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Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (11 Jun 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 840.To ask the Minister for Health his plans to speed up the process for the assessment for and issuing of wheelchairs to children in view of the regularity which a child needs to be issued a new wheelchair as they grow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25314/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (11 Jun 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 841.To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce a re-use system for wheelchairs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25315/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (18 Jun 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 225. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on her plans to launch a reformed scheme to give effect to all nine recommendations outlined in the review of the reasonable accommodation fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26122/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (18 Jun 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 295. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his Department's policy on early-years interventions for children with disability or developmental delay; how this integrates with early-years education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26046/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (18 Jun 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 369. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1472 of 9 April 2024, the reasons for the differences between the list of organisations provided and those provided in Parliamentary Question No. 608 of 17 October 2023; the total number of Section 38 and Section 39 organisations funded by the HSE each year; if he will outline the organisations which were no longer in...

Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I might start with the Department of Health. These are relatively quick fire questions. One of the recommendations from the citizens' assembly was around stakeholder engagement with the work the Department does. Could the officials outline what engagement they envisage and what engagement they currently undertake?

Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Sorry maybe I was not clear, but what I am asking for is who are the stakeholders the Department is engaging with?

Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Who is that?

Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Would it be accurate to say that all those groups are in the realm of addiction services or supports for families?

Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay. Is there any representation in the conversation, on the board or in any of those rooms, from student bodies, for example? Is there representation from nightlife groups or anything like that?

Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay. Are any of those stakeholders student groups or drug advocacy groups?

Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Sorry, I hate to cut across Ms McArdle. Service users implies people who are using addiction services. I am asking are there any groups who represent a cohort that commonly use drugs in Ireland, such as student groups, and this is not to impugn any students?

Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: How does it do that?

Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: It was invited to a launch.

Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay, but in terms of policy development, is it in those rooms?

Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Certainly the citizens' assembly has given a mandate to do that now.

Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: What work is the Department of Health currently doing on EU trends in drug regulation and drug services? What current research is being undertaken?

Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Are we doing, say, data analysis on regions that have changed drug policy and are having either good or bad outcomes and are we going to parse that data and make it public?

Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: That is very useful but it was not quite my question. My question was not about what our policy is and how it fares against EU trends, norms or changes, it was on whether an active piece of work was being done in the Department to keep tabs on and to analyse data on what is happening across Europe, in and of itself and not in relation to ourselves.

Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Chair, I think this committee would be very interested in some of the outcomes of that and if the Department was able to pass that on, I would be very grateful.