Results 121-140 of 866 for speaker:Cathy Bennett

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights at the United Nations: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Cathy Bennett: I thank Ms Quijano. I have another question in relation to sustainability. One of the goals within the treaty is sustainability. How would sustainability work in other countries? We are being told that Mercosur is going to start exporting meat to Ireland but I am wondering about the other countries. How is it sustainable that meat would be imported from South America to Ireland? I do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights at the United Nations: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Cathy Bennett: Will it not be included in the treaty?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Trade Agreements (14 Oct 2025)

Cathy Bennett: 104. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on his engagements on the Mercosur trade agreement. [54967/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (14 Oct 2025)

Cathy Bennett: 136. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his response to the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the TB eradication programme. [54968/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospice Services (14 Oct 2025)

Cathy Bennett: 824. To ask the Minister for Health if she will report on the capacity of palliative care in County Monaghan; the number of beds available; the WTE equivalent allocated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54693/25]

World Mental Health Day: Statements (9 Oct 2025)

Cathy Bennett: Access to mental health services should be based on need, not on where you live and most certainly not on your ability to pay. Unfortunately, for many people across this State, that is not the case. I have no doubt that the Minister of State's office and that of the Ceann Comhairle are, like my own, inundated with people who are desperate to access mental health services, especially child...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025)

Cathy Bennett: I welcome everyone here today. I have a few questions which I would like to get down to the nitty-gritty on. My first question relates to consultants. When consultants receive a contract from the HSE, are they given a specific number of hours they have to work every week?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025)

Cathy Bennett: In the public-only contract, what are we contracting consultants for? Are they contracted for a specific number of hours per week? If I could just get a yes-no answer.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025)

Cathy Bennett: Okay. Consultants come into our hospitals run by the HSE. Under that contract, are they monitored to see whether those hours have actually been worked and the number of patients seen during those hours?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025)

Cathy Bennett: Has a review ever been carried out of the hours they are paid to do compared with the hours they actually do? Has there ever been a review of that?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025)

Cathy Bennett: There are long waiting lists for people to see consultants but Mr. Sweeney is satisfied that consultants are doing their work.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025)

Cathy Bennett: Okay. Mr. Sweeney mentioned the swiping in and out. There was a documentary a couple of years ago relating to consultants who just swiped into work and then went away off to their private clinics. Has that been reviewed or has any work been done to ensure that is not still happening?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025)

Cathy Bennett: Okay. With regard to the private sector and the NTPF, I just want to get down to the nitty-gritty on that. Can Ms Brady explain how someone is referred to the NTPF process? How does someone actually get onto that process? If there is a long waiting list in the hospital, how is the validity of someone getting from the long waiting list in the hospital to the NTPF programme assessed? How...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025)

Cathy Bennett: Going back to the consultant, is he pushing his waiting list? With the people who have been taken off that list by the NTPF, is his or her list going down?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025)

Cathy Bennett: Regarding the consultants, there has been no review of their work or how much they have to do. Have their waiting lists gone down due to the NTPF or due to the work they are doing?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025)

Cathy Bennett: How come the waiting lists are so long, then? It is extraordinary. They are very lengthy and some people wait for years to get an appointment. It hits me as quite extraordinary. I would like to deal with another area, that of the fair deal scheme. Could the witnesses bring me through the process of how fair deal works?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025)

Cathy Bennett: Is that more expensive for a public patient than a private patient?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025)

Cathy Bennett: The NTPF does not deal with-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board (9 Oct 2025)

Cathy Bennett: The NTPF used to deal with public.