Results 601-620 of 6,785 for speaker:Neasa Hourigan
- Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: It is a lack of trust in the State's ability to deal with them one-on-one.
- Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: That brings me beautifully to my next question on how Departments talk to each other. All of the witnesses, in various guises, are in the business not only of providing services but also providing access to services for people who might not know how to access them. In my job, people may come in with a housing issue but may also have medical problems. Those two things do not always talk to...
- Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: But Dr. Mbugua feels that model works.
- Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Structurally, we need to realign to make it less painful.
- Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: It is a really Irish thing to rely on networks that you know. I do that. However, structurally, anybody should be able to take your place.
- Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Let me ask a question from a cold, hard legislator's point of view. Ms Coyle talked about data, access to data and ethnic identifiers, which matters have come up at meetings of the health committee several times. In fairness, they have arisen at meetings of several committees I used to sit on. I am referring to the deficit in data collection. To someone like me, who would go to a...
- Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: I imagine a lot of the people in the situations we are talking about are wary of authority and giving extra information.
- Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: The example Ms Windle has given there is terrible. This is something I have come across with constituents as well. In her experience, what is the average waiting time for a PPS number now? In the good old days it was three weeks and in the bad days it was months. Where are we now?
- Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Wow. That is very difficult.
- Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: We were given assurances recently that it would be faster.
- Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Nobody had told her.
- Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: I have one last question, I promise. Does the privatised nature of the provision model present barriers for any of the Doras's services? It is not directly provided by the State, there is a private factor involved and there is a private managing of sites; there is a private piece to it. It is a fairly open-ended question. Perhaps there are positives to it but does it present challenges as...
- Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: This is something we have gone through with the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive, DRHE, in Dublin a lot with the homelessness services. It is the basic minimum to ask and they did not do so either. If I wanted to volunteer – which I actually had to do – to teach an art class to older people in my community, I have to be Garda vetted. Ms Windle is telling me that-----
- Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Not to underestimate the importance of the training on the extra things, but Garda vetting is a basic minimum-----
- Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: -----that somebody involved in a local football club has to do.
- Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: But not if you are working with even children.
- Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Tusla is involved in this in some cases. How is Tusla standing beside this? I know it is not the witnesses’ question to answer. I just do not understand how safeguarding organisations are allowing that situation to continue.
- Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Yes, me too.
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (7 Nov 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: 46. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline the work undertaken to assess the impact of annualised funding for disability services; the research undertaken on multi-annual funding options for disability services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40453/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Infrastructure (7 Nov 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: 158. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the schemes available to retrofit redbrick and stone-built houses constructed before 1940, mostly categorised as traditionally built buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47940/23]