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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny (Resumed): Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (30 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: Would the Minister like to respond?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny (Resumed): Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (30 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: I will try to let members in for a second round. We do not have much time left. While members consider whether they wish to come in for two or three minutes for a second round of questions, I have a few questions, not so much about what is in budget 2022, but more the formation of it. One of the more progressive measures in the budget last year related to areas such as mental health, where...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny (Resumed): Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (30 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank the Minister. That is really useful to know because it makes a significant difference to people working in those services and to non-governmental organisations, NGOs, to be able to see exactly where money will be going. In a similar vein, many people and NGOs often raise with me the usefulness of multi-annual funding in the context of the surety it provides in respect of from where...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny (Resumed): Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (30 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: Excellent work has been done by various Departments in respect of well-being budgeting. Will budget 2022 be a well-being budget?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny (Resumed): Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (30 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: I do not see any other hands raised so it just remains for me to thank the Minister for his time today. It has been a really useful session for everybody. I also thank Mr. Downes and Mr. Kinnane for their attendance today and for their assistance to the committee. We wish you all well in the next month or two with the budget and all the other issues we discussed today. The committee's...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (29 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: 65. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to address the fact that there are no approved insulation products under the warmer homes scheme to retrofit brick and stone-built houses; if the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland can identify suitable insulation products that can be included in the scheme so that qualifying residents of brick and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank the witnesses for being here. I apologise but the bells are going in the background here. I hope they are not too intrusive. I want to go back to the number of products are available at the moment. Four cannabis-based oils are already approved. Is it fair to say each oil relates to a specific company and thus for the four oils there are four companies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: So there are three companies involved. That is okay. Of the five-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: Are the five, which are under review, oils or herbs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: Can we go through the 11 that have been withdrawn or paused by the applicant company? I presume it was the companies themselves that withdrew or paused them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: Like what? Could Ms Farrell give an example?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: That is six out of the 11. What about the other five?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: In what way?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: Can I go through the relationship of the healthcare professional? I think Dr. Nolan said one of the requirements was that the patient must have exhausted all available options. How does that align with the healthcare professional being able to make a medical decision for his or her patient?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: If the patient is being prescribed this medicine on the basis that the consultant believes it is the best treatment, in the normal way, there would be no requirement for the patient to try every medicine before a consultant chooses a particular medicine for him or her. I presume that the consultant will look at the particular requirements and make a clinical decision based on his or her...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: There was a statement that a treatment programme and a report would be required. Sorry, it sounds like a report with regard to the treatment programme where you have to outline the background. Is this different from what would normally happen with a prescribed medicine? I presume it is not. Usually, you would give a background. There is also a statement that measurements would be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: That requirement for measurement seems somewhat arbitrary. I would like to understand more about how we are agreeing levels of measurement. I know I am over time but I have one quick question and am not sure who can answer it for me. How many patients are we estimating will come through MCAP in the next 18 months or year? I am not sure if this question is for Mr. Flanagan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: Let us assume that those patients are not in MCAP-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: If we take out those 300 people who might be serviced by a different programme, is the figure 50 or 100 people?