Results 1-20 of 85 for does speaker:Ciara Conway

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Assistance Dogs in Ireland: Discussion (19 Nov 2015)

Ciara Conway: Does Deputy Seamus Healy wish to contribute, as I know he has to leave shortly to speak in the Dáil?

Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (18 Nov 2015)

Ciara Conway: ...how they felt. I am delighted this no longer will be the case when this legislation passes through the Dáil. I often think about what it is to be in a relationship and about the kinds of things one does, often to the mortification of one's children, such as holding hands while walking down the street. However, for some people it is a political statement to hold the hand of their...

Social Welfare Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2015)

Ciara Conway: ...really cared about the families they talk about, they need to face up to the people and decide to go into government to make life better for the people they feel they have a monopoly interest in. Who does Deputy Ferris think he is? I live in a family in a community in a village in a county where unemployment was at the highest rate of any region in the country when we came into...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (2 Jul 2015)

Ciara Conway: ...or organisations to try to get support because as members are aware, they are uncomfortable, afraid, embarrassed or ashamed to make an official report in this regard. What services or plan does the Minister have to meet the needs of people who are survivors of sexual abuse but who fall outside that or who do not make contact with Tusla, when it is known that only approximately 20% of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Affordable High-Quality Child Care: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2015)

Ciara Conway: .... Has the group looked at it in any way? The issue of special needs assistants has arisen from time to time. The minimum qualification for a special needs assistant is the junior certificate. It does not presuppose any developmental knowledge in terms of what is appropriate for a child or what developmental goals a child should be meeting in a preschool setting. That would concern me....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Affordable High-Quality Child Care: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015)

Ciara Conway: We have heard about various approaches to providing for special needs. Does Ms Lacey-Crowe advocate a particular model? Is it a question of providing special needs assistants or additional training for mainstream service providers? What is the model of best practice?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Affordable High-Quality Child Care: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015)

Ciara Conway: ...interested. I look forward to working and engaging with our guests further. I found this morning's session very engaging. Throughout all these hearings we have often had all-female panels, which does not happen very often in the Houses of the Oireachtas. I thank all our guests for giving of their time today. I also thank all committee members. A number of very interesting issues...

Topical Issue Debate: Arts Funding (26 May 2015)

Ciara Conway: .... To put it in context, the Clonmel Junction Festival receives €90,000 in funding; the Kilkenny Arts Festival receives €400,000 in funding; while the Wexford International Opera Festival receives a whopping €1.5 million. What does Waterford receive? We did receive €11,000 but now it is gone, which is not good enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Health Issues: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (14 May 2015)

Ciara Conway: ...and issues of proximity to other PPCI centres. I am very disappointed in the reply to my question on academic appointments for University Hospital Waterford. The response states that the Higgins report does not indicate the introduction of these posts at the hospital. However, I have a press release from the HSE's website dated 16 May 2014 in which the former Minister, Deputy James...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Protection Services in the Midlands: Tusla (7 May 2015)

Ciara Conway: ...will be a network check and a case may be closed off. We are not even sure how many, but the number of referrals seems to be in excess of 800, particularly from An Garda Síochána which generally does not make referrals lightly. When gardaí make referrals, it is often because of the absence of a social worker after 5 p.m. if it is an emergency. That is not always the case,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Child Protection Services in the Midlands: Tusla (7 May 2015)

Ciara Conway: My question relates to the practice. As I stated, 800 files or 1,200 files do not fall out of the sky. Who was the manager? In terms of the structure, whom does the principal social worker report to? I am not out to hang anyone out to dry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Mar 2015)

Ciara Conway: It does not damage one's health or kill people.

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhionannas Pósta) 2015: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Mar 2015)

Ciara Conway: ...of being a married person. Some of the people who speak out about this referendum talk about the issues of family and children. I ask the people who speak out against it that if a married couple does not have children, are they any less married than somebody who has children? We know they are not. It also causes great offence, as others have mentioned, to men and women around the...

Children and Family Relationships Bill: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Feb 2015)

Ciara Conway: ...the new partner wishes to adopt that child under current law both people must adopt the child, which is nonsense. I told my daughter that I would be speaking in the House about this issue today. She does not want me to have to adopt her. I respect her opinion on that. I eagerly await the adoption legislation which will further formalise the recognition of our family in this State. ...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (5 Feb 2015)

Ciara Conway: ...in the middle of the night. These very old and sick people then have to go through emergency departments like everybody else. We need to have different pathways for such people because it does not do them any good and it does no good for the staff in emergency departments. I ask the Minister to outline his plans in that regard. On the State Claims Agency, I have come across cases in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Developing a National Strategy for Coeliac Disease: Discussion (15 Jan 2015)

Ciara Conway: Does Professor Kennedy have a particular answer to the eosinophilic esophagitis, EE, question by Deputy Ó Caoláin?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Accident and Emergency Departments: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (15 Jan 2015)

Ciara Conway: ...we accept that there are people on trolleys trying to access beds, at least the very basics should be provided for them. I would like to know what resources are being made available to ensure it does not happen again. I welcome the Minister's comment that long after this drops off the front pages of newspapers he will remain committed to dealing with it. He will find that health is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Review of National Ambulance Service: Health Service Executive (16 Dec 2014)

Ciara Conway: ...? What Ms McGuinness is stating now is different to what the representatives from HIQA indicated last week. Deputy McLellan asked the same question. How many people were interviewed? Something does not add up in respect of this matter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Best Practice Access Guidelines: Irish Wheelchair Association (4 Dec 2014)

Ciara Conway: ...findings was that the ATM bank machine was too high. I see in some places, they have been adapted, but in the villages and towns with which I am familiar the machines are of a standard height. Does the IWA get a buy-in from the banks and businesses? I think Deputy Byrne's suggestion of a tax incentive for businesses to improve accessibility is a worthy recommendation. For my part and...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2014)

Ciara Conway: Does Deputy Kelleher wish to press the amendment?