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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (7 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 1380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the ongoing work to align adult education tutors to a pay scale of an existing grade in education and training boards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47359/23]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Teagasc Activities (9 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: The Guardiannewspaper, based on an investigation by Greenpeace UK, reported last week that leading European agribusiness groups using a manifesto called the Dublin Declaration have been lobbying senior EU officials against recommendations for reduced meat consumption in the bloc's cancer strategy, its sustainability policies and its climate goals. The Dublin Declaration of scientists on the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Teagasc Activities (9 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: It seems from that statement that Teagasc is disavowing the Dublin Declaration, which is interesting. Nobody, certainly not me, has suggested that the people involved in the declaration were not scientists, only that they are scientists who are fatally compromised. The conflicts of interest that I have read into the record in my initial statement are from Teagasc's briefing document, which...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 123. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to include decluttering support as part of the housing aid for older people grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33773/23]

Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Can Ms Fardin Tabrizi explain the difference between a strength-based model and a deficit model?

Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I recognise this conversation from the disability community, by the way. When they go through diagnosis everything is about what is wrong. Then, when they meet the services of people who know, they will say that the person is brilliant at doing something.

Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: It should not be that hard.

Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: A person should be told to get a PPSN the moment they arrive here. We talked about how it is not possible to silo people off into particular areas. However, I am aware that members of the LGBTQI community who come here need specific help and might sometimes find it difficult for ask for that help. Women from ethnic minorities often have poor outcomes in maternal care, for example....

Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Sorry. They are not Garda vetted.

Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: We had a similar conversation with the homelessness services. The privatisation model means that there are staff who do not know which services to direct people to and they are in a role where they have to do that. I did not mean to derail this with the Garda vetting, but my mind is boggled that is the case. I am sorry; the fact that Garda vetting is not required seems to have passed me by.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: We would never say that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I want to put some questions about pharmacies myself before the end of my time. While I broadly accept the requirement for this legislation, it is useful for us to be clear about what we are talking about when talking about the rent-a-room scheme. While it is good that we are encouraging people to make the best use of their homes, we are also encouraging a system where people are not in any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: When the review was done in the UK, it found that the most common substitution was in the area of things like selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, SSRIs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: The Department of Health has that capability already.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: What is the level of communication with pharmacists in dealing with patients or customers because SSRIs, even generic substitutions, might affect people differently? Could Ms Seymour talk me through what the communication is from the Department to pharmacists on how they deal with that issue with patients?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: For the sake of clarity, is it the Department or is it a specific body which is issuing guidance to pharmacists around the particular substitution in the case of a shortage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: The Minister is the final arbiter and is where the buck stops, which is fair enough, but are all of the groups or people listed out by Ms Seymour in the room when the Department is deciding?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: It is the HSE, then, which goes to the Minister with the recommendation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Yes, I know as I am just trying to understand how it might work.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I notice in the UK that it has included a requirement - under what I believe is a separate piece of legislation - for the pharma industry to advise if shortages are imminent. Is that something we are looking at?