Results 281-300 of 1,022,265 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Ciarán Cuffe OR speaker:Paul Murphy OR speaker:Dara Calleary) in 'Committee meetings'
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy. I will raise the opening times of the injury clinics with the Minister for Health and ask him to revert. HIQA is now carrying out a review into urgent and emergency care capacity in the mid-west region to determine whether a second ED is required. Terms of reference will be finalised shortly. The Minister rightly wants to wait for the Mr. Justice Frank Clarke report...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)
Paul Donnelly: At least 13 families in Dublin 15 have no school place for September for autistic children. Ellis, aged 5, has no school place. He has applied for 24 schools and received 24 refusals. What is required? His parents need to fill in the school application, give two proofs of address via bills, give his original birth cert and baptismal cert and give proof of his PPS number, along with all...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)
Hildegarde Naughton: I thank the Deputy for his question. I am aware many parents are concerned about where their children will be in September. To reassure the Deputy, the Department is spending one third of the education budget on special education. This September, we have 400 new special classes coming onstream. Of those, 300 are already allocated and a further 100 locations are being identified by the...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)
Fergus O'Dowd: Alexander is a ten-year-old boy in County Louth. He is autistic, non-verbal and he has an intellectual disability and development delays. His parents very much welcome the statement of the Taoiseach on bringing real and meaningful reform to services for people with disabilities. They believe him and I believe him too. It is the first time he has been made aware of this. The problem is...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for raising the case. I have a note I could read out but I do not want to insult the parents by reading it. It is clearly a very serious situation the family faces. I am aware of Mo Shaol, which provides services in Louth. I will take on board the case the Deputy has raised if he gives me the details and I will link with him directly.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: I raise nicotine pouches. A nicotine pouch rests up against a person's gum. They are five times stronger than a cigarette. Children are using these in schools. Teachers do not know they have them under their gum. They are highly addictive. They are marketed to teens and come in mint or berry flavours. We currently do not regulate them. In January, I sent a parliamentary question to...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)
Michael Collins: Horticulture is a vital industry and one with great potential. We import 90%-plus of the fruit and vegetables we consume in Ireland. In west Cork, we have a thriving organic sustainable food industry from dairy to vegetable and soft fruit growers. The industry depends on an educated workforce from further education, levels 4 to 6, and higher education, levels 7, 8 and above. It has come...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)
Michael McNamara: At the start of April, the Minister for Health announced the new nursing unit built in Nenagh to replace St. Conlon's would be instead used for step-down beds. Families were expecting to go in there from across north Tipperary and east Clare. At the same time, the Minister announced Cahercalla nursing home would take 20 step-down beds. When Cahercalla's representatives were asked about...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)
Pa Daly: It makes no sense that where an existing court building is in need of updated facilities, every opportunity to refurbish it is not used. The plan in Tralee for years was to take the plans for Letterkenny courthouse, which cost €19 million, and use them in the Denny site which was gifted to Tralee town council ten years ago and on which nothing has happened. Now an opportunity has...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank my colleague in Wicklow, Deputy Whitmore, for raising the important issue of nicotine pouches and bringing it to my attention. That sounds like an alarming and concerning situation for parents, teachers and principals. I undertake to speak with the Minister for Health on the matter and pass on the Deputy's serious concerns, which I share. I will follow up with Deputy Collins on...
- Family Law (Divorce) (Amendment) Bill: First Stage (14 May 2024)
- Family Law (Divorce) (Amendment) Bill: First Stage (14 May 2024)
Patrick Costello: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Family Law (Divorce) Act 1996 to provide for swifter access to divorce proceedings. This legislation will further modernise our laws around divorce. Divorce was prohibited in the State until the 1995 referendum, which allowed divorce where people had been separated for four of the previous five years. The...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)
Simon Harris: I assure the Deputy there is a while to go in this Government yet, so he should not get too excited. I believe the Tánaiste may have been in Waterford at a private function, possibly even a wedding. I was in Dungarvan.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)
Matt Shanahan: Like the Taoiseach, he was canvassing.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)
Simon Harris: No, I think he was at a private event. I was canvassing, and people were asking for the Deputy. I was also in Dungarvan. It was a beautiful day. The sun was out and we were talking about the launch of the traditional Irish music festival. The Minister of State, Deputy Butler, knows about it. I was also in Tramore meeting young guys and girls in the surfing school there. I very much...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)
Mattie McGrath: I acknowledge that in his previous portfolio as Minister before he became Taoiseach, he did some good work in the area of higher education and diverting people towards trades. The haulage and agriculture industries and many others, including the hospitality, are desperately crying out for staff and people to work in them. The whole situation with work visas is too slow and cumbersome. We...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)
Simon Harris: I fully agree. That is why when I was Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science - I thank the Deputy for his kind words - we set up a number of apprenticeships specifically in partnership with the haulage industry. We remain open for business in terms of doing more. It is also why migrants are good in this country, because when we talk to the...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Faraor géar, tá orm ospidéal an Chlocháin a ardú arís. Tá an tAire Stáit, an Teachta Butler, sa Teach. D'ardaigh mé an tseachtain seo caite é, ardeoidh mé an tseachtain seo chugainn é agus gach seachtain toisc nach féidir glacadh leis go bhfuil ospidéal an Chlocháin fós dúnta. I just cannot accept that...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)
Mary Butler: We need to put a little bit of context on it for people who might not understand what Clifden hospital is. There are two hospitals on the same site: one is a community nursing unit, CNU, where there are people under the fair deal scheme. The hospital also has a respite and rehab ward for six to seven people.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: It is a district hospital.