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Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (28 Mar 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...welcomes this Bill, which will remove the public inpatient charge of €80 per day up to a maximum of €800 per year. We know that this change is significant and it is important people do not feel like they will be unable to pay their bill when they go to hospital. The notion of people avoiding going to hospital because of inpatient charges is in and of itself enough to...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Foster Care Issues: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...", maybe let go of other opportunities out of commitment to the work they do as foster parents. It is on this basis that I wish to interrogate further the issues of pension rights and budget 2024. I feel that perhaps not enough was done to argue in this regard. None of this is a personal criticism, let me be very clear about this, but I wonder could more have been done to get that...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Patronage (23 Mar 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...than a parent who might have two or three children who are not yet in school but who live in the catchment area? It is patently not fair. It has led to incredible division and an uncomfortable feeling around the whole discussion. No one on either side of the debate feels their views were heard. There is a huge amount of confusion around it. Will the Minister start a new process?...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: ...thing that has lasted a very long time, together with the associated regulations. This is all very welcome and will certainly assist in the cost-of-living pressures that so many people are acutely feeling right now. The notion that people would be inhibited from even going to a hospital because of a charge makes it right that this charge should be abolished if we are in a position to do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...policy. It is something that comes up not very regularly but it does come up. What would Mr. Gloster's approach be to protected disclosures and whistleblowers? When we hear from them they feel very aggrieved and it can be a very difficult process. What is the cultural approach to those people who feel they want to come forward for something that could potentially be long before Mr....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Northern Ireland (21 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: ...iteration of its concerns. The proposals the British Government made are not compliant with the European Convention on Human Rights. In the improved relationship with Britain, does the Tánaiste feel there is a real prospect now of moving it away from the enactment of this legislation? I am interested in hearing the Tánaiste's opinion on that. Is it a situation where the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Foreign Conflicts (21 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I want to continue on this theme because I feel fundamentally depressed by what is unfolding internationally. The only internationally supported long-term peace plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was and is a viable two-state solution, a viable and internationally recognised state of Israel and a viable and internationally recognised state of Palestine. That is now being made...

Education (Inspection of Individual Education Plans for Children with Special Needs) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Mar 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...again. The controversy is not new. People are going to educational psychologists and the bona fides of those psychologists are being called into question. The reality is that when you do not feel you can get the service from NEPS, you are going to try to get your child assessed elsewhere. A reflection on that on the part of the Government would be welcome. When there is an IEP, it...

Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...relating to temporary emergency generation in the context of ensuring we mitigate the security of supply risk for winter of 2023-2024 and subsequent years. However, we will be forgiven for feeling this is like Groundhog Day and that a similar approach was taken to the winter we are still coming through. This Bill will further assist with allowing for works at Shannonbridge and Tarbert...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Debt Write-down and Debt Resolution Policies: Allied Irish Banks (2 Mar 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Marie Sherlock: ...applied. I want to understand a little more about the banks' policy on the write-down process, particularly AIB's own write-down process, and then the personal insolvency process. Some people feel they are forced to go down the personal insolvency route and then others are offered a write-down by the bank. We can see the benefits for both the bank and the individual if the bank just...

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (1 Mar 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...was important for me to speak given that these women took the time to speak to me about the impact of this legislation and how they felt we should pass legislation that is not fit for purpose.They feel that 70% provision, as it currently stands in the Bill, is not fit for purpose. I am jumping between two amendments because ours was ruled out of order. They spoke to me beforehand and I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Impact of Brexit on Ireland: Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I thank Mr. Drennan and Mr. Nolan, both of whom are true experts in the issues we want to address. I want to touch briefly on three areas. Mr. Nolan may feel free to interject as well as Mr. Drennan. My first question is on Mr. Drennan's comments on the Windsor Framework, which we are all grappling with. I was in Brussels yesterday. Mr. Drennan makes a very relevant point, which is to...

European Union Directive: Motion (28 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...the assets of Russian war criminals. That is something the Government should have taken on board much more speedily. It has been on the Order Paper of this House since November 2021 and we feel strongly that the Government should move on it. As was mentioned by other Deputies, the EU has stature and an ethical backbone only when it deals with all international conflicts in a similar...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...who speaks about the Traveller community. We have seen groups call out racism towards other minority groups in the past while, but I have seen members of the Traveller community say they do not feel that same level of call-out has been happening for them. We know Traveller men are seven times more likely and Traveller women six times more likely to die by suicide than people in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Mark Wall: ...the specific town mentioned by the association or in the others that are trying to be so at the moment? I am asking about a general State policy on autism-friendly towns and how the association would feel that would work throughout the State. Regarding speech and language therapy, I thank the witnesses for the work done. To take up the point made by Deputy Ó Cathasaigh, how bad is...

Seanad: Citizens Assembly on Drugs Use: Motion (23 Feb 2023)

Annie Hoey: .... Our view and response to substance use disorders and drug use reveal a lot more about our culture to date, which is slightly changing, than it does about people using these substances. I can feel that shift and I hope we see that shift in how we treat people using drugs. That goes from people using drugs recreationally all the way to people in the depths of addiction, possibly the...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...who were resident for that period of time, from birth until six months, to be included in the scheme on the basis of fairness, justice and equity so that the scheme can encompass more people who we all feel on the Opposition benches have the right to be included. I will conclude by reiterating my point about the design of the scheme and the role of the chief deciding officer in support,...

Seanad: Welfare and Safety of Workers in the Public Health Service: Motion (22 Feb 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Annie Hoey: ...thought of as smiling, happy people who were there to help us in our time of need. Now, we associate the public health service, unfortunately, with chronic understaffing, an overworked staff and a feeling, certainly based on what we heard at the health committee, of an unsafe environment for workers. With this shift in perception, there has also been an ongoing increase in assaults, be...

Housing and Evictions: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2023)

Duncan Smith: ...to speak on accommodation for international protection applicants. The Labour Party has strong concerns about the profiteering we are beginning to see, with people who want to profit off the misery of people feeling the impact of war entering this space. They are buying properties, trying to flip them over to the State at a high profit and see this as a cash cow, rather than as a...

Co-ordination of International Protection Services: Statements (16 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...to joining with so many others from across the State on Saturday afternoon for the Ireland for All solidarity march, which will show the extraordinary warmth and generosity people across the county feel for those who have come here. However, issues with the accommodation of people arriving here have arisen. As the Taoiseach acknowledged in his opening remarks, some are now being left...