Results 61-80 of 1,091,448 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Neale Richmond OR speaker:Thomas Pringle OR speaker:Rose Conway-Walsh OR speaker:Colm Burke OR speaker:Dara Calleary OR speaker:Danny Healy-Rae OR speaker:Pearse Doherty OR speaker:David Cullinane OR speaker:Pádraig Mac Lochlainn OR speaker:Michael Healy-Rae OR speaker:Paul Murphy OR speaker:Duncan Smith OR speaker:Jennifer Murnane O'Connor OR speaker:Peter Burke OR speaker:Seán Ó Fearghaíl OR speaker:Cathal Crowe OR speaker:Stephen Donnelly)
- Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (10 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Yes, it is different. The advice I have is that the UK and New Zealand have vaping as part of their smoking cessation policy, but that no other country does. The WHO is taking an increasingly hard line on vaping. My understanding is that is for two reasons: the first of which chimes with Deputy Hourigan's point that it is still highly addictive. The second is that the evidence is still...
- Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (10 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: If that were the case, it would be all the more reason to consider amendment No. 2 and all that it calls for to be of value and assist any future Minister in that regard.
- Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (10 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Yes, I agree with that, with the caveat that it is happening anyway, and there are a lot of different bits to it.
- Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (10 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Yes.
- Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (10 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Yes, of course. Absolutely.
- Select Committee on Health: Business of Select Committee (10 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: I have an important meeting in Wicklow-----
- World Mental Health Day: Statements (10 Oct 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister of State. That concludes statements to mark World Mental Health Day: Making Mental Health a Priority for Everyone.
- Teachtaireacht ón Seanad - Message from Seanad (10 Oct 2024)
- Teachtaireacht ón Seanad - Message from Seanad (10 Oct 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Seanad Éireann has passed the Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2024, without amendment.
- Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (10 Oct 2024)
- Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (10 Oct 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 37 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Joe Flaherty - To discuss the inclusion of students who stammer in the reasonable accommodations at certificate examinations guidelines. Deputy Marc Ó Cathasaigh - To discuss the impact of the removal of hedgerows. Deputy...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (10 Oct 2024)
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (10 Oct 2024)
Employment Rights
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (10 Oct 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: I want to discuss the importance of sick leave. I genuinely thought I had done a good job convincing the Government how important sick leave is, but after reading the budget, it turns out that I have a little more work to do. During the pandemic, we spent hours discussing the importance of sick leave and of workers being able to safely and affordably stay out of work when they were not...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (10 Oct 2024)
Dara Calleary: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Teachta as ucht an deis labhairt faoi seo. I am taking this on behalf of the Minister of State, Deputy Higgins, and the Minister, Deputy Peter Burke. I know the House will join with me in expressing our sympathies to the Minister on the passing of his mother. As the Deputy indicated, statutory sick leave is a valuable public health intervention. It reduces...
- World Mental Health Day: Statements (10 Oct 2024)
Mary Butler: I thank Members of the House for their contributions. I thank all of those who work across mental health services in public, private and voluntary community services. They do a phenomenal amount of work. I want to refer to a couple of issues that were raised. I was asked whether the Mental Health Bill would fall if the Government was dissolved. Technically, it will fall. However, on...
- World Mental Health Day: Statements (10 Oct 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Deputy. We are over time.
- World Mental Health Day: Statements (10 Oct 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: That is not the case. What happens in Crosslanes is that sometimes people are brought in there. The assessment is made but that is only done after the inpatients are looked after-----
- World Mental Health Day: Statements (10 Oct 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Deputy, we are over time.
- World Mental Health Day: Statements (10 Oct 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: -----which means time goes by. There is no night-time service in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital for assessment-----