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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: I will allow members who wish to come back in to do so in a few minutes. As everybody is attending remotely, I ask members who wish to speak to display the hand symbol on their screens. First, I wish to ask a couple of questions specifically around a thorny issue that we come up against in the committee all of the time, that is, what is good medium-term budgetary planning and what does that...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank Mr. Barnes for that interesting response. When it comes to health, it is possible some of that data is not collated and as such it does not exist. This is going to be an issue going forward. I am interested in Mr. Barnes's first point around meeting the core spending. I noted in last year's budget, for the first time, that the mental health allocation was divided into spend for...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank Professor McMahon. I do not see any hands up, so I thank Mr. Barnes, Dr. Bergin, Mr. Giustiniani, Professor McMahon, Ms Holland and Dr. Casey for their attendance today and for their assistance to the committee. I thank them for their report. It has been useful. In the coming weeks it will be especially useful for all of us to have heard from them today. I thank the witnesses for...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (23 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: 251. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the State plans to raise the issue of Syrian detainees who have suffered arbitrary and incommunicado detention and enforced disappearance by Syrian Government forces at the UN Security Council during its Presidency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45848/21]

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Services: HSE (21 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: Does the HSE have plans for the site?

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Services: HSE (21 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: Has Mr. Fitzgerald undertaken a valuation of the site?

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Services: HSE (21 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: Yes.

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Services: HSE (21 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: Apologies, Chairman, I am aware I am over my allotted time.

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Services: HSE (21 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: I have a number of questions I did not quite get to but they speak to Deputy Stanton's previous points about the timeline. I am trying to understand how this timeline came to be and how we got here. To be clear, the decision was made in June and the residents and families were told in July, but the newest building report or estates review was done in February. Is that correct?

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Services: HSE (21 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay, but Mr. Fitzgerald said earlier that the estates section compiled that report in February.

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Services: HSE (21 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: Was there new information, or surveys undertaken, between December 2020 when the building inspection took place and the report the HSE received in June?

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Services: HSE (21 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: Were there new building surveys between December 2020 and June 2021? Did somebody go into the building to undertake new testing or new surveys?

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Services: HSE (21 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: To be clear, did it compile the report in that period or did it undertake new surveys?

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Services: HSE (21 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay. In that period, was a stand-alone, new fire inspection and a stand-alone, new asbestos report and set of testing done?

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Services: HSE (21 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: The timeline is important. The last significant report on asbestos reviewed approximately one sixth of the building's floor area in the plan attached to the report, which would be standard. It found that asbestos is present and that it is in relatively good condition, as anyone who works in the area would know. If it is disturbed, it would be of particular concern. That dates to October...

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Services: HSE (21 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: The costs and such.

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Services: HSE (21 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: Earlier in the meeting, Deputy Sherlock spoke about St. Stephen's Hospital. I agreed with much of what Deputy Sherlock said. He spoke very well. Like all of the residential facilities in the country, that was also reviewed. The most recent review was in 2020. Like Owenacurra, under Regulation 22, the premises of St. Stephen's were noted as non-compliant. That risk rating was high,...

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Services: HSE (21 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: I am sorry to cut across Mr. Fitzgerald. I have a quick question. I know other people want to get in. I requested building reports on the long stay and acute wards in St. Stephen's Hospital in August and I have not received them. Can Mr. Fitzgerald give an undertaking to send those reports to me?

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Services: HSE (21 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: St. Stephen's Hospital includes dormitory-style settings, does it not?

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Services: HSE (21 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: Will Mr. Fitzgerald give an undertaking to the families of the residents currently in Owenacurra that anyone who is in a single room will not be moved to a dormitory setting in St. Stephen's?