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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is worse. The IMO says it is worse.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Simon Harris: I do not believe it is. There has been a very significant level of investment. I will read the IMO’s comments in that regard, the Minister will engage on that and, of course, we will have a new health budget delivered on budget day just two weeks from today. In response to Deputy Wynne, I am happy for there to be a debate in this House on UHL. I might have said on that occasion...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Cabinet Committees
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs will next meet. [36564/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Simon Harris: The Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs oversees implementation of programme for Government commitments and considers policy matters in relation to the European Union and international issues. The committee generally meets in advance of meetings of the European Council to discuss the agenda for these meetings. In addition, it considers current EU and international matters,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: Mobile devices across Lebanon, whether pagers or two-way radios, exploded indiscriminately, killing 12, including two children, and injuring thousands. Obviously, this was a clear attempt by Israel to escalate the situation and further destabilise the region, and an attempt to distract from the genocide it is committing in Gaza. In February of this year, the then Taoiseach, Deputy Varadkar,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Paul Murphy: It is reported that more bombs are going off in Lebanon now, with an additional three people killed today, and we know 12 were killed yesterday, including two children. This is state terrorism. It is a very clear war crime and I would like the Taoiseach to clearly condemn it in those terms. This is not some once-off out of nowhere. Over the last year, there have been more than 6,000...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Cabinet Committees
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [36563/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [36612/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will meet next. [36722/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 3 to 5, inclusive, together. The Cabinet committee on health last met on 1 July 2024 and is due to meet again soon. In addition to the meetings of the full Cabinet and of Cabinet committees, I meet Ministers on an individual basis to focus on different issues. I meet regularly with the Minister for Health to discuss progress and challenges in the area...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: I raise the issue of the Drogheda department of psychiatry in Crosslanes. Planning permission has been granted for a ten-bed extension. The significant issue in Louth-Meath is historically poor bed provision. We are operating at around 12.9 beds per 100,000, whereas in the rest of the State it is more like 15 or 16 beds per 100,000. We need a timeline for that. The Mental Health...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: I raise the horrific case of Harvey Sherratt. Harvey is an eight-year-old boy. For some reason, he has been removed from the waiting list for scoliosis surgery without his parents being informed of this. Many people will have seen images of Harvey circulating in the media. It is shockingly clear that this child is suffering significantly. The curvature of his spine seems to be in excess...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In July, the HSE announced that there was a lifting of a recruitment embargo for the health services. That announcement was a deception. How do I know? It is because over the past number of weeks, I have had multiple calls from people at different grades and in departments in St. Michael's Hospital saying that a staff quota has been imposed. This means maternity and sick leave is not...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Violet-Anne Wynne: Before this House rose for the summer recess, Members, including me, raised the urgent need for statements on University Hospital Limerick, UHL, particularly overcrowding and the number of patients on trolleys on a daily basis. As the Taoiseach knows, the mid-west is the only region with a model 4 hospital that does not have a supporting model 3 hospital with an emergency department. The...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Matt Carthy: Last October, I raised with the Taoiseach’s Fianna Fáil predecessor the case of a young boy in Castleblayney who was seriously injured in a football match and had to wait three hours before an ambulance arrived. The then Tánaiste informed the House that he could not understand why it would take so long but set out very clearly that things were improving and all the great...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Paul Murphy: Will the Taoiseach commit to introducing free HRT in the budget? Will he also agree not to limit access according to unjust criteria? All women who need HRT deserve equal access to it regardless of age or income or whether they are in menopause, perimenopause, premature menopause or post-menopause. At the moment, women in this country are forced to pay the full cost of HRT, which ranges...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: I want to ask the Taoiseach about stamp duty and the bulk purchasing of homes. There have been multiple instances of funds buying up housing estates. Earlier this year, 85% of homes in Belcamp Manor were snapped up by one fund. At the time, the Government agreed to review the ineffective 10% stamp duty rate on the bulk purchase of homes. That review has been concluded. The Taoiseach's...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)
Paul Murphy: In 2015, I proposed a Private Members' motion calling on the Government to accept the Apple tax billions and to spend them on building social and affordable housing to solve the housing crisis. At the time, I told the House the resources existed and it was a question of political prioritisation to end the homelessness and housing crisis over Apple not paying any tax. Back then, there were...