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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Is ClearSphere starting now or did it start at the beginning of the month?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: In my last two and a half minutes, I will ask for clarity as regards the baseline programme. The last time we talked, we were talking about BAM submitting programmes that were then not accepted by the board. I am trying to get some clarity on the board's opening statement. It outlines the many times the completion date has been pushed out, which we are all aware of, but I am trying to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I did, yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Was there a compliant programme in place from July of last year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Am I right in thinking that there is still no compliant programme in place between the board and BAM?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Am I to infer from what the witnesses have told us that the times BAM has tried to change the finishing point were when it was submitting a programme the board felt to be non-compliant?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: The witnesses are describing a process whereby a staff member is working with BAM to agree a compliant programme. When will that come to fruition? Is there a time on the horizon when there will be a compliant programme?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: What is that deadline?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Is there another deadline on the horizon?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: General Practitioner Services (24 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 115. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ensure that changes to tax requirements under Section 1008A of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 for general medical practitioners under general medical services scheme contracts (limiting partnerships to other GPs only) will not adversely damage existing non-profit practices, where the partner is a charitable organisation, forcing them to close...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (24 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the review of the reasonable accommodation policy for exams; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37804/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (24 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 316. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extra training and supports provided to members of An Garda Síochána to action their new powers to tackle the anti-social use of scrambler bikes, quad bikes and similar off-road machines in public spaces; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37423/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (24 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 535. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the expansion of the newborn bloodspot screening programme; his plans to roll out the programme to detecting for metachromatic leukodystrophy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37873/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (25 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 45. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update on the current 2024 round of applications for the Large Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37974/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (25 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 103. To ask the Minister for Health if the cost of an ultrasound scan is included under the free contraception scheme when deemed medically necessary as part of the process for removing an implant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38017/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Control of Dogs (25 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 132. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the process for obtaining a certificate of exemption for an XL bully dog; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37993/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I wish to focus on the baseline programme and commissioning, but before I do, I will come back quickly to the legal claims part. Just for clarification, it is my understanding, only because so many projects would run into a problem if this was the case, that ongoing legal claims or litigation are not necessarily a barrier to handover.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I will not use all of my time, so the Senator need not worry. First of all, I am not entirely comfortable with describing this as a boilerplate public works contract because it was a two-stage situation that would not be found in every contract. That left us open to perhaps some of the difficulty we find ourselves in now. I want to go back to technical commissioning. Mr. Devine described...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Yes, right up to substantial completion. Is there anything that is still out to tender?

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: To finish out that point, that is why Ms Quigley's opening statement particularly picked up on the recommendation from the citizens' assembly that there be a body in the Department of the Taoiseach.