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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (1 Dec 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 608. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to reassess the family reunification programmes here to provide for a refugee or a person eligible for subsidiary protection to apply for members of their family to enter and reside in the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40251/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (1 Dec 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 701. To ask the Minister for Health the policy in place in relation to home help services administrating medication and instilling eye drops to those availing of home help services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39941/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (1 Dec 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 744. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce free access to sanitary products such as tampons and sanitary pads in schools, colleges, universities and other public buildings; the timeline for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40280/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (1 Dec 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 745. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide free contraception to all women; the timeline for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40281/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Employment Support Services (2 Dec 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 26. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the face-to-face employment support services available to the Roma community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40581/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (2 Dec 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 85. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the face-to-face social services available to the Roma community; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40579/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: National Traveller-Roma Integration Strategy (2 Dec 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 94. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the face-to-face services available to the Roma community during Covid-19 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40580/20]

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: I welcome the position from the Minister that all new contracts should be Sláintecare contracts. That is a positive development. I will go back to the Supplementary Estimates. I will bounce around a bit so I hope that is okay. On section 4.3(7), overseas treatment, there was a €74.1 million overseas treatment estimated spend and the current Estimates have a €32...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: Are we rolling the money over?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay, great. Section 4.2 of the briefing document relates to Brexit preparation. The Minister will excuse my ignorance. I am trying to get to grips with these Supplementary Estimates. My interpretation of the wording is that the section implies there is a pot of money to look at things like ports and airports, to which the Department has contributed €7.116 million along with other...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: Is that physical infrastructure?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: I understand. Given that there are some shared treatment services across the island, I wonder if there is a separate fund dealing with some of those issues. I guess the one I am particularly thinking of is the human milk bank in Enniskillen, which is one of the few examples of a shared-island service that really works. They supply 22 neonatal units across the country. They organise an...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: Yes, I would welcome that. Palliative care is covered in the briefing document. We have all probably been contacted by constituents who, unfortunately, have been unable to be with their loved ones as they pass away, some due to Covid and some due to whatever conditions they have as normal. The once-off funding, as outlined, is hugely welcome and is desperately needed. That is fantastic....

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: Might we see that rolled out to hospital settings in 2021, although not that specific funding?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: The briefing document also refers to PPE provision, which is likely to be with us well into next year, unfortunately, even with a vaccine. It will have to be rolled out across certain sectors first. We have heard at previous committee meetings - it might have been at the Committee of Public Accounts - that the HSE has relatively high levels of non-compliance with public procurement...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: I take that point. We all felt the pressure throughout the year. In general, in these times of stress we can learn a lot about the process. We have a way to go in Ireland in terms of our procurement process. I wonder whether the Department will be doing a more general value-for-money review of Covid expenditure during 2020 at some stage.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: In my constituency, the private hospitals delivered really important capacity but there are ongoing questions around value for money there. It might be something to consider.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: I do not know whether the Minister noticed that the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, IFAC, criticised the Government yesterday for budget commitments to non-Covid expenditure. Appendix 3 sets out the initiative funded under the 2020 winter plan, all of which is worthwhile and I am not questioning. There are measures that we all have wanted to see happen for years, such as an increase in...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: We may need a funding plan for that.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: Yes exactly, it has a completely different job to the Minister. Section 6, as I mentioned earlier, states that the Department will ask the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to carry over the 2020 underspend. I can fully understand if the Minister does not have an update for the committee today but would it be possible for the committee to get an update on whether the Department...