Results 1-20 of 47 for destroyed speaker:Stephen Donnelly

Written Answers — Department of Health: Food Safety (9 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...Posts as part of official controls. One consignment was found to breach the legal MRL established pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 and was subsequently refused entry to the country and destroyed. I am further advised that the Pesticide Controls Division of DAFM plans to include samples of oranges and juice from such machines in 2024.

Written Answers — Department of Health: EU Regulations (1 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...and provides for penalties for contravening the Regulations. In addition to the specific powers available in S.I. No. 425 of 2019, authorised officers have powers to seize, remove, detain, and destroy products which are suspected by him or her of failing to comply with the Regulations. The requirements for promotional and commercial practices for infant formula are set out in...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...While we must provide healthcare services for those with eating disorders, we also need to take more action regarding smartphones and social media. I have met parents whose children’s lives have been destroyed by eating disorders in the most serious of ways. When I asked them what kicked it off, they held up their phones and said, “This is what got them.” At a BT...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ..., to delete lines 35 and 36 and substitute the following: “ “disposed of”, in relation to a gamete, embryo or tissue (howsoever described in this Act), means the gamete, embryo or tissue is destroyed (by whatever means);”.

Seanad: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Nov 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...if an application for a licence, or for renewal of a licence, is refused. Section 17 provides that a licence holder can apply for a copy of a licence if the original has been lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed. Section 18 provides that the Minister may prescribe fees in respect of the licensing system. Section 19 provides that a licence may be revoked if the licensee has committed two or...

Investment in Healthcare: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...our eyes off the Russian murderers who have deliberately targeted healthcare workers, patients and health facilities in Ukraine. According to the Ukrainian health minister, Russian forces have destroyed around 180 hospitals and damaged more than 1,200 hospitals. They have shot up more than 350 ambulances. These deliberate attacks are utterly repugnant. They violate international law...

Seanad: Covid-19 and the New Measures (Health): Statements (1 Dec 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I am more than happy to do that. I am aware of the case. It is being looked at. It is absolutely soul-destroying for the patient, the patient's family and the family of the donor for that to happen. The anguish such a situation can cause is indescribable. It should never happen. We are making a lot of positive policy changes in respect of organ donation. Legislation is coming through...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Food Industry (14 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: ...the Act is cannabis for the purposes of the Act. As such, only the seed, mature stalk or fibre of the hemp plant may legally be supplied onwards. As a consequence, other parts of the plant must be destroyed. Consideration as to whether a product contains a substance controlled under the Misuse of Drugs framework falls under the remit of officers authorised under the Misuse of Drugs...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (5 May 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: ...produced from it and the seeds after separation from the rest of the plant. Any other part of the plant not explicitly excluded under the Act is cannabis for the purposes of the Act and should be destroyed by the licensee. Under current legislation the Minister for Health can issue a licence for the growing of hemp from seed varieties specified by the Commission of the European...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Misuse of Drugs (12 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: ...produced from it and the seeds after separation from the rest of the plant. Any other part of the plant not explicitly excluded under the Act is cannabis for the purposes of the Act and should be destroyed by the licensee. Under current legislation the Minister for Health can issue a licence for the growing of hemp from seed varieties specified by the Commission of the European...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: ...is a question of timing. In a previous life, I was involved in some large reorganisations. The international evidence shows that complex reorganisations fail most of the time and the majority of them destroy value, for a bunch of reasons. They are really complicated and tend to be done in peacetime. Something I observed in that previous life is that when someone says a large...

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Second Stage (12 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: ...in child protection who was asked to do something in a case. The expert had clearly said this should not be done and the social worker raised a flag and said he was not comfortable doing it. The HSE set out to destroy this guy. It brought him to the High Court and the legal costs in the case reached the point where he was going to lose his house. He ended up having to leave the service...

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Why is a lower court not considered suitable? Was this looked at? We have probably all dealt with cases where healthcare professionals have had their lives destroyed by the HSE. I have dealt with more than one case where it was done intentionally, vindictively and wrongly. I have seen good people who had done nothing wrong, some of whom were what we would now class as whistleblowers,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: ...a smaller number of bigger organisations? I would also like to ask about the pension funding issue in that context. Deputy O'Reilly has spoken about the deficit. The funding of pensions can destroy the wealthiest of organisations. Am I right in thinking the State is now saying it may fund some of the voluntary organisations' capital, wage and associated costs but that they will have to...

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care)(Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (10 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: ...never have been practising in this country. In other cases, the doctors involved had a plethora of complaints against them going back over years. This tiny number of people were going about their business destroying people's lives. I am sure the Minister of State meets them and I meet them. It is so frustrating. These people found out afterwards that there had been complaints against...

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (15 Jan 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: ...plan that the board of the HSE should be put back in place. The Bill before the House has not resulted from a Government initiative. The Government did not wake up and realise that it should not have marched the board of the HSE out and destroyed governance in our healthcare system. It did not come up with the idea of bringing the board back. It was made clear in a report drawn up by...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: ...is another barrier. That cost should be removed. Although Dr. Noel Browne brought in a groundbreaking policy called the mother and child scheme, and he was pursued after his political career and destroyed by the Catholic Church for doing so, all of maternity care is not free. For example, there are some drugs for nausea and there are costs that can be incurred by pregnant women that we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: ...a half years for whom there are suspicions of autism will not be offered treatment until he or she reaches six years in some parts of the country. We are all aware that on a human level this is destroying people's lives. In orthopaedics I ended up dealing with people in Cappagh Hospital because the waiting lists had become so long. One of the clinicians told me that there was a...

Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)

Stephen Donnelly: ...I acknowledge the offer, which I think is genuine, and I hope the Minister will be persuaded not by the legal argument but by the political argument - the human argument. People's lives have been destroyed. People have left the country over this. There are people living in fear of getting a call from the Revenue Commissioners saying they have been renting for five years and have not...