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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Supply Board (12 May 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: 50. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is satisfied that employees involved in the current ESB dispute have received consultation and information rights on the outsourcing of their work as outlined in the Employees (Provision of Information and Consultation) Act 2006 and the Industrial Relations Act 1990 (Code of Practise on Information and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (12 May 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: 226. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to commence vaccination of pregnant women as recommended by the National Immunisation Advisory Committee; when pregnant women will start receiving the vaccine; if vaccines will be administered to those that are 36 weeks pregnant first rolling backwards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24769/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Updates on Breastfeeding: Discussion (12 May 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: Perhaps we could stay in the area of midwives and lactation consultants, on which Ms Cahill made a good point. It is fantastic that we have seen some movement from the Department on this with the announcement last night. That is in no small part down to the huge amount of highlighting and work that both of our organisations have done on this issue. Well done to them. I want to go into...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Updates on Breastfeeding: Discussion (12 May 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: I want to return to the issue of data, which came up in the submissions today. A lack of data and of reporting on progress seems to be a recurring theme. I am very much a supporter of evidence-based policymaking, which is built on data. Data is a huge challenge to the system if we do not have it readily available. The counterbalance to that, however, is creating a space within a system in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Updates on Breastfeeding: Discussion (12 May 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: How long is it since the national breastfeeding committee was disbanded?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Updates on Breastfeeding: Discussion (12 May 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: I will finish with one quick question to both groups. I realise this is probably a very niche question. For those of us with children who were born with a disability or a particular challenge, is there work or research in the area with which the witnesses are familiar, or that they have available to them, around supporting families of children with disabilities to breastfeed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Updates on Breastfeeding: Discussion (12 May 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: Ms Atherton wanted to come in.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (13 May 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: 389. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25186/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ventilation and Covid-19: Discussion (19 May 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: I will concentrate on how we arrive at the building standards we have and implement, and how we implement and enforce them. We are talking about quite a broad spectrum of typologies. Things like hepa filtration and single-room occupancy have been issues in hospital settings for at least a decade. Businesses and schools are a different consideration than homes. I know there has been some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ventilation and Covid-19: Discussion (19 May 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: That brings me on to my next question because as the witnesses know, there was a commitment in the Safe As Houses report and the programme for Government to end the self certification of buildings in general, which would improve the situation greatly. I wish to address the construction products regulations declaration of performance. We have talked about ventilation systems. I know a lot...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (20 May 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: I wish to discuss build-to-rent construction. I will begin by being honest in saying I do not like it. I do not like it as a model and it did not exist when I was working in architecture. I do not like the fact there is a two-tier standard of housing that differentiates between what you might need when you are renting and what you might need when you own a building. I do not like the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (20 May 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank the Minister of State. As he said, build-to-rent makes up 16% overall but that figure is 65% in my constituency. That is a predominance of build-to-rent. I take the Minister of State's point about Maynooth but we might just stick with the issue around the quality of build-to-rent accommodation. It is a lower standard and there are lower requirements for storage and public...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2020: Discussion (20 May 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: Thank you. I call Deputy Lahart.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2020: Discussion (20 May 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: I might stop Mr. Downes there, as we are out of time on that section. Deputy Moynihan is the next speaker.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2020: Discussion (20 May 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: I will call Deputy Canney.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2020: Discussion (20 May 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: We might cut it there and go to the next speaker.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2020: Discussion (20 May 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: I might ask some questions of my own of Mr. Downes. We talked this morning about value for money. When the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform undertakes a value-for-money exercise, what are the timeframes involved? This is possibly different across Departments. I am asking the question with an eye to the future and the use of capital funds to address environmental issues such as...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2020: Discussion (20 May 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: Mr. Downes mentioned earlier that he considers assets at the end of the timeframe.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2020: Discussion (20 May 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: If we stay on that issue, how have we arrived at 25 years for a cost-benefit analysis for social homes?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2020: Discussion (20 May 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: I have received apologies from Deputies Nash and Leddin. Today the committee will engage with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform regarding the Public Service Performance Report 2020. I welcome our witnesses: Mr. Ronnie Downes, assistant secretary; Mr. John Kinnane, principal officer; and Ms Caroline O'Loughlin, assistant secretary. Before we begin I wish to explain some...