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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Will that agency conversion be a long-term project? It seems we are staffing a significant number of long-term jobs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: ...the Department or the HSE but will Mr. Gloster outline the policy as it applies to a particular unit, whether a maternity unit, a mental health unit or whatever, when there are new roles coming along and new recruitment happening and where roles have been staffed by an agency staff person for quite a long time? In a world where there are finite resources and finite abilities to staff,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (9 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 1829.To ask the Minister for Health if his Department and the HSE will recognise myalgic encephalomyelitis under the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35216/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: ...-out, not only because I represent the area, but because it has a particular set of acute services that are affected by that decision. The fear is that, with the recruitment pause, it will be a long process for it to be rolled out. Mr. Canavan stated that the recruitment pause is a direct result of the €500 million ahead of profile that was discussed with Deputy Cullinane. Will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: ...on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UNCRPD. This is never more relevant than in the area of neurorehabilitation, where people might have a health event that then leaves them with a long-term disability requiring long-term care. I would expect, from both the Department dealing with disability and the Department of Health, that when new legislation is being developed,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I think all the politicians on this side of the room will recognise the need to help people with the myriad long forms they face. What are some of the ways ALONE has come across those relationships breaking down? What issues are coming up for people? Is the home care support that is offered not enough, is it offered at the wrong time or is there interpersonal relationship breakdown?...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (26 Jun 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 195. To ask the Minister for Health the steps taken by the HSE to ensure long-Covid and immunocompromised patients can access Covid-19 booster vaccines, in particular a vaccine (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27414/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: ...towards the statutory right. This piece took four years to get to here, which, obviously, is not quite halfway through the process. It is not the full process. I am trying to get a sense of how long it might take for that incredibly complex piece of work subsequent to this to be done. If we took four years to get to here, that is not looking good. I read the consultation submissions...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Of course, one would do so if one cannot be with one's family in the long term.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: .... We had all thought we were moving forward and it seems now that we have delayed. It is worth contextualising that the teams that are already existing are only at 30% and 60% of staffing. How long have those teams been in place? Has it been more than a decade?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: ...putting those teams in place more than a decade ago - at the last session we talked about how this is not about capital investment or accommodation necessarily, but rather hours and staffing - how long does Ms Rogers expect the kind of transition period for getting the next four up and running to take? I ask Ms Rogers to outline a timeline.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I will stay on the issue of children for a moment. The last time we spoke, the Government was not accepting or recognising long Covid in children more generally. At the time, the NHS in the UK had just made that move. Does the health system now recognise that long Covid occurs in children?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: That would include anything post-viral, not necessarily long Covid.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: ...terms of the more holistic approach around services for children in education and all the things that make up life for a child, are there any support services for children who might be experiencing long Covid who are still expected to go to school every day, etc.?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: ...a broad spectrum; it is everything from nystagmus to poisoning. In Ms O'Connell's work, and I presume the witnesses have all had a look at the legislation, is there any particular reason why long Covid would not fit the bill or fit the criteria of the current legislation as written?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: If there was a recognition of long Covid under the legislation, would Ms O'Connell expect that it would be time limited to before the vaccine was available?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: ...is saying that while the vaccine obviously reduces the prevalence of the disease and the possibility of contracting Covid, it does not necessarily reduce a person's likelihood of contracting long Covid in any way.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I am out of just out of time. Is Ms O'Connell aware of the HSE or any medical professionals in Ireland being involved in any research around long Covid internationally or with partners across the country?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I want to return to something we have spoken about a lot at the committee, namely, the provision of long-term residential facilities for mental health, particularly in Cork. I acknowledge the seriousness with which the HSE listened to the communities and the concerns and needs of the service users and their families. The way ahead is certainly very encouraging for the community,...