Results 161-180 of 5,550 for speaker:Martin Ferris

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (12 Dec 2018)

Martin Ferris: 197. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the ongoing pair trawling for sprat in estuaries and bays in view of the concern of conservation organisations and persons; and the way in which he plans to remedy this practice. [52410/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (11 Dec 2018)

Martin Ferris: 385. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect to have an increase in the cost of long-term care sanctioned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52139/18]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla (Atógáil) - Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Women's Resource Centres (6 Dec 2018)

Martin Ferris: Much of the Minister of State's reply is part of the review I have with me. It is important to note the services that the centre provided. They included counselling in situations of crisis pregnancy. We have just spent days and weeks debating the Bill on abortion here. The centre also supported women affected by domestic and gender-based violence, which is increasing in many areas, as...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla (Atógáil) - Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Women's Resource Centres (6 Dec 2018)

Martin Ferris: At 11.30 a.m. today the Tralee Women's Resource Centre closed after 32 years. For the past 32 years the centre has provided a tremendous service to women in Tralee and indeed women from outside of Tralee, including many areas out towards north and east Kerry. I pay tribute to the staff who worked there and voluntarily gave of their time to the women of Tralee. The centre made a tremendous...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (5 Dec 2018)

Martin Ferris: 238. To ask the Minister for Health if the annual €51,000 subvention from the HSE to a centre (details supplied) is for the purpose of paying rent for a unit in Castleisland, County Kerry; if so, the reason this is being paid through the centre; the number of years this has been the practice; and the purpose for which that premises is used. [51183/18]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (27 Nov 2018)

Martin Ferris: I do not doubt the Minister of State's sincerity and efforts to try to address the terrible deficit in our disability services and the resources available for that. The figures we have differ from the figures the Minister of State has presented here. These come from parliamentary questions. These figures tell us that CHO 4, which is Cork and Kerry, has 1,1192 waiting who have been waiting...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (27 Nov 2018)

Martin Ferris: The Acting Chairman interrupted Deputy Buckley before his time was up. He has been interrupting all his life.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (27 Nov 2018)

Martin Ferris: The reply to a recent parliamentary question revealed there were 61 vacant psychiatric positions, including 13 in community healthcare organisation area 4, covering cork and Kerry. Those positions were in child and adolescent psychiatry, the psychiatry of learning disabilities, the psychiatry of old age as well as general psychiatry. Ireland has six consultant psychiatrists per 100,000...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2018)

Martin Ferris: Three years.

Local Government (Water Pollution) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Nov 2018)

Martin Ferris: All of us Deputies who come from rural Ireland have watched the terrible depopulation of rural Ireland, in particular in the west and south west, and many of us have tried to do our best to highlight it. It has been going on for decades, and the political establishment, that is, successive Governments, has done absolutely nothing to try to address it. Like my colleagues here, I come from...

Local Government (Water Pollution) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Nov 2018)

Martin Ferris: Pat Spillane has been silenced by the Minister of State's party on that report. It offered some hope for rural Ireland but nothing was done about it. There was a big hullabaloo when the thing was launched but now the report sits there and there is no political will to implement it. If the Minister of State has any consideration for rural Ireland, he has his chance to show it here when...

Local Government (Water Pollution) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Nov 2018)

Martin Ferris: Is the population going up or down?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (20 Nov 2018)

Martin Ferris: 481. To ask the Minister for Health when a MRI appointment for a child (details supplied) will be scheduled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48403/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (13 Nov 2018)

Martin Ferris: 323. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive an appointment at University Hospital Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46570/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (13 Nov 2018)

Martin Ferris: 363. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive a bed in a nursing home or a community hospital. [46742/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (6 Nov 2018)

Martin Ferris: 606. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the rheumatologist and the staffing level at the rheumatology department of University Hospital Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45112/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (25 Oct 2018)

Martin Ferris: 244. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a bed at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital. [44330/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (10 Oct 2018)

Martin Ferris: 96. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect to have a hip operation at University Hospital Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41288/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services Provision (10 Oct 2018)

Martin Ferris: 97. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive an orthodontic appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41289/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (10 Oct 2018)

Martin Ferris: 164. To ask the Minister for Health the status of joint operations at University Hospital Kerry; and the number of patients waiting for same at the hospital. [41451/18]