Results 41-60 of 160 for long speaker:Marian Harkin

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (19 Apr 2023)

Marian Harkin: 133. To ask the Minister for Health what plans are in place to address the long delays in testing for rare diseases and referral for genetic testing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18394/23]

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Apr 2023)

Marian Harkin: ...as a Member of the European Parliament and my specific focus was on ensuring that all citizens could avail of this important EU benefit. It is especially important in Ireland, where we have such long waiting lists. In this context, I would like to recognise my colleagues, Deputies Michael and Danny Healy-Rae, Michael Collins, and others, who took practical steps to help ordinary people...

Reform of Carer's Allowance Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (22 Mar 2023)

Marian Harkin: ...and caring because the truth is that many of those students will, in time, have to either give care or be the recipient of care. That is the reality for all of us. If we are lucky enough to live long enough, we will either receive care or give care. That is why this debate about supporting family carers is so crucial. For too long, it was seen as women's work and something that...

Reform of Carer's Allowance Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (22 Mar 2023)

Marian Harkin: ...approach to the means testing of carer payments, with the Citizen's Assembly recommending a move towards an individualised Social Protection system while the Oireachtas Joint Committee recommends assessing applicants for Carer's Allowance on their individual means rather than those of their partner or other household members; and — therefore the Carer's Allowance scheme, in place...

Finance Bill 2023: Second Stage (21 Mar 2023)

Marian Harkin: ...in need, and I am disappointed that is not in the Bill. Of course, all anybody is talking about today is the fact that if the eviction ban is lifted, many families, individuals, children, people with disabilities, people who are ill and many others - there is a long list but I will not go through it - will find themselves looking for emergency accommodation in the near future, and many...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (8 Mar 2023)

Marian Harkin: ...gave their records to the interdepartmental committee to establish the facts of State involvement with the Magdalen laundries. All except one of the FOI requests were refused. The excuses were as long as your arm. How did the editors of this book get access to all of this important information? It was by chance. I do not have time to go through it, but it took extraordinary dedication...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (8 Mar 2023)

Marian Harkin: 223. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive their long overdue surgery, which they have been awaiting since 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11774/23]

High Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2023)

Marian Harkin: ...and renters. Many people below the headline figures are in real trouble. The Minister has put a number of measures in place but things are getting worse. The Minister cannot just speak of the long list of one-off payments in his countermotion without looking at the wider context and the real-life experience of people trying to pay bills day by day. The average electricity bill has...

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2023)

Marian Harkin: ...were 17.3% of the hospital's bed stock. However, Sligo University Hospital trolley numbers were 24.7% of its bed stock, which means the hospital is under the greatest pressure. Obviously, it is a long-term solution to build the new block, about which I will not go into detail today. In the context of today's discussion, ensuring that Sligo and Leitrim were part of the pathfinder scheme...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Feb 2023)

Marian Harkin: All of us are used to meeting delegations. I just spent half an hour outside the gates speaking to sheep farmers from all over, some from Sligo and others from Donegal and Mayo. It is a long time since I met such a dejected group, some of whom are at their wits' end. Many of them are on the floor and are losing money. They watch French farmers and other European farmers get up to...

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

Marian Harkin: ...recognition fund is used for communities and not to provide services that the local authority should provide. We all want this to work. Every one of us knows clear information and specific supports will go a long way.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Tourism Schemes (2 Feb 2023)

Marian Harkin: ...other accommodation providers are now providing accommodation for refugees. This, of course, has a significant impact on local businesses depending on tourists and visitors alike in the short and long term. While this issue impacts on a number of different places in my constituency and elsewhere, I raise it in the context of a meeting I attended earlier this week with my colleagues,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: General Practitioner Services (26 Jan 2023)

Marian Harkin: ...the HSE is considering. I am concerned that we may end up at the point where the service is not designed to suit the people but is designed the other way around and the people have to travel long distances to access healthcare to suit the service. Any service needs to consider settlement patterns, especially where there is dispersed population. That needs to be taken into...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jan 2023)

Marian Harkin: I thank the Minister and the Minister of State for waiting. It is a long day and I appreciate that the Chair has allowed non-members of the committee to ask these questions. I have been listening to a lot of this debate and the Minister told us earlier he has known for a long time about Coillte's plans. When we look at what Ms Hurley said before Christmas at this committee, she was clear...

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2023)

Marian Harkin: ...to access capital to do this. That will require two forms of funds. The first fund has already been set up, namely, the Nature Trust ... The second fund is more focused on what we would call traditional, long-term investors----- This implies Gresham House. Ms Hurley later stated: We have said that we would enable the creation of 100,000 ha of new forests. The way we will do...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2023)

Marian Harkin: ...says the real issue is to get it done. Yes, it is. I have given him an example of one of the ways we could do it, by engaging proactively with farmers and communities right across the country. We could go a long way doing that-----

Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)

Marian Harkin: ...to tell the Minister how that has come about and whose responsibility it is. We see smaller nursing homes closing while many people are ready to leave wards, but they cannot because there is no long-term care facility available. For the past two and a half years, the Minister has watched nurses and doctors emigrate. In the past week, a consultant who has come back from Australia told...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (17 Dec 2022)

Marian Harkin: ...part of its cancer services and having been told there is to be no catheterisation laboratory for the north west, now must continue to wait for its surgical block. Without it, as we all know, there can be no guarantee of the long-term viability of there being an acute hospital in the north west. The region is at a tipping point. I see little or no evidence of a co-ordinated and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (13 Dec 2022)

Marian Harkin: 575. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider including the condition congenital adrenal hyperplasia in the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61849/22]

Teacher Shortages: Motion [Private Members] (7 Dec 2022)

Marian Harkin: ...the edges. We must examine some structural changes in this regard. The proposals in this motion are what the Minister needs to be considering. They are designed to provide solutions in the medium to long term, with one or two short-term proposals as well. First, we need permanent, full-time jobs to be given to teachers on their first appointments, if these jobs are available. I do...