Results 1-20 of 805 for speaker:James Geoghegan

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: I do not want to get into it but, to put it mildly, the CEO took great umbrage at the comments the Cathaoirleach made. He has given the context. When the CEO comes back before the committee and she and the Cathaoirleach are both in the room, it will be a matter for the Cathaoirleach but ultimately, she has given a factual outline in relation to that. Before positive assertions are made like...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: I apologise for interrupting the Chair. On the agenda we are looking at, that letter is significantly down the list below many other letters. I do not know what document he is working off.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: Many of us are working off the members' brief. There is category, items of B correspondence. The Chair read the first one, which was from CHI. The second one seems to be from the Department of Children, Disability and Equality. I believe that is what the Chair is looking at as well.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: We are just confused. We want to all be working off the same list. I do not know what document the Chair is looking at. Is there a different document that the Chair has?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: The next one flagged is one from Deputy McAuliffe according to my brief.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: There is one from Deputy McAuliffe that is flagged ahead of the one that Chair has just read out.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: There are actually two. I have one that I definitely asked to be flagged that is not listed.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: I echo what Deputy Kenny said. What the “RTÉ Investigates" programme identified was traumatising. That is the only way to describe it. People who had worked all their lives were subjected to trauma. Sometimes it was the older people and in other cases it was their children or their partners who looked after their future life planning, and who put them into a nursing home that...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: It was stated in The Sunday Times that the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General was assessing the minutes of Children’s Health Ireland, CHI, meetings in the context of the as-yet-unpublished report on the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF. I want to get clarity from the Comptroller and Auditor General in respect of that matter/ Does he have any new information that has...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: We made a decision to invite the current CEO, the former CEO and the former chair of CHI. Has that happened? Have we had confirmation from CHI that the former CEO and former chair will attend on that date, as well as confirmation from the NTPF that its representatives will attend?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: I have a quick question for the Comptroller and Auditor General. Now he has seen the CHI report on the NTPF, if he had received that report at the time he was compiling the accounts, would he have approved the accounts at that time or would he have withheld approval arising from what was contained in the report?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Artificial Intelligence (12 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: 116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the development of any policies, guidelines and supports for second level educators in relation to the effective and responsible integration of AI into teaching and assessment practices; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31304/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (12 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: 162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline any plans her Department has to deliver a new secondary school in Dublin 2,4 or 6; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31305/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (11 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: The access and inclusion model, AIM, has proven to be a successful model of supporting children of every need to be present in a mainstream setting, which is its primary aim. How it works is straightforward. Where either a parent or somebody working in a preschool setting has identified a child with a need, and following consultation with that parent, an application can be made to the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (11 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: I thank the Minister of State, in particular for the remarks he made off script, which are welcome. I acknowledge that a commitment to examine and expand the AIM programme to make it available to younger children is contained in the programme for Government. I have concerns, however, with some of the language the Department used in the reply that was prepared for the Minister of State,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (11 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: 190. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of medical assessors employed by his Department; if he can identify the average number of professional-opinion referrals received; the average time it takes a medical assessor to carry out a professional opinion; the average number of professional opinions completed in a day; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (11 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: 191. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of medical assessors employed by his Department; the number of professional opinion referrals on average that are received; the average time it takes a medical assessor to carry out a professional opinion; the average number of professional opinions completed in a day; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Staff (11 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: 268. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of individual psychologists, that are directly employed by the HSE, who conduct assessment of need processes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30954/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (11 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: 269. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will identify by name each section 38 organisation who conduct assessment of need processes for the HSE; if she will identify referable to that section 38 organisation the total individual number of psychologists employed or contracted by that section 38 organisation who conduct assessment of need...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (11 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: 270. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will identify by name each section 39 organisation that carries out an assessment of need process for the HSE; if she will identify referable to that section 39 organisation the total individual number of psychologists employed or contracted by that section 39 organisation who conduct assessment of need...