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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Control of Dogs (19 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I will reiterate that we are 12 days away and none of us has seen those regulations. That is why there is an urgency about a delay. I have some more questions. The Minister of State mentioned issues such as exemption certificates. We do not know yet why, unlike the UK, no third-party public liability insurance is required for exemptions. We do not know what the conditions of exemptions...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Control of Dogs (19 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: This is less of a speech than a plea and some questions and the plea would be that the Government delays the XL bully dogs ban because to implement it in the outlined timeline would be very dangerous. We are 12 days from the beginning of the XL bully dogs ban and not one local authority has received the full regulations; not one. They have not been sent them or emailed them. They have not...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (19 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 37. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for an update on the latest round of the sports capital and equipment programme and the large-scale sport infrastructure fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36871/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (19 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I will follow up on Deputy Boyd Barrett's contribution because that is pretty much exactly what I want to say. Although we have Croke Park in my area, we do not actually have a great many GAA clubs. That is why areas like Cabra, for example, have Naomh Fionnbarra, which is literally the centre of our community. It runs festivals. It is the place where the community gathers and it is so...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sport and Recreational Development (19 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I welcome some of the statistics the Minister of State gave. I certainly welcome the improvements he outlined. The issue, which he might address, is the complexity as to why girls drop out of sport and the barriers they face, including that provision for them is sometimes peripheral when it comes to the provision of pitches and other infrastructure. Some research has shown that issues like...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sport and Recreational Development (19 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I really welcome some of those initiatives. As somebody who represents an area with a number of communities in which a lot of households are on low incomes and there are areas of deprivation, we look to sports facilities and sports clubs to help achieve social cohesion. Increasingly, we are seeing the benefits of sports participation for mental health and in creating a sense of belonging....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sport and Recreational Development (19 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 10. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for an update on funding provided for the women in sport programme; the measures her Department has taken to increase participation of women in sport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36872/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sport and Recreational Development (19 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I am sure the Department is aware as it has been doing work on it, that we struggle to maintain the participation of women and girls in sport. Despite improvements, there is a still a significant drop-off rate, especially of younger women in sport. What measures has the Department taken and will it take to increase the participation of women and girls in sport?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I will start by adding my congratulations to Mr. Mitchell, and also by recognising the work that has been completed on the waiting lists, and the effort going into it in the face of increasing demand. I know that is not a small challenge. I want to follow up on the issue of targets and estimated savings but I want to look back a little bit to the recruitment freeze. My first question is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay but we were increasing at a percentage point and we can track that on a graph somewhere, say what the percentage increase was and estimate what the saving was, can we not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: We will come to staffing ceilings in a moment but I expect we would have a sense of what the recruitment freeze did in terms of savings and efficiencies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay. We can argue whether it is an opportunity cost but we should have a sense of what that number would have been if we had not put the recruitment freeze in place.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Mr. Mulvany has all the calculations so he could do that. He has all the numbers at his fingertips. He could do that calculation and tell us.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay, and since, is it mid-July that it was lifted?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Since then, what has been the increase in staffing, or have we tracked that with regard to the data?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I have heard people responding to that. We will come to need in a second but I will first return to agency and overtime, which Mr. Gloster just talked about. Perhaps this is a question for the Department as well. I believe we all generally support this push for savings and productivity. Is what Mr. Gloster just described how the number for the staffing ceiling was arrived at?