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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Control of Dogs (25 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 132. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the process for obtaining a certificate of exemption for an XL bully dog; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37993/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: General Practitioner Services (24 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 115. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ensure that changes to tax requirements under Section 1008A of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 for general medical practitioners under general medical services scheme contracts (limiting partnerships to other GPs only) will not adversely damage existing non-profit practices, where the partner is a charitable organisation, forcing them to close...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (24 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the review of the reasonable accommodation policy for exams; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37804/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (24 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 316. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extra training and supports provided to members of An Garda Síochána to action their new powers to tackle the anti-social use of scrambler bikes, quad bikes and similar off-road machines in public spaces; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37423/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (24 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 535. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the expansion of the newborn bloodspot screening programme; his plans to roll out the programme to detecting for metachromatic leukodystrophy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37873/24]

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?

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I will focus on naloxone and access to that. I appreciate that it has been touched on but I want to do a deep dive. We have high levels of injury and death due to the use of drugs in this country, and other countries have started to look at the regulation of naloxone. If I have not taken any drugs and I take a shot of naloxone, what will happen to me?

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: If I picked up the drug off the ground, did not know what it was and snorted it, would nothing happen?

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: What about suboxone?

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Is it fair to say access to that type of treatment is very important when there has been an overdose or the consuming of drugs whose effects you want to cease?

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I apologise for interrupting, but my understanding from having spoken recently to a GP is that if I work in the drugs sector as, say, a youth worker, or if I know somebody who I think might go into overdose, I need to go to a GP and get a prescription for that person. If I then meet someone who is in the middle of an overdose and give him or her naloxone, I then have to go back to the GP to...

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Where are we with that?

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Is it Dr. O'Driscoll's position that the hold-up is because of the EU complication?