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Energy Security: Statements (27 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: ...increased the fuel allowance? That should have been done years ago. I know many people, particularly pensioners, who were struggling and did not meet the threshold. The Government does not deserve a pat on the back for this measure. It should have been done years ago but the Government dragged its heels. Its decision to finally marginally increase the fuel allowance is certainly not...

National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)

Carol Nolan: ...our citizens and businesses, well in advance of the EU’s target date of 2020, and that significantly higher speeds are available to as many homes and businesses as possible." That was the then Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Pat Rabbitte. It was 2013, one year after the national broadband plan was originally published, in August 2012, and two years after...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 May 2021)

Carol Nolan: ...loyal workforce and the local people who helped build up the company and build up a local attraction at Lough Boora into what it is today. I hope justice will be done in regard to that situation involving Pat Barrett and his family. This Bill is essentially a just transition for the entire country. I urge colleagues, if they want to see what this looks like, to take a good hard look at...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Tuberculosis Eradication Programme (24 Sep 2020)

Carol Nolan: ...be done. If there was consensus that this was an appropriate way to handle the TB issue and the whole situation, it would not have generated the level of outright hostility that has ensued. Mr. Pat Farrell, chairman of the IFA animal health committee, stated that the letters are a ridiculous and weak response to the dramatic deterioration in TB levels in herds. Farmers are being told...

Health Act 1947 (Section 31A - Temporary Restrictions) (Covid-19) (No. 4) Regulations 2020: Motion [Private Members] (9 Sep 2020)

Carol Nolan: ...in the agricultural sector with the onset of Brexit, but instead we are trying to talk sense into a Government that speaks nonsense on this issue. The statutory instrument was an answer to a question nobody asked. It was another totally unnecessary measure. As Pat Leahy of The Irish Timesput it, the criminal enforcement Bill which was debated here last week was nothing more than...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Carol Nolan: ...misconstrued the amendment. He has his own interpretation which he is entitled to have, but it is certainly wrong. What we are looking for is reasonable and fair. The Minister gave himself a pat on the back earlier for sticking to what he had promised the people before the referendum. He did state abortion would not be allowed on the grounds of disability. We just want to have...

Topical Issue Debate: General Practitioner Services Provision (24 Apr 2018)

Carol Nolan: With respect, funding was not flagged as an issue. The Minister of State wishes to give himself a pat on the back for the great job he and the Government are doing, but he would be wrong to do so. We have been informed that two basic and vital services will be withdrawn from our towns. The Minister of State did not address that issue or the fact that the review to which he referred was not...

Committee on the Future of Healthcare Report: Motion (22 Jun 2017)

Carol Nolan: ...need and not on their ability to pay. We fought to ensure that the future of the health care will be universal health care. I commend the hard work of my colleagues, Deputies Louise O'Reilly and Pat Buckley, who worked very hard on the committee to ensure that a number of progressive solutions were put forward in this report. In particular, I welcome the fact that this report...

Mental Health Services: Statements (26 Apr 2016)

Carol Nolan: ...agus caithfimid gach rud a dhéanamh gur féidir linn a dhéanamh. Mental health and the provision of mental health services are extremely personal matters for many in the House and around the country. As Deputy Pat Buckley stated, it is an epidemic that has spiralled out of control. It is an epidemic that has touched almost every family across the State. We need something...