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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Childcare Services (17 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: I thank the Cathaoirleach for choosing this matter and I welcome the Minister of State. I acknowledge the range of supports and investment provided by the Government to the Department of children to assist parents in affording childcare, which has been greatly beneficial. I acknowledge also the work of the city and county childcare committees, whether through the early childhood care and...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Childcare Services (17 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: I thank the Minister of State for the response. We have to wait and see how the new supply and management unit in the Department, which has been operational since January 2024, responds to the issues in a locality. Yes, the local childcare committee can identify where there are vacancies and where there is need but there is no point in telling someone in Rosscahill or Oughterard that there...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Cancer Services (17 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: Before I move on to the Minister of State, I welcome the pupils and teachers from Hewetson National School in Clane, County Kildare. I hope they enjoy the day and I hope the teachers treat them later on. Gabhaim buíochas leo agus tá fáilte rompu go léir.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Textbooks (17 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: Before I invite the Minister of State, I welcome the pupils and teachers of St. John's National School in Longford to the Seanad Chamber. I hope they enjoy the day here.

Seanad: School Enrolments: Motion (17 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: I thank colleagues in Fianna Fáil for tabling this motion. Being in elected politics since 2004 at council and Oireachtas level, last year was the most difficult I have come across with regard to school enrolment pressures. This coming year also looks somewhat challenging. Hopefully, it will not be as bad. However, I had not experienced this before and certainly not to this level....

Seanad: Agriculture: Statements (16 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: The Minister is very welcome. I thank him for the measures he has put in place in recent weeks in this unprecedented period.The national fodder and food security committee is very important. It needs to be ingrained in farmers that they can plan for an average year, but if they have an average year, therefore, they have years that are not average. There are years that are quite good, with...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: I welcome Senator Malachai O'Hara and his mum to the Chamber. They are very welcome. I also congratulate Deputy Simon Harris on his election as Taoiseach and all Ministers who have taken up new or reshuffled positions in Cabinet or as Ministers of State. I also pay tribute to the outgoing Taoiseach, Deputy Leo Varadkar, for his support and friendship over the years. The Committee of...

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: I welcome Mr. Kelly, Mr. McMyler and Mr. Kenny to the committee. I agree that it is time that the all-Ireland rail review was published. We have waited long enough. If it is not published today, I hope it will be published next week and that we will have certainty on the issues pertaining to the western rail corridor and the relevant campaigns. Having been a local councillor, my...

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: Regarding the northern section, from Claremorris upwards, there has been some talk to the effect that the alignment is not practical for rail and that land take, etc., would be required. From Mr. Kenny's experience, is that the case?

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: Or to have level crossings?

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: If a greenway were to be developed is the decision made between Iarnród Eireann as owners of the track and the local authorities? Would it require ministerial approval? What are the parameters of the decisions made?

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: I had this discussion when West on Track came before the transport committee. If a greenway was developed on the northern section and it was decided subsequently that a railway were to be built, the removal of the greenway would be an added cost. Would this added cost be looked at in terms of the business case and the cost-benefit analysis of the rail project? Would it mitigate the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: I welcome the witnesses and acknowledge the investment by the Department and the new state-of-the-art Saolta radiation oncology centre that opened in UHG last October to target and treat tumours. That said, survival rates in the west are below the rest of the country. What is the strategy or how do the witnesses see that being evened out and improved nationwide and in the west over the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: Without making any excuses for it and we can debate the Government’s response to Covid-19 and so on at the time, how much do the witnesses think Covid-19 and the decisions made impact on the delivery of the outcomes of the third national cancer strategy? I am not trying to make excuses but just-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: It is likely the next Government will deliver the fourth cancer strategy. That is not to say that we do not want to see the third one implemented in its fullest before that. From experience, when would the review of that start, in terms of the preparation or the draft strategy for the next outcome? What role will our witnesses have in feeding into that? Professor Kennedy mentioned the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: Professor Kennedy mentioned in his opening statement that between 1994 and 1998 just 44% of Irish patients were alive five years after a cancer diagnosis and this has improved in 2018 to 65%. Literally thousands of people are alive today and have gone on to have families and have lives and all that goes with that because of the cancer strategies and investment. The figure in 2018 was 65%....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: Would that be the same for heart disease and for all other illnesses? Obviously the 1990s were different in terms of education, more people smoked such as people who started smoking in the 1950s and 1960s who did not know the consequences of it. With younger people today, there may be more pressures, bombardment or whatever else, but most young people know there are dangers with smoking,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: I welcome the witnesses. I acknowledge the new radiation oncology centre that opened in University Hospital Galway, UHG, in October. It will assist by improving the survival rates for cancer patients in the west, which are below average. What plans are there to bring the survival rates in the west up to the average, as it continues to rise?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: The Irish Cancer Society has indicated that waiting times for radiation therapy have increased. Expensive equipment is lying idle and there is an ongoing shortage of radiation therapists. What is being done in the short term to address those issues?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: When Professor Ó Laoide said they allowed additional overtime, has that been recent? Is it ongoing?