Results 1-20 of 35 for cork speaker:Louise O'Reilly

Report of the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Motion (2 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: ...Government has to get its act together to bring the pace, urgency and ambition to deliver the plan and actions to realise the full potential of renewables, particularly wind. Last week, I visited the Port of Cork, which has an area with offshore planning for wind energy. The latter will expire shortly, and there is no hope that work can begin before it does so. The Government must...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (16 Nov 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: ...list for the area that is not their primary area, which is often where they are living. That is one complication. Another complication is that if someone on a housing list gets a job offer in Cork, say, they have to make a choice between having somewhere to live or having somewhere to work. They cannot move without it. This matter is further complicated by the fact that there is no...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Oct 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: ...to resolve this dispute, workers in the community and voluntary sector are to commence indefinite strike action from 17 October. This will impact users of services such as Cheshire Ireland, Ability West, CoAction West Cork, Cobh Community Hospital, Daughters of Charity Child and Family Service, Depaul Ireland, Enable Ireland, the Irish Wheelchair Association and many more. I ask the...

Investment in Football: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for the opportunity to contribute. I wish to declare an interest. My grandson is a rising star for the Corinthians football club in Cork, as indeed are all of the under-8s whom I had the pleasure of watching play recently. Irish football is at a crossroads and the direction it takes will be influenced by the support it receives from the State. That is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: ...Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 840 of 5 July 2022, if he will give a date for when the evaluation of the obesity policy and action plan undertaken by University College Cork will be published; when his Department will respond to the evaluation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51360/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (5 Jul 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 840. To ask the Minister for Health when the evaluation of the obesity policy and action plan undertaken by University College Cork will be published; when his Department will respond to the evaluation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36138/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (19 May 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: ...her views on whether it is fair that for the purposes of the local improvement scheme that all of Dublin is treated as a city and therefore all local authorities are excluded, along with Cork City Council and Galway City Council, even though vast swathes of north County Dublin within Fingal County Council area are extremely rural areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25427/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Management (10 Nov 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 282. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a report commissioned by his Department to consider measures to address the impacts of growing traffic levels in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford; when the report will make recommendations on the way to manage travel demand in each cities; if a final report recommending measures that should be most effective...

River Shannon Management Agency Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Nov 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: ...year, we see images of flooding and we look on with shock and horror at the damage it has caused to homes, businesses, land and livestock. It is especially acute along the Shannon, as well as in Cork, Galway and along the River Barrow. If one speaks to the victims of flooding, they will speak of their initial shock but following from that are long-lasting and lingering impacts to one's...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (20 Oct 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: ...of the evaluation of A Healthy Weight for Ireland, the Obesity Policy and Action Plan that is being prepared by the Health Research Board Centre for Diet and Health Research, University College Cork; when it will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31705/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (30 Sep 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the witnesses for the work they are doing and continue to do. The Minister said a detailed note would be circulated regarding the hospital in Cork. It would be beneficial if it could be circulated to all committee members, as all Cork Deputies will have an interest in the matter. What is the current occupancy of the Citywest field hospital, and is any consideration being given to...

Public Health, Well-being and National Drugs Strategy: Statements (10 Sep 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: ...little bit like how the Minister of State did not understand that nitrous oxide was a problem outside Dublin. That was, by the way, very insulting to Dublin people but also to people in Limerick, Cork, Galway and everywhere else who are dealing with it because they see clearly that while the Minister of State might have an interest in some aspects of his job, this does not seem to be a...

Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: ...there could be between 300 and 350 excess patient deaths each year due to the trolley crisis and emergency unit overcrowding. We only saw in the past number of weeks the harrowing story of Evelyn Crowley dying on a trolley in Cork University Hospital. In Limerick hospital, which staff describe as an ecosystem of chaos, a 70 year old woman spent 105 hours on a hospital trolley. How has...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (22 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 351. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the bone density department at Cork University Hospital is a private unit; and the reason public patients are being directed towards this private clinic have to pay for care instead of through the public system. [43245/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: The whole committee wishes everyone who participated in it well. Given that we have had some talk of Cork and that there is a match coming up, I will say "Up the Dubs" and call our next contributor, Deputy Kelly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (2 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 458. To ask the Minister for Health if a full staffing complement will be in place when the new radiation oncology unit at Cork University Hospital opens in October 2019. [28036/19]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Waiting Lists (20 Jun 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: ...to do that. I am a parent and I would not want to have to do it and I know that they do not want to have to do it. It was reported in the newspapers that Deirdre O'Keeffe, a mother from County Cork, said that her daughter, Alison, aged 14, was put on the list for surgery in Crumlin Hospital in December and she was deemed urgent. I do not know what that means to the Minister of State but...

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: .... The postcode lottery is not acceptable and there is no reason an expectant mother in Mayo or Laois or anywhere else should expect to get less from the maternity services than an expectant mam in Cork, Dublin or Waterford. We have a strategy. We need funding and a commitment that the strategy will be implemented. Women and babies deserve much more than fine words. To be a bit...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Planning (15 May 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 43. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the future of trauma care here; the position regarding the decision for level 1 trauma centres for Cork and Dublin; and when a decision on the location for Dublin will be made [20836/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (13 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 135. To ask the Minister for Health his views on reports that Cork University Hospital has only one medical registrar at night due to staff shortages and that the hospital cannot procure a replacement. [52571/18]