland: I have a brief amount of time and I am sure this deserves much more. How will electronic health records integrate with the shared care records?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Grace Boland: Will they talk to each other?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Grace Boland: Are the voluntary groups signed up to the shared care record?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive (16 Oct 2025)

Grace Boland: On the procurement of the electronic health record, and its management from an IT perspective, does the HSE have the competence and capability to do that?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gender Balance (16 Oct 2025)

Grace Boland: 33. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department is working with the Department of Education and Youth to improve gender balance in STEM subject uptake at second level, with a view to influencing third-level course choices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54977/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Equality Issues (16 Oct 2025)

Grace Boland: 38. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the specific measures being taken to address the underrepresentation of women in certain STEM fields, particularly engineering, computer science and physics at third level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54976/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Regional Development (16 Oct 2025)

Grace Boland: 99. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide an update on the implementation of the town and village renewal scheme; the way in which the impact of this scheme is being measured in terms of community wellbeing and economic activity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54981/25]

Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

Grace Boland: An Tánaiste, Simon Harris, has spent his entire career standing up and leading in the face of challenge - showing courage and compassion as he led this country through Covid. Within a month of taking office as Taoiseach, he led Ireland in formally recognising the State of Palestine and apologised to the families and victims of the Stardust tragedy. He has ensured continued...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Rural Bus Transport: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Grace Boland: I am delighted to see the witnesses in here again. I thank them for coming in. I regularly highlight the issues. I wish to start positively. I am a huge supporter of public transport. I take it an awful lot. I understand the customer experience. One of things that is working well is the B1 route in Balbriggan. Balbriggan is the youngest large town in the country. It is one of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Rural Bus Transport: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Grace Boland: I am open to anything.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Rural Bus Transport: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Grace Boland: I would appreciate that. On TFI Anseo, I was interested in that in relation to the Skerries, Rush and Lusk area. How is that pilot working? What is the possibility of any other areas being considered? How would we get them to be considered?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Rural Bus Transport: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Grace Boland: The pilot will look at service use versus cost, for example, in a cost-benefit analysis. Is that how it will work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Rural Bus Transport: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Grace Boland: It is an innovative idea. Well done. Regarding the timelines of that, the NTA is saying it will run for 12 months. How long is it to do the report?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Rural Bus Transport: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Grace Boland: I should clarify, in relation to the area that we are talking about, that there is the 33 bus service. As the witnesses know, however, it does not link up with the train times. Given it is on a rural and busy road, the entrance to the train station has regular accidents. Walking or taking other forms of active travel to the 33 bus service is not realistic, particularly coming from the Rush...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Rural Bus Transport: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Grace Boland: I appreciate that.