Results 561-580 of 1,159,039 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Paul Gavan OR speaker:Hildegarde Naughton OR speaker:Kieran O'Donnell OR speaker:Seán Canney OR speaker:Seán Fleming OR speaker:Seán Sherlock OR speaker:Francis Noel Duffy OR speaker:Richard Bruton OR speaker:Richard Bruton6 OR speaker:Leo Varadkar OR speaker:Brendan Griffin OR speaker:Marian Harkin OR speaker:Stephen Donnelly OR speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív OR speaker:Paul Donnelly OR speaker:Matt Shanahan OR speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett OR speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív88 OR speaker:Gary Gannon OR speaker:Niall Collins OR speaker:Pat Buckley OR speaker:Colm Brophy OR speaker:James O'Connor OR speaker:Pauline Tully OR speaker:Joe Flaherty OR speaker:Ciarán Cannon OR speaker:Mary Butler OR speaker:Jim O'Callaghan OR speaker:Mary Lou McDonald OR speaker:Mark Ward OR speaker:Dara Calleary OR speaker:John Lahart OR speaker:Sorca Clarke OR speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív58 OR speaker:Joe O'Brien OR speaker:Pa Daly OR speaker:James Browne OR speaker:Christopher O'Sullivan OR speaker:Paul McAuliffe OR speaker:Darren O'Rourke OR speaker:Frank Feighan) in 'Committee meetings'
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I believe the Government is deceiving the public about what is actually happening in the health service. While it claims it is trying to recruit people to the health service to fill the staff shortages to address the ever-growing waiting lists, which have now reached nearly 1 million people in various hospitals, or the 10,000 children waiting for assessments of need, the 110,000 children...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: Come on.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It absolutely is. I was talking to radiation therapists who will be in here later today. They say that despite capital investment in, for example, linear accelerators and scanners in Cork, Galway and St. Luke's, the machines are sitting idle because they do not have enough staff, and that if people leave, there is no guarantee at all that they will be replaced and there is no effort to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: They are not.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I believe the health workers. I do not believe the Government. The workers are saying that they are stressed and overworked, that staffing levels are not safe, that patient safety is being endangered and that they are utterly demoralised. The Taoiseach should tell the truth about what is happening in the health service and scrap the pay and numbers strategy.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: We will not scrap the pay and numbers strategy because that is how you run the country. You run Government Departments and public services by providing a budget that is voted through this House. That budget then translates into a number of positions in any public service agency and then the agency or the Minister responsible ensures those positions are filled. If it is the position of the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are getting nearer to the truth now.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: Excuse me, sorry.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Mick Barry: They are out to save safe staffing.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Please, will you let the Taoiseach answer?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. We do not need to use language in this House about "deceiving" and "gaslighting". I have facts, which I have outlined. The Deputy can tell me-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
(Interruptions).
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: The Deputy can wave his sheet of paper, but-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have my facts from the HSE.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: The Deputy will get another chance in a minute, so it would be appreciated if he could give me a little opportunity to respond. Does he accept that 9,375 additional nurses and midwives are now working in the health service compared with 2020, that there are 4,092 health and social care professionals additional to 2020 or that there are an additional 3,330 doctors and dentists? Those are...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Of course the numbers are growing. Our population is growing and the need is growing. Baffling people with figures that are out of context does not tell the real truth. Waiting lists are not falling, according to the hospital consultants the Taoiseach mentioned. They are saying they are going to increase by 11% this year, so we will have 746,000 people waiting for outpatient appointments...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: I am kind of baffled by the fact the Deputy thinks it is breaking news - hold the front page - that organisations are given a budget and can employ people within that budget. The budget we have given for the health service allows it to hire 7,500 more people between the end of this year and the end of next year. Last year saw the highest number of staff ever recruited in the history of the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I got the figures from the Government. I got them from the Taoiseach's Minister for Health.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Please, Deputy, will you stop interrupting?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: The faux outrage must be utterly exhausting. In St. Michael's Hospital, the Deputy's hospital, as he calls it-----