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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I take that point but that is not a push to blueberry flavoured smoke.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: What if it tasted of nothing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: We have established from Ms O'Connell that we would prefer if people were not using anything. I presume Mr. Connolly would prefer not to be addicted to nicotine. Is that fair to say?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I am out of time. To call it a cessation device implies it is a temporary measure and that if, therefore, people start with tobacco flavour, move to flavourless and then take up blueberry or strawberry milkshake, what Mr. Connolly is suggesting is keeping people vaping. Surely vaping should be a staging post to not taking anything at all.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: The data does not support that.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (15 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 875. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to regulate crisis pregnancy agencies and the information and services they provide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8283/22]

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I have listened to some scepticism regarding the import of the Bill but I am quite hopeful that the transfer of the disability portfolio to the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth will be effective and worthwhile. As we move towards a rights-based approach to addressing the requirements of persons with disabilities and the provision of services around that,...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Nuclear Waste (10 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 315. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a military risk analysis has been undertaken in relation to the legacy dumping of nuclear waste in the State’s south-west waters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7269/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Military Activities (10 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 316. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a risk analysis has been undertaken in relation to the threat from military activity of other states in Ireland’s exclusive economic zone; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7270/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Accommodation (9 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 115. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Courts Service own the curtilage of the Court House, Washington Street, Cork; if planning permission exists for a car park at the curtilage of the courthouse; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7006/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (9 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 120. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1719 of 19 January 2022, the population size of the North Lee and South Lee catchments served by a new adult mental health rehabilitation consultant psychiatrist in County Cork; if there will be a full multidisciplinary team working alongside them; the time frame for their recruitment; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (9 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 126. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1716 of 19 January 2022, if there were bidders other than the HSE on a property purchased in January 2021 in Carrigaline, County Cork for the purpose of residential mental health provision; if there were other properties for this type of service considered by the HSE for purchase in 2020 and 2021; and if so, the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (9 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 127. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated annual running costs of the HSE Carrigaline residential mental health service; and the estimated timeframe for the commencement of the service. [6782/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 128. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has purchased or is renting a property named Garnish House in Cork city; and the details of the costs associated with this property. [6783/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (9 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 169. 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 senior management to accept referrals of service users under the care of the Midleton, Youghal and Cobh, Glenville adult mental health teams for long-stay or respite placements in the community residences attached to their local catchment areas...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (9 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 170. To ask the Minister for Health his views on long-stay wards in St. Finbarr’s Hospital and St. Stephen's Hospital being the continuing care placement options for east County Cork service users requiring long-stay mental health placements into the future under current HSE plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7088/22]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Before we begin, I wish to explain some limitations to parliamentary privilege in the practice of the Houses as regards references witnesses may make to other persons in their evidence. The evidence of witnesses physically present or who give evidence from within the parliamentary precincts is protected pursuant to both the Constitution and statute by absolute privilege. However, today's...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank Mr. Johnson and that is a very useful overview.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Does Mr. Johnson wish to respond?