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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (27 Sep 2023)

Emer Higgins: 71. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on the issue of public access from the N4 to Castletown House; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41847/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (27 Sep 2023)

Emer Higgins: 72. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider a CPO over the roadway that provides access from the N4 to Castletown House; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41848/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Accessibility: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Emer Higgins: I thank the witnesses for being here. It is good to hear about all the progress being made in this field. I was in a meeting next door so I apologise. I read all the statements in advance. A lot is happening in this space and there have been huge improvements. It is important we acknowledge that. It is great to hear the Department say that €500 million has been invested in new...

Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)

Emer Higgins: Last week's revelation detailing the severe complications faced by 19 children at Temple Street Hospital is nothing short of a nightmare for families. Revelations like this challenge the very fabric of trust on which our healthcare system is built. I was reassured to hear Bernard Gloster, the CEO of the HSE, confirm that planned spinal surgeries are not being postponed but we must...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Emer Higgins: I thank the two witnesses for being with us today. As a committee we have a difficult task in making recommendations on a very complex and important issue in a very tight timeframe. I really appreciate the witnesses coming here to share their international expertise. Understanding that international landscape and learning from the legal parameters and frameworks that exist in other...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Emer Higgins: Does Mr. Luley define "short run" as six months or what is the definition used?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Emer Higgins: Sure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Emer Higgins: Is that the measure used for the figure of less than 50% that Mr. Luley gave me?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Emer Higgins: Okay. I will ask Professor Boer a question. He shared with us some stark statistics on the upward trajectory in the numbers of people who avail of assisted suicide in his country. It was interesting to hear his personal views and perspective on this and how they have changed over time based on real-life experience and the evolution of assisted suicide in his country. My question is on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Emer Higgins: In regard to Professor Boer’s opening statement, am I right in saying there is a law in parliament that legalises euthanasia for all people over 74, regardless of whether or not they have an illness?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Emer Higgins: That would be quite different then to the Belgian regime where one would need to demonstrate that one fitted into one of the three criteria.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Emer Higgins: Okay. Even currently with the law on people aged over 74 not in place, as Professor Boer said in his statement, he is still seeing a shift in terms of the rationale for people presenting to patients who fear years or decades of loneliness, limitation and care and dependency, rather than people who have impending illness. Is that the current situation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Emer Higgins: How does Professor Boer suggest we deal with that from a legal perspective if we were minded not to go down that route but to base it on illness?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Europe: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Emer Higgins: That is no problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of National Planning Framework and Climate Targets: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Emer Higgins: I thank the Chair and all of the witnesses. As Mr. Lawlor said, the review is a real opportunity for us to revisit our climate targets, to revisit the plan in its entirety and to refocus ourselves on this increasingly important topic and the steps that we need to take to achieve our climate action plan and its goals. I will make a couple of comments on the submissions. The IPI spoke...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of National Planning Framework and Climate Targets: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Emer Higgins: That is super. It is all about making it happen as quickly as possible. We have seen how Kishoge rail station was built 14 years ago and is still not open. It is about opening up these facilities and getting them up and running to provide people with more accessible public transport.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of National Planning Framework and Climate Targets: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Emer Higgins: I was told the same last year and every year before that. This is the problem. People are tired of hearing that. We need to see these kinds of key infrastructure enabled and people being able to use them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of National Planning Framework and Climate Targets: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Emer Higgins: It is great to hear that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of National Planning Framework and Climate Targets: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Emer Higgins: I am interested in hearing from any of the other witnesses who would like to come in on the review in general or the wind energy guidelines, spatial data, brownfield sites and the City Edge project. Do they think that will be something that becomes an example of a success, whereby we develop a brownfield site and, we hope, have a brand-new city? Mr. Hussey might like to comment on that.

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Programmes (26 Sep 2023)

Emer Higgins: 61. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to clarify how a rural, sparsely populated area within an illegible electoral division, adjacent to an already-eligible electoral division, can apply to be covered by the next Leader Programme. [41375/23]