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- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Meals Programme (26 Jun 2024)
Joe O'Brien: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter. The objective of the school meals programme is to provide regular nutritious food to children to support them in taking full advantage of the education provided to them. The programme is an important component of policy to encourage school attendance and extra educational achievement. Following a significant expansion in recent years, some 2,600...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Strategic Roadmap for the Digital Decade: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
David Stanton: I welcome the witnesses. I thank them for coming in and for all the work they do in this space. It is important. Ms Carberry stated that we are in Europe fourth for basic digital content, fifth in the context of SMEs selling online and fifth in the number of unicorns. Who is ahead of us?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Strategic Roadmap for the Digital Decade: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
David Stanton: It might be useful to know what they are doing that we are not and how we can emulate them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Strategic Roadmap for the Digital Decade: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
David Stanton: With all that is coming down the tracks and the huge demands that will placed on us all with respect to AI, in particular, and the use of data centres, perhaps the witnesses heard Seamus Dunne from Digital Realty on Newstalk this morning. He was concerned about the moratorium on data centres here. He said that without capacity, we are stymied. We will not be able to achieve what the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Strategic Roadmap for the Digital Decade: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
David Stanton: I am glad to hear that. Already, the word is out there among many of the investors and FDI companies that there is a problem here that needs to be addressed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Strategic Roadmap for the Digital Decade: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
David Stanton: I am glad to hear that because certainty is hugely important for the future. There is no doubt about that and I want to support the Department and encourage it in the work it is doing in this space. It is hugely important. We can have all the plans and other things, but without the physical infrastructure in place we are stuck.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Strategic Roadmap for the Digital Decade: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
David Stanton: Energy is linked to this issue and the committee has had a number of debates on it. The Chair is aware of concerns that members had about the amount of energy the data centres use. Given the significant growth projected for AI, we are going to see more of that. As we speak, some solar farms are being curtailed because we cannot take the units they are producing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Strategic Roadmap for the Digital Decade: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
David Stanton: We need to get the word out that there is a plan and that we are open for business in this area because that is not the message that I am getting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Strategic Roadmap for the Digital Decade: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
David Stanton: One of the areas the Department mentions, and it is one of our weak areas, is access to e-health records. We are currently ranked 27th on this. Why are we still using paper records? It does not make sense. It is far more efficient to have records digitised. The Department is saying we are ranked 27th, which is extraordinary.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Strategic Roadmap for the Digital Decade: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)
David Stanton: People going into hospital are still filling out paper forms. It is ridiculous in this day and age. There is no connectivity between the various sectors. It is ridiculous. It is not only a cost in terms of manpower and so on, it is also dangerous. Paper forms get lost, so digitisation is far safer. That is an area that needs work. The new national enterprise hub for SMEs tracks...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (26 Jun 2024)
Joe Flaherty: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I had hoped for a more robust response from the Department. Given its commitment to the comprehensive review and “reform of oral healthcare services, including legislative reform, as set out in the national oral health policy”, I would have expected the Department to be much more stringent in its terms and specifically set out...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (26 Jun 2024)
Dara Calleary: I would encourage the Deputy to provide the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, with the specific details of the case so that it can be followed through. The Minister is looking at reviewing and updating the legislation in the context of the wider implementation of the new national oral health policy, which envisages a fundamental reform of oral health services. Any new legislation will be informed...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Children's Hospital (26 Jun 2024)
National Children's Hospital
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Children's Hospital (26 Jun 2024)
Pauline Tully: I was stunned to read this week that the long-awaited and long-overdue national children’s hospital was set to be delayed further and that this supposedly state-of-the-art hospital may not even be accessible to wheelchair users. The Dáil was told in February that the project’s completion date would be this October and that the first patients could be expected to be treated...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Children's Hospital (26 Jun 2024)
Dara Calleary: On behalf of the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, I thank Deputy Tully for raising this matter and giving me the opportunity to address the speculation about the lack of accessibility for wheelchair users at the new children’s hospital. The hospital is the largest health capital project in the history of the State and will transform the delivery of paediatric healthcare in Ireland. The...
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- Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (26 Jun 2024)