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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Regulation of the English Language Sector: Discussion (14 May 2024)
Sorca Clarke: I am giving my time to Deputy Mairéad Farrell.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Regulation of the English Language Sector: Discussion (14 May 2024)
Sorca Clarke: I thank the witnesses for coming in. They are very welcome. It is really beneficial to hear their voices in the committee room. I have three very basic questions and answering them probably will not take that long. There was mention of little enforcement of the interim list of eligible programmes, ILEP, rules and that where transgressions by schools and their agents are identified, there...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Regulation of the English Language Sector: Discussion (14 May 2024)
Sorca Clarke: That is deeply concerning. The witness mentioned the Taoiseach. When our current Taoiseach was Minister for higher education, what action, if any, did he take to address the problems in the sector?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Regulation of the English Language Sector: Discussion (14 May 2024)
Sorca Clarke: My final question is for any of our guests who would like to answer it. Broadly speaking, if the witnesses could ask the Minister to make three immediate changes to benefit the sector, what would these be?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Regulation of the English Language Sector: Discussion (14 May 2024)
Sorca Clarke: I thank the witnesses.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Community Employment Schemes (9 May 2024)
Joe Flaherty: I thank the Minister of State. I welcome the official response but he really cut to the chase in his closing comments. I have no issue with the welfare partners portal. Indeed, community employment scheme supervisors recognise it as a top-class piece of kit. The reality, however, is that a serious situation is evolving. There is an eminently sensible situation to the problem, which is...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Community Employment Schemes (9 May 2024)
Ossian Smyth: I am aware of Abbeyshrule and the improvements that were made there through the community employment scheme. It is well known around the country. I appreciate the benefits of community employment schemes. I will take the specific issues the Deputy raised to the Minister of State, Deputy Joe O'Brien, to see whether he has any specific knowledge of them. He may engage directly with the...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Community Employment Schemes (9 May 2024)
Cuireadh an Dáil ar athló ar 6.46 p.m. go dtí 2 p.m., Dé Máirt, an 14 Bealtaine 2024. The Dáil adjourned at 6.46 p.m. until 2 p.m. on Tuesday, 14 May 2024.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products (9 May 2024)
Violet-Anne Wynne: I thank the Minister of State for the new statistics showing that 362 licences have been issued, which is very positive. Recently a patient reached out to me who had applied for a ministerial licence. The Minister for Health will be very familiar with this case because I submitted a number of parliamentary questions on the matter. What has come to light is that because the consultant is...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products (9 May 2024)
Mary Butler: As I stated earlier, the Department is currently establishing a clinical review group to review the publication to make recommendations to the Minister for Health. In response to an oral parliamentary question last week, he stated that he would be open to any expansion, if recommended, but that he would be entirely led by the clinicians in the group. The Deputy spoke about a specific...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Community Employment Schemes (9 May 2024)
Community Employment Schemes
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Community Employment Schemes (9 May 2024)
Joe Flaherty: I appreciate the Minister of State, Deputy Smyth, standing in for the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Humphreys, who is unavoidably absent this evening but I ask that the senior Minister would respond to me directly in the fullness of time on the important points I will raise. She, like the Minister of State, is passionate about rural Ireland and appreciates more than most the huge...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Community Employment Schemes (9 May 2024)
Ossian Smyth: I thank the Deputy for his questions. I listened carefully to the points he made. I will now read the formal response from the Minister for Social Protection before discussing the matter further. It is important to acknowledge the excellent work that is done on the full range of work schemes, including community employment, Tús, the rural social scheme, RSS and the job initiative...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (9 May 2024)
Mary Butler: As I said, sometimes difficult decisions have to be taken for the greater good. The decision to utilise the new Nenagh community nursing unit building, on an interim basis, as a step-down, sub-acute and rehabilitation facility was taken to alleviate the significant pressures on University Hospital Limerick. The intention is that the arrangement will be reviewed within one year - I have...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (9 May 2024)
Martin Browne: It is dependent on the 96-bed unit being finished.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (9 May 2024)
Mary Butler: An older person with a urinary tract or kidney infection who needs intravenous drugs and fluids can be brought to the community nursing unit and avoid the emergency department in Limerick. Please God, they will be back home with their loved ones within 48 to 72 hours. It is not a decision that was taken lightly, but it was taken for the greater good to try to support the emergency...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products (9 May 2024)
Medicinal Products
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products (9 May 2024)
Violet-Anne Wynne: I am delighted that this Topical Issue was selected and thank the Office of the Ceann Comhairle for facilitating this important discussion. It is an issue I am very passionate about and I hope to shed a bit of light on what the medical cannabis access programme, MCAP, and the ministerial licence mean. As we all know, the MCAP was established in 2019 as a five-year pilot scheme. However,...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products (9 May 2024)
Mary Butler: I thank the Deputy for her question. She raised two distinct issues, which I shall address in order. The MCAP is operated by the primary care reimbursement service of the HSE and is a statutory programme to enable clinicians and patients to access prescribed cannabis-based products for the treatment of three conditions as specified in the HPRA 2017 report Cannabis for Medical Use-A...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (9 May 2024)
Nursing Homes