Results 1-20 of 113 for speaker:Teresa Costello

Committee on Drugs Use: Kinship Care and Care: Discussion (9 Oct 2025)

Teresa Costello: I am a bit concerned by Ms Dunne's statement that no woman should be put in prison for any crime. That is concerning.

Committee on Drugs Use: Kinship Care and Care: Discussion (9 Oct 2025)

Teresa Costello: No, it is fine. I have been listening. I just wished to question that matter because it jumped out at me. I do not know whether I misheard the witness, but I have concerns for children's well-being in all of this. I agree that supports need to be in place for children. They have to be at the centre of everything.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Care Services (9 Oct 2025)

Teresa Costello: I welcome the Minister of State. I am raising this really important issue today as it is one that I have encountered in my own constituency. However, I must admit that it was not a scenario I had ever considered until I came face to face with people living it and, unfortunately, it is one that affects many families throughout our country. The role of our carers cannot be understated....

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Care Services (9 Oct 2025)

Teresa Costello: I thank the Minister of State for his response. A really important part of meeting the needs is very good communication with the parents. They are going to be handing their child over for care when they are not there. I want people to be able to die in peace - I know it sounds dramatic - and to feel that their child, whom they have cared for all their lives, will be cared for in a loving,...

Seanad: Supports and Services for Patients with Head and Neck Cancers: Motion (8 Oct 2025)

Teresa Costello: I welcome this important motion on supporting services for patients with head and neck cancers and commend Senator Craughwell on bringing it forward and sharing his family's own personal experience. There is nothing more powerful than lived experience. I also thank Senator McDowell for sending out the briefing document, which is very graphic and informative but is something we needed to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Oct 2025)

Teresa Costello: Today I will tell the House about a recently launched campaign called BreastCancerKnowMore. It is a survivor-led national breast cancer awareness campaign from Breast Cancer Ireland. Members may have seen the posters and billboards with very powerful images of six brave survivors.The campaign's message is powerful and direct: "I didn't know the signs. Do you?" It aims to help people...

Committee on Drugs Use: Community Supports: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Teresa Costello: I apologise for logging in late. I was in communication with councillors around the country and some had questions they want me to ask here. Councillor Mike Cubbard from Galway, having attended a recovery-group event, said there is a lack of recovery homes in the Galway area. He asked whether there is a plan to create more recovery homes to stop the revolving door from prison to the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Cancer Services (1 Oct 2025)

Teresa Costello: I thank the Minister of State for being here today. October is breast cancer awareness month so it is very timely that I am raising this issue today, the same day that I will attend my annual mammogram. I will most certainly be repeating myself today as I have spoken previously about the delays in scanning in symptomatic breast clinics. I will continue to repeat myself because the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Cancer Services (1 Oct 2025)

Teresa Costello: I thank the Minister of State for her response. I have concerns. There is a specific issue with the symptomatic breast disease clinics. It is about when a girl, generally of 36 years or under, presents after being referred by her GP with a lump and is sent away without a scan that day. I think something has changed over the years. Years ago when I was diagnosed, I never met anybody who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Teresa Costello: I have just three questions. Mr. Gloster mentioned that the introduction of new controls on the use of third-party insourcing in the HSE may reduce the availability and attractiveness of these services. What impact will these have on patient access to care and waiting list times? I also have a question for the Minister. What will the new and refreshed framework for outsourcing access to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Teresa Costello: If I may interject, I acknowledge the improvement in waiting times at the emergency department in Tallaght University Hospital, which I mentioned last week. Whatever is happening there, the decrease has been phenomenal. I commend the hospital. When something good happens, I have to acknowledge it. I have not met the new chief executive in the hospital but I would like to shake her hand.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Teresa Costello: The Minister speaks about culture. I definitely noticed that within the emergency department. I am speaking from personal experience. I waited horrendous lengths of time earlier in the year but, the last time I was in the emergency department, there was a constant flow of services, fluids, testing and everything else. I felt there had been a change in staff morale. It could just have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Teresa Costello: I fully agree.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Teresa Costello: I am a regular visitor to Tallaght hospital and I am the first to give out. If something is wrong, there are no holds barred. If there is an issue, I will raise it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Teresa Costello: I will just as easily acknowledge when something good happens.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products (24 Sep 2025)

Teresa Costello: To refresh memories, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, DMD, is a progressive neuromuscular disease that causes the weakening of muscles over time. It almost exclusively affects boys, with symptoms typically appearing between the ages of one and three. In Ireland today, around 110 people are known to be living with DMD and most of them are under 18. A child living with DMD struggles to walk, run...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products (24 Sep 2025)

Teresa Costello: I thank the Minister of State for his answer. With regard to the questions that I asked, is the pathway through the North a realistic option? It has been flown, so to speak, as a bespoke pathway. At present, there is a delay somewhere because the NCPE is waiting for a HTA to be submitted while the manufacturer is telling me it has a meeting next week. These are children whose parents sat...

Seanad: Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (24 Sep 2025)

Teresa Costello: I welcome and support the Bill, which represents an important opportunity to modernise our mental health legislation and strengthen the rights of people who access mental health services. It is the most comprehensive overhaul of our mental health laws in more than 20 years. The Bill builds on the foundation of the 2001 Act but goes much further in ensuring our mental health laws reflect a...

Seanad: Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (24 Sep 2025)

Teresa Costello: Yes, I am not finished. I was acknowledging numbers have decreased but it is still far from ideal and runs contrary to international best practice. While the Bill sets out new safeguards, it does not appear to explicitly prohibit admission to adult wards. My worry is when Deputy Butler is not the Minister of State and another person is her post who may not have that focus whether he or she...

Seanad: Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (24 Sep 2025)

Teresa Costello: Next Tuesday.