Results 1,761-1,780 of 1,161,871 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Tom Kitt OR speaker:Paul Donnelly OR speaker:Pa Daly OR speaker:Martin Browne OR speaker:John Lahart OR speaker:Gary Gannon OR speaker:Mary Butler OR speaker:Catherine Martin OR speaker:Roderic O'Gorman OR speaker:Heather Humphreys OR speaker:Jennifer Whitmore OR speaker:Helen McEntee OR speaker:Marc MacSharry OR speaker:Jennifer Carroll MacNeill OR speaker:Pippa Hackett OR speaker:Michael Healy-Rae OR speaker:Dessie Ellis OR speaker:Brian Leddin OR speaker:Seán Ó Fearghaíl OR speaker:Imelda Munster OR speaker:Michael Lowry OR speaker:Brendan Griffin OR speaker:Alan Dillon OR speaker:Denis Naughten OR speaker:Stephen Donnelly OR speaker:Ivana Bacik OR speaker:Cian O'Callaghan OR speaker:Hildegarde Naughton OR speaker:Marian Harkin OR speaker:Ruairi Ó Murchú OR speaker:Pádraig O'Sullivan OR speaker:Ciarán Cannon OR speaker:Gino Kenny OR speaker:Martin Heydon OR speaker:Seán Haughey OR speaker:Catherine Connolly OR speaker:Anne Rabbitte OR speaker:Seán Crowe OR speaker:Seán Ó Fearghaíl9 OR speaker:Martin Kenny OR speaker:Mick Barry OR speaker:Mark Ward OR speaker:Brendan Smith OR speaker:Micheál Martin OR speaker:Niamh Smyth OR speaker:Michael Ring OR speaker:Danny Healy-Rae OR speaker:Pádraig Mac Lochlainn OR speaker:Cathal Crowe OR speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett OR speaker:James Browne OR speaker:Richard O'Donoghue OR speaker:Pat Buckley OR speaker:Richard Bruton OR speaker:Joe O'Brien OR speaker:Darren O'Rourke OR speaker:Robert Troy OR speaker:Mairead Farrell) in 'Committee meetings'

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I know. Deputy Flaherty, please.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I have to raise the case of a Longford family in the midst of the deepest, darkest crisis at the moment. Over the last number of months their 16-year-old son Jacob has subjected his parents to unrelenting violence. He has wrecked the family home, wrecked the family car and in recent weeks his three siblings have been dispatched to relatives and friends for their own personal safety. I...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Patrick Costello: I need to raise again the issue of the lack of public health nurses in Old County Road health centre. I have raised several times before the fact that no developmental checks are being offered to small children and their families. These developmental checks are incredibly important for young children, for babies, for picking up future needs and for supporting young parents. No...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Whitmore. There are now more teachers than ever working in the Irish education system. In March of this year, there were 78,646 teachers employed, with less than 1% of resignations and less than 2% of retirements annually. The teacher allocation ratio in primary schools is now at the lowest level it has ever been but I accept the broader point in respect of shortages and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have repeatedly raised the recruitment embargo by another name that the Government has imposed on the health service, the so-called pay and numbers strategy, which is limiting the ability of hospitals and health services to recruit the staff they need to ensure safe staffing and proper patient safety in the hospitals. The Taoiseach is aware health workers are balloting for industrial...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: All right, the time is up.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The hospital remains exactly as it was when the workers first raised this issue - chronically understaffed and not safe for patients.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Please, Deputy. The time is up.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can the Taoiseach look into it or explain?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: I will certainly look into the specifics and ask the Minister for Health to revert. We should be very careful in saying things about hospitals being not safe for patients. St. Michael's Hospital is a very good hospital providing very good care to many people, including my family, over the years.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I know that.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: Let us not suggest the care being provided in the hospital is not safe. That is not a responsible thing to say in this House. The care in St. Michael's Hospital is safe and excellent. I will ask the Minister for Health-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not if it is not staffed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: I will ask the Minister for Health to revert to the Deputy directly on the issue. To put it in context, as of August of this year, there were 27,901 more staff working in the health service than there were in 2020. That is 9,375 additional nurses, 6,184 other people working across the hospitals, 4,092 health and social care professionals and 3,330 doctors and dentists. There are tens of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Michael Lowry: The number of taxis is having a detrimental impact on rural Ireland. In Tipperary, according to the most recent figures, there has been a drop to just 220 taxis despite a population growth of more than 4,000 people. This has an obvious negative impact on hospitality and retail services. Pubs and restaurants throughout Tipperary were already struggling with increased overheads and now they...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: I met some taxi drivers yesterday in Santry and they were highlighting a number of the challenges they saw in terms of the rigidity of the current system. There is a review under way. I will get the Deputy a timeline from the line Minister with regard to where that is at and when it is expected to have an output. The point the Deputy makes is right. We need to see a partnership...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Tipperary ETB has been instructed to offload any buildings it is not using for education and further education purposes from the Department of Education to hit climate change goals. As such, Butler Charteris Hall in Cahir has been put up for sale despite it being used as a preschool for several years under a licence agreement with the ETB. This is farcical. Why does the Department of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy McGrath for his passionate belief in a service that clearly is making a positive impact in his community. The Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, informs me that Tusla and the Department are engaging and talking on this. I will make the case to them that the Deputy has made here and see if we can make progress on the issue.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: A few comments have been made already by people in here who do not a lot about farming and the record needs to be corrected. The University of Oxford has done a study. It is printed in the Irish Farmers' Journal, for anyone who wants to read it. The article, entitled, "Sewage worse for rivers than farming", refers to treated or untreated sewage. The Deputies should get the Irish Farmers'...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: The Deputy is entirely right to call out the scare tactics that are applied in relation to farmers and agriculture. It is going on for far too long. Farmers have mental health, well-being and a livelihood. They have a family. They have a mortgage to pay, like everybody else in this country. People in this House speak about farmers in a way they would not speak about any other sector of...