Results 121-140 of 2,486 for speaker:Patricia Ryan
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Patricia Ryan: So will funds be ring-fenced.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Patricia Ryan: Will the Minister, Deputy Chambers, elaborate on that?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Patricia Ryan: I appreciate that and I take on board the points made by the Minister. I get what was said but we are talking about homeless people. This is an ageing population as well. We have a lot of homeless people who are older too. While the Minister mentioned homelessness and health, we have many people who cannot get into hospitals as well. We need to do better in this regard too. It was...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Patricia Ryan: That will come at a massive cost and major lessons must be learned from the experience.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Patricia Ryan: I thank the Ministers and the Chair.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)
Patricia Ryan: I am asking the Minister that.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 Jul 2024)
Patricia Ryan: 89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills where exactly the new special school in County Kildare is to be located; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30082/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (10 Jul 2024)
Patricia Ryan: 164. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline, with regard to carer’s allowance, the timeframe she considers to be long-term when caring for an ill/disabled relative; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30079/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (10 Jul 2024)
Patricia Ryan: 165. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to include carer’s benefit and carer’s allowance as credited contributions for the purposes of pension entitlement calculation, as those caring are effectively doing a 35-hour week to the detriment of their being able to work outside the home; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Environmental Investigations (10 Jul 2024)
Patricia Ryan: 183. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of District Court enforcement proceedings for environmental and pollution breaches/offences brought by Kildare County Council in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [30081/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (10 Jul 2024)
Patricia Ryan: 271. To ask the Minister for Health the reason behind the ‘late discharges’ which have been ongoing in University Hospital Limerick, where elderly dementia/Alzheimer’s patients are being discharged/removed outside of normal discharge hours; where they are being removed to; and if their next of kin has been informed beforehand. [30083/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Jul 2024)
Patricia Ryan: 272. To ask the Minister for Health if, in light of the recent rapid rise in new strain Covid-19 cases, he has any plans in place to reinstate the PCR testing, which was discontinued in March 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30085/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (10 Jul 2024)
Patricia Ryan: 273. To ask the Minister for Health the level of engagement between his Department and the HSE and the residents of a nursing home (details supplied) to prevent its closure and the subsequent loss of the residents’ home. [30086/24]
- Inquiry into the death of Shane O'Farrell: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2024)
Patricia Ryan: I thank Deputy Carthy. I welcome the O'Farrell family here. I wish it were under other circumstances. It is almost 13 years since Shane O'Farrell's family was given the worst news any family could face - that Shane was not coming home. He had been the victim of a hit-and-run, struck down while cycling home by a car driven by Zigimantas Gridziuska, who immediately left the scene of the...
- Tackling All Forms of Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (3 Jul 2024)
Patricia Ryan: I appreciate the opportunity to contribute to the debate, particularly on the issue of domestic violence in all of its forms. It does not have to bruise or break to be abuse. There is mental, emotional and psychological abuse; destroying the victim's self-esteem day in and day out; financial control; depriving the victim of financial independence; isolation from family and friends and any...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)
Patricia Ryan: This Government promised to look after our older people. Why then is it being reported that elderly patients are continuing to be removed or discharged from University Hospital Limerick, UHL, outside normal discharge hours? Are their families being informed? I am told staff are being prevented from speaking out. I want to know why. Is this policy and, if so, why is it continuing? It is...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Jul 2024)
Patricia Ryan: 122. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will examine the case of illness benefit overpayments (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28583/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (3 Jul 2024)
Patricia Ryan: 162. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to reform the funding mechanism for an organisation (details supplied), which provides vital services in home and community care for vulnerable people, to enable them to continue to provide these services safely; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28588/24]
- Report of the Select Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Motion (27 Jun 2024)
Patricia Ryan: I assure the Acting Chair that I will not take the ten minutes allocated to me. On behalf of the committee, I thank all the stakeholders. Their work was invaluable to us. The amount of work the civil servants have put in has been invaluable. I like to think that, down the road, the report will not be left gathering dust on a shelf but will be implemented and will be a launching pad for a...
- Report of the Select Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Motion (27 Jun 2024)
Patricia Ryan: I move: That Dáil Éireann shall take note of the Report of the Select Committee on Budgetary Oversight entitled "Examination of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report", copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 20th September, 2023. I am happy to introduce the Examination of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report produced by the Select Committee...