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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay. I just want to get that straight.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I think we are all expecting to see adjustments. I would be interested in what Germany would think of that kind of warehousing proposal.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: There will be a few of them in town in November apparently, so maybe we can do that then.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I will finish with one quick question for Professor Kinsella. He spoke a bit about fiscal forward guidance and that it should be more coherent. In the context of our having said recently that we have this 5% rule, which we immediately binned, what would fiscal forward guidance look like into the future?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: To not spin the rules.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Is it accurate to say that it is less about rules and more about transparency and communication?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: We are at the close. We have covered a lot but if there was anything vital that has not been mentioned at all, I am happy for people to mention it now. Speak now or forever hold your piece. I take that as, "We are done." I want to thank everybody. It is 8.15 p.m. and I appreciate our guests taking the time and staying so late. That concludes the session.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Chair, I confirm that I am in my office in Leinster House because I have a sick child on my couch. I thank the delegation for being here. I thank the Department's staff for working so hard on this legislation, progressing it and engaging with the Seanad Bill that came through. It is worthwhile saying at this stage that this is incredibly complex legislation and the Department must strike...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay. That makes sense.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I will just come back on that. I am not a legal expert and I am better on buildings than I am on the law, but as far as I know having no knowledge of the law is not a defence for breaking the law. I am keen that there would be a required noting of the warnings. That would be helpful. There is a significant grey area around that when someone is interfacing with gardaí.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I cannot see the clock, so perhaps the Chair will tell me if I am out of time. If I do have time, I have one other question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: The heads of the Bill state that there is an escalation of penalties. I would like to get a sense of these. If a person is warned, what happens next and what is the higher end of possible penalties?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: The Department is in the middle of engagement and I am aware that this is a live issue. I am not asking the Department to commit itself to anything but are there comparable offences in the context of the escalation of penalties? For example, is it comparable to creating an antisocial incident or to unrest during a protest more generally?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I have several quick questions to follow up. I suspect I know the answers to them but it is useful to ask them for clarity. I would like the witnesses to say a word about interaction with representative groups of GPs and nursing and not only regarding the creation of the Bill. We have spoken about public information. I assume it would be very important to roll the professional groups into...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I do not want to go into it too heavily, but we have had discussions at this committee before around the ownership and running of particular healthcare facilities. Therefore, putting the decision-making around the process in the hands of the facilities themselves would not be fair on them or on the public.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (18 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 505. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to introduce a payment, similar to that of the pandemic unemployment payment, for individuals with monkeypox who are required to isolate for the duration of their illness, which typically lasts two to four weeks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51267/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 795. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the work of his Department towards enhancing the provision of community-based vasectomy services; if he will provide an update on the work to develop a standard GP contract for the provision of vasectomy services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51792/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (18 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 862. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of free tickets, complimentary passes and VIP invites issued for the Irish greyhound derby competition nights between 19 August 2022 and 24 September 2022. [51272/22]