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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Standard of Living and Social Protection: Minister for Social Protection (24 Mar 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I welcome the Minister. I have just come from the Committee of Public Accounts. I apologise if I revisit any questions that have already been asked. We might stick on the idea that the public sector needs to show leadership, because I like that idea. It is a good one. We recently increased targets for our Departments to employ people self-identifying as having disabilities. The current...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Standard of Living and Social Protection: Minister for Social Protection (24 Mar 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank the Minister for that response. It is an encouraging number. I did not think we would be at that level already. That is good. I will highlight two issues in this regard. The Minister flagged one regarding the recruitment process. Someone came to me about the starting the process of trying to look for a job, and a person with a visual impairment, for example, would encounter...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Standard of Living and Social Protection: Minister for Social Protection (24 Mar 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: That is fair enough. One of the topics we talk about frequently in this committee is that the topic of disability straddles several Departments and it can be difficult to align things sometimes. My impression is that the Council of Irish Sign Language Interpreters, CISLI, comes under the national disability inclusion strategy, NDIS. Does that mean it falls within the ambit of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Standard of Living and Social Protection: Minister for Social Protection (24 Mar 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: It is a relatively new group, and I am under the impression that it comes under the NDIS.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Standard of Living and Social Protection: Minister for Social Protection (24 Mar 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I have one quick question, which I suspect someone else has already asked the Minister and I missed it. We are and will be having a significant influx of people fleeing the war in Ukraine. Like all communities and cohorts, a certain percentage of those refugees will be people with disabilities. People are even finding it difficult to leave Ukraine because of their disabilities and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Standard of Living and Social Protection: Minister for Social Protection (24 Mar 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Mar 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I wish the Minister "good afternoon" and thank him for being here. I am sure we will talk at length, probably today, about the constitutional issues. I am aware that there are probably people who are better placed than I am to ask some of those questions. One area I would like to touch on is the interaction with various pieces of legislation and whether there is a piece of work being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Mar 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Therefore, the equality legislation would be a key one for review. I am asking, particularly in the context of addressing gender-based violence. Obviously, it is against all genders, but I think we can all accept that it is often more specifically against women. In the case where legislation is proving to actively possibly exacerbate the situation, and I am particularly thinking of our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Mar 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I am glad to hear that we will be listening to the experiences of sex workers on that. I have a follow-up question. Something the assembly asked us to bear in mind when placing this before the Oireachtas was that everyone must be supported in achieving their own potential regardless of their gender identity. Many households in the country are receiving the census documents at present and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Mar 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: To be clear, Chairman, I would consider gender-based violence in general to include the issue of sex work, regardless of whether a review is ongoing.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of People with Disabilities (23 Mar 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 146. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he plans to establish a standalone Ombudsman to investigate breaches of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15260/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (23 Mar 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 183. To ask the Minister for Health the date his Department was first informed of the intention of CHO 4 HSE management to close a centre (details supplied); if he will identify the staff members of his Department and the staff members of CHO 4 HSE mental health services who were in communication regarding the decision at that earliest stage of the process. [15199/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (23 Mar 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 184. To ask the Minister for Health the first communication between CHO 4 HSE managers regarding the proposed closure of a centre (details supplied); the date this took place; the names and roles of the managers in communication at this time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15200/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (23 Mar 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 185. To ask the Minister for Health the date the chief operations officer and the head of operations, quality and service improvement of the HSE were first informed of the intention of CHO 4 HSE management to close a centre (details supplied). [15201/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (23 Mar 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 186. To ask the Minister for Health if the clinical directors of the West Cork, South Lee and North Cork adult mental health services have agreed with CHO 4 senior HSE management to accept referrals of service-users under the care of the Midleton, Youghal and Cobh Glenville adult mental health teams for long-stay and respite placements in the community residences attached to their local...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (23 Mar 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 194. To ask the Minister for Health the person or body that has been awarded the contract to undertake research with service providers of termination of pregnancy services as part of the three-year review process; the way that providers of services such as services (details supplied) will be able to feed into this process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15234/22]