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- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Early Childhood Care and Education (9 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Next, I call Deputy Wynne to discuss the ECCE scheme's cut-off point for disabled children who need AIM-model funding for equipment to access preschool safety. I ask her not to mention anybody's name.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Early Childhood Care and Education (9 Oct 2024)
Violet-Anne Wynne: Yes. We have another name for the child that is not the actual name, if that is okay.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Early Childhood Care and Education (9 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Yes.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Early Childhood Care and Education (9 Oct 2024)
Violet-Anne Wynne: Lovely. Go raibh maith agat. I am incredibly grateful that the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, is here to take this question. It is of great local and personal importance to my constituents and to me. I had hoped the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, would take the question, but I was informed late yesterday evening that he was not in a position to do so. I will certainly not waste any time...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Marks (Madrid Protocol) (Amendment) Regulations 2024: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Emer Higgins: I am delighted to join members today and I am pleased to present to the committee a draft statutory instrument entitled Trade Marks (Madrid Protocol) (Amendment) Regulations 2024. As the committee will be aware, a trade mark is a sign that distinguishes the goods and services of one business from those of another. The trade mark is a valuable business asset that can attract and retain...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Marks (Madrid Protocol) (Amendment) Regulations 2024: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Emer Higgins: That is correct.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I wish the Chair and our colleagues a good morning. I welcome the opportunity to provide an update on the completion of the new children's hospital. I am joined by Fiona Ross, Derek Tierney, Tracey Conroy; and Patrick Lynch. We are all here today with a single focus, which is to see the new children's hospital completed and open and supporting the delivery of the best care possible to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I welcome the Minister and his colleagues. I also welcome his ongoing commitment to the children's hospital. It is the biggest single project of that nature ever undertaken in this State. It is not, by a long shot, the most expensive hospital in the world, despite comments from some people. It is ten times bigger than any similar project ever undertaken in this State. It is very...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I am sorry about that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Electionitis is definitely diagnosable but is, as of yet, untreatable. I thank Deputy Durkan for his support. Colleagues here and in the wider Oireachtas have a job to do in holding the Government to account, as they should and must do. What has been helpful, and I thank colleagues for this, is that while they have asked tough questions of me and the Government - as they must do and I am...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Yes, I do.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Yes, that is the information we have.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: The €500 million figure would be slightly off but the figure of €2.2 billion is correct.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I do not have an exact date but in the last number of weeks. It was after I met the board. With regard to the sequence of events I have not got the exact date.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I will give the committee a quick sequence of events so that colleagues have it. The Department was contacted by the board to signal that BAM had moved its completion date. Ms Ross and I met and on the back of that meeting I met with the full board. On the back of that I wrote to the Taoiseach, and subsequent to that I wrote to the chair of Royal BAM group.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Yes. This is all in the last two months or so.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I did.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: They did not disagree.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: No. The Deputy's first question was whether I had put it to them. It was not exactly as the Deputy has said, but I did make it very clear that the view of the Government and the view of the board was that the project-----