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Written Answers — Department of Health: Irish Blood Transfusion Service (20 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 572. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that oral sex was maintained as grounds for deferral of men who have sex with men in donating blood, following a previous decision of the board of an organisation (details supplied) to remove oral sex as a basis for deferral; if there was concern about this specific change in policy; the reason that this was not raised during the process engaged...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Irish Blood Transfusion Service (20 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 573. To ask the Minister for Health if the individualised risk assessment system to be introduced for all prospective blood donors from December 2022 will reflect the three-month deferral policy used in the United Kingdom; if not, the reason for the difference; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45929/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Irish Blood Transfusion Service (20 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 574. To ask the Minister for Health if the replacement of the health and lifestyle questionnaire with an electronic self-assessment health history questionnaire by an organisation (details supplied) will be completed, as anticipated, in Q3 of 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45930/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Education and the UNCRPD: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: As I only have six minutes, I will focus on one issue. My fellow committee members have raised many other issues. Recently, I dealt with a mum who contacted me because her eldest son, who has done his leaving certificate, and her youngest child, who has entered the leaving certificate years, are visually impaired. I empathise with this mother because my child, though much younger, is in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Education and the UNCRPD: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I completely accept the need to protect the examinations. Nobody wants to have to resit an examination. However, it would be meaningful for them to hear from the Minister that there is a concern around the human rights issues. My views are shared by Senator Erin McGreehan, who wanted to be here tonight, and Senator Martin Conway. We are like mini-coalition on this issue. We are very...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Have we had Waterways Ireland before the committee-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: If it is a cross-border body, how does that operate? If we have not had them, can we have them?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: We do not necessarily need to have an authority from Northern Ireland come here to help audit. Can we go ahead and Waterways Ireland just have to answer to both?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: The Chairman took the words right out of my mouth. With no oversight from the Assembly since it is, unfortunately, not sitting, I believe we should do our duty and have Waterways Ireland in for a session.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Part of the issue is the complete lack of access to orthodontic services. We are running a system whereby we let people go so far that the only thing that can be done is extreme orthodontic treatment. The Minister in question is sitting on a report on the services and education of orthodontists. We have been unable to get that report from the Minister. I am wondering, if we are going to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: We have agreed that we will change the date but, as Deputy Murphy pointed out, if people are invited to this committee, there is an expectation that they will come. I am aware that the derby is happening but, as I said, unless they are running in the derby themselves, surely they could find a staff member who can come. The races happen on a Saturday. I am at a loss as to why they cannot...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I agree with the Chair's characterisation of what is happening at local level. It is very difficult for councillors to give it the time and attention it needs. We are speaking about the local authorities as though they are independent groups or organisations. In other European countries, local authorities can generate their own revenue. We do not operate in this way in Ireland. The local...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I suggest that we hold over this correspondence until Deputy Catherine Murphy is present. We have had a conversation about this and it might be worth a follow-up.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: It is an interesting one. We might be doing the State a service if we follow up on it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: There is an issue in respect of getting that information.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: The construction standards in the 1990s in some ways might have been lower than in the 1930s. I live in a 1930s poured concrete building. It retains heat. Some of the insulation standards from the 1990s were lower. That might be some of the thinking involved.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: They are in Cabra too. They are all over the place. I live in one. Some of the thinking might be that some of the houses constructed in the 1980s and 1990s are draughtier than older houses.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Have they been pumped, though? I do not know. We will not go into the issue of insulation densities, but an argument could be made that construction was of a poorer quality in later years.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I am aware.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Sep 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: There is a large volume of information in the documents we have received and I have many questions. Can we put it on our work schedule to have An Bord Pleanála appear before us again?