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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: Covid has taken the lives of over 9,500 citizens to date in our country. It was a shock and an appalling vista to all of those families who lost those loved ones. As a supporter of the Government, I want to know what we are going to do in relation to learning the lessons from the deaths from Covid. Ninety per cent of those deaths were people aged over 65. Older people are queuing up...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Micheál Martin: The Government has undertaken a lot of work in respect of an evaluation of how the nation did in respect of Covid-19, which was an extremely traumatic and devastating time for many families across the country who lost their loved ones. No doubt vaccination changed the course of the pandemic and enabled us to live with Covid into the future, but it still is a dangerous virus, particularly for...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I have so many families around the county of Carlow whose children were refused places on the local school bus. For example, Bus Éireann has a private operator in Rathvilly, which is a small rural part of Carlow, but one of the buses is a 24-seater. I have asked for a bigger bus, a 52-seater, which would sort out a huge issue in that area. This bus goes from Rathvilly to Tullow...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputy Lawless, is that your baby?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

James Lawless: Not school buses.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Micheál Martin: First, I will talk to the Minister for Education in respect of this specific issue. I am surprised that Bus Éireann has not conceded yet. Given that Deputy Murnane-O'Connor is in weekly engagement with them, I would have thought-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Every week.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Micheál Martin: -----that, given the manner in which she approaches these agencies with her tenacity, they would have caved in by now. Anyhow, in a serious vein, it is a serious issue. I think there is an issue with some people getting tickets but not using them and then taking up seats that other people would use. We need to resolve that. I will talk to the Minister to see what we can do.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Mairead Farrell: Bhí sé iontach a bheith ar Inis Mór roinnt seachtainí ó shin i gcomhair sheoladh oifigiúil otharcharr nua Inis Mór. Bhí súil ag muintir Inis Oírr go bhfaigheadh siad sean-otharcharr Inis Mór ach ní bhfuair mar gheall go raibh sé i ndroch-chaoi. Tuigim sin ach is léir go dteastaíonn otharcharr ó Inis Oírr....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Micheál Martin: Mar a dúirt an Teachta, is iontach an scéal é go bhfuil otharcharr nua in Inis Mór anois. Níl aon ionadh orm go bhfuil muintir Inis Oírr ag lorg otharchairr chomh maith. Fuair an tAire Sláinte an-chuid airgid i mbliana agus, faoi láthair, don bhliain seo chugainn tá sé ag lorg níos mó airgid agus áiseanna. De réir...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Pauline Tully: I want to raise the issue of the cardiology service in Cavan and Monaghan Hospital. GPs in both counties have been written to and told not to refer cardiology patients to the hospital because there is no consultant. The consultant has left to take up another position. They say recruitment is ongoing but that could take months. There is no pathway for referral being outlined to them...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Micheál Martin: Is it the absence of cardiologists in Cavan-Monaghan?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Pauline Tully: In Cavan-Monaghan.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Micheál Martin: Okay. I will talk to the Minister for Health in relation to that. There should be alternative pathways of referral for people with challenges in respect of cardiac disease notwithstanding the fact that they are currently recruiting, as the Deputy said, for a cardiologist. I will talk to the Minister for Health.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Earlier, the Tánaiste acknowledged that PDS is continuing to fail as a policy in terms of providing for the needs of children, particularly in special schools. I want to raise the pilot scheme that the Tánaiste referenced as well earlier in relation to the reintroduction of therapists into special schools. The Tánaiste referenced that there were considerable roadblocks to...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Micheál Martin: First, I thank the Deputy, who has been pursuing this issue for quite some time. In my view, on the pilot scheme, I would prefer a much wider scheme. We are three parties in government. I have very clear views as to what we need to do now and that is a wholly school-based multidisciplinary delivery model. On the issues around recruitment of therapists, the HSE clearly has issues in terms...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Tánaiste.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Micheál Martin: -----beginning with our special schools, so that the occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, physiotherapists and psychologists are in the schools with the teachers. That would be a much more consistent and sustainable model than the one which has not worked to date.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The overspend and the massive delay that exists in the national children's hospital exists because of the ill-defined, woolly confusion in that hospital contract. The contract for the national children's hospital was signed by the Taoiseach, Simon Harris, and it has proven to be a shambles. It has created an open chequebook for BAM. I have the bill of quantities for the tender for the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Deputy. The time is up.