Results 81-100 of 382 for long speaker:Seán Kyne

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Effects of Long Covid and Provision of Long Covid Care: Engagement with Dr. John Lambert (6 Jul 2022)

Seán Kyne: ...medical condition that can be certified? Is it accepted among medics? People suffer from a range of conditions, but can a person be certified by a doctor or physician as being a sufferer of long Covid?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Effects of Long Covid and Provision of Long Covid Care: Engagement with Dr. John Lambert (6 Jul 2022)

Seán Kyne: Has there been any difference between any of the different strains of Covid as far as the severity of long Covid is concerned?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Jun 2022)

Seán Kyne: ...there are difficulties getting participants, so these changes are welcome. I also welcome the opening of the ex-gratiapayment for CE supervisors and assistant supervisors, which is a good initiative. They had a long-fought battle, going back to the Labour Court recommendation of 2008, and I welcome the Government's decision to provide a gratuity payment. Nevertheless, RSS and Tús...

Seanad: Neurology Nurses: Motion (22 Jun 2022)

Seán Kyne: ...to the acceptable level. As the motion states, there is a shortfall of up to 100 neurological nurses in Ireland based on national and international guidelines relative to population. People with long-term neurological conditions have limited access to the neurology nursing services that help them to manage their condition. This is something that is very important to the patients who are...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Services (21 Jun 2022)

Seán Kyne: ...NDP. One in two of us will get cancer during our lifetime. This is a frightening statistic but it reflects the reality. It is the reality because we have an ageing population and people who live longer are more likely to suffer from a number of illnesses. We need to get the best results we can in the west of Ireland. Unfortunately, the survival rates for such conditions as lung and...

Seanad: Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (15 Jun 2022)

Seán Kyne: It is important to put this in the context of the broader package of reforms in the whole area of insurance over a long number of years. It is one of a number of Bills being looked at this year that will address various issues that have arisen since the action plan on insurance was published. It will result in the implementation of the proposed ban on price walking and other measures to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Seán Kyne: Mr. Canavan mentions the emergency department, the maternity and paediatric unit and the cancer care facility. They are long-term projects and interim and short-term solutions are vital. Surely there is somewhere we can provide beds. Often there are issues with funding or staffing to make things hard. To tell people in Galway there is no physical space to put a new building, even a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Seán Kyne: How long will it take for the board to assess it?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 May 2022)

Seán Kyne: ...the inclusion of a ten-bed dementia unit and rooms that can accommodate bariatric residents. The new build is on two levels of the dementia unit. Ten short-stay beds are planned for the ground floor and 20 long-stay beds for the upper floor. I welcome the progression of that very important plan for St. Anne’s and for the Clifden District Hospital which are areas of great...

Seanad: Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 May 2022)

Seán Kyne: ...him on progressing this important legislation. It is always important that legislation be reviewed and improved as time goes on, given that situations change. Even though 2014 was not that long ago, the Act was groundbreaking legislation for the time and, as the Minister of State mentioned, one of the strongest Acts on whistleblowing across the EU. However, it is important that we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Seán Kyne: ...projects. I have engaged with the Tánaiste on the emergency department and maternity and paediatric unit in Galway and asked him to engage with the officials, which I believe he has. This is a long-running project and I appreciate it is complex. We have had commitments, and the previous Minister for Heath, Deputy Harris, received commitments from the Saolta University Health Care...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Areas of Conservation (12 May 2022)

Seán Kyne: ...rivers are in the area. That is very important as the Atlantic salmon, a species listed under Annex II of the EU Habitats Directive, is found in some of the rivers within this site. There is a long-running history of the selection of this area as a candidate for a special area of conservation, SAC, going back as far as 1997 when there was a first notification of the site. It was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Seán Kyne: ...the leasehold on the new national maternity hospital? Would that happen automatically or would it be negotiated? What rights do we have as a State after that period? I appreciate that it is a long time away and I appreciate that there has been an extension from the original plans with regard to the lease, but I believe that the ownership issue is one of the fundamental concerns that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Seán Kyne: I welcome the Minister and witnesses. I know they have had a long session. I acknowledge that the Minister mentioned in his opening statement the six points and the proposal we are discussing this morning meets all those goals and provides those reassurances. As members of the committee, we received correspondence from two members of the board yesterday who dissented from the decision....

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (4 May 2022)

Seán Kyne: ...the House a number of times, and the Minister of State, Deputy Niall Collins. Unfortunately, the senior Minister has not been to the Chamber as I would like to raise directly with him the ongoing and long-running saga of the new emergency department for University Hospital Galway, UHG. We been talking for a long number of years about the need for a new emergency department. When the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (4 May 2022)

Seán Kyne: ...million category. I appreciate there are processes but this does not fill me with hope about when we will get a solution, when a planning application will be lodged and when the process can go towards the long, complicated process of tender documents, contractors being appointed and construction. It is still years away. I wish I could say, as we start the month of May, that a planning...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 May 2022)

Seán Kyne: I wish to raise an issue relating to NCT centres. Obviously, Covid has had an impact over a long period of time with regard to the NCT certificate, how long it is valid for and extensions. Considering that in some parts of the country, it will be months before a person will get a date for an NCT, how does that affect the validity of a person's certificate is if he or she has an accident?...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Housing Provision (5 Apr 2022)

Seán Kyne: ...are looking at. It is important that these plans are progressed. The Minister of State mentioned the Land Development Agency and its plans for Sandy Road and Dyke Road, but it will still be a long time before the first of these houses will be delivered for purchase. That is worrying because these are two strategic sites in the heart of the city but the Minister of State is talking about...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Mar 2022)

Seán Kyne: ...new cancer centre with inpatient beds as part of the national development plan. Treatment is top class in the facilities there, but new and more modern facilities are required. People must travel long distances, be it from Letterkenny or parts of Sligo, to avail of cancer services. That is the model. It is the world best practice model in having centres of excellence and people...