Results 1-20 of 148 for long speaker:Patricia Ryan

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (1 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 175. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the extraordinarily long time that it is taking to complete and award HAP applications, following approval for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19854/24]

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Patricia Ryan: ...as basic as access to their personal information is not guaranteed. A lovely lady, whom I know quite well, called to my office the other day. She was asking if I could help her to find out how long she was in such an institution as she could not access her own information and could not remember. The lady is old and ill, and should not have to beg for what is hers by right. As the Sinn...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Patricia Ryan: ...of age, are carers. These people spend their lives caring for family members, whether it be elderly parents or a child or adult dependant with special needs who will continue to need care for a very long time to come. Let us not forget those elderly people who are left to care for ill and vulnerable spouses or adult disabled children with special and often complex needs. These people...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on Indexation of the Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Patricia Ryan: For quite a long period?

General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

Patricia Ryan: ...a decade of chronic underfunding by successive Fine Gael- and Fianna Fáil-led Governments, local GP and healthcare services are creaking at the seams. We have staff shortages, increased workload, longer waiting times, insufficient alternative community care - the list goes on and on. The 2024 budget was a travesty. Services cannot run properly when the funding provided is not even...

Child and Youth Mental Health: Statements (29 Feb 2024)

Patricia Ryan: ...Our Bill will give the Mental Health Commission the vital statutory powers to oversee and assist the HSE in implementing the recommendations and vital clinical reforms that are urgently needed. How long will the Government stand idly by as our children and their families are left to suffer through a doubling of the waiting lists for first-time appointments? Children who are on the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Feb 2024)

Patricia Ryan: A constituent of mine, a man who was finally allocated a property in October last year after 18 years on the Kildare County Council list only to be told he cannot move in to his long-awaited home because there is no street lighting installed, may, worse still, be forced into emergency accommodation. The Tánaiste promised Housing for All and yet people waiting years on housing lists are...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Dec 2023)

Patricia Ryan: ...Prime Minister apologised unreservedly last week. There are approximately 40 survivors of the drug, thalidomide, in Ireland. The Irish Thalidomide Association, ITA, said that 62 years is too long for full redress. Finola Cassidy of the ITA, a spokesperson and survivor, said: “We dare to dream Ireland will follow suit and allow us long overdue closure”. Are they going to...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (30 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: ...up in either planning appeals, judicial reviews or strategic housing development processes as of March of this year. The courts cannot process planning cases without judges. We need more judges - they have been long promised but have still have not been appointed. Delays of 18 months-plus are the norm. Add in bad planning legislation and chaotic and confusing requirements for strategic...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures in Budget 2024: Department of Finance (29 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: ...rent-paying record. What measures or incentives could be envisaged to encourage landlords? I know you have spoken about landlords and I appreciate that. Can we encourage landlords into more long-term leases to give more security to our ageing population who are currently renting? Many of them still seem to be renting.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (22 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: ...To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has considered extending the mortgage-to-rent scheme to require vulture funds which seek repossession of family homes to offer long-term tenancies as an option for those borrowers in arrears; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51558/23]

Health Service Recruitment Freeze: Motion [Private Members] (21 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: .... They simply cannot work there because it is so bad. I have spoken to the staff at length on this issue. Children are waiting for years for life-changing surgery. Hundreds of thousands are on long waiting lists for urgent treatments. Mental health services are in complete disarray. There are no staff to deliver home care packages for the elderly, no jobs for our graduate nurses and...

Home Care Workers and Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: ...career progression orientated to encourage people to stay in the sector; provide training opportunities; provide more home-care and community care supports to allow our older citizens to live independently in their own homes and communities for as long as possible; and double funding for the housing adaptation grant. That is absolutely necessary. The Government has dropped the ball in...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Sep 2023)

Patricia Ryan: ...his family had to bring dressings supplied from home to hospital. On his discharge, it transpired that neither the public health nurse nor his GP had access to the correct dressings. Following a long battle from my office, his family had to travel to St. James's Hospital to get a three-day supply. In the meantime, the family was left with no option but to use nappies to dress his...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (27 Sep 2023)

Patricia Ryan: How do the Ministers expect the additional corporation tax receipts will be stored? Is there a preference for an easy access savings approach, short-term liquid investments, a more long-term investment process or a hybrid approach for more flexibility?

Reversal of Planned Fuel Price Increases: Motion [Private Members] (26 Sep 2023)

Patricia Ryan: ...and diesel prices is adding to the stress on families during the cost-of-living crisis. Workers are struggling to afford the fuel to get them to work, not to mention students and their families with long commutes to and from schools and universities who can barely make ends meet. Having already added 7 cent and 5 cent per litre to the price of petrol and diesel on 1 September, this...

Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)

Patricia Ryan: ...they and their children’s advocates were not allowed any input? How was this allowed to happen? When did the Minister know? More seriously, how did the HSE and CHI keep it quiet for so long? My heart breaks for the children affected and their families, whose trust has been broken and who have been failed yet again by their exclusion from the review process, adding to the...

Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Sep 2023)

Patricia Ryan: ...into the mainstream mortgage market. This Government has had more than ample opportunities to offer a lifeline to families ensnared in the cost-of-living quagmire. The era for token gestures and half measures is long past. I urge the Minister and the Government to adopt the Sinn Féin mortgage interest relief plan and provide immediate relief to homeowners and their families. I...

Nursing Home Care: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Patricia Ryan: ...the Fair Deal scheme. Once hailed by the Government as the cornerstone of residential care, it is now under threat. Many nursing homes are contemplating abandoning the scheme altogether. They say it is no longer providing sustainable funding for them. The uncertainty is compounded by the stark revelation that a significant number of nursing homes reported operating losses in 2022....

National Minimum Wage (Equal Pay for Young Workers) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2023)

Patricia Ryan: ...forward this Bill. I welcome the opportunity to speak on legislation that seeks to abolish the age-based discriminatory practice of underpaying workers under the age of 20. Sinn Féin has long advocated for the removal of these discriminatory pay rates. We brought a motion before the Seanad last term but it was voted down by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. Sinn Féin's Senator...