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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...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Flood Risk Management (22 Sep 2021)

Seán Kyne: The Minister, Deputy Foley, is welcome. I am disappointed the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donovan, is not present but I appreciate the Minister, Deputy Foley, being here to answer my question on flood defences in Galway city. I am sure that in every county there are incidents of flooding in towns or rural areas and I am sure the Minister has visited scenes of helplessness either in the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Flood Risk Management (22 Sep 2021)

Seán Kyne: I thank the Minister for the response. I will take this up again with the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donovan. I appreciate the timeline, the work that Galway City Council is doing and the information provided on the Coirib go Cósta website, but it is frustrating. It is quite clear that this project will take the guts of a decade to complete, which is hard to believe and fathom given...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Members of the European Parliament (22 Sep 2021)

Seán Kyne: Gabhaim buíochas, a Leas-Chathaoirligh. I welcome Ms Walsh and Mr. Markey to the Chamber. As someone involved in representational politics as we all are, and as a former Deputy and county councillor, I do not know how anyone copes with the geographical size of our guests’ constituencies and the challenge of such diverse areas and how to represent them; I know that they are doing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Mental Health Services: Discussion (22 Sep 2021)

Seán Kyne: I thank our witnesses for attending and for their work and advocacy on mental health services. If Covid has taught us anything, it has shown us the importance of family, community and interacting with people so it is no surprise that this pandemic and the restrictions it has imposed have caused mental health issues in people. The witnesses would not be unique, and I think they would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Mental Health Services: Discussion (22 Sep 2021)

Seán Kyne: I thank the witnesses for their replies. I know the former Minister of State, Jim Daly, put in place a one-stop-shop, as it were, in terms of accessing of services. There was a myriad of phone numbers that could be used as a first port of call to access mental health services. For example, the Samaritans provide an excellent service in Galway. How important are those services in terms of...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Beart na Breatnaise agus Caighdeáin Teanga: Coimisinéir Teanga na Breataine Bige (22 Sep 2021)

Seán Kyne: Gabh mo leithscéal go bhfuil clog an tSeanaid ag bualadh. I welcome Mr. Roberts. I am a former Minister of State at the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht with responsibility for the Irish language and the Gaeltacht areas in this country. We are often envious of what we hear about the Welsh language and I welcome this opportunity to say a few words to the commissioner....

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Beart na Breatnaise agus Caighdeáin Teanga: Coimisinéir Teanga na Breataine Bige (22 Sep 2021)

Seán Kyne: I know, from watching some historical programmes on the Welsh language, there was hostility in decades past. I will not ask if that has been entirely replaced, because it probably has not, but I am sure it has been much reduced. With the number of speakers in the metropolitan areas such as Cardiff, there would be more visibility, it would be more of a living and spoken language and be...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Beart na Breatnaise agus Caighdeáin Teanga: Coimisinéir Teanga na Breataine Bige (22 Sep 2021)

Seán Kyne: Does that carry on throughout the education system? Does it continue in universities or are they more anglicised rather than using spoken Welsh?

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Beart na Breatnaise agus Caighdeáin Teanga: Coimisinéir Teanga na Breataine Bige (22 Sep 2021)

Seán Kyne: I thank Mr. Roberts. I have to rush to the Seanad for a quorum on a debate.