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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: On 18 April, I asked the Minister of State, Deputy Butler about the lack of public health nurses across the Dublin 8 and Dublin 12 areas, especially regarding childhood development checks. The reply given to me by the Minister of State was that it was not a funding issue or a moratorium issue, it is due to a lack of public health nurses for that area. She said she would bring my concern...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Mary Butler: While I know the Deputy is very annoyed, the HSE is in charge of recruitment in respect of public health nurses.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: You said you would intervene.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Mary Butler: I said I would intervene and I brought it to the attention of the Department, which brought it to the attention of the HSE. It has been raised in the House by many Deputies in your area. For some reason, there is a significant challenge in recruiting public health nurses in that particular area. I understand how important public health nurses are in relation to young babies, their mothers...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Joan Collins: There has to be an interim solution.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: As the Taoiseach highlighted earlier, we have tragically lost 97 people on our roads this year, which is 12 more than at this time last year. We urgently need to act to avoid further loss of life. I have long advocated for the creation of a road safety commissioner with the authority and resources to deliver on our commitment to zero deaths by 2050. The chair of the RSA has said there is...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Cannon and acknowledge that he has been a very strong advocate for road safety for long years. I thank him for that. I join with him in wishing the Minister of State, Deputy Lawless, very well in his new role. I absolutely will sit down with him. In the 12 weeks I have been Taoiseach, I have chaired two ministerial meetings on the issue of road safety with the Road Safety...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Motion to Instruct Committee (3 Jul 2024)

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Motion to Instruct Committee (3 Jul 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I move: That it be an instruction to the Committee on the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024 that, pursuant to Standing Order 187, the Committee has power to make amendments to the Bill which are outside the scope of the existing provisions of the Bill in order to make an amendment to the Mental Health Act 2001, in order to increase the length of time a person can serve on...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Motion to Instruct Committee (3 Jul 2024)

Question put and agreed to.

Ceisteanna - Questions (3 Jul 2024)

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Jul 2024)

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Jul 2024)

Seán Haughey: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the informal meeting of the European Council on 17 June 2024. [26828/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the informal European Council in Brussels. [27043/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Jul 2024)

Mick Barry: 3. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his attendance at the informal leaders' meeting of the European Council on 17 June 2024. [27083/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Jul 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the informal European Council in Brussels. [27973/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Jul 2024)

Holly Cairns: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the informal meeting of the European Council on 17 June 2024. [28142/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 5, inclusive, together. As colleagues will know, I attended an informal European Council meeting on Monday, 17 June in Brussels that largely took place over a working dinner. At this meeting European leaders took stock of the outcome of the elections for the European Parliament, and we began discussions on the key positions in the European Union...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for raising this serious issue, which is one I discussed with the Minister for Health on Monday, I think, at the Cabinet committee on health. There may well be a particular challenge in Carrigaline and in parts of Cork but the Deputy is right to suggest that it is a more national challenge. I know the Minister for Health and his Department have given consideration to what...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2024)

Claire Kerrane: Central Statistics Office, CSO, crime statistics tell us that robbery is up 18% in the first quarter of this year compared with the first quarter of last year. In my constituency, across Roscommon and Galway we have had numerous burglaries in recent weeks and months. The idea of older people who live on their own being afraid in their own homes is a very sad indictment of where we are...