Results 121-140 of 476 for speaker:Liam Quaide

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 162: In page 70, line 33, to delete “a mental disorder” and substitute “mental health difficulties”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 163: In page 71, line 4, to delete “a mental disorder” and substitute “mental health difficulties”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 164: In page 71, line 17, to delete “a mental disorder” and substitute “mental health difficulties”.

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: I thank the witnesses very much for being here today. In recent years, the problems in children's disability network teams and, indeed, child and adolescent mental health services have been well acknowledged and documented, and there have been efforts to address those. However much of a distance we have to go with that, the first stage is acknowledging the scale of the difficulties....

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: I want to take up the point about the psychology trainee posts. An additional 45 psychology trainee placements were announced, which was very welcome. Initially, the psychology managers had been told that, through the pay and numbers strategy, this would not affect recruitment outside of that. I know that in some parts of the country, areas are being asked to forfeit posts in order to make...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: Yes.

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: That is very reassuring. I thank Mr. Gloster.

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: I want to raise a frustration that I am experiencing regarding the answering of parliamentary questions. I would be grateful if the HSE could address that locally. On 8 April, I submitted parliamentary questions to all regional health areas separately on primary care psychology waiting lists. I asked for the years and months spent waiting, as well as the longest wait time. What the HSE...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: It is there.

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: I emailed Mr. Gloster about another point. I do not know if he had a chance to look at it. Due to my role in mental health I have a strong focus on people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties. They fall under the ambit of this committee, particularly given the focus we have on the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities. This is a cohort of people who...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: I met Dr. Andy Philips as well and he said there was going to be a community of neighbourhoods around-----

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: The zoning does not add up to that.

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: I want to come back to the St. Stephen's Hospital proposal for continuing care, rehabilitation and recovery, and a 50-bed service. Mr. Gloster mentioned the progress that has happened with the Owenacurra Centre. Two houses have been acquired in Midleton, which is brilliant. That rebuild is stalled but it is going through the planning process. My experience of that campaign, and that of...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: St. Stephen's is in the hinterland of Glanmire.

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: I would much prefer to engage with HSE in a productive collegiate way, rather than this kind of war of attrition which is where we often end up with campaigns.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: A total of 159 healthcare workers with long Covid have been in receipt of payments over the past four to five years. Those payments are in recognition of the fact that they contracted the virus in high-risk settings such as hospital wards at the peak of the pandemic. They were often without adequate PPE. They have paid an enormous price in the form of symptoms such as debilitating...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Data (17 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: 154. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of citizens that have sought permission from the Government to accept a title of nobility or of honour from a foreign Government, to date in 2025; and if he will state the respective foreign Government which sought to make the respective award in each case. [32664/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Staff (17 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: 155. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of temporary administrative and policy officers expected to be hired by his Department, in either Dublin or Brussels, in the lead up to and hosting of the European Presidency in 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32666/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Staff (17 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: 156. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the additional budget being made available for the hiring of temporary staff to assist in the lead up to and hosting of the European Presidency in 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32667/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (17 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: 334. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current number of staff in the National Shared Service Office who have applied through the civil service mobility scheme to transfer to a position elsewhere in the civil service. [32675/25]