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Committee on Drugs Use: Community Supports: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Nicole Ryan: What is the number one barrier? Is it the housing or the children?

Committee on Drugs Use: Community Supports: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Nicole Ryan: My next question is for Pavee Point. Will the representatives expand a little bit on the peer-led Traveller recovery model?

Committee on Drugs Use: Community Supports: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I have one more really quick question. Is that programme with Coolmine being rolled out nationally? Is it accessible to everyone? There is a Traveller group in my constituency who have been doing a peer mediation programme for men to mediate between them but something like this would also be very useful to them.

Committee on Drugs Use: Community Supports: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Nicole Ryan: And the Minister for Health.

Committee on Drugs Use: Community Supports: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I am going to pick up on a few points. Filling out forms is not the issue, to be honest. Everybody who works in this space and anybody who works with communities knows how to fill out a form. Let us call a spade a spade: it is a matter of the funding. The money spent on addressing drugs is the issue, not filling out applications. I am delighted with the remark about the Department of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I thank Mr. Gloster. My next question is for the Minister. She highlighted the variations in hospital productivity, which has been the theme of this whole session. We talked about Tallaght and the amazing numbers it has. What specific accountability mechanisms will the Minister introduce to ensure that the underperforming hospitals improve and adopt best practices?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I have one more question for the Minister. How will the Department ensure that community voices, such as patients and front-line staff, are included in decisions around the insourcing and outsourcing framework?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Nicole Ryan: How are the voices and concerns of people working in the hospital, the doctors and the patients included in that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I thank the witnesses for being here today. My first question is for Mr. Gloster. What lessons have been drawn from the NHS guidance that he referred to, particularly about preventing agency escalation and pay inflation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Teagasc agus Stádas na Gaeilge sna hInstitiúidí Tríú Leibhéal: Plé (Atógáil) (30 Sep 2025)

Nicole Ryan: Táim fós ag foghlaim Gaeilge agus mar sin níl an stór focal go léir agam. Cuirfidh mé mo cheist i mBéarla agus is féidir leis na finnéithe freagra a thabhairt i nGaeilge. The witnesses have spoken about how there needs to be a demand for the drive, but it is evident that there is not enough information out there for people to understand that they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Teagasc agus Stádas na Gaeilge sna hInstitiúidí Tríú Leibhéal: Plé (Atógáil) (30 Sep 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I get that, but Ms O'Mahony stated that the HEA is not actually recording things at granular level. If the data is not there and the data is not being recorded, there is no sense of the true picture.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Teagasc agus Stádas na Gaeilge sna hInstitiúidí Tríú Leibhéal: Plé (Atógáil) (30 Sep 2025)

Nicole Ryan: What kind of metrics does the Department record in that initiative? I am guessing this is the only initiative that it runs. It states initiatives, but it is just the one North-South initiative. What kinds of metrics does the Department measure in terms of that to see the success? How did the Department decide on €16,000 being enough to foster North-South relationships?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Teagasc agus Stádas na Gaeilge sna hInstitiúidí Tríú Leibhéal: Plé (Atógáil) (30 Sep 2025)

Nicole Ryan: Did anybody call for more funding on this initiative in previous years?

Committee on Drugs Use: Family Supports: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Nicole Ryan: No pressure. I thank the Cathaoirleach. My first question is for Coolmine. How do we balance the urgent need for specialised residential family units versus interventions in the community? How does Coolmine see that working?

Committee on Drugs Use: Family Supports: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Nicole Ryan: I thank Ms Harris. My other question is for FARI. FARI's statement mentioned kinship carers needing to have the same rights as foster carers. Maybe Mr. Mason did not get to that part but I read the statement prior to the meeting. How widespread is the issue around kinship care versus foster care and how do we legislate for that?

Committee on Drugs Use: Family Supports: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Nicole Ryan: It does. I thank Ms Malone. I really appreciate it. My other question is for Ms Barry. She mentioned that 3% of the drugs strategy’s funding goes to family supports. Does she have any insight into how that figure compares internationally?

Committee on Drugs Use: Family Supports: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Nicole Ryan: That is grand.

Committee on Drugs Use: Family Supports: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Nicole Ryan: It is grand. Do not be sorry; it is a technical question. I might open that question to the floor. Are there other countries we could look to that support families a hell of a lot better than we do here in Ireland when it comes to addiction and family supports?

Committee on Drugs Use: Family Supports: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Nicole Ryan: Is it that the HSE is not joined up in its thinking across regions or areas that groups must have a really good relationship with it? In Cork North-West, we do not have anything. We have to go to the city to get any type of addiction treatment for the person, never mind the families. The families are just forgotten about altogether. Is it that the HSE is siloed and does whatever it wants...

Committee on Drugs Use: Family Supports: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Nicole Ryan: My question is open to everyone and is around tokenism the national drug strategy. I worked in drug services which were "nice" - they were the standard drug services - and nothing could have prepared me for working in a low-threshold, homeless service and how different that was. I was working with groups who were migrants or from the Traveller community and seeing the shift of how the...