Results 101-120 of 263 for speaker:Natasha Newsome Drennan

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: -----we need look no further than the treatment of those suffering from endometriosis. Despite one in ten women having this condition, there is currently a nine-year delay in diagnosis. This allows the disease free rein to spread, causing irreversible damage to organs. Three weeks ago Senator McCormack, Deputy Cullinane and I hosted a public meeting on endometriosis in Kilkenny city....

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: -----with support from their families. Now that we finally have a female Minister for Health, I implore her, woman-to-woman, to implement modern, fit-for-purpose treatment for women throughout Ireland because for far too long women's health has been treated as an afterthought by her side of the House.

Commission of Investigation (Handling of Historical Child Sexual Abuse in Day and Boarding Schools) Order 2025: Motion (15 Jul 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: This commission to investigate historical sexual abuse in schools is very much welcomed but it is long overdue. With every year of delay, survivors grow older and the risk of evidence being lost increases. Thousands of children across the State were failed by those entrusted to protect and raise them. Not only were they failed but their entire childhood was ripped away and destroyed. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Farm Safety: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I thank everybody for coming in. I am on a farm with four children and farm safety is a major issue. Equally, I know many older farmers are living on their own. I see this as a major issue around calving season, etc. We now also have the situation where many farmers have to go to work a full-time job, especially with the state of the suckler industry, to make ends meet. This is what they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Farmer Mental Health and Well-being: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I thank the witnesses for coming. The figure of one in four people being at risk of suicide is an alarming one. I can see how it happens. I have a farm at home and without Teagasc in Mullinavat most people would not have their paperwork done. For the older farmers it all just came in and was another headache. It was a headache they did not need. On a farm, one is isolated. There are...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I wish to raise the case of a woman in Kilkenny who is unable to work due to cancer treatment and who has struggled with her mortgage as a result. Her mortgage was then sold off, without any consultation, by PTSB to Mars Capital, as it was labelled "under performing". Zero compassion or understanding was shown by PTSB, a majority State-owned bank. This is an outrageous practice by PTSB,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: What I am asking is that-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: The practices of these vulture funds have to stop.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: Not in this case.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (3 Jul 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: 240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will conduct a review into the school transport requirements from Ballon, County Carlow to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36902/25]

Middle East: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: So far today, over 40 Palestinians have been slaughtered by Israeli airstrikes. In the past two days, over 250 Palestinians have been killed. A large number of these people were murdered while seeking aid from aid stations. Even Israeli media is reporting accounts from soldiers operating near these stations that they are being ordered to shoot civilians seeking aid. In the West Bank,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Jul 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: Throughout Kilkenny, there are major ongoing issues with the school transport scheme. In Gowran, the Department advised last year that another school bus be added due to the increase in the population, but still no additional bus service has been allocated. In my own area of Ballyhale, families like my own have been pushed to send children to school outside of their parish, despite the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Jul 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: Bus Éireann needs to engage with people.

Nursing Homes: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I thank the Labour Party for tabling the motion. All of us here at some stage will have to think about whether our parents will be in need of nursing home care. It is a very difficult and uncomfortable conversation for any family. It is something we would all like to think our parents will not need but this simply is not how life goes. We put immense faith in these nursing home...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (1 Jul 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: 215. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current usage of public transport between Carlow Town and Dublin for 2023, 2024, and to date of 2025; in tabular form including route, time, percentage of capacity, if the route needs additional services added; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35394/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bus Services (26 Jun 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: 231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a bus service (details supplied) was last put out to tender; the duration of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35070/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (26 Jun 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: 232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current plans for Bus Éireann to follow through for a proposed bus service (details supplied). [35071/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (26 Jun 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: 233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the due diligence in place between his Department and Bus Éireann to ensure public funds are spent for the purposes they are approved for. [35072/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I thank the witnesses for coming in. ACRES obviously is a massive issue but as with any new scheme, issues come with it on the Department's end and on farmers' end. Is it not a stage where the Department knows a scheme is coming in and there will be IT and administrative issues? It really would be better to hold off longer. The Department knows a scheme is going to be up in 2027 and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: The issues with the payments were not down to money but to IT issues. However, we know that going ahead, for 2025 the scheme is €74.6 million short on last year's money. Where is that going to come from? Are we going to see more issues? Are we going to see worse issues when the money is not there to meet the demand?