Results 281-300 of 2,022 for speaker:John Brassil

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)

John Brassil: I will be very brief. I have spoken to hospital managers and I am aware that they are paying way over the top for agency staff and are not allowed recruit staff. I do not understand the thinking there. What am I missing there if the cost to the HSE of taking on agency staff is three times the cost of recruiting staff and why would it not recruit staff? The witnesses might shed some light...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)

John Brassil: Going back to the GP issue, I agree that the independent contract model has worked very well. The problem we have, however, is that there are increasing numbers of areas where GPs are retiring and there is no prospect of getting a replacement. I dealt with a situation in my home town of Ballyheigue a number of years ago where a GP emigrated and we had an extensive battle to get somebody to...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)

John Brassil: The committee has heard already from other medical personnel, the Irish College of General Practitioners, ICGP, and the Irish Hospital Consultants Association, IHCA. The IMO is the only body which represents all doctors. Is there a good healthy relationship between it and the other representative bodies?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)

John Brassil: Whether it is anecdotal or otherwise, I hear that the package available to nurses in the UK, Canada and the USA is far better than is available in Ireland. Do the witnesses have a set of figures on starting salaries for Irish nurses and midwives versus those in the UK so that the committee could have a benchmark? My niece qualified recently and, thankfully, has got a job as a midwife in...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)

John Brassil: I emigrated in the 1980s. I knew the salary I had in Ireland and the salary I was going to in the UK. One can make a fairly-----

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)

John Brassil: The cost of living in Australia and Canada is substantial as well.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)

John Brassil: It is good to have them so that we know what standards we are trying to set.

Calais Migrant Camp: Statements (2 Nov 2016)

John Brassil: There are Irish Aid workers in these camps and they are telling us clearly that Ireland is a location of choice. It is because their second language is English that these children want to resettle in an English speaking country. If a family in Ireland wanted to help now, is there a point of contact where they can make their interest known that they would be willing to foster a family? If...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (2 Nov 2016)

John Brassil: 214. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will review the current method of processing the homemakers scheme, whereby the qualifying years are discounted form the overall average and instead allow for credits for these years, as this option would be more beneficial to the homemaker; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32811/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (2 Nov 2016)

John Brassil: 215. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will review the current criteria and extend the homemaker scheme to include years before 1994, as the current qualifying criteria is too limited and excludes the vast majority of women who left the workforce prior to 1994 to raise their children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32812/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Electricity Generation (3 Nov 2016)

John Brassil: 168. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will intervene to ensure the future of a power plant (details supplied) is protected in view of an announcement by a company and the announcement indicates future closure of the plant in years to come; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33107/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Motor Industry (3 Nov 2016)

John Brassil: 169. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the policy regarding private car rental companies which operate here; if these companies are required to use cars taxed and registered in Ireland, or can they use vehicles taxed and registered in Northern Ireland and England; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33123/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Croke Park Agreement Issues (8 Nov 2016)

John Brassil: 249. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Croke Park agreement was in operation in February 2012; if he will provide the terms and conditions of this agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33287/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (8 Nov 2016)

John Brassil: 326. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine and expedite a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33419/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (8 Nov 2016)

John Brassil: 410. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that necessary funding is made available to a group (details supplied) to expedite orthotics for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33807/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (9 Nov 2016)

John Brassil: 97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the system for means assessing income for the SUSI grant to allow for net income instead of gross income to be assessed, as families are struggling to meet the rising costs of education, especially families where there are multiple children in third level education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33883/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (9 Nov 2016)

John Brassil: 98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider removing the universal social charge from the means test for the SUSI grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33895/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Nov 2016)

John Brassil: 147. To ask the Minister for Health the name of the consultant ophthalmologist that has been assigned to assess a person (details supplied); if he will expedite the person's assessment and operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33885/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Nov 2016)

John Brassil: 148. To ask the Minister for Health the name of the consultant ophthalmologist that has been assigned to a person (details supplied); if he will expedite the assessment and operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33891/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Residential Institutions (9 Nov 2016)

John Brassil: 153. To ask the Minister for Health the persons who should be assigned next of kin to sanction and sign the form with regards to St Mary's of the Angels, Beaufort, County Kerry and the addition of the residents' names to the Kerry County Council local authority housing list (details supplied); the person or body that sanctioned this in view of the fact the families and next of kin of the...