Results 1-15 of 15 for cork speaker:Annie Hoey

Seanad: Electoral Reform (Amendment) and Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (10 May 2023)

Annie Hoey: .... We did voter motor, where we drove people up and down the country. People were getting lifts from Donegal across to Dublin and then they were going from Dublin to Waterford and Waterford to Cork. We were linking people up all over the place. It would probably have been a little bit easier had public transport been available. We have seen those kind of get-the-vote-out campaigns in...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local Community Arts: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...We talk about creative spaces. I am thinking of the Richmond Road Studios and my colleague, Senator Sherlock, is doing a lot of work with the people there trying to find a space for it. Sample-Studios in Cork was in an old building but the building was razed to the ground and there is nothing on the site yet. I always feel that art spaces are put into unused spaces until a better value...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Developing Rural Tourism: Discussion (3 May 2023)

Annie Hoey: I remember driving from Cork to Donegal once and the suspension was gone on my car. I felt like I had gone to Mars and back. By the time I landed, I felt like I had been blown backwards. I did not know what had hit me. I have a couple of follow-on questions. Mr. Connick talked about perception and stuff like that. Have our guests any comments on the perception of what it is like to...

Seanad: Welfare and Safety of Workers in the Public Health Service: Motion (22 Feb 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...even leave the emergency departments without having been seen because they simply cannot deal with the situation that they are in. This morning, HIQA published a report on three hospitals in Cork, Kerry and Tallaght. It highlighted colossal overcrowding, significant staffing issues and huge risks to patient safety. My Labour Party colleague, Deputy Duncan Smith, stated: The danger that...

Seanad: Moving Towards Zero Tolerance of Violence against Women: Statements (9 Feb 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...in a group of people, and it is an everyday occurrence for many women to fear their partner walking in the door or being abused online. It has been 39 days since Bruna Fonseca was found dead in Cork city, it has been 53 days since Natalie McNally was killed in County Armagh and it has been one year and 28 days since Ashling Murphy was killed in County Offaly. Women's Aid has noted 256...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Annie Hoey: ...nurses, mental health services, physiotherapy and whatever else. I have previously made reference in this committee to the multiple options in the one setting when I was down in University College Cork, UCC. Reference was also made to the fact that we cannot even get GPs in some towns and that services can rely heavily on locum staff. Caherciveen and Lisdoonvarna are examples. How do...

Seanad: Public Order and Safe Streets: Statements (23 Nov 2022)

Annie Hoey: ...roots in my local community in Dublin 11. My partner, my family and I know what it is like to be welcomed into Dublin. While my accent perhaps has not yet changed - it is hard to undo a Drogheda-Cork accent that has developed over 30-odd years - I am very happy to be part of that thriving, exciting community in Dublin 11. We have been very welcomed there. Those of us who have been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Annie Hoey: ...is that if one is caught for doing something in one place, the warning or whatever it is carries across the country. A person cannot say, for example, that he or she was caught for something in Cork but there is a fresh slate if he or she does the same thing in Dublin.

Seanad: International Women's Day 2022: Statements (9 Mar 2022)

Annie Hoey: ...to do with Mr. Charlie Bird. She is not well at the hands of the State. Some 80% of Traveller women are rearing children without running water or toilet facilities. There was a women dead for four days, potentially, in a direct provision centre in Cork. The new national maternity hospital will built on Catholic-owned land. Women in Ukraine are fleeing from war imposed by a cracked...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jan 2022)

Annie Hoey: I raise the very pressing and worrying issue of Russia's plans to conduct a military exercise in waters off the Irish coast next month. The area is about 130 nautical miles off the coast of Cork and is firmly within Ireland's exclusive economic zone. We can all agree that there is grave concern in both military and political circles in Ireland. I will certainly not pretend to be a military...

Seanad: Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Act 2020: Motion (3 Nov 2021)

Annie Hoey: ...I know as drained of every last ounce of anything they have. The trolley watch figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation are particularly high. There were 35 people on trolleys in Cork University Hospital only a couple of days ago. I worry about what is going to come down the line with regard to hospital trolley numbers. Healthcare workers in particular are feeling the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Nov 2020)

Annie Hoey: ...seen the hashtag #IrelandTurnsPurplewhich was floating around social media with many photographs of locations around Ireland lit up with purple lights. It was quite stunning to see images from Cork to Dublin to Galway and everywhere. The reason was that Sunday was International Intersex Solidarity Day. To commemorate the day the Intersex Mapping Study in DCU launched the Ireland Turns...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Business of Joint Committee (14 Oct 2020)

Annie Hoey: .... That brings me to cross-pollination for the arts sector. I would have started the morning in Blackpool teaching children art and theatre, in the afternoon I was doing costumes for a show in the Cork Arts Theatre and in the evening I was in the Granary Theatre doing lighting. That cross-pollination for people in their early careers in the arts is very important for development and...