Results 101-120 of 7,412 for speaker:Neasa Hourigan

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Pensions (22 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 193. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are any planned pension increases for those on a CIÉ widowers pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42781/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (22 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 204. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether there have been any feasibility studies on the use of bilevel rail cars on Irish Rail services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42978/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 266. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of the dwellings and habitable structures in the Phoenix Park under the ownership of the Office of Public Works, in tabular form. [42690/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (22 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 339. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans to expand the current pilot project in Munster for students with visual impairment to receive ongoing orientation and mobility supports throughout their school lives; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42657/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (22 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 616. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to develop a national pathway and specialist multidisciplinary functional neurological disorder clinic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42683/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (22 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 636. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the work of his Department to improve foster care services and enhance the support provided to foster parents since 27 June 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42977/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (22 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 715. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there are no standard diagnostic policies or guidelines for diagnosing or treating children with an organisation (details supplied); the steps being taken to establish a statutory diagnostic criteria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42662/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (22 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 763. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that no health, clinical or social policymaking, or implementation of policy, from his Department will be informed by the Cass review while it remains under investigation by the British Medical Association; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42894/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (22 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 787. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will commit to consulting the trans community before any clinical or funding decisions are made related to their healthcare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43006/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (22 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 788. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that the National Gender Service is encouraging a specific model of care and advising medical professionals to not monitor or provide blood tests to trans people (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43007/24]

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I welcome our witnesses. I want to touch on stigma but before that I will go back to nurse prescribing. A lot of the discussion we are having today reminds me of when I followed the nurse prescribing journey in diabetes. It reminds me of that a lot, in that it is a lifestyle-based treatment and is very much about who you meet when you go into a clinic. At the front line that is often...

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I presume we should have non-elective modules within training for all medical professionals. Would that be specifically on addiction or would it be more useful for it be about what trauma-centred care looks like?

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Would the other witnesses like to come in on addiction versus trauma led?

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: The research suggests that when you are on the front line, those attitudes become more prevalent.

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: That would take care of all of our new cohort. There are hundreds of thousands of people working in services that are central or tangential to our health service. How do we hit all of them? Do we need to get everybody into a continuing professional development course on addiction and trauma-like care?

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: How far along are we on that journey?

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Working in an emergency department is different from working in a laboratory.

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I will return to the question of the inspection of services. I am a member of the Joint Committee on Health, where we talk a lot about the inspection side of things in the context of oversight, performance indicators and outcomes. Who would do that? Perhaps that is not fair. What kind of a body could the witnesses imagine undertaking that piece of work?

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Could Dr. Kelly give me an idea of the breadth and level of that service? Would it include all the third-party and NGO services?

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Would it influence how drug task forces work?