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- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I noticed throughout the statement and when Ms Quigley talks about interagency partnership how there is a creeping centralisation towards very health-specific services that any of us on the ground will have seen. I represent Dublin 1 and Dublin 7. As everyone has said today, the issues are so much more complex. What Ms Quigley has described is similar to an extent to the model for the...
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Housing First is for people who are in a particular crisis moment and is not always related to this issue.
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: They are the people who know how their lives work and they can inform that policy.
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I have some questions for the Prison Service. My questions will be intensely practical because I am trying to understand how the prisons work with regard to testing, access to naloxone and the issue of the recent mass overdose. We heard from other contributors at this committee that there is always a struggle to get suitable testing on site for anything, whether it relates to festivals or a...
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Is that May of this year?
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: How does the Prison Service access the substances for testing?
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Do the prisoners consent to that?
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: That is not really consent.
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Has the Prison Service explored ways of testing that would allow for a consent-based process?
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: The Prison Service is testing the person. I was asking whether it tests the substance.
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: What is the average? Is it three weeks or six weeks?
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: It takes three months to get a substance tested.
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I want to take a moment to repeat that. If there is a crisis moment where somebody is significantly impacted by the use of drugs, and it is to the point where the Prison Service has tested, it can be done in 48 hours.
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: If not, and if the Prison Service just finds or accesses a substance, it can take three months. That is crazy.
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: In terms of the business of the committee, I suggest that a specific and useful thing would be to back up the Prison Service on access to substance testing that does not take three months.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Then all the subcontractors and all the specialist people have entirely been-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Have most of those tenders happened in the last six months? When did that tender process occur?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Let us take, for example, the change orders outlined by the board in the additional material. BAM is described as being in a joint venture with ClearSphere tendering for a specialist fit out.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: When did that occur?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: It was relatively recently, then, that we were still allowing BAM-----