Results 1,141-1,160 of 1,190,919 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Tom Kitt OR speaker:Brendan Griffin OR speaker:James Lawless OR speaker:Claire Kerrane OR speaker:Michael Healy-Rae OR speaker:Micheál Martin OR speaker:Frank Feighan OR speaker:Michael McGrath OR speaker:Mark Ward OR speaker:Alan Dillon OR speaker:Michael Ring OR speaker:Norma Foley OR speaker:Joan Collins OR speaker:Mick Barry OR speaker:Martin Browne OR speaker:Brendan Howlin OR speaker:Steven Matthews OR speaker:Emer Higgins OR speaker:John Brady OR speaker:Mattie McGrath OR speaker:Chris Andrews OR speaker:Darragh O'Brien OR speaker:Eamon Ryan OR speaker:Ruairi Ó Murchú OR speaker:Verona Murphy OR speaker:Roderic O'Gorman OR speaker:Brian Stanley OR speaker:Dara Calleary OR speaker:Noel Grealish OR speaker:Eoin Ó Broin OR speaker:Pearse Doherty OR speaker:Martin Kenny OR speaker:David Cullinane OR speaker:Alan Kelly OR speaker:Colm Burke OR speaker:Willie O'Dea OR speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett OR speaker:Duncan Smith OR speaker:Chris Andrews7 OR speaker:Simon Harris OR speaker:Patrick Costello OR speaker:Pádraig Mac Lochlainn OR speaker:Michael Collins OR speaker:Alan Farrell OR speaker:Paschal Donohoe OR speaker:Martin Heydon)
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Brendan Howlin: I thank all Deputies for participating for what will be the Labour Party's last Private Members' business of this Dáil. It is important, therefore, we selected the issue of health. It is one of the two overarching social and economic priorities for this country, the other being housing. Health is a critical issue and we sought to be constructive in the motion we tabled to allow the...
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Marian Harkin: I thank the Labour Party for tabling this motion because it allows us to discuss this important issue. I will spend my time focusing on the more local impacts of Government healthcare policy. I will concentrate on the impacts on Sligo University Hospital, SUH. This is what matters to the people living there because it is their local hospital. What are we talking about? Last week,...
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Violet-Anne Wynne: I sincerely thank the Labour Party for bringing forward this important motion. Starting with vacancy numbers, a response to a parliamentary question stated there were 240.42 whole-time equivalent nursing vacancies in UHL. As we heard at a recent meeting of the health committee, SIPTU was able to provide information to me that indicated there were more than 70 healthcare assistant vacancies...
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Colm Burke: I thank all the speakers today for contributing their views on this matter. I reiterate what the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, said in respect of the value we place on all the staff working in our health service. These are the people working tirelessly daily to provide care to those most in need right across the country. The Members here went through each of the hospitals in their own local...
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: I thank the nurses, doctors and carers. Their performance in County Kerry has been outstanding and is outstanding. I sympathise with all the members of the INMO who are protesting today outside Tralee University Hospital. They should not have to be there. I say to the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, that his operation as Minister is the worst part of the Government. He is the worst cog in the...
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: I thank the Labour Party for bringing forward this very important motion. If you can get a vet into your yard within an hour or an hour and a half, but if your grandmother goes to an emergency department she might have to wait for 24 hours to see a doctor, that is a bad sign for the health service. We are spending billions of euro on that service, but you can get a vet quicker than you...
- 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.