Results 12,421-12,440 of 20,099 for speaker:Brian Stanley
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (16 Sep 2021)
Brian Stanley: Deputy MacSharry is as láthair. I call Deputy Munster, who has five minutes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (16 Sep 2021)
Brian Stanley: Deputy Munster has one minute left.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (16 Sep 2021)
Brian Stanley: The Deputy has gone over time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (16 Sep 2021)
Brian Stanley: I call Deputy Colm Burke, who has five minutes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (16 Sep 2021)
Brian Stanley: I call Deputy Colm Burke.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (16 Sep 2021)
Brian Stanley: We have gone over time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (16 Sep 2021)
Brian Stanley: Deputy Munster should allow Mr. Reid to answer briefly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (16 Sep 2021)
Brian Stanley: Deputy, we have gone over time. I will let you back in for a second round.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (16 Sep 2021)
Brian Stanley: I call Deputy Dillon.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (16 Sep 2021)
Brian Stanley: As regards the facility in Citywest, as I understand it, the cost was approximately €25 million in mid-summer. Obviously, the HSE needed a large facility and needed it quickly. It fitted the bill in terms of the location and everything else. Mr. Reid has confirmed that it is still in use as a temporary hospital. Does the contract for it have a break clause?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (16 Sep 2021)
Brian Stanley: So it is multi-use at present.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (16 Sep 2021)
Brian Stanley: What has been the average occupancy rate over the past 18 months?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (16 Sep 2021)
Brian Stanley: Yes, the average number of rooms being used.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (16 Sep 2021)
Brian Stanley: I will ask Mr. Reid about something that was not on the invitation, but it is an issue that has arisen in a serious way. It relates to the national ambulance service. There are situations arising due to what is called "dynamic deployment", which is the term that is used, where a number of ambulances are chasing across the country to emergency cases. I will give an example. In Laois,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (16 Sep 2021)
Brian Stanley: Mr. Reid-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (16 Sep 2021)
Brian Stanley: Mr. Reid, can I just say that the front-line staff in the ambulance service are doing tremendous work. They are making huge efforts. They are highly trained and they are more skilled than they were in years gone by. I can see those improvements. We appreciate those improvements. I am saying that there are problems with the system. I hear this from ambulance crews, from people who are...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (16 Sep 2021)
Brian Stanley: Thank you. I call on Deputy Matt Carthy, who has three minutes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (16 Sep 2021)
Brian Stanley: I thank Ms O'Connor for her reply. Before we conclude, I will revert to the issue of the ambulances for a moment, although only briefly because we are up against the clock. On Mr. Reid's point about visiting a centre, I have no problem doing that. I am sure that, when I go to a call centre - there is one in Tallaght and another in Ballyshannon - that I will see that it works efficiently,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (16 Sep 2021)
Brian Stanley: I agree fully with Mr. Reid's remarks on the staff. Deputy Verona Murphy has asked a question that I ask our guests to take away with them. She is seeking details on the 465 ventilators that were received, when they were sent to India, whether any payment was received, what is proposed for the remaining 100 ventilators and the cost-effectiveness of storing the remaining ventilators. I do...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (16 Sep 2021)
Brian Stanley: 165. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps being taken to put an adequate broadband service in place for a school (details supplied). [44389/21]