Results 281-300 of 7,412 for speaker:Neasa Hourigan
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I noticed throughout the statement and when Ms Quigley talks about interagency partnership how there is a creeping centralisation towards very health-specific services that any of us on the ground will have seen. I represent Dublin 1 and Dublin 7. As everyone has said today, the issues are so much more complex. What Ms Quigley has described is similar to an extent to the model for the...
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Housing First is for people who are in a particular crisis moment and is not always related to this issue.
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: They are the people who know how their lives work and they can inform that policy.
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I have some questions for the Prison Service. My questions will be intensely practical because I am trying to understand how the prisons work with regard to testing, access to naloxone and the issue of the recent mass overdose. We heard from other contributors at this committee that there is always a struggle to get suitable testing on site for anything, whether it relates to festivals or a...
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Is that May of this year?
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: How does the Prison Service access the substances for testing?
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Do the prisoners consent to that?
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: That is not really consent.
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Has the Prison Service explored ways of testing that would allow for a consent-based process?
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: The Prison Service is testing the person. I was asking whether it tests the substance.
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: What is the average? Is it three weeks or six weeks?
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: It takes three months to get a substance tested.
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I want to take a moment to repeat that. If there is a crisis moment where somebody is significantly impacted by the use of drugs, and it is to the point where the Prison Service has tested, it can be done in 48 hours.
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: If not, and if the Prison Service just finds or accesses a substance, it can take three months. That is crazy.
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: In terms of the business of the committee, I suggest that a specific and useful thing would be to back up the Prison Service on access to substance testing that does not take three months.
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: 52. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people currently incarcerated in Mountjoy Prison; the level to which the prison is considered over capacity; the work undertaken by the Prison Overcrowding Response Group to address the issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37290/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Services (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: 80. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on the move of veterinarian services from local authorities to his Department; the provision that has been put in place to make services available to local authorities for the regulation of dogs, horses and other wildlife when required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37291/24]
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: As the Minister is no doubt aware, the Department of Social Protection has completed a review of the reasonable accommodation for people with disabilities who wish to engage further with the workforce. Deaf Village Ireland and ChildVision are located in my constituency. There is a huge proportion of people with disabilities who want to work, but they need supports. The review found that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: It is important we say that. I wish to take a minute to look at some of the change orders. On the issue of claims, one of the more significant change orders that has been discussed here previously has been the operating theatre grilles. Is that a live claim? I thank the witnesses for such substantial briefing documents. It states in the briefing documents that they have not withdrawn...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: How long has it been live?