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Seanad: Flood Risk Management: Motion (19 Oct 2021)

Seán Kyne: I welcome the Minister of State. Most of us who have been in politics for some time have experience of the trauma and impact of a flooding event on homeowners, whether it be on a relatively small scale, when, for example, a small number of houses are affected, or a large-scale flooding event. The severe trauma people go through when their homes or businesses are flooded has a huge impact,...

Seanad: Flood Risk Management: Motion (19 Oct 2021)

Seán Kyne: Tomorrow at 10.30 a.m.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Oct 2021)

Seán Kyne: I welcome the budget allocation for the Department of Health. As announced yesterday, there is some €22 billion, including €4 billion provided as pandemic supports, which was exceptional funding which has been maintained for next year's budget too. There are 900,000 people on waiting lists. Some are there because of delays caused by Covid and by the cyberattack. Prior to...

Seanad: Budget 2022: Statements (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Seán Kyne: I commend the Minister of State, the the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy McGrath, and all of the Cabinet on their work on the budget, on the public expenditure side, as announced yesterday. Additional details will be given in briefings conducted in sectoral Departments. There is a lot of information that has not yet been released but it will be over the next number of...

Seanad: Budget 2022: Statements (12 Oct 2021)

Seán Kyne: I welcome the Minister of State. I will comment on the finance side of the Budget Statement, which was made by the Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe. We have come through a severe pandemic. Thankfully, owing to the solid foundations put in place over the last decade, including balancing the books at the end of 2019, the nation had the resources to cope. We restored our good name and...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects (7 Oct 2021)

Seán Kyne: I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Education. I take this opportunity to congratulate her and the Minister for Education, Deputy Foley, on the voted capital allocations in the national development plan that have increased from €740 million to over €1 billion in 2025. Obviously cost inflation will account for some of the increase, and that is something that is...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects (7 Oct 2021)

Seán Kyne: I thank the Minister of State for the reply. I welcome the progress in regard to Scoil Mhuire, the meeting that is scheduled for 14 October and that following that meeting the Department will advise the school's board of management and its design team of further progression of the project. It is important there is progress in regard to the development of this much sought project. The...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Oct 2021)

Seán Kyne: I concur with the Cathaoirleach's comments on, and tribute to, Mr. Tom Burke. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis. Yesterday was European Carers Day. It was intended, "to coordinate and foster national efforts to raise awareness of carers’ issues under a pan-European structure". We have had debates on the value and importance of carers and the key role they play. They are...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Oct 2021)

Seán Kyne: I also welcome the national development plan. Amidst all the debate about roads and rail projects, I understand the Leader has invited the Minister for Transport, Deputy Eamon Ryan, to attend the House to discuss the national development plan as it relates to transport. I certainly welcome that. One of the projects mentioned in the plan is the bypass for Moycullen. I am pleased to report...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 2021: Motion (6 Oct 2021)

Seán Kyne: The Minister is welcome back to the House. I will start, as I did this morning at the meeting of the Joint Committee on Health, by acknowledging the success of the vaccination programme. I commend the Minister, his team within the HSE and the Department of Health and, most important, the Irish people, as well as, in some instances, the mothers and fathers who persuaded younger persons in...

Seanad: Registration of Wills Bill 2021: Second Stage (6 Oct 2021)

Seán Kyne: I commend the authors of this Bill. As others have said, it has gone around the Houses for some years. It is an important issue. When people make a will, they like to think that it will be read and dealt with when they pass. As others, as well as the last speaker, have said, we all know of cases where we have gone astray, and difficulties have arisen. Dare I say, there are some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Seán Kyne: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, and the Secretary General, Mr. Watt. I acknowledge the tremendous success of the vaccination roll-out and programme and its uptake around the country. Everybody can be rightly proud of the team within the HSE and Department of Health. I also welcome and acknowledge the success of the heart health diagnostic pilot whereby GPs can refer their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Seán Kyne: That is good to hear. In response to the Sláintecare proposals published earlier in the year, the Saolta University Health Care Group has indicated it believes the proposals must go further. After the options appraisal there is an ongoing debate in Galway in relation to Merlin Park versus University Hospital Galway. There a plans for a full move to Merlin Park, a partial one, and so...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Seán Kyne: Okay. I have raised it before. I am hearing dates and I have heard dates before. I heard dates of February 2019, May 2019, then it was delayed for the options appraisal, then it was going to September 2020, and here we are in October 2021 and there is now talk of 2022. I have not been given a specific month, nor would I believe one at this stage because I have heard so many different...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Seán Kyne: Okay.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Sep 2021)

Seán Kyne: On behalf of Fine Gael, I wish to be associated with the comments from Senator Norris regarding the late Mervyn Taylor. He was a ground-breaking politician and we remember him here this morning. It was with some disbelief that farmers read the headline "Brazil to add 24m cattle as Ireland plans to cut herd" in the Irish Farmers' Journalover the summer. I do not believe that the Government...

Seanad: Housing For All - a New Housing Plan for Ireland: Statements (29 Sep 2021)

Seán Kyne: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan. I compliment him and his colleagues, the Minister, Deputy Darragh O’Brien, and the Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke, for all their work on this Housing for All policy. Before I go any further, I will comment on Senator Fitzpatrick’s contribution. I think she talked about a "lost decade". I entered the other House in 2011....

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Cearta Teanga in Éirinn agus Tuarascáil Bhliantúil 2020 agus Tuarascáil Faireacháin 2020-2021: An Coimisinéir Teanga (29 Sep 2021)

Seán Kyne: Cuirim fáilte roimh an gcoimisinéir, Rónán Ó Domhnaill, agus roimh Séamas Ó Concheanainn óna oifig. Tá ceist agam atá cosúil leis an gceist a bhí ag an Teachta Calleary. An gcreideann an coimisinéir go raibh easpa tuisceana ag eagraíochtaí Stáit maidir le húsáid an tsínidh fhada ar an teastas...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Sep 2021)

Seán Kyne: No more than the Leader herself, I was proud to be a part of Governments that established the Department of Children and Youth Affairs, that put a new referendum on the rights of the child to the Irish people that was successfully passed, that provided the second free preschool year and included children with disability under the early childhood care and education, ECCE, scheme through the...