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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: It is for Mr. O'Connor. Could we have more information on the business case’s timeline?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: This is a significant outlay, though. The cost could be up to €1 billion. It is a large project to undertake. Do we have a sense of how long it will take the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform to review this? It is a major infrastructural investment for the State over five to seven years. I am trying to understand how real the numbers are.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I do not want to use the word “piecemeal”, but the investment has been targeted. I believe “strategic” was the word we used when we last discussed this. It is not a global approach that encompasses everything nationwide. Regarding capital investment, are we talking large numbers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I am sure that the Department of Health is used to going to the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform with business cases involving large numbers, not least of them on the national children’s hospital. When does Mr. O’Connor expect the other Department to review the documents and revert? Will it be six months or two years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I appreciate that. In the work the Department and HSE have already done, they will have interacted with companies that provide the technology to do this, but for the sake of clarity where the larger project is concerned, have there been pre-reviews or discussions with companies or large organisations about the provision of such technology? Are we waiting for the business case to be signed off?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: What is possible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: The HSE and Department are looking at them. I presume that other State agencies, including the Data Protection Commission, are also looking at such providers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: The HSE does not have a team working on examining the providers and their merits in terms of data protection.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: The issue of data protection is becoming quite contentious globally.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I will ask my final question, as I only have a minute left-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I am following the situation and am happy to hear that, but I am cynical about the ability of the EU or any national or supernational power to control tech companies that choose to use data in ways I would not particularly like. In his opening statement, Mr. Woods mentioned rolling out the IHI to the National Treatment Purchase Fund, disability networks, etc. Could we have information on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Yes. The National Treatment Purchase Fund sometimes interacts with providers that do not work under the same rules as us. I would say that of private providers as well, by the way. In light of the roll-out of the plan in 2024, I would like more information on how we will address this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank Mr. Woods.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: United Nations (5 Dec 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 132. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline Ireland’s position at the United Nations and other relevant international forums regarding lethal autonomous weapon systems; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53571/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Official Engagements (5 Dec 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 157. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 24 of 29 November 2023, if he can confirm whether he or his Department has had any engagement with representative governments or civil society organisations from the global south in consideration or development of proposals regarding the triple lock. [53897/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: First, I thank the Minister for her earlier comments in which she clearly differentiated the perpetrator of the tragic incident last week on Parnell Square from those who inhabit the streets of my constituency, Dublin-Central. There is an increasing appetite for scapegoating people in addiction or who are forced to live on the street, often due to the failures of us in this House, and to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank the Minister for the two confirmations of those two important approvals. I take her point that community use is a matter for the parish, but what we are talking about today is how in use the building is. As the Minister will know, the hall closed in 2020, ostensibly for fire-safety reasons - there are some differing views on that - and there has been a hard fought local campaign, as...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank the Minister for that information . I know she met the group from the school and the area and has engaged with the issue. I welcome that and the further information about the project manager framework. We will monitor its progress with a view to ensuring it is done as urgently as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Official Engagements (29 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 24. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the engagements he or his Department have had with representative governments or civil society organisations from the global south, particularly those heavily impacted by war and conflict, in consideration or development of proposals regarding the triple lock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52586/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (28 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 93. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline the current guidance provided by his Department to Gaza residents who hold a valid Irish visa, if the Irish Embassy in Tel Aviv fails to not put their names on the departure list to leave Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52089/23]