Results 461-480 of 1,205,477 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:John Carty OR speaker:Roderic O'Gorman OR speaker:Kieran O'Donnell OR speaker:Seán Fleming OR speaker:Mary Lou McDonald OR speaker:Darren O'Rourke OR speaker:Martin Heydon OR speaker:Francis Noel Duffy OR speaker:Imelda Munster OR speaker:Matt Shanahan OR speaker:Ivana Bacik OR speaker:Jennifer Whitmore OR speaker:Ossian Smyth OR speaker:Michael Healy-Rae OR speaker:Jackie Cahill OR speaker:Simon Harris OR speaker:Pádraig Mac Lochlainn OR speaker:Charlie McConalogue OR speaker:Niall Collins OR speaker:David Stanton OR speaker:Helen McEntee OR speaker:Verona Murphy OR speaker:Gino Kenny OR speaker:Claire Kerrane OR speaker:Pádraig O'Sullivan OR speaker:Louise O'Reilly OR speaker:Denise Mitchell OR speaker:Jim O'Callaghan OR speaker:Pat Buckley OR speaker:Mairead Farrell OR speaker:Johnny Mythen OR speaker:Catherine Connolly OR speaker:Ruairi Ó Murchú OR speaker:James O'Connor OR speaker:Neale Richmond OR speaker:Thomas Pringle OR speaker:Fergus O'Dowd OR speaker:Darragh O'Brien OR speaker:Maurice Quinlivan OR speaker:Gary Gannon OR speaker:David Cullinane OR speaker:Michael Fitzmaurice OR speaker:Paschal Donohoe OR speaker:Robert Troy OR speaker:Seán Sherlock)
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: In the hospital in the Deputy's constituency, there has been a 5% increase in staffing levels since this Government came to office. That is the truth. More people are working in that hospital. Despite the Deputy's constant talking-down of the Government's recruitment efforts-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is understaffed.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: -----more people are working in that hospital. When it comes to safe staffing, which is the agreed staffing structure we have for safe nursing levels in the Irish health service, every single post in the safe staffing structure is now funded. Of the 2,000 posts, 1,500 are filled; 500 are fully funded. These are the facts.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: It is simply not true to say we are not hiring permanent staff.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: It is true.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: I just went through in quite a lot of detail the fact that there are 27,901 more people working in the Irish public health service now than when this Government came into office.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Pen pushers.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: With the cacophony of noise it is hard to concentrate. Including in respect of the Deputy's own local hospital, the Mater Hospital, I went through the material difference that has made in terms of hundreds of additional nurses working on the ground, thousands of extra doctors, thousands of extra healthcare professionals. The Deputy can say all that and she can acknowledge that to be true,...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Agency.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: In relation to agency, I guarantee you if the Minister for Health said tomorrow that we are not doing any more agency, despite all this recruitment, your Deputies would be writing to me saying "what about this?" and "what about that?".
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Deputies: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: There is always a need for flexibility and agility when it is hard to fill posts. We are recruiting record levels, more than ever. We have set a target of a two-thirds reduction in agency staff in 2025. The Deputy made a very important point that I ant to deal with directly about radiation therapists and cancer treatment. This is a real issue and I thank her for raising it. There are...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Ivana Bacik: Education is the great liberator, but that is if you can get an education. In Ireland in 2024, as we have learned today, 44 pupils across the country are being taught at home because there is no school place available for them. A further 150 young people are receiving home tuition because of anxiety or mental health issues but also in many cases because there are just not enough staff in...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: She is not looking for a second bike shed any more.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Ivana Bacik: Oh shut up.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: She gave up on the second bike shed.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: She is not very good at building anything.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: We have had enough of the Waldorf and Statler, please.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Ivana Bacik: Apologies, a Cheann Comhairle, but I have really had enough of that.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: We will tell you the truth oftentimes.