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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for the Blind and Vision Impaired: Vision Ireland (24 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I view this as the beginning and that we will get a strategy. I second Deputy Durkan's proposals on the next actions for the committee. In that context, it strikes me there are issues that I would like to put on the record. There are always cohorts that remain excluded from the eye-test scheme. People either have to have a medical card, fall under the treatment benefit scheme or hold a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for the Blind and Vision Impaired: Vision Ireland (24 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: That is a good one.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for Persons with Lung Fibrosis: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank everybody here, particularly those who are sharing their personal stories. It is always a matter of regret for me that we have a system that requires people to come and tell their stories. I want to stay on the issue of pulmonary rehabilitation for a moment. Pulmonary rehabilitation in lots of areas of Ireland is pretty low-level stuff. Sometimes it happens in leisure centres....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for Persons with Lung Fibrosis: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: The witnesses have not been told anything. They have never come back and said why they are excluded, even though there is a cohort with a very serious chronic illness.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for Persons with Lung Fibrosis: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Are the witnesses aware of any review of that situation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for Persons with Lung Fibrosis: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay, I think that is a matter for this committee to take up, because it seems to be a glaring and egregious omission to be excluded from pulmonary rehabilitation courses. I wish to give the witnesses the rest of the time in my slot to explain from their perspective what is in some ways a dumb question. Why is there no clinical care programme? Has there ever been a move to create one?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for Persons with Lung Fibrosis: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Was any reason given?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for Persons with Lung Fibrosis: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I do not know whether asking for a pathway to care is indeed a big ask. It is actually a fairly reasonable ask. Are the witnesses aware of whether that 0.2 whole-time equivalent, WTE, clinical adviser has been appointed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for Persons with Lung Fibrosis: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: What would Dr. Hurley expect a clinical programme to look like?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for Persons with Lung Fibrosis: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: That is okay. I thank the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for Persons with Lung Fibrosis: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: It stated that they were aware.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for Persons with Lung Fibrosis: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Has it not been funded at all?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for the Blind and Vision Impaired: Vision Ireland (24 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank Mr. White.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (23 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 162. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline the reasons for the disparity between domestic electric car charging unit prices and the rate per unit charged for on-street charging; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17470/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (23 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 195. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the working group established to consider the taxation of funds, life assurance policies and other investment products; in particular if he will provide an update on their considerations on the taxation of exchange –traded funds (EFTs); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17469/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (23 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 359. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the work of the Derelict Sites Act working group; the engagements it has had and plans to have with local authorities; the timeline for when the group will present recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17542/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 415. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection , further to Parliamentary Question No. 46 of 16 April, the date her Department will launch the reformed scheme combining the reasonable accommodation fund and the disability awareness support scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17815/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (23 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 487. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to ensure the protection of the old Irish goat, which according to reports (details supplied), is being hunted for sport and on the verge of extinction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17669/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 681. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the work of the myalgic encephalomyelitis working group established by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18001/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (23 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 710. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the work of his Department to secure places for students from this jurisdiction in medical schools in Northern Ireland; whether he has ensured that these students would then be eligible to apply to work in the HSE on graduation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17898/24]