Results 121-140 of 7,412 for speaker:Neasa Hourigan
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: It is crazy.
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: By proxy, there would be a benchmark that you could fall below and therefore-----
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I have a question about data which struck me when talking about the prisons. I was reading something about it. Do we have the data about how many persons are eligible for OST or who would be appropriate for OST? Not somebody who has tried a drug once, but somebody who would benefit from OST. How many are actually in treatment? One statistic I read stated 35% of people who should be in...
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Yes, of course. To be honest, my question was not just what the number is but whether we are recording the data. When I ask a question about health, I am often told it is not recorded. As a result, I was wondering whether we have a sense of the data.
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Why is that?
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I welcome the witnesses. I congratulate Mr. Kelly on his new appointment. We might stick with that matter for a moment. I often ask a question about data and not just data but its relevance. As somebody knocking on doors at the moment, I do not disagree that people feel we need another 1,000 officers or so. I imagine we also need ICT resources. It is not just about data, which is a...
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Mr. Kelly is describing highly specialised work. I imagine for practical reasons that much of that is centralised. What is the experience of the average garda dealing with it on the street? How does that work? Do they feed into those systems?
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Then, there is the more national service. Do I have time for one more question, Chair?
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I am trying to get a sense of what that international piece looks like in a practical way. Mr. Kelly spoke about linking up with international counterparts. When I did some reading for today, many of the stories that came up about Irish drug gangs were in The New York Times or on BBC News. We have graduated to a new era. How does that work? How often do they meet? What bodies does the...
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Is it that when something happens, the Garda contacts Interpol and Europol or do they meet quarterly?
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: On the ground.
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: When EMPACT sets the goals for the year, how many times during that year does it meet as a group?
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: It is completely integrated.
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Effectively, gang activity is the same whether there is decriminalisation or not.
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: It is interesting that the slight variations do not act as a barrier to prosecuting or dealing with gangs.
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I thank Mr. Kelly.
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (17 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: 154. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a timeline for the extension of free child fares on public service obligation services to children aged 5-8 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42175/24]
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Healthcare Policy (16 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: It is a model.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Healthcare Policy (16 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: In 2020, the United Kingdom's National Health Service commissioned a report to optimise healthcare for transgender adolescents but it instead produced the Cass review. For some inexplicable reason, the HSE in Ireland is, by all accounts, undertaking its own review of this report. The report is highly politicised, junk science. It is driven by the UK's culture wars and should be allowed...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Healthcare Policy (16 Oct 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I thank the Minister of State for the response. I acknowledge that the Minister has spoken to me about his commitment to ensuring that while we currently have no service for children and adults who are transgender, he is very committed to having one and I have no reason to disbelieve him. I absolutely agree on that. It is important, however, that we pause that review, the reason being that...