Results 1-20 of 130 for children speaker:Robbie Gallagher

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (8 May 2024)

Robbie Gallagher: ...refuge centre to cater for victims who find themselves in these shocking circumstances. I would like to give a shout out to Siobhan McKenna from Tearmann, the domestic violence service which looked after women and children in Monaghan and Cavan for a long number of years. I would like to say a big thank you to her team for the services they have provided to the women and children of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 May 2024)

Robbie Gallagher: The old adage that prevention is better than cure springs to mind when one considers the gap we have in screening newborn children in this country. Unfortunately, we are very much a negative outlier in Europe on this. We are in the bottom half of the table, which is very disappointing. There had been developments quite recently in this regard in that a newborn screening advisory committee...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad: Road Network (1 May 2024)

Robbie Gallagher: ...located on local and regional roads. Those industries need these roads to be in good condition so they can transport their goods from A to B. People going to work in the mornings, dropping their children to school or whatever have to travel on these roads day and night. The roads as so bad in many locations that not only people's vehicles but also their mental health are being affected....

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disability Services (7 Feb 2024)

Robbie Gallagher: ...her busy schedule to be here this afternoon. The topic I wish to discuss with the Minister of State is one she and I have discussed numerous times, which is the chronic lack of respite services for children with disabilities in County Monaghan. As the Minister of State knows, parents are at their wits' end. They are exhausted and at the end of their tethers looking after and caring for...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Road Network (5 Dec 2023)

Robbie Gallagher: ...and are absolutely crucial to the local economy in Monaghan. Monaghan and Cavan, like many other counties, have large proportions of their populations living in rural areas. Parents taking their children to school in the morning and people travelling to and from work are travelling on the same substandard roads as many of the aforementioned local enterprises. I have no doubt that I will...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (30 Nov 2023)

Robbie Gallagher: ...Ultimately, we need to acquire a 24-hour refuge that offers safe accommodation and support for people suffering domestic, sexual and gender-based abuse. We must deliver a safe haven for those women, and their children if required, where they can recover, where they can be among their own communities and where they will have the proper supports. The quicker we get that refuge built, the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (30 Nov 2023)

Robbie Gallagher: ...refuge centre to protect these poor victims of domestic violence. The quicker that happens, the better. The same is true of the wraparound services we need to go with that for the women and their children. It must be a horrific experience for any woman to go through and unfortunately the numbers are consistently on the rise. I welcome this and look forward to it progressing in the near...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Oct 2023)

Robbie Gallagher: ...the Holy Family School, Cootehill, a very special 50th birthday, which it celebrates today. Celebrations are kicking off around now, at 11 o'clock. The Holy Family School is a special school for children aged between four and 18 years and its origins date back to 1966 in Carrickmacross. It then moved to Cootehill in 1973. The Minister for Education, Deputy Foley, was there last year...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (10 Oct 2023)

Robbie Gallagher: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit, an Teachta Byrne, go dtí an Teach. The World Health Organization estimates that one in 160 children has an autism spectrum disorder, ASD, but some studies have reported a figure as high as one in 59. Whatever the figures, we all know that the number of children being diagnosed with autism is continuing to rise. That is a worrying...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (10 Oct 2023)

Robbie Gallagher: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit. I thank the Minister of State for his comprehensive response. As I outlined, quite a number of parents from Monaghan town are transporting their children to different parts of the county in order to access special needs provision for their children. They ask genuinely asking whether there should be more places available in Monaghan town where...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Flood Risk Management (4 Oct 2023)

Robbie Gallagher: ...to close the play area in the interests of health and safety. During the last flood a number of weeks ago, parents had to drive up on to the footpath and the teachers, who wore wellingtons, had to carry the children into the school. On a previous occasion parents had to lift their children over a 6 ft graveyard wall to get them into school. It is clear that there is a need for an...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Second Stage (4 Oct 2023)

Robbie Gallagher: ...the most vulnerable in our society. I am glad to know there will be new activity for harm prevention that is not related to crime. That activity aims to assist people with mental health conditions, homeless people, children, the elderly and others at risk. That is welcome. The prevention of harm to individuals who are vulnerable or at risk is, as I outlined, a specific objective of the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 May 2023)

Robbie Gallagher: ...is one issue; the challenge of trying to find accommodation is an even bigger one. The latter is something that those of us from rural areas probably are more conscious of because many of our children have no option but to try and find accommodation in the capital city, Galway, Cork or wherever, and I would welcome any help that Government can give in that regard, as it has done in the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Apr 2023)

Robbie Gallagher: ...As the Senator mentioned, the last thing we want to do is to put people in prison, but where that happens, it is important that we have accommodation to do so. Senator Keogan asked for the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to attend the House to debate the legislation on birth registration. It was passed many years ago, but sections of it have yet to be...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services Waiting Lists (30 Mar 2023)

Robbie Gallagher: ...I wish to highlight the problem of accessing public eye care in Ireland but we have a potential solution. I look forward to the ministerial response in due course. Unfortunately, many adults and children must wait too long to receive public eye care in this country. Figures for 2022, compiled by the National Treatment Purchase Fund, show that over 33,000 people were on an outpatient eye...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Mar 2023)

Robbie Gallagher: ...9,108 people awaiting inpatient eye procedures, with nearly 1,000 waiting more than a year. These figures have further increased to 9,463 at the end of last month. The figures show many of our children and adults wait too long for public eye care. These delays negatively affect their long-term eye health, independence, education and quality of life in many cases. There is a solution....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Jan 2023)

Robbie Gallagher: ...out this week. I can only imagine what any parent whose child is suffering from mental illness, whatever form that might take, is going through. It is a very stressful situation. In many ways, many parents and their children have travelled a journey before the parent takes up the courage of trying to seek help and they cannot manage it themselves. When they seek that help and it is not...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Foreign Direct Investment (8 Nov 2022)

Robbie Gallagher: .... I hope that the IDA can find an investor with long-term potential and one that has the potential to grow even further. County Monaghan and the Border regions have for far too long exported their children to the capital city and further afield. It is interesting to note recent statistics, which state that Monaghan has in more recent years had one of the highest levels of young people...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Transport (14 Sep 2022)

Robbie Gallagher: ...about concessionary tickets. I welcome the initiative that the Minister introduced here as a first step along that journey. Unfortunately, the unprecedented take-up on this scheme has resulted in children who have school transport tickets every year not getting tickets. I know one particular family whose child is now doing the leaving certificate and has had a ticket for her six years...