Results 61-80 of 204 for speaker:Tony Mulcahy

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Domiciliary Care Allowance (23 Oct 2012)

Tony Mulcahy: The best way of setting the tone in terms of this issue is by way of example. I have recently come across a number of cases involving applications for domiciliary care allowance, in respect, primarily, of young children with intellectual disabilities. One case involves a young child of four and a half years who is in nappies, cannot talk and struggles to walk and has been clinical diagnosed...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Domiciliary Care Allowance (23 Oct 2012)

Tony Mulcahy: The answer is there - desk reviews are completed, which means one sits at a desk and decides. Given we have so few medical assessors I ask the Minister of State to ask the Minister for Social Protection to list the actual qualifications of each of the 25 assessors without naming them. I will reserve my opinion until I receive this information.

Seanad: Social Welfare Appeals System: Motion (7 Nov 2012)

Tony Mulcahy: The Minister is welcome. I will be voting in favour of the amendment, unfortunately. It being the Government position one has to do that. I want to clear up some issues raised by the Minister. Perhaps we should deal with the problem in the first place rather than with the appeal. I state clearly that we should not use a sledgehammer to crack a nut. The Minister rightly pointed out that...

Seanad: Social Welfare Appeals System: Motion (7 Nov 2012)

Tony Mulcahy: I do not dispute that but I have seen three and one was wrong. The GP's form was wrong but all the clinical documentation and assessments by the early intervention services were correct because I went through them and visited the homes. They read the first page but they did not read the rest of it. There is a problem in the Department.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Domiciliary Care Allowance (13 Nov 2012)

Tony Mulcahy: I welcome the Minister of State. Last week I raised an issue on the domiciliary care allowance with the Minister for Social Protection. When I received her reply I then sought the qualifications of relevant medical assessors that work in the domiciliary care allowance section. I sought to identify which applications it dealt with and asked if it dealt with domiciliary care, disability...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Domiciliary Care Allowance (13 Nov 2012)

Tony Mulcahy: That reply answers my question. I rest my case. They are not qualified and therein lies the whole problem. They are dealing with children with severe intellectual disability on whom extensive clinical assessments have been carried out by a range of therapists, clinical psychologists, child psychologists, occupations therapists and more. We have people who are not qualified adjudicating on...

Seanad: Shannon Airport: Motion (12 Dec 2012)

Tony Mulcahy: I move: That Seanad Éireann approves the following Order in draft:State Airports Act 2004 (Shannon Appointed Day) Order 2012,a copy of which Order in draft was laid before Seanad Éireann on 5 December 2012.I welcome the Minister of State to the Chamber.

Seanad: Shannon Airport: Motion (12 Dec 2012)

Tony Mulcahy: I welcome here today my youngest brother, Joe, who also lives in Shannon, my PA, Mr. Errol Mulqueen and Bríd. I know I am out of order on that one. I do not need too many notes to speak here today. I am stunned when I listen to some of the Senators opposite set about a mechanism to undo the work that the Government is trying to do on behalf of Shannon. Senator MacSharry stated they would...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)

Tony Mulcahy: Senator Moran asked last night if I wanted to say something and I was vacillating whether I would do so. I do not know whether I will hold this together but I will try my best. On 17 March 1992, St. Patrick?s Day, our lives changed forever. My now 20 year old was born. As Senator Cummins has outlined, she is a chronic epileptic and does not really speak. She has a vocabulary of...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2012)

Tony Mulcahy: There are people in this House who set up agencies and paid chief executives in excess of ¤80,000. I am a member of a group in Clare. They may speak for themselves if they so wish. They have called me often enough when I was in the House but I am here now. I am a member of a voluntary group in Clare, the Clare Crusaders. A total of ¤260,000 has been raised by the service in Clare and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Shannon Airport: Discussion with Shannon Airport Authority (23 Jan 2013)

Tony Mulcahy: I congratulate Ms Hynes and I pledge my support to the Shannon project. I have lived in the town for 35 years and I have watched the decline of the airport as it has occurred dramatically during the past ten years. I fully agree with Ms Hynes that the challenges are global, but they bring global opportunities as well. I take advice from a friend of mine on the aviation industry. He has...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Mairead McGuinness, MEP (29 Jan 2013)

Tony Mulcahy: Ms McGuinness is very welcome and I have two or three brief questions. On the issue of policy and legislation, it is the implementation and the interpretation or misinterpretation of that implementation that causes the problem when one actually gets to the bottom. That is the "Yes Minister" analogy of all of that. I have three brief questions in respect the removal of milk quotas in 2015....

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jan 2013)

Tony Mulcahy: Yesterday, the Law Reform Commission published a list of 19 recommendations in relation to missing persons, two of which were that the lands and estates of missing people be administered after 90 days and that the families of those missing be permitted to obtain a death certificate at some stage to allow proper address of property issues, including redress of those properties to the missing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)

Tony Mulcahy: I welcome both the Minister, Deputy Reilly, and the Minister of State, Deputy Lynch. I am not in favour of global schemes in any shape or form because, in my experience, firing money at a problem has not resolved the problem for the individual. When one considers that to avail of these schemes one must have the disability and then undergo a means test, that is restrictive. I think the...

Seanad: Promissory Note Arrangement: Statements (14 Feb 2013)

Tony Mulcahy: I will raise a number of issues. I am sorry that Senator Cullinane has left. We had plenty of noise in the Chamber last Thursday morning. There was no shortage of it, and it appears to be continuing. The Sinn Féin position is to talk out of both sides of its mouth and to misrepresent the situation. Its Members have a way with words. As Senator Bacik outlined, the ¤3.1 billion was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)

Tony Mulcahy: Some of the points I wish to make may offer solutions in regard to budgetary issues within the HSE. I am certainly not referring to a matter of Government policy. There are areas that Mr. McLoughlin should consider and may well be considering. I am the parent of a child with an intellectual disability. I am not a fan of global or universal payments but am certainly a supporter of funding...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)

Tony Mulcahy: It is very important to put these figures on the record. I do not normally get the opportunity to do so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)

Tony Mulcahy: I want to put this on the public record because it is important. The chief executive officer of Rehab Care earns in excess of €250,000, and the chief executive officer of the Irish Wheelchair Association earns between €140,000 and €150,000. I ask Dr. McLoughlin and his team to examine this year the corporate structures of the service providers. I expect to see no more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)

Tony Mulcahy: Excuse me, but can I just follow up on my point? I named a few groups but there are obviously many more groups getting funding. The full list can be seen on the Department's website and it is ridiculous. It is totally out of line with today's needs.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2013)

Tony Mulcahy: I acknowledge the Glanbia announcement yesterday. I have always been a great promoter of the added-value food production industry. We have the best organic product in the world and we need to support that, and that is how we will deliver indigenous jobs in this country. Would the Leader ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Bruton, to give us an overview as to how a...