Results 1-20 of 1,026,231 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Damien English OR speaker:Holly Cairns OR speaker:Michael McGrath)
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I thank the Taoiseach. I am not suggesting that acquiring Barrington's Hospital is going to solve all the problems by any means but it will make a significant contribution to expanding capacity. It is an existing operating hospital and could be brought onstream very speedily. I welcome the fact that the Taoiseach will pursue that further. Other critical things obviously need to happen...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)
Simon Harris: I certainly will come back to the Deputy on those three issues. I will liaise directly with the Minister for Health and revert to her then. I take the point about global figures and the need to make sure that we do not just use them and that we get under the bonnet. I would just say on the recruitment issue that I have endeavoured to do quite a bit of that in relation to UHL. By any...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: In July 2023, I asked the Minister for Justice how many asylum seekers were coming from Britain through the North of Ireland into the South of Ireland over the past five years. At that stage, approximately 66% of those were making applications to the International Protection Office. The Minister stated in her reply to the parliamentary question that the question about what routes they used...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)
Simon Harris: I reject out of hand the Deputy's hypothesis relating to our migration situation in this country. The reason we have seen a very significant increase in people coming, not just to Ireland but right across the European Union is multifold. None of them have anything to do with the name of the Minister for Justice of any country. That is very clear. Anybody with any understanding of...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for raising important issues relating to our health service. She has touched on a number of topics and made a point about recruitment that I want to respond to as well. She began by referencing University Hospital Limerick. I, too, welcome the decision by the Minister for Health and the HSE chief executive yesterday to send a specific support team to Limerick to help to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach may well talk about living within budgets. He is hardly a poster boy for that. I quoted the €650 million a year on agency staff. I could also quote the €140 million a year on management and legal consultancy at peak in 2022. Heaven forbid that I would go near the €2.2 billion on his children's hospital that has yet to be delivered.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)
Simon Harris: The Deputy will be at the opening.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Save the homily on living within budgets for someone else. The facts are these; at University Hospital Limerick, as was confirmed to the Oireachtas committee, every single day, there are patients who are deemed sick enough to require admission who cannot be admitted. That is the reality day-on-day.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)
Deputies: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: The hospital does not have enough beds or the required level of staff. The Taoiseach quoted a figure of 2,268 additional posts. He knows full well that in previous years, that has been as high as 7,000. The system is stripped bare. I have set out the facts for him. These are facts from people on the front line with regard to dental services, mental health capacity, and all across the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)
Deputies: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)
Simon Harris: Am I to take from that that the Deputy does not believe there should be any cap on recruitment in the health service at all?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: No.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)
Simon Harris: You can hire whatever you want whenever you want. Is that this week's Sinn Féin health policy? If it is, can the Garda Commissioner hire whoever who he wants? Can the Minister for Education? I am just wondering where this ends.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)
David Cullinane: The Government did not have an embargo in place last year.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)
Simon Harris: For a party that now aspires to be in government, Sinn Féin has to tell people what it is going to do every year. This year, we are very honest-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)
David Cullinane: The Taoiseach should read our budget, so he can see what we proposed.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: You do not let young women die on trolleys or lying across chairs. That is what you do not do.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Please let the Taoiseach answer.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)
Simon Harris: I am looking forward to-----