Results 621-640 of 1,086,183 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Tom Kitt OR speaker:Carol Nolan OR speaker:Thomas Byrne OR speaker:Neasa Hourigan OR speaker:Cathal Berry OR speaker:Thomas Pringle OR speaker:Denise Mitchell OR speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett OR speaker:Thomas Byrne0 OR speaker:Michael McGrath OR speaker:Seán Crowe OR speaker:Hildegarde Naughton OR speaker:Fergus O'Dowd OR speaker:Marian Harkin OR speaker:Paul Murphy OR speaker:Richard Bruton OR speaker:Martin Kenny) in 'Committee meetings'
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Collins: We find ourselves in an unbelievable situation. Four or five years ago there was a vote of no confidence in the then Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, and it led to a general election. That vote was called on the basis of the health service and health scandals. Nothing has got any better since then. People are waiting three to five years for cataract treatment, while others are waiting...
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Ring: I call Deputy Pringle of the Independent Group.
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: A Chathaoirligh Gníomhach, on a point of order, where has the Minister gone? What is more important than being here-----
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Ring: Deputy, you have had your time.
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: Where has the Minister gone?
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Ring: He is over there.
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: He is not the Minister.
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Ring: He is a Minister. Do not be so disrespectful. Deputy Healy-Rae should sit down now. I call Deputy Pringle.
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister is not here.
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Collins: What about Bere Island and Cape Clear?
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: I am never disrespectful to anyone.
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Ring: He is a Minister.
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: I have no respect for the man who is not here.
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Ring: You had your time, Deputy.
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Thomas Pringle: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion regarding public health service staffing. I fully support this motion, particularly its call on the Government to lift the recruitment moratorium, commit to restoring staff positions abolished in 2023 and 2024 and fund the additional recruitment needed for appropriate staffing and the expansion of services. I thank the Labour Party for...
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Ring: I call People Before Profit-Solidarity Deputies Boyd Barrett, Murphy and Barry.
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Paul Murphy: It is me and Deputy Boyd Barrett.
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Ring: That is grand.
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Paul Murphy: The Minister for Health has the neck to come in here and claim that the pay and numbers strategy is not a recruitment moratorium when the health unions are telling us that is precisely what it is. To be clear, it does not matter to health workers or to patient safety whether or not it is officially called a recruitment moratorium. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a...
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputy Duncan Smith and his colleagues for this important motion. This debate is about whether we have safe and adequate staffing levels in our hospitals and health services, and whether the pay and numbers strategy is an embargo by another name to prevent the recruitment necessary to reach the safe and adequate staffing levels required to ensure patient safety and provide treatment...