Results 161-180 of 745 for speaker:Annie Hoey

Seanad: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Statements (29 Mar 2023)

Annie Hoey: He would have known everything that maybe even the Minister himself would not have known, that could have happened in the background. He did a lot of work and, as a fisherman, often talked about Inland Fisheries Ireland and the various spats between anglers and other hijinks that fisherpeople would have got up to. It is fair to say that IFI has been hit by a string of controversies. When...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (28 Mar 2023)

Annie Hoey: It is obvious that the Labour Party welcomes this Bill, which will remove the public inpatient charge of €80 per day up to a maximum of €800 per year. We know that this change is significant and it is important people do not feel like they will be unable to pay their bill when they go to hospital. The notion of people avoiding going to hospital because of inpatient charges is...

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

Annie Hoey: The death penalty for aggravated homosexuality is set to be introduced in Uganda. The country passed a Bill through its Parliament which would make it a crime to identify as LGBT, with severe penalties including life in prison for having, as it said, "gay sex". In my understanding, this is one of the harshest laws in the world targeting the LGBT community, in a country where LGBT people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

Annie Hoey: I thank Mr. Gloster for coming in and wish him the best of luck his new role. His success will be a success for patients and the staff under his remit. Today is Daffodil Day and there are things available upstairs for anyone who wants to grab a little treat at some point. The topic of screening for lung cancer and other diseases has come up before. We only have two or three screening...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

Annie Hoey: It is something I am particularly interested in because I think around 25% of lung cancers are caught due to completely unrelated issues. People go in to have a routine operation on their toe or something and the medical staff happen to catch lung cancer at stage 3 or stage 4 at which point the prognosis is very poor. There is real potential with the lung cancer screening given what is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

Annie Hoey: Hopefully people will then see that there is a proactive approach and the space for them to do that and that will be an important thing to come out of this. I am a member of the Joint Sub-committee on Mental Health so I might jump to that and have two more questions if that is okay. The sub-committee undertook pre-legislative scrutiny, PLS, of the quite long-awaited Bill to reform the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

Annie Hoey: One of the areas that might be useful to consider is the discussion around widening the criteria for recruiting authorised officers. I think they are the only group of professionals who are legally entitled to undertake involuntary admissions so it would be removing this obligation from the Garda. There has been very slow progress on recruitment in that area so just to flag that could be a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

Annie Hoey: I have a final question. A huge piece of work was done around the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015. There was the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Act 2022. There is a cultural shift around consent and a person's will and preference, and how that will be prioritised within the HSE. I think that will be a big cultural shift. Has Mr. Gloster thought about how he...

Joint Committee On Health: Dual Diagnosis and Mental Health: Discussion (21 Mar 2023)

Annie Hoey: I thank the other committee members for allowing me to come in a little earlier today. I appreciate them facilitating that. I particularly thank Ms Murphy for sharing her story. I also thank the other witnesses for sharing their stories, and for the work they are doing and the lives they are helping change within their respective organisations. If we take a step back we can think about...

Joint Committee On Health: Dual Diagnosis and Mental Health: Discussion (21 Mar 2023)

Annie Hoey: I thank everyone. It was all really helpful. The situation became clear to me as the witnesses were speaking. I refer to making the dual-diagnosis system work through harm reduction, and whether this approach is backed up by what the legal system may look like at some point. I also refer to the imperative of political leaders and Government ensuring societal structures are in place as...

Seanad: International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Annie Hoey: It is great to be able stand here as a feminist on International Women's Day and while I do not know if I will be able to top my #girlboss talk last year, it will live fondly on in my memories. International Women's Day has almost become International Women's Day week and could become a month at some point. This is my fourth event of the day and by the end of the day, I will have clocked up...

Seanad: International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Annie Hoey: Some lunch would be nice as well. I just jogged across the campus, shovelling a falafel into my mouth, in shoes that are too tight, which seems very International Women's Day to me. Joking aside, it is an important day. I was at an event earlier organised by the Irish Second-level Students Union, ISSU. We had a great discussion on the highs and lows of the women's movement, the...

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

Annie Hoey: I thank the Acting Chairman, and welcome the Minister for Health to the House. As my Labour Party colleague, Deputy Alan Kelly, noted when speaking about this legislation in the Dáil, this Bill is Vicky Phelan's legacy, and the legacy of all the women who lost their lives due to this scandal. I want to join others in recognising the work that has been done on this matter by Deputy...

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (1 Mar 2023)

Annie Hoey: The reason I came in to join with my colleague on this issue is that I took some time today to speak to some people who are survivors of domestic violence. Obviously, we tabled our amendment because we felt it was meaningful and worthwhile. I am speaking to amendment No. 4, which, as my colleague said, for all intents and purposes, is the same amendment as amendment No. 5. As people gave...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Industrial Relations (28 Feb 2023)

Annie Hoey: I thank the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Deputy Harris, for coming to the House. While it is great to have him here, we were interested in talking to the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform because we have been to believe that the delay lies with his Department as opposed to that of the Minister,...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Industrial Relations (28 Feb 2023)

Annie Hoey: It is very positive the Minister is planning to establish FET adult education tutor graduates. As he said, we ultimately do not have an answer regarding the timeline for when this will be done. We specified the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform because we believe that is where the finances in respect of this issue lie. It would be great if it...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Annie Hoey: I will take a moment to reflect on what I will call a conversation, but I am not sure that is what it was. The conversation took place on a show on TV last night around the trans community. It is a replica of a conversation we keep seeing again and again. When these conversations are happening, it is very important we remember Ireland has been ranked as one of the worst at having trans...