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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (1 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: As this question relates to funding of healthcare services for people who are homeless, I have referred to HSE for direct response.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (7 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I move: That, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders - - expressions of sympathy on the death of former Taoiseach, Mr. John Bruton, shall be taken now and on the conclusion of expressions of sympathy, the Dáil shall adjourn until 9 a.m. tomorrow; - the Government business to be taken tomorrow shall be Second Stage of the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment)...

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I add my own on tribute to that of our former Taoiseach and party leader and to the deserved praise already given by my colleagues in the House today. I first of all extend my sympathies to John’s wife, Finola, his son, Matthew, and his daughters, Juliana, Emily and Mary-Elizabeth. I note in particular the presence on the benches today of his brother, Richard, someone who is held in...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Central Statistics Office (7 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: Up to 2020, the CSO employed two survey instruments at airports and seaports to compile statistics on overseas visitors to Ireland. These were the Country of Residence Survey (CRS) and Passenger Card Inquiry (PCI). The former differentiated air and sea passengers into outbound Irish residents and inbound foreign residents. The latter collected additional details from passengers, including the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Central Statistics Office (7 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: The Central Statistics Office (CSO) produces statistics relating to deaths which are compiled from administrative data supplied to the organisation from the General Register Office (GRO). The narrative contained within these death certificates are analysed and utilising methodological guidelines as prescribed by the World Health Organisation (WHO), each death is assigned an underlying cause...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: The free contraception scheme for women aged 17 -25, ordinarily resident in Ireland, was launched on 14th September, 2022. Its remit has been expanded gradually to include women aged from 17 to 31 inclusive, from January 1st, 2024. Approximately €43.9m has been allocated to support the scheme in 2024 and approximately 2,400 GPs, primary care, family planning and student health centres...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: The free contraception scheme for women aged 17 -25, ordinarily resident in Ireland, was launched on 14th September, 2022. Its remit has been expanded gradually to include women aged from 17 to 31 inclusive, from January 1st, 2024. Approximately €43.9m has been allocated to support the scheme in 2024 and approximately 2,400 GPs, primary care, family planning and student health centres...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I move: Tuesday's business shall be: - Motion re Report of the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach under Dáil Standing Order 133 on a Proposal for a Council Directive on Business in Europe: Framework for Income Taxation (BEFIT), COM(2023)532 (without debate) - Road Traffic Bill 2024 (Second Stage) (if not previously concluded, to adjourn either...

Protection of Employees (Trade Union Subscriptions) 2024: First Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: No.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Central Statistics Office (13 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: The Household Budget Survey (HBS) is a large national household survey conducted by the Central Statistics Office on a five yearly basis. It collects information on household’s expenditure on goods and services. HBS 2015/2016 indicated that the average weekly household expenditure on Medical expenses/services and therapeutic equipment for that period was €18.48, equivalent to...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Central Statistics Office (13 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: In Census 2022, the reference person in each private household is the first person in the household identified as a parent, spouse, cohabiting partner or head of a non-family household containing related persons. Where no person in the household satisfied these criteria, the first usually resident person was used as the reference person. In this context, the reference person is referred to as...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (13 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: Thank you for your query in relation to Folic Acid Supplementation. As indicated in a previous written response issued in October 2023, the recommendations of the 2019 DOH Folic Acid Supplementation Report remain under consideration by the Department. Critically, it is recognised that as dietary intake of folate remains sub optimal In Ireland, all women considering pregnancy take a...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (14 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I move: That, notwithstanding anything in the Order of the Dáil of 29th March, 2023, setting out the rota in which Questions to members of the Government are to be asked, Questions for oral answer, following those set down to the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine shall be set down to Ministers in the following temporary sequence: Minister for Further and Higher Education,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank the Chair. I was here two weeks ago as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: No problem. Good morning. I thank the committee for the invitation to address it about public health and the commercial determinants of health. I was here two weeks ago with the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, to discuss the Department of Health's 2024 Estimates process and I mentioned some of our key Healthy Ireland initiatives on that occasion. The committee indicated that it would like to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank the Senator for his questions. I will start with the question relating to further regulation of tobacco and nicotine inhaling products. As he is aware, we have banned the sale of vapes for under-18s. In January, we had a public consultation process which closed at the end of that month. It was set up to help to inform further legislation which will be required on this issue. We...