Results 161-180 of 1,261 for speaker:Robbie Gallagher

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Apr 2023)

Robbie Gallagher: I want to raise the issue of career guidance in our post-primary schools. I am sure we all agree on the need for guidance for our students and young people, particularly post Covid and considering the pressures young people are under at this time of year leading up to exams. I would like to welcome the young people to the Public Gallery this afternoon. As the Acting Leader will know given...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services Waiting Lists (30 Mar 2023)

Robbie Gallagher: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke. My colleague and I wish to highlight the problem of accessing public eye care in Ireland but we have a potential solution. I look forward to the ministerial response in due course. Unfortunately, many adults and children must wait too long to receive public eye care in this country. Figures for 2022, compiled by the National Treatment...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services Waiting Lists (30 Mar 2023)

Robbie Gallagher: I thank the Minister of State for his response. Members regularly come into the Chamber to highlight problems. We have done that this morning but we are also highlighting a potential solution and I would ask that Government grasp that. I take some encouragement from the response that the Minister of State has given us in that work is taking place. I implore him to expedite that work so...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2023)

Robbie Gallagher: Like my colleague Senator Burke, I support Senator O'Sullivan's proposal to have a discussion on NGOs. It would be a very worthwhile and very interesting discussion and I would certainly welcome it. This morning I will discuss penalty points. Penalty points are designed to encourage safe driving and to reduce casualties on our roads. If a person drives over the speed limit, he or she gets...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Report Stage (28 Mar 2023)

Robbie Gallagher: Not agreed.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Water Services (23 Mar 2023)

Robbie Gallagher: The Minister of State is welcome back to the House this morning to discuss this Commencement matter regarding the taking in charge of housing estates and the input required from Irish Water in that regard. Irish Water states that it is co-operating with the planning authorities nationally to access the taking in charge of residential estates and the transfer of water services assets located...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Water Services (23 Mar 2023)

Robbie Gallagher: I am a bit disappointed that there was no acknowledgement of the fact that we have a problem, which we clearly do, not just in County Monaghan but throughout the country. I would be grateful if we could look at some measure to try to something about the backlog not just in Monaghan but elsewhere as well. People's lives are on hold as a result of the delay. In regard to developer-provided...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Mar 2023)

Robbie Gallagher: I request that the Deputy Leader ask the Minister, Deputy Ryan, to come into the House at the earliest opportunity to discuss the report published yesterday by the so-called independent commission on the North-South interconnector. As Members will be aware, this is a high-powered electricity connection which will link the networks in the North and the South. We have been talking about this...

Seanad: Location of Victims' Remains: Motion (22 Mar 2023)

Robbie Gallagher: I welcome the Minister of State to discuss this very important issue. Death is an unwelcome and uninvited guest that calls to all homes from time to time, bringing with it a sense of loss and heartache. When that death comes in a sudden manner it adds a different layer to the grief. When that death comes violently it adds another layer on top of that again for the families concerned. Then...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Local Authorities (8 Mar 2023)

Robbie Gallagher: The Minister of State is welcome back to the House. I would like to raise the ongoing delays with taking-in-charge applications that residents of housing estates and local authorities are encountering. The taking in charge of residential estates is the statutory responsibility of the planning authority under section 180 of the Planning and Development Act 2000. However, Uisce Éireann,...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Local Authorities (8 Mar 2023)

Robbie Gallagher: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I appreciate he is just taking this matter on behalf of someone else but, unfortunately, the response does not even mention the question in hand. We are wasting everybody's time in many regards with this very disappointing response. It leaves me in a situation whereby I do not know where to go from here. Will the Minister of State follow up...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Local Authorities (8 Mar 2023)

Robbie Gallagher: I thank the Minister of State.

Seanad: Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (8 Mar 2023)

Robbie Gallagher: I also welcome the Minister of State to the House. I just listened to Senator Clonan and I commend him on tabling the amendment. I look forward to the Minister of State’s response. From where I am sitting he seems to have identified a serious gap that needs attention.

Seanad: Patient Safety (Notifiable Incidents and Open Disclosure) Bill 2019: Second Stage (7 Mar 2023)

Robbie Gallagher: I welcome the Minister to the House and at the outset, I would like to give credit to him for this legislation and I am delighted to speak on behalf of the Fianna Fáil group, along with my colleague Senator Clifford-Lee. Fianna Fáil believes in the delivery of fundamental public health services to the highest standard through investment, innovation and reform. It is critical that...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Ambulance Service (1 Mar 2023)

Robbie Gallagher: The Minister of State is very welcome to the Chamber. Unfortunately, I am again raising the issue of ambulance delays which, sadly, has become a perennial issue. Ambulance and emergency responses are critical to the survival of many patients. Therefore, initiatives to solve the problem, or at the very least alleviate it, are crucial. In recent years communities have fundraised to purchase...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Ambulance Service (1 Mar 2023)

Robbie Gallagher: I thank the Minister of State for his response.I welcome the fact that new positions are being created which is vitally important. It is also vitally important that citizens in communities the length and breadth of the country have confidence in our health service, particularly our ambulance service, so that in the event of an accident happening, or somebody being taken unwell, that, based...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Mar 2023)

Robbie Gallagher: There are 42,300 people on a public waiting list for eye care in this country. The National Treatment Purchase Fund figures released in December last year showed 33,268 were on the outpatient eye care waiting list, with more than 12,100 of those waiting longer than a year. There were 9,108 people awaiting inpatient eye procedures, with nearly 1,000 waiting more than a year. These figures...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Pharmacy Services (23 Feb 2023)

Robbie Gallagher: I welcome the Minister of State to the House to discuss the role community pharmacies could have as key players in providing healthcare to our communities. We are all aware of the pressures experienced by many GPs across the country. GPs are oversubscribed, we do not have enough GPs and people cannot get added to a GP list. We are well aware of this issue in many parts of the country,...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Pharmacy Services (23 Feb 2023)

Robbie Gallagher: I thank the Minister of State for her comprehensive response. I am very heartened by it. It would appear that the Department of Health's door is certainly open for discussion as to how best we can utilise our community of pharmacists, with a view to alleviating pressure on our GPs and accident and emergency departments. I am heartened by that. We can take a lead from best international...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Feb 2023)

Robbie Gallagher: I wish to raise the plight of some 44,500 HSE workers, including hospital porters, doctors, physiotherapists, caterers and others who are still waiting on increases in their pensions.Thousands of retired nurses, social workers and many others are missing out on pension increases due to a problem with the HSE updating its computer system. Under the Building Momentum pay deal, these retirees...