Results 201-220 of 1,125,164 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Pat Deering OR speaker:Cian O'Callaghan OR speaker:James Lawless OR speaker:Chris Andrews OR speaker:Simon Coveney OR speaker:Rose Conway-Walsh OR speaker:Chris Andrews6 OR speaker:Alan Farrell OR speaker:Heather Humphreys OR speaker:Danny Healy-Rae OR speaker:Pauline Tully OR speaker:Thomas Pringle OR speaker:Carol Nolan OR speaker:Verona Murphy OR speaker:Patrick O'Donovan OR speaker:David Stanton OR speaker:Pippa Hackett OR speaker:Michael Ring OR speaker:Mattie McGrath OR speaker:Alan Kelly OR speaker:Peter Burke OR speaker:Jennifer Carroll MacNeill OR speaker:Brian Stanley OR speaker:Jackie Cahill OR speaker:Alan Dillon OR speaker:Michael Healy-Rae OR speaker:Mark Ward OR speaker:Steven Matthews OR speaker:Ossian Smyth OR speaker:Brian Leddin) in 'Committee meetings'
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The hospital remains exactly as it was when the workers first raised this issue - chronically understaffed and not safe for patients.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Please, Deputy. The time is up.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can the Taoiseach look into it or explain?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: I will certainly look into the specifics and ask the Minister for Health to revert. We should be very careful in saying things about hospitals being not safe for patients. St. Michael's Hospital is a very good hospital providing very good care to many people, including my family, over the years.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I know that.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: Let us not suggest the care being provided in the hospital is not safe. That is not a responsible thing to say in this House. The care in St. Michael's Hospital is safe and excellent. I will ask the Minister for Health-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not if it is not staffed.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: I will ask the Minister for Health to revert to the Deputy directly on the issue. To put it in context, as of August of this year, there were 27,901 more staff working in the health service than there were in 2020. That is 9,375 additional nurses, 6,184 other people working across the hospitals, 4,092 health and social care professionals and 3,330 doctors and dentists. There are tens of...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)
Michael Lowry: The number of taxis is having a detrimental impact on rural Ireland. In Tipperary, according to the most recent figures, there has been a drop to just 220 taxis despite a population growth of more than 4,000 people. This has an obvious negative impact on hospitality and retail services. Pubs and restaurants throughout Tipperary were already struggling with increased overheads and now they...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: I met some taxi drivers yesterday in Santry and they were highlighting a number of the challenges they saw in terms of the rigidity of the current system. There is a review under way. I will get the Deputy a timeline from the line Minister with regard to where that is at and when it is expected to have an output. The point the Deputy makes is right. We need to see a partnership...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Tipperary ETB has been instructed to offload any buildings it is not using for education and further education purposes from the Department of Education to hit climate change goals. As such, Butler Charteris Hall in Cahir has been put up for sale despite it being used as a preschool for several years under a licence agreement with the ETB. This is farcical. Why does the Department of...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank Deputy McGrath for his passionate belief in a service that clearly is making a positive impact in his community. The Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, informs me that Tusla and the Department are engaging and talking on this. I will make the case to them that the Deputy has made here and see if we can make progress on the issue.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: A few comments have been made already by people in here who do not a lot about farming and the record needs to be corrected. The University of Oxford has done a study. It is printed in the Irish Farmers' Journal, for anyone who wants to read it. The article, entitled, "Sewage worse for rivers than farming", refers to treated or untreated sewage. The Deputies should get the Irish Farmers'...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: The Deputy is entirely right to call out the scare tactics that are applied in relation to farmers and agriculture. It is going on for far too long. Farmers have mental health, well-being and a livelihood. They have a family. They have a mortgage to pay, like everybody else in this country. People in this House speak about farmers in a way they would not speak about any other sector of...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)
Brendan Smith: There is an urgent need for more flexibility by the Department of Education in applying the criteria for the retention of teaching posts where there is a short-term drop in a school's enrolment on 30 September but this drop in enrolment is reversed within a very short period of time, particularly by the end of that school term, bringing the school's enrolment up to the required threshold for...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Smith for raising this case. I would be happy to take the details from the Deputy and to talk further to the Minister for Education. I know the Minister, Deputy Foley, is conscious of these issues and gets the importance of them. We do need a system that is grounded in common-sense flexibility. I know the Minister shares that view. I am happy to take the details from the...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Have a look at your own.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: -----that a child was being targeted by a Member of the Oireachtas.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: That is not a point of order.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Have a look at your own.