Results 281-300 of 2,335 for speaker:Tom Neville
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (1 Oct 2019)
Tom Neville: 604. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a disability allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if the case will be processed [39702/19]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition Law and Trade Associations: Discussion (1 Oct 2019)
Tom Neville: I thank the representatives of the CCPC for attending the committee. I have a couple of questions. Have there been any prosecutions in the agriculture sector in the past two or three years? Have there been any prosecutions in the insurance sector in the past five years? The witnesses might not have these details to hand. I was going to ask a question about fitness for purpose, but I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition Law and Trade Associations: Discussion (1 Oct 2019)
Tom Neville: I assume the emails are assigned low, medium or high levels of importance as they come in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition Law and Trade Associations: Discussion (1 Oct 2019)
Tom Neville: Okay. I ask the witnesses to educate me on where they are coming from on the use of data mining by businesses as they are trading. Have they any comments to make on the collection of consumer behaviour analysis, particularly in the case of the insurance industry? Smart technology has become extremely sophisticated over the past three or four years. The algorithms that are used are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition Law and Trade Associations: Discussion (1 Oct 2019)
Tom Neville: My question was on the other side as well. Have prosecutions been taken against organisations or companies?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition Law and Trade Associations: Discussion (1 Oct 2019)
Tom Neville: Does the CCPC have statistics for the number of investigations that have taken place in the agriculture sector on the company side?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition Law and Trade Associations: Discussion (1 Oct 2019)
Tom Neville: We can get them from the agriculture committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition Law and Trade Associations: Discussion (1 Oct 2019)
Tom Neville: Are we behind the eight-ball in that regard?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition Law and Trade Associations: Discussion (1 Oct 2019)
Tom Neville: Okay. I thank the witnesses.
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (26 Sep 2019)
Tom Neville: 187. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied). [39097/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (26 Sep 2019)
Tom Neville: 196. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39221/19]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Mental Health: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Tom Neville: I thank our guests for appearing. My first question is to Mr. Ryan who spoke about A Vision for Change being updated. When will the full document be updated? Has a date been provided? What is the position regarding the implementation of a 24-7 telephone service? The Minister spoke previously about introducing such a service. I am working on the path finder service behind the scenes...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Mental Health: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Tom Neville: My question was general because I know these patrols are happening in other parts of the country. Is there a relationship with these organisations?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Mental Health: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Tom Neville: It is not a formalised relationship.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Mental Health: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Tom Neville: I can back that up. The figure in Limerick has gone from 23 per 100,000 to 15 per 100,000 in the past three or four years. I do not have any evidence of why that is happening but I assume there have been a number of initiatives, including those patrols.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Mental Health: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Tom Neville: Has the recruitment process changed in any way since? We identified the 26 to 29 steps to hire psychiatric nurses, but has any of that process changed? Have any of the recruitment process changed with respect to mental health services?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Mental Health: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Tom Neville: Could the witness provide a breakdown of those improvements in the process? I am not asking for it today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Mental Health: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Tom Neville: No problem.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Mental Health: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Tom Neville: From the HSE perspective, what has been done to overcome the challenge with consultant psychiatrists?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Mental Health: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Tom Neville: Was there a key factor in recruiting those consultant psychiatrists? Is the issue unique to each candidate? We are trying to find a trend.