Results 461-480 of 1,730 for speaker:Colm Keaveney
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (28 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: 240. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16273/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: 274. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive an urgent appointment for heart surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16427/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: 275. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive an appointment for an awaited procedure as the person is on the waiting list for five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16431/15]
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2015: First Stage (23 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to make special provision for independent voting by visually impaired, incapacitated and illiterate voters.I will briefly explain the substance of this Bill. People with sight loss difficulties, reading and writing difficulties or capacity issues face additional obstacles when they want to vote. Some of these obstacles could...
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2015: First Stage (23 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: Or the Isle of Man.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: Deputy Ó Snodaigh should not be robbing my remarks.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: Hear, hear.
- Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (22 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: The Minister made reference to difficulties in recruitment in his response, and I thank him for the clarity on the matter. However, one of the biggest difficulties we have with recruitment is the political decision to time-delay it. The HSE's service plan refers to a preference to recruit in December, not in January. Therefore, in the small print somewhere else there is a reference to not...
- Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (22 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: This morning's action is as a direct result of a political decision not to proceed with the opening of a facility in Ballinasloe - a €3.2 million spend on a brand-new unit and the only ligature-free unit in the HSE. It was never opened and the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, transferred services and centralised them around Galway University Hospital, GUH. The unit has been...
- Topical Issue Debate: Job Losses (22 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: He is not as interested in this issue as Deputy Finian McGrath is.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: They are just as hungry.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: Hungry.
- Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: I would be grateful if the Minister------
- Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: Was the Minister a member of the Progressive Democrats?
- Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: Is he going to join Renua Ireland?
- Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: Over two years ago the Government brought forward legislation to take medical cards away from those over 70 years of age. In the spring of that year-----
- Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: We can all change.
- Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: In the spring of the year in question cards were taken from over 20,000 elderly people and a couple of months later a further 35,000 were taken. During Leaders' Questions last week the great Deputy James Bannon laughed when it was announced that children were being placed in psychiatric wards.
- Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2015)
Colm Keaveney: I know too much about the Deputy.