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

Neasa Hourigan: 881. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of individuals and their county of location who have been issued an exclusion order pursuant to Section 47 of the Greyhound Industry Act 1858, including any revocations since 2000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51894/22]

Joint Committee On Health: Issues Relating to Perinatal Mental Health: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank the witnesses for being here. This is an area in which I am very interested and one I hope has been improving in the past couple of years. I have a lot of questions, which I will try to organise into groups. I start with the questions that are about the interaction of this issue with other issues. For example, reference was made to eating disorders and how they interact with...

Joint Committee On Health: Issues Relating to Perinatal Mental Health: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Are there systemic barriers? We have heard before at this committee that we have nothing near the kind of supports needed for eating disorders. I am using eating disorders as an example. Are there any systemic barriers such that there would be concern around admitting somebody who is also pregnant into a particular service? No. Okay; that is not happening. I would like to ask whether-----

Joint Committee On Health: Issues Relating to Perinatal Mental Health: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Fair enough. I want to ask about post-birth. We have seen a reduction in person-to-person engagement, such as somebody coming to your home, like the community nurse or whoever it might be. Is that a challenge for perinatal mental health?

Joint Committee On Health: Issues Relating to Perinatal Mental Health: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: We will miss them.

Joint Committee On Health: Issues Relating to Perinatal Mental Health: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: What should we be aiming for? If I came home with my baby, what would be best practice if we were both providing care to the baby and providing support to a mother who it is felt might be slightly vulnerable or might need support? How many visits would there be in the first 100 days?

Joint Committee On Health: Issues Relating to Perinatal Mental Health: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: One a week. That is the answer. I want to know, honestly, if one had a magic wand and the funding and staffing were not an issue-----

Joint Committee On Health: Issues Relating to Perinatal Mental Health: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I have a follow-up question. I know the staff involved are very over-run and I accept all of that. Is there sufficient training for those particular staff members, especially around things like ADHD or issues around disability in the early stages of a baby's life, which is very hard to diagnose sometimes? It is not that they would need to know everything but to identify where there is an...

Joint Committee On Health: Issues Relating to Perinatal Mental Health: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I do not want to cut across Dr. Wrigely; I am just trying to get a sense of it. Does she mean people are given a checklist to tell them to make sure they ask about women's mental health, or are they being given training to approach women in a certain way? It would seem, if people are hiding it, particularly in certain cohorts, that they are not so much defensive but very wary of...

Joint Committee On Health: Issues Relating to Perinatal Mental Health: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: That only started last year.

Joint Committee On Health: Issues Relating to Perinatal Mental Health: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: When Dr. Wrigley says it started, does "it" refer to a set of training or a requirement on the nurses and if so how many are doing it?

Joint Committee On Health: Issues Relating to Perinatal Mental Health: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Does rolling that out require an hour of training or is it simply a document?

Joint Committee On Health: Issues Relating to Perinatal Mental Health: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: How many public health nurses have gone through the training?