Results 161-180 of 287 for long speaker:Jack Chambers

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Action Plans (23 Oct 2018)

Jack Chambers: 81. To ask the Minister for Health the action he will take to address the long outpatient waiting times in the children’s hospital group in which 10,329 persons are waiting more than 18 months for an appointment. [43584/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Thirty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Role of Women) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Jack Chambers: When we had the Minister in this morning, he mentioned a citizens' assembly process following the referendum but committee members will be aware that promises such as that often take a long time. Even with such a commitment, would the witnesses maintain the grounds that it should be replaced?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Occupational Therapy Waiting Lists (28 Jun 2018)

Jack Chambers: 53. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he plans to address the long waiting times in the Dublin north west LHO area for children and adolescents needing an assessment for occupational therapy. [28321/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (28 Jun 2018)

Jack Chambers: 178. To ask the Minister for Health if dementia will be added to the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28412/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Update on Disability Issues: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (27 Jun 2018)

Jack Chambers: ...children and adolescents? The State has failed people born with mild disabilities because it has not provided them with appropriate interventions thus allowing them to develop moderate to severe long-term outcomes. I urge the State to provide the appropriate interventions to these people. What is the Department doing to match greater levels of service for those who have waited a crazy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Update on Disability Issues: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (27 Jun 2018)

Jack Chambers: ...The Minister of State has said that he wants to enhance ability. If so, then there must be early and swift intervention as soon as children are diagnosed thus avoiding people having to go down long culs-de-sac and ending up in a black hole without a service or intervention. We must shine a light on mental health services whether they relate to intellectual disability, CAMHS areas and...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Personnel (26 Jun 2018)

Jack Chambers: It is unfortunate the Defence Forces representative organisations and workers in the Defence Forces were stonewalled for so long. I seek an update on the heads of the proposed Bill and ask when it will progress through the House. The Representative Association of Commissioned Officers, RACO, recently indicated that piecemeal amendments to Defence Forces regulations based on the outcome of...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (16 May 2018)

Jack Chambers: ...do not think this will have Armageddon ramifications of the type spoken about by the Minister of State. I do not think there is a need for the level of stakeholder engagement. It is spread over a long time and I do not think it will have the effect about which the Minister of State is concerned. This is probably too cautious from the Department's perspective. Has the Minister of State...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Strength (10 May 2018)

Jack Chambers: I am surprised the Minister of State mentioned there are normal retirement patterns and that they match that long-term trend. There was a massive recruitment campaign last year of 860 personnel, but there are fewer personnel this year than there were last year. Clearly this does not match any long-term trend. Look at the figures. A total of 30% of members of the organisation have left the...

Gambling Control Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 May 2018)

Jack Chambers: ...parties on that. It is in keeping with what has happened in other countries. The UK, Spain, Australia, Sweden and Canada all have gambling regulatory authorities similar to the one proposed. This Bill is almost 100 pages long and contains eight sections that cover everything from licensing and codes of practice to tackling money-laundering and international co-operation. It includes...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (8 May 2018)

Jack Chambers: 265. To ask the Minister for Health if transplant patients who must take immunosuppressant medication for the rest of their lives following transplantations will be covered under the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19688/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Supply (3 May 2018)

Jack Chambers: 157. To ask the Minister for Health the status of his plans to add the FreeStyle Libre blood monitoring sensor to the long-term illness or drug reimbursement scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19356/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Jack Chambers: I thank Ms Feehily and Ms Hall for whom it has been a long morning. I will go through the submission and refer to a couple of things mentioned in it. It states, "Since late March 2017, we had intelligence" and also that the concerns of the two Garda analysts "were already well known to us before their contact". Ms Feehily also stated: "I can honestly say that there was very little of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (28 Feb 2018)

Jack Chambers: I refer to the resolution of complaints for people who have been waiting for long periods to have them addressed.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (13 Feb 2018)

Jack Chambers: 344. To ask the Minister for Health the status of his plans to add the FreeStyle Libre blood monitoring sensor to the long-term illness scheme or reimbursement scheme; the details of the report by the expert group set up under the auspices of the health technology assessment group which considered the FreeStyle Libre application by a company (details supplied) for addition to the...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Feb 2018)

Jack Chambers: ...the legal landscape in which minimum unit pricing, specifically, and the Bill, generally, are being introduced. Moves to introduce minimum unit pricing in Scotland were resisted by the drinks industry in a long, drawn-out process that went all the way to the European Court of Justice. In December last year, that court ruled that minimum unit pricing can be introduced as a proportionate...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility (6 Feb 2018)

Jack Chambers: 411. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to include persons with Parkinson's disease on the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5862/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Directives: Minister for Justice and Equality (17 Jan 2018)

Jack Chambers: I wish to expand on some of the questions from Deputy O'Callaghan. Part of what the Minister has discussed is still unclear. There will obviously be a vacuum after 9 February. How long will the projected timeframe for the implementation of these measures be? That is unclear. For how long does the Minister expect the interim arrangement he has proposed to be in existence?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: ...memo issue to escalate matters between the Department and the Garda? How did it reach the cliff edge? Why was such a memo released? Did the Department inform the Commissioner's office? How long ago did the Minister inform them that this Supplementary Estimate would occur? Why was that memo released in the interim period? Surely they were informed in advance of the memo being released...

Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Second Stage (15 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: ...white-collar measures tackled and progressed through this House. The recent court case and the Minister's recent announcement have seen at least an added focus to this area. The outcome of the 127 day long case against Seán FitzPatrick was a damning indictment of the State's capacity to investigate and prosecute white-collar crime. The inadequacy of the State to combat...