Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Outcomes for pregnant people are better when they have that support. We will have another session on the budget but I am interested in that issue of funding for perinatal mental health in the next session.

I have two questions on disability services. There is a recent report of the Health Information and Quality Authority, HIQA, reporting a residential centre for people with disabilities due to concerns around the quality of the care being offered. Are we managing during the Covid crisis to carry out the same level of inspections as we would expect? Second, there is a suspension regarding primary medical certificates. I understand this is a complex legal and policy issue on the back of a Supreme Court judgment. Could the Minister set out a timeline for resumption of those assessments? A number of people will have become disabled during the Covid period and now cannot access the support they want because they cannot be assessed for a primary medical certificate.