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Committee on Drugs Use: Family and Community: Discussion (24 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: There are not enough people.

Committee on Drugs Use: Family and Community: Discussion (24 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I am always the boring person who says it is really cost-effective.

Committee on Drugs Use: Family and Community: Discussion (24 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: It is just somebody who rings you up, reminds you not to forget about your appointment and walks in with you.

Committee on Drugs Use: Family and Community: Discussion (24 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: When that happens, in Mr. Perth's experience, what is the language that is used? Is it said the people need to go and get treatment for bipolar first?

Committee on Drugs Use: Family and Community: Discussion (24 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: It is that dual diagnosis thing that they just will not do it.

Committee on Drugs Use: Family and Community: Discussion (24 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Am I right in thinking that if people go in somewhere with bipolar or whatever it might be to ask for treatment, they will often be told they need to get clean first?

Committee on Drugs Use: Family and Community: Discussion (24 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: It is a catch-22.

Committee on Drugs Use: Family and Community: Discussion (24 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: They would be turned away.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (22 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 636. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the work of his Department to improve foster care services and enhance the support provided to foster parents since 27 June 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42977/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (22 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 715. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there are no standard diagnostic policies or guidelines for diagnosing or treating children with an organisation (details supplied); the steps being taken to establish a statutory diagnostic criteria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42662/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (22 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 763. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that no health, clinical or social policymaking, or implementation of policy, from his Department will be informed by the Cass review while it remains under investigation by the British Medical Association; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42894/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (22 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 787. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will commit to consulting the trans community before any clinical or funding decisions are made related to their healthcare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43006/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (22 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 788. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that the National Gender Service is encouraging a specific model of care and advising medical professionals to not monitor or provide blood tests to trans people (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43007/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Advertising (23 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 212. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to restrict the advertising of zero-alcohol products that brand share, that is, have the same branding, logos and colours as their full-strength alcoholic counterpart; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43572/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rights of People with Disabilities (24 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 9. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the optional protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities will be formally ratified; what mechanisms will be available to complainants once ratified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43343/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rights of People with Disabilities (24 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: The Minister has mentioned this a couple of times this morning. I think we are all delighted to hear we are moving ahead with the optional protocol on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Can we get an update on the formal ratification and on the mechanisms that may be available to complainants once it is ratified?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rights of People with Disabilities (24 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: People throughout the country will be delighted to hear it hopefully will be in place before the end of 2024. A huge number of people in the past five years have worked and campaigned hard to ensure there is governance and oversight in how we implement the UNCRPD. If I understand what the Minister has outlined, it is a relationship between the UN and the people of Ireland and then the UN...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rights of People with Disabilities (24 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: It is worth reiterating we would all want to live in an Ireland where nobody needs the optional protocol. Unfortunately, as the Minister said, we are not there yet. I too hope and expect the optional protocol will work as a motivator for the State because of the cost of not doing enough. The stakes are raised. Has the Minister's Department, or other Departments such as finance or public...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I will comment on some of the issues around the medicines management programme. For my own clarity, are these injections on cholesterol that we are talking about injections that would be undertaken by a clinician or is it something someone does at home?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society (23 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay. That seems to be more prevalent across a number of treatments in healthcare at the moment. Regarding the medicine management programme, I can only imagine there is a huge amount of innovation in this area. If doctors want to move a treatment off the management programme and make it more freely available, how long is that process?