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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I take it as read that the vast majority of people in dental practice would welcome some more verifiable means of regulation. I see all the witnesses nodding their heads. We do not have a register of dental practices. I will use the two minutes remaining to me to talk about that. Reference was made to a practice somewhere in Drumcondra, which is in the constituency I represent. That is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (30 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 322. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her Department’s views on whether the guidelines on the use of school buildings outside of school hours prohibits the provision of sibling hour and afterschool facilities at a school building (details supplied) as per the decision of the board of management at the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19248/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (30 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 474. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rationale for the conditions for the PRSI contributions for the benefit payment for 65-year-olds; the reason a person would not be eligible for the benefit payment at 65 years old, even if they are eligible and have made enough PRSI payments to qualify for the State pension a year later; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Consultations (30 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 586. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has engaged with the Minister for Education with respect to guidelines on the use of school buildings outside of school hours issued by her Department which are now being cited as justification by a board of management for terminating afterschool and sibling hour services at national school (details...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for the Blind and Vision Impaired: Vision Ireland (24 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I view this as the beginning and that we will get a strategy. I second Deputy Durkan's proposals on the next actions for the committee. In that context, it strikes me there are issues that I would like to put on the record. There are always cohorts that remain excluded from the eye-test scheme. People either have to have a medical card, fall under the treatment benefit scheme or hold a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for Persons with Lung Fibrosis: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Has it not been funded at all?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I will stay on the issue of children for a moment. The last time we spoke, the Government was not accepting or recognising long Covid in children more generally. At the time, the NHS in the UK had just made that move. Does the health system now recognise that long Covid occurs in children?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank Ms O'Connell for that clarity. I will move on to the occupational injuries scheme. This is an area in which there is already good legislation around supporting people who have contracted illnesses through their workplace. It is a very broad spectrum. It is not that they do not recognise a broad spectrum; it is everything from nystagmus to poisoning. In Ms O'Connell's work, and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I am referring to before those later diagnoses because, obviously, we are not at the height of the pandemic now. I am trying to get a sense of how common it is now to contract.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: There was a specific package or programme with funding on its own to look at the recruitment issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: It is at a standstill.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I will move to the clinical trials but, before I do so, I will make a point about the barriers for people in areas of deprivation or in low-income households to go to a GP, at a very low level, to get checked if they are feeling unhappy. In my area in particular, and other Deputies represent areas of deprivation, getting an appointment for a GP, even if people have the money, is very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I have left less than two minutes remaining. There is the issue around the lack of new development funding and the correlation between this and the recruitment issue. The increase in recruitment between 2021 and 2022 has been cited a number of times. It is also raised in the briefing note to the committee, which states specifically that it ends at 2022 and cites 742 staff. Can I make the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (10 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 155. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1427 of 20 March 2024, in which month of 2023 the security contract for a location (details supplied) was terminated; the reasons for doing so at that particular time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15600/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (21 Mar 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I welcome that information, particularly that the Minister will be meeting with SIPTU on this issue. I was lucky enough to go to the bus depot in Summerhill to look at the electric buses recently, which are fantastic to see. One of the issues we discussed was the need to attract more women into the service. One of the big barriers to that is the need to communicate to the public or those...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (21 Mar 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 73. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to address anti-social behaviour and abuse directed at workers on the public transport network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13225/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: There is so much to cover but we might start with the vaccinations which we spoke about the last time Mr. Gloster was here. We spoke about the low uptake of the Covid-19 vaccine particularly among people with underlying issues. I believe it was one in ten at the time. I wish to broaden that out to get an update on the measles issue. Do the witnesses have anything to tell the committee...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Mr. Gloster believes right now we are at that 30% reduction for the last quarter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Sorry, I do not mean to cut across the witness. Does that data exist and we just do not have it at our fingertips, or does it not exist?