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

Neasa Hourigan: I picked a bad example. Can we pick another example?

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

Neasa Hourigan: When there is a GP down the road.

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

Neasa Hourigan: I am aware this is a question for the Department of Health to answer, but I hope there is a map that shows black holes in the provision.

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

Neasa Hourigan: I know I am out of time, but anecdotally I have been given the impression that there is a similar issue for some pharmacies, in that they do not want to stock certain OST-related products.

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

Neasa Hourigan: If they are objectively or unobjectively against it, where is the point of interaction with your organisation?

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

Neasa Hourigan: Absolutely.

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

Neasa Hourigan: It is a huge barrier in day-to-day life.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (19 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 114. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on his engagements to promote an end to the conflict in Sudan; to outline Ireland’s ongoing humanitarian support to the people of Sudan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37160/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I will start by adding my congratulations to Mr. Mitchell, and also by recognising the work that has been completed on the waiting lists, and the effort going into it in the face of increasing demand. I know that is not a small challenge. I want to follow up on the issue of targets and estimated savings but I want to look back a little bit to the recruitment freeze. My first question is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay but we were increasing at a percentage point and we can track that on a graph somewhere, say what the percentage increase was and estimate what the saving was, can we not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: We will come to staffing ceilings in a moment but I expect we would have a sense of what the recruitment freeze did in terms of savings and efficiencies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay. We can argue whether it is an opportunity cost but we should have a sense of what that number would have been if we had not put the recruitment freeze in place.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Mr. Mulvany has all the calculations so he could do that. He has all the numbers at his fingertips. He could do that calculation and tell us.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay, and since, is it mid-July that it was lifted?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Since then, what has been the increase in staffing, or have we tracked that with regard to the data?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I have heard people responding to that. We will come to need in a second but I will first return to agency and overtime, which Mr. Gloster just talked about. Perhaps this is a question for the Department as well. I believe we all generally support this push for savings and productivity. Is what Mr. Gloster just described how the number for the staffing ceiling was arrived at?