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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Community-based Cancer Support Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I think many groups have brought that issue to the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Community-based Cancer Support Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I should just say that we often have organisations before the committee that, unlike the alliance, do have a sense that they will be receiving core funding every year but, again, that funding fluctuates year on year, which is equally challenging. I would be interested to know why the HSE or the Department does not look at three-year or five-year packages, which would allow for some kind of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Community-based Cancer Support Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Does Mr. O'Leary envisage that levelling out at any stage or is it a demographic issue and a different context now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: We are investing in our own staff on the flipside of reducing-----

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (29 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 177. To ask the Minister for Health the clinical lead, relevant acute settings and organisation of services in place in the provision of onco-genetic testing and counselling in the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24193/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (29 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 178. To ask the Minister for Health the current provision for and future development of a genetic database for national cancer services and oncology treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24194/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (29 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 179. To ask the Minister for Health the number of genetic tests currently sent outside the State to public or private companies, from 2020 to 2024 inclusive; the location of those companies; and the amount paid by the HSE to each company, in tabular form. [24195/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (28 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 118. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the legislative or regulatory frameworks in place to allow Ireland to import proposed fuels for an emergency gas reserve; the provision for State aid rules; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23902/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (28 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 119. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the legislative or regulatory frameworks in place to allow Ireland to fulfil its commitment to ban fracked gas imports into the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23903/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Infrastructure (28 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 120. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the work of his Department on how the current public interest determination used to evaluate proposed projects properly takes into consideration the impacts that LNG facilities have on the climate, communities, and national security; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23904/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Female Genital Mutilation (28 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 461. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the HSE’s mapping exercise undertaken as part of action 2.4.12 of the Implementation Plan for the Third National Strategy on Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based violence; the gaps that were identified in specialist support services for survivors of female genital mutilation; what strategy has been put in place to address...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Food Labelling (23 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 257. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to alter regulations regarding nutritional labelling for foodstuffs in order that the recommended daily allowances information is expressed in terms of quantities for children as opposed to an adult’s RDA, for foodstuffs that are primarily targeted at children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23322/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports (22 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 132. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to ban the live export of livestock for slaughter to non-EU countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23032/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Irish Sign Language (22 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 150. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline the response of his Department to a legal case where a deaf person was effectively refused access to a public service with the assistance of an Irish sign language interpreter (details supplied); his plans to ensure all public bodies comply with their statutory duty to provide users with free...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I want to return to the working hours issue. The IMO is reviewing, with its own members, the numbers. I am trying to understand the data issue and how reliable the data is. There has been discussion in previous years around how much we can rely on the data that the HSE both records and receives, and that when there is union action, that has an impact on it. It seems that there have been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: For the record, neither I am disputing the working hours the IMO is reporting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Would that also be varied by payments due to this ten-day breach?