Results 1-20 of 54 for speaker:Peter Roche

Review of Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004: Statements (1 Jul 2025)

Peter Roche: Like others, I welcome the review of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004. I commend the Department of Education and Youth on undertaking that critical work. Although many positives have been reported, the findings of the review confirm what some families, educators and advocates have long felt. We still need to work harder on delivering inclusive, equitable...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (26 Jun 2025)

Peter Roche: 50. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department currently has an action plan in place to develop a framework for responding to patients presenting with a mental health crisis at accident and emergency departments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34538/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (26 Jun 2025)

Peter Roche: 109. To ask the Minister for Health if she will detail the level of funding allocated to implement all actions under a plan (details supplied); if she is confident that the strategy is fully funded and resourced; and if any challenges have arisen in relation to funding or resourcing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34537/25]

Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Minister of State at the Department of Education and Youth (25 Jun 2025)

Peter Roche: It is generous of the Minister of State and his officials to give their time to come in in the late evening, at suppertime, to field some of the questions we have. I also thank him for the engagement he has had with me on my niece's little one. My niece works in my office and has a little ten-year-old Down's syndrome girl. I have that experience of understanding Olivia's everyday challenge...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Peter Roche: I thank the ministerial team and their officials for attending this meeting. It is most welcome that we are briefed on the Revised Estimate. My question relates to mental health. We have all heard about people presenting with emotional challenges, psychotic attacks or severe bouts of depression being referred by a GP to accident and emergency services. There are some difficult to listen...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

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Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Peter Roche: I thank the Minister of State for the enlightening update. I am taken by the progress made. It is now a case of promoting the services the Minister of State spoke about very eloquently. It is about reaching out to people looking for somewhere to go.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Peter Roche: The Government committed in the men's health action plan 2024-28 to increase health literacy and raise public awareness of boys' and men's physical, mental and emotional health through a range of promotional activities. I welcome that the Minister for Health is in the Chamber. How much funding has been allocated to implement the actions in the plan? Is the Government confident the strategy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Peter Roche: It is a welcome development that the witnesses are here. I thank them for their comprehensive summary. It is quite difficult at times when one hears the stories and the impact this has had on children. As part of the report the witnesses have brought before the committee today, it is reassuring that the very important steps that need to be put in place are being considered. The move to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Peter Roche: In the brief time I have left, I ask the witnesses to respond to my questions on the meetings in 2020 at Cappagh.

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Peter Roche: I thank the Minister for her opening statement. It is a pretty comprehensive account of where we are at. I especially thank her for meeting two deputations that were in the House recently, from Trinity school in Tuam and Dunmore National School, on matters that present to both. They brought different issues the Minister. They really appreciated how they were facilitated when they arrived...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Peter Roche: It is important that we address the issues presented by RTÉ. Despite the failings of RTÉ in the past, it has done a remarkably good job bringing this to light. It was not pleasant viewing, as I understand. I did not see it myself. I saw the images advertising the “RTÉ Investigates” programme. I have had the benefit of visiting quite a number of nursing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Peter Roche: I appreciate that the Minister of State has taken this issue by the scruff of the neck. We are all wiser now and hindsight is wonderful. The "RTÉ Investigates" programme has highlighted something that has now landed on the Minister of State's desk. It has been a most tragic and unfortunate set of events. I will not ask for dates and I do not want to expose anyone in any way, shape or...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Foreign Policy (17 Jun 2025)

Peter Roche: 51. To ask the Taoiseach if he will detail the plans to develop a new foreign policy strategy, Global Ireland 2040; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26854/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Job Creation (29 May 2025)

Peter Roche: In east Galway, we are fortunate to have Dexcom. The company is at an advanced stage with its development in Athenry. It plans to employ many people there, which is really welcome. Most of us understand that some companies are better insulated against the proposed tariffs than others. I am heartened to hear the Minister's plans to safeguard employment and the measures he has taken or is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Job Creation (29 May 2025)

Peter Roche: 13. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which he and his Department intend to help ensure that employment growth continues, given the increased global uncertainty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28024/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Job Creation (29 May 2025)

Peter Roche: I appreciate the Minister coming into the Chamber to deal with the responses to some of the genuine concerns that people have about the finances. I ask the Minister where he and his Department intend to ensure that employment growth continues, given the global uncertainty.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Job Creation (29 May 2025)

Peter Roche: I thank the Minister for a comprehensive response. No matter where you come from, there are, right around the island of Ireland, representatives like me who are concerned about the threat to any job, particularly in the more dispersed rural villages. Everything the Minister for Finance can do would be much appreciated and is much needed. None of us was aware of what the volatile...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (29 May 2025)

Peter Roche: 18. To ask the Minister for Finance if he would report on the progress to support essential sectors including hospitality through the tax system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28025/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Small and Medium Enterprises (29 May 2025)

Peter Roche: 100. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps being taken to help SMEs navigate the procurement landscape; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28023/25]