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

Neasa Hourigan: However, the aim is to train everyone.

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

Neasa Hourigan: Yes.

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

Neasa Hourigan: I will come to Professor McCarthy but I would be interested in how we are doing that. We are contextualising this as medical issue for a small baby, but for the parents it is also a human rights issue and certainly my experience of how a disability was contextualised was negative. A number of services, for example, An Garda Síochána, are being encouraged to undertake training on...

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

Neasa Hourigan: I know everyone wants to contribute so I will finish with one question and perhaps come back in when everyone else has finished. Would it be fair to say when it comes to perinatal mental health, those feelings of agency and control are incredibly important for people who are pregnant and, in that context, do the witnesses take a view on the suspension of particular services, such as home...

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

Neasa Hourigan: Was this the suspension of visiting during Covid-19?

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

Neasa Hourigan: Does Dr. Wrigley similarly take a view on the suspension of home births in Munster?

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

Neasa Hourigan: I refer to the suspension of access to home birth services.

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

Neasa Hourigan: I apologise for cutting in, but it is useful for us to get the detail. I have been reading some of the research on this and it seems to be very common that people would not necessarily hide their illness but they may underplay it during a pregnancy because they are worried they might be identified as problematic. I am trying to get a sense of when such people are identified. Is it at the...

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

Neasa Hourigan: I totally understand that but I am wondering as there was a bit of an outcry at the time from women who felt that they were absolutely suitable for that kind of service and that choice was being taken away from them. I totally get what was said about that being obstetric and this being psychiatric but we cannot easily decouple those two things when it comes to people's agency about their own...

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

Neasa Hourigan: Does Dr. Doyle wanted to come in?

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

Neasa Hourigan: I thank Dr. Doyle.

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

Neasa Hourigan: Yes. As the public representative for the local area, I am delighted to hear the discussion around the Rotunda and the requirement for more space. I am aware there is a business case doing the rounds which I have been supporting in terms of getting more space and access to another building. Having had my kids in the Rotunda, I can see how much more we could be doing. I have one...

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

Neasa Hourigan: Dr. Wrigley is the only person who has ever said that to me. I know it is an incredibly boring question.

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

Neasa Hourigan: Dr. Wrigley has my support on that. The data underwrites the budget allocation and links to finance, which is kind of why I was asking about it.

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

Neasa Hourigan: Was a timeline given for that?

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

Neasa Hourigan: We need to follow up on that with the HSE.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 62. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her response to the Commission on Taxation and Welfare's recommendation that the individualisation of payments made to qualified adults should be progressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50608/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (13 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 77. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her response to the Commission on Taxation and Welfare's recommendation that working-age payments should be reformed to move towards an income-related working-age assistance payment available to all households; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50609/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Legislative Measures (13 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 157. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline progress to date on the development of a legal ban on the practice of conversion therapy; when he expects legislation to be ready for introduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50620/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (13 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 180. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to instances in relation to the electricity cost emergency benefit scheme where a unique MPRN meter is split into multiple meters across two or more units and the energy credit is then split between each unit, resulting in a lower payment per person and affecting often more vulnerable...