Results 1-20 of 394 for speaker:Joanna Byrne

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: I thank the witnesses for joining us. It is fair to say that HIQA has appeared before Oireachtas committees several times in recent years and it is unfortunate that the same issues keep arising. With that in mind, I will tease out some of its frameworks for measuring performance, if that is okay. Do the witnesses have a figure for how many compliance notices HIQA has issued in recent...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: I am trying to get at how HIQA measures the action the provider has taken. How does it set the bar and measure that the provider is meeting the bar?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: My colleague, Deputy Bennett, asked a question about closures earlier and HIQA outlined some figures. There were two closures in 2020, three in 2021, one in 2022 and three in 2023. Ten notices were issued in 2024 but there were seven closures and there has been one closure in 2025 to date. That is 17 closures in five years. Is that right? Are any of those homes run by the same operator?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: Within that common thread, is there additional monitoring by HIQA to look specifically at those that fall under that common-thread umbrella—--

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: -----and any other centres they may operate that have not gone as far as closure.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: It is very positive that HIQA has identified and is aware of that. I am really pleased to hear it is working on that. In relation to the Emeis managed properties, there was conflicting information. It was said on two occasions that 25 of these are in operation. One person stated that 16 have been inspected since the RTÉ programme and Ms Cliffe mentioned 22.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: Only one property has had to be inspected a second time.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: How many times does something have to be inspected before it is red-flagged or elevated to the next level of concern?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: As regards the inspectors inspecting the properties, it was mentioned earlier that each inspector has a caseload. Is the caseload rotated?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: The same inspectors do not inspect the same properties.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: I draw attention to HIQA’s vision, strategic mission and values. It states HIQA will work to promote human rights, as well as identifying, challenging and reporting on breaches of rights in health and social care services. Given the recent revelations in the RTÉ programme, does HIQA stand over that vision? That is a very hard question to put to our witnesses but it is something...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: I appreciate that. Does Ms Fitzgerald feel that HIQA has lost the trust of the public, particularly since the airing of the documentary?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: I am out of time. I thank the witnesses.

Pride: Statements (16 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: We welcome the progress secured by the LGBTQI+ community in recent years. The rights obtained were hard fought for over many decades by activists who refused to be deterred in their fight to be recognised as equal before the law. Despite the clear progress we have seen, in many areas the struggle for full LGBTQI+ equality is far from over. Many areas of inequality remain and more work is...

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: In May, I hosted a public endometriosis meeting in Drogheda. Since then, my office has been inundated with women contacting me by phone, email and in person. Gemma, a 32-year-old nurse from Louth, is one of these women. She asked me to share her story. Gemma says: My symptoms of endometriosis were prevalent from the first period I had. The bleeds were heavy, excruciatingly painful,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: Hear hear.

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: I thank the Minister and the Minister and Minister of State for joining us again. I know it has not been too long since they were here previously, so I do not have much. I have a couple of questions I would like to tease out. I will start with the Minister of State and the post office network. He will be aware that its representatives appeared before the committee some weeks ago, and they...

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: I appreciate it is early in the budget process, but this is to the fore with us as well so it would be prudent of us to raise it. If I may move on to the Minister and the national broadband plan, there is talk of an additional €80 million required. Can the Minister offer any clarity around that figure or what kind of funding is envisaged that can go into the national broadband...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (15 Jul 2025)

Joanna Byrne: 638. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer’s allowance appeal decision in respect of a person from County Louth (details supplied), noting that the appeal was received by the appeals office on 31 July 2024. [39007/25]