Results 1-10 of 10 for sligo speaker:Catherine Byrne

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (4 Jul 2019)

Catherine Byrne: ...1 diabetes make up 10% of all people with diabetes. Appropriate and timely management of diabetes can reduce the risk of deterioration in health and well-being. The adult diabetes service in Sligo University Hospital is currently led by a consultant endocrinologist-general physician with her team, including one locum consultant. This service covers a catchment area including Sligo...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mortality Rates (15 May 2019)

Catherine Byrne: ... 116 Louth 112 Meath 99 Wicklow 97 Kerry 92 Mayo 83 Donegal 82 Wexford 77 Westmeath 69 Clare 63 Laois 60 Kilkenny 59 Cavan 55 Carlow 53 Offaly 43 Sligo 37 Longford 33 Monaghan 33 Roscommon 22 Leitrim 18 Outside Ireland 32 Not known 8 Homeless 7 Total 3759 Table 2:Number of non-poisoning deaths among people who use drugs...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (28 Mar 2019)

Catherine Byrne: ...This is also evident in the increase in demand for diabetic care in our acute hospitals and our community healthcare organisations, including in the Deputy's area. The diabetes service team at Sligo University Hospital is led by consultant endocrinologists and serves the populations of Sligo, Leitrim, south Donegal, north Roscommon and west Cavan. This adult diabetes service also...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Ambulance Service Provision (13 Nov 2018)

Catherine Byrne: ...station. In line with this policy, and using the advanced medical priority dispatch system to triage calls, Leitrim is supported by other national ambulance service ambulance bases in Boyle, Sligo, Loughglynn, Cavan, Roscommon and Longford. Several developments have been made by the national ambulance service in order to address the issue of response times and ambulance cover in Leitrim....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (10 May 2018)

Catherine Byrne: ...x20ac;37,260 Dublin City North CPYSC €38,000 Dublin City South CYPSC €38,000 Galway CYPSC €38,000 Kerry CYPSC €38,360 Kilkenny CYPSC €38,000 Limerick CYPSC €34,540 Louth CYPSC €38,400 Meath CYPSC €38,400 Roscommon CYPSC €36,154 Sligo Leitrim CYPSC €38,400 South Dublin CYPSC €37,145 Waterford CYPSC...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Closures (31 Jan 2018)

Catherine Byrne: ...MacSharry for raising this issue. The rehabilitation and recovery mental health unit, formerly known as the Alzheimer’s unit, is located within the grounds of St. John's Community Hospital, Sligo, and serves patients with both dementia-related illness and mental health difficulties, as the Deputy has said. The Mental Health Commission carried out an inspection report on this unit...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Hospital Staff Recruitment (13 Apr 2017)

Catherine Byrne: ...about the failure on occasion of Ministers to appear in the Chamber to deal with Commencement matters. A paediatric insulin pump service was initiated in May 2015. The service is based in Sligo University Hospital, with outreach clinics in Letterkenny University Hospital. The Saolta University Healthcare Group has confirmed that the consultant paediatrician with specialty interest in...

Topical Issue Debate: Commercial Rates Valuation Process (2 Mar 2017)

Catherine Byrne: ...current phase of the national revaluation programme is known as REVAL 2017 and covers the revaluation of all rateable properties in counties Longford, Leitrim, Roscommon, Westmeath, Offaly, Kildare, Sligo, Carlow and Kilkenny, where a revaluation is being undertaken for the first time since the 19th century. The current phase also includes the second revaluation of the South Dublin County...

Topical Issue Matters (10 Jun 2015)

Catherine Byrne: ...home of Bessborough; (32) Deputy Colm Keaveney - the filling of mental health positions in 2014 and 2015; and (33) Deputy Billy Kelleher - the need to ensure a full range of cardiac services in Sligo hospital. The matters raised by Deputies Willie Penrose, Seamus Kirk and Michelle Mulherin and the matter raised by Deputies Thomas Pringle, Dinny McGinley and Pearse Dohertyhave been...

Health Services: Motion (5 Oct 2010)

Catherine Byrne: ...people living in Dublin but which certainly affects those living in country areas, which is the issue of transport. My father-in-law met a man in hospital who told him he had come all the way from Sligo for a chemotherapy appointment. He said he had been taken by taxi that morning and the taxi man was waiting outside to bring him back home that afternoon. The procedure took three hours...