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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (11 Nov 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: 113. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to ensure equality in funding for women's and men's Gaelic players' grants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54697/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (11 Nov 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: What are the Minister of State's plans to ensure equality in funding of women's and women's Gaelic player grants? Will he make a statement on the matter?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (11 Nov 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank the Minister of State. His commitment to grant equality is very welcome. The grants are important to the individual players involved. It is important that they be equal. With regard to inter-county players, the grants probably have a larger impact in that they result in players becoming role models for young women in sport. We are aware that kids start out with an interest in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (11 Nov 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: I am aware that time is limited so, considering that I have been talking about Na Fianna, I hope the Minister, Deputy Catherine Martin, will join me in wishing Kilmacud Crokes, which is in her constituency, and Na Fianna all the best in the Dublin hurling final on Saturday. It is Na Fianna's first time in the final. There is a lot of excitement in our community and we fully intend to beat...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (11 Nov 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: 115. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of and position regarding the stream 1 large-scale sport infrastructure fund grant to Dublin City Council towards the overall design cost for the redevelopment of Dalymount Park; the funds drawn down to date; the expected completion date of that phase of work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54698/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (11 Nov 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: 353. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure the availability of scalp-cooling services to cancer patients in public hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55271/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (11 Nov 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: 354. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure the availability of scalp-cooling services in the oncology ward of the Mater Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55272/21]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Inflation: Discussion (10 Nov 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: Good evening. Members and all in attendance are asked to exercise personal responsibility in protecting themselves and others from the risk of contracting Covid-19. They are strongly advised to practise good hand hygiene and to leave at least one vacant seat between themselves and others attending the meeting. They should also always maintain an appropriate level of social distance during...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Inflation: Discussion (10 Nov 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank Dr. Kavanagh and ask Professor Whelan to give his opening statement.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Inflation: Discussion (10 Nov 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: With the kind permission of Deputy Mairéad Farrell, I will allow Deputy Michael Healy-Rae, who has strong views on this matter, to contribute at this point.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Inflation: Discussion (10 Nov 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: Do either of the witnesses wish to respond to those points?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Inflation: Discussion (10 Nov 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: Is that question to somebody in particular?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Inflation: Discussion (10 Nov 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: I am happy to take them one after the other. Is there one of our speakers who would like to offer to go first?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Inflation: Discussion (10 Nov 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: We will do it like that then. I call Dr. Kavanagh.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Inflation: Discussion (10 Nov 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: Sorry, the Deputy is out of time.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Inflation: Discussion (10 Nov 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: We will have a second round of questions if we have time.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Inflation: Discussion (10 Nov 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank Deputy Ryan for that. I will allow members to come back in if they would raise their hands to indicate they would like to do so. I would like to follow up with a question of my own. One of the questions I had related to the fiscal rules, which have already been raised. We discussed to some extent the expectation that inflation will be a relatively short-run thing, that it will not...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Inflation: Discussion (10 Nov 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: I was asking that question in the context of the review of the NDP and the new commitments to retrofitting. I lived through the 2008 and 2009 crash as an architect. There was a hollowing out of the industry and firms collapsed. It is the same kind of people who build all that stuff and do all that work so that is a concern. This is our first of three sessions on inflation. It has been...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Inflation: Discussion (10 Nov 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank Professor Whelan for that response. I read both our guests' submissions with great interest. In fairness, we have covered many of the issues they raised. Could either of them outline in greater detail, as I am a layperson and not from an economics background, the relationship between Government capital spending and inflation? Obviously, I understand as inflation rises, our capital...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Parks (16 Nov 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: 78. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason that generator-powered mobile floodlights have been installed in the Phoenix Park given the refusal by the OPW to upgrade lights on Chesterfield Avenue to accommodate walkers and cyclists on the grounds of light pollution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54119/21]