Results 141-149 of 149 for long speaker:Patricia Ryan

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Patricia Ryan: ...their workplaces must close again. Those on the PUP have been told that they must face cuts of up to €200 a month to their supports and yet this Government has seen fit to ignore the need for longer payment breaks for already hard-pressed borrowers. We have to be realistic. Covid-19 will be with us for a long time to come. Workers and businesses will require a major level of...

Winter Plan 2020: Statements (1 Oct 2020)

Patricia Ryan: ...accident and emergency department by his doctor who had immediate concerns for his health. He spent eight hours in the accident and emergency department on a Friday evening in September. Imagine how long he might have had to spend in January if he was in that same waiting room. The Sinn Féin plan which was launched in early August would deliver 1,100 additional acute and...

Health (Amendment) (Professional Home Care) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Sep 2020)

Patricia Ryan: ...unfortunate that it is coming nine years after legislative provision in this area was recommended by the Law Reform Commission. Strong regulation in respect of professional home care services is long overdue. The number of people aged over 65 in this country is expected to increase to more than 1 million by 2040. Moreover, the number of people aged over 80 is set to increase...

Sick Leave and Parental Leave (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Sep 2020)

Patricia Ryan: ...motions relating to the Debenhams workers. These are workers who I supported in Newbridge yesterday evening after the liquidator sent in a crew to pack up stock for export to England. We are long overdue a statutory sick pay scheme in Ireland. The European picture varies greatly, from €38 a week in England, all the way up to €875 in Switzerland. In fact, the average worker...

Mental Health and Older People: Statements (9 Sep 2020)

Patricia Ryan: ...25,000 calls from older people and made almost 120,000 calls. We need day care services for older people to reopen. We need repair works on older people's services. I particularly want to see the long-awaited repairs to Monasterevin Day Care Centre prioritised and completed as soon as possible. This has been an ongoing saga for many years. Finally, I would like to recommend that...

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (8 Sep 2020)

Patricia Ryan: I welcome the legislation which is very much a housekeeping Bill and is long overdue. The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in May 2000 and it entered into force in February 2002. It has taken 18 years to change the law to remove references to minors in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Midwifery Services (8 Sep 2020)

Patricia Ryan: 1365. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff midwives working at the Midlands Regional Hospital Portlaoise; the number of staff midwives on long-term sick leave; the number of staff midwives that have left the hospital over the past two years; the number of staff midwives recruited in the hospital in the same time period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22410/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Patricia Ryan: ...that was made to him regarding an employer who is forcing an employee to work despite the worker being symptomatic and a family member of a confirmed case. He has not heard back from the HSA. How long does it take to address issues like this? Is it a matter of policy not to communicate with the complainant? Second, what efforts are being made to educate meat factory workers whose...

Future of School Education: Motion [Private Members] (28 Jul 2020)

Patricia Ryan: .... We must protect and enhance the extra support provided to those schools. The plan to return to school mentions using existing space better. Our schools are already at breaking point, with long delays in the schools building programme. St. Paul's school in Monasterevin is long overdue a new building. For more than 20 years, the school management has been doing its best, adding...