Results 121-140 of 184 for speaker:Peter Roche

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Peter Roche: My second point, while not bad news, relates to waiting times. They are a challenge in every hospital. I represent east Galway where the main hospital, like all of County Galway, is University Hospital Galway, as well as Merlin Park hospital just down the road. One of the problems I see and have encountered, especially for those who have to visit these hospitals regularly, is the maxed-out...

Select Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Peter Roche: I welcome the Minister and the Minister of State. I thank them and their officials for being with us. I have a contribution to make rather than a question to ask. It is based on my experience. I happen to be part of the board of Galway Rural Development of which I have been the chairperson for quite some time. The Minister may have met our CEO in recent times. Extraordinary things...

Select Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Peter Roche: I thank the Minister of State. The Minister said the funding is intended to address deprivation. How is that measured in the overall context?

Select Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Peter Roche: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenways Provision (2 Jul 2025)

Peter Roche: 45. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current status of the proposed greenway planned to run through Kinvara, County Galway; if he will provide an update on the timeline for its development expected completion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36472/25]

Review of Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004: Statements (1 Jul 2025)

Peter Roche: Like others, I welcome the review of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004. I commend the Department of Education and Youth on undertaking that critical work. Although many positives have been reported, the findings of the review confirm what some families, educators and advocates have long felt. We still need to work harder on delivering inclusive, equitable...

Select Committee on Education and Youth: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (26 Jun 2025)

Peter Roche: I thank the Minister and her Department official staff for being here. It feels a little like we did not leave here since last night when we had what I consider to have been a very productive, open and transparent meeting with the Minister of State, Deputy Moynihan, which was also most welcome. There is a great rapport between the two Ministers in tackling the issues that we, as...

Select Committee on Education and Youth: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (26 Jun 2025)

Peter Roche: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire. I will forward the Minister's office staff the correspondence that I received by way of confirming the circumstances.

Select Committee on Education and Youth: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (26 Jun 2025)

Peter Roche: Roche.

Select Committee on Education and Youth: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (26 Jun 2025)

Peter Roche: I nearly had to look behind me to see if there was somebody else there. The Minister's statement is compelling and there are a lot of good things in there. The one thing that strikes me is the cut of €127 million in school transport. That is something that would genuinely concern me. What is the basis for that reduction? Is it that things are done smarter or whatever? I am trying...

Select Committee on Education and Youth: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (26 Jun 2025)

Peter Roche: If I may, in terms of the educational services for special schools, I suppose I am going to ask the Minister an awkward one but sometimes we have to be parochial. My emphasis will be on east Galway. In terms of the additional 90 therapists, is there an indication as to how many of them will be allocated to Galway?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (26 Jun 2025)

Peter Roche: 50. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department currently has an action plan in place to develop a framework for responding to patients presenting with a mental health crisis at accident and emergency departments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34538/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (26 Jun 2025)

Peter Roche: 109. To ask the Minister for Health if she will detail the level of funding allocated to implement all actions under a plan (details supplied); if she is confident that the strategy is fully funded and resourced; and if any challenges have arisen in relation to funding or resourcing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34537/25]

Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Minister of State at the Department of Education and Youth (25 Jun 2025)

Peter Roche: It is generous of the Minister of State and his officials to give their time to come in in the late evening, at suppertime, to field some of the questions we have. I also thank him for the engagement he has had with me on my niece's little one. My niece works in my office and has a little ten-year-old Down's syndrome girl. I have that experience of understanding Olivia's everyday challenge...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Peter Roche: I thank the ministerial team and their officials for attending this meeting. It is most welcome that we are briefed on the Revised Estimate. My question relates to mental health. We have all heard about people presenting with emotional challenges, psychotic attacks or severe bouts of depression being referred by a GP to accident and emergency services. There are some difficult to listen...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Peter Roche: It behoves me to respond-----

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Peter Roche: I thank the Minister of State for the enlightening update. I am taken by the progress made. It is now a case of promoting the services the Minister of State spoke about very eloquently. It is about reaching out to people looking for somewhere to go.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Peter Roche: The Government committed in the men's health action plan 2024-28 to increase health literacy and raise public awareness of boys' and men's physical, mental and emotional health through a range of promotional activities. I welcome that the Minister for Health is in the Chamber. How much funding has been allocated to implement the actions in the plan? Is the Government confident the strategy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Peter Roche: It is a welcome development that the witnesses are here. I thank them for their comprehensive summary. It is quite difficult at times when one hears the stories and the impact this has had on children. As part of the report the witnesses have brought before the committee today, it is reassuring that the very important steps that need to be put in place are being considered. The move to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Peter Roche: In the brief time I have left, I ask the witnesses to respond to my questions on the meetings in 2020 at Cappagh.