Results 1-20 of 22 for going forward speaker:Neasa Hourigan

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: What Mr. Gloster is saying is that any discretion the HSE has is being used to keep services going. That implies there is no serious staffing space for new developments, registries or programmes. Is the Department aware of that and planning for that, or will we continue in 2024 to be told about this or that new programme or policy when we know they will not move forward?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: ...want to return to the schedule and I have a particular reason for doing so. As we heard in a number of other sessions, it was all agreed between 2014 and 2016. The original business case was put forward in 2018 and 2019. That business case has been linked to the completion of the national children's hospital. During those sessions we discussed in great detail that the children's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I do not mean to cut across Mr. O'Connor. I welcome a strategic framework. People who sit on committees like this are very used to that kind of language. However, there was a very straightforward way ahead here which was not to link the business case to the hospital currently in development. We hear all the time that versions of e-health are being rolled out in maternity care and...

Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Motion (21 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I very warmly welcome the establishment of the Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use and the good work of the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, and the former Minister of State, Deputy Feighan, on pushing forward with it. When we first got it into the programme for Government we viewed it as a way to allow the complexity of the drugs debate to be on the table but not under the consistent...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2020: Housing Agency
Financial Statements 2021: Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority
Chapter 7: Housing Agency Revolving Acquisition Fund
Section 2 Report – Unauthorised Release of Funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (19 Jan 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay. For our work in future, how much of the witnesses' collected information is published and available to the public and committees like ours? Going forward, what will that look like?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin (15 Dec 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: ...up. It does not matter whose fault it was. Also, just in bare terms, the risk does not stand up in respect of the houses that are there. The OPW is tasked with protecting people, so what is the plan going forward and what measures does it have in place to-----

Dublin City Safety Initiatives and Other Services: Statements (Resumed) (17 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: ...expect this to happen with the weak local government model we have at the moment. All of this is happening while parties in this Chamber vote through the council every year to reduce the funding available. I look forward very much to the day when we have a directly elected mayor who can raise their own funds and levy taxes in their own way. I would like to see a better policing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I apologise for interrupting, but I always think of the UK as having a similar legal system to our own because we kind of inherited it, and it is moving forward with this. Are we going to reach out to it or is that connection not there anymore? It is going through in Northern Ireland as well.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: ...but the clear answer to this issue is to find out exactly what the communication has been. In the email I received from the chief officer in the CHO he states: In this context, there is and has been on-going discussion with residents of this high support service, to ensure that they are aware that the service would be moving at some stage, though we would not have a finalised decision on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: ...dashboard was launched in 2021. There was an excellent paper from the Department of Finance. However, that kind of measurement and evidence-based decision-making was not necessarily evident. Are we going to see that in the coming weeks? I welcome the switch analysis on our progress. Are we going to see measures such as gender and well-being budgeting analyses of the 2023 budget in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I will make a suggestion. Ms Ryan touched on a really important point. Most people who would access any type of care would assume that the first step is to go to their GP and say they have an issue they need help with. Is the creation of a database that outlines who offers care the wrong way around? If we are going to look at people who object to providing basic care - I include hospitals...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: ...in Ireland, including, and very importantly, legislating for the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission to be a national monitoring body for the convention. That is an important move. We are going to need serious oversight to keep ourselves honest because it is incredibly complex and sits across several Departments. Returning to the idea of seeing through the lens of disability,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Is that the way RTÉ intends to work going forward?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Remit, Terms of Reference and Priorities: Commission on Taxation and Welfare (3 Nov 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: I do not see any other hands going up. I agree that it has been a very interesting session. I commend the commission on publishing the minutes and it is great to hear that it will publish the papers as it goes along. That is something on which we would like to keep in contact with the commission and hopefully have another session at an interim stage. It is fascinating work. I can see...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny (Resumed): Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (30 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: ...is really useful to know because it makes a significant difference to people working in those services and to non-governmental organisations, NGOs, to be able to see exactly where money will be going. In a similar vein, many people and NGOs often raise with me the usefulness of multi-annual funding in the context of the surety it provides in respect of from where funding is coming, but...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank Mr. Barnes for that interesting response. When it comes to health, it is possible some of that data is not collated and as such it does not exist. This is going to be an issue going forward. I am interested in Mr. Barnes's first point around meeting the core spending. I noted in last year's budget, for the first time, that the mental health allocation was divided into spend for...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Apr 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: I am quite glad that I get to speak on the second week of the debate on the Bill because it gives me a chance to read and listen to the contributions Deputies have put forward, which has been very interesting. There has been quite a spectrum of responses to the Bill. For some the Bill goes too far and there is a feeling that it might pit communities against the inevitable reforms that will...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Maternity Services (14 Jan 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: ...time to have a difference of that kind of space of 16 sq. m, versus 5 sq. m for those incredibly vulnerable babies. I am also aware that the Department and the HSE have a number of processes to go through for cost-benefit analysis before they would consider something like this or give it the green light, which is as it should be. For the project to proceed, one of the first steps is to...