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Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

Cormac Devlin: I welcome the opportunity to examine measures taken in budget 2026 on Tuesday, the first of five budgets expected in this new Dáil term. It aims to steady the economy in challenging times, invest for the future and improve services that families rely on. It attempts to balance day-to-day pressures with long-term capital investment in housing, hospitals, schools and safer streets....

World Mental Health Day: Statements (9 Oct 2025)

Cormac Devlin: I welcome this debate to mark World Mental Health Day. The simple truth is still the strongest line: there is no health without mental health. Today is about removing stigma, yes, but also about showing that the services are there, close to home and getting stronger year-on-year. Since 2020, funding has risen sharply and budget 2026 builds again on that. I want to commend the Minister...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2025)

Cormac Devlin: 27. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on measures undertaken to date, to enable the private sector to deliver more homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53818/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (8 Oct 2025)

Cormac Devlin: 93. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions he is taking to incentivise apartment building; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53819/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (2 Oct 2025)

Cormac Devlin: 118. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the strategic review of general practice; and the bringing forward of a new, modern GP contract. [52362/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (2 Oct 2025)

Cormac Devlin: 204. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to include inflammatory bowel disease and inflammatory arthritis within the remit of the long-term illness scheme. [52361/25]

Investment in Sport and Sporting Infrastructure: Statements (1 Oct 2025)

Cormac Devlin: I welcome the debate. Investing in sport and sports infrastructure is one of the wisest choices a state can make. It pays back in terms of public health, safer communities and confidence in young people, a confidence they carry into schools and their working lives. In Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, we are already seeing the benefits. Our area received €1.5 million under the community...

Situation in Gaza: Statements (1 Oct 2025)

Cormac Devlin: I welcome the opportunity to raise the ongoing situation in Gaza and the West Bank. Gaza is enduring a man-made humanitarian catastrophe. Civilians, children, health workers and journalists have been killed in unconscionable numbers. Hospitals and UN facilities have been struck. Food, water and medicine have been used as levers of war. Starvation and disease are not collateral, they are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Institute of Public Health (30 Sep 2025)

Cormac Devlin: I welcome the witnesses from the Institute of Public Health, IPH. We are joined by Ms Suzanne Costello, chief executive officer; Dr. Jenny Mack, public health medicine consultant; Ms Sinéad Ward, director of finance and governance; and Dr. Paul Kavanagh, IPH board member and consultant in public health medicine in the national health intelligence unit of the HSE. I will invite Ms...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Institute of Public Health (30 Sep 2025)

Cormac Devlin: I thank Ms Costello for that opening statement. We move to questions from members. I said five minutes each earlier but it is seven minutes. There is a bit of flexibility there because we have enough members. Deputy McCarthy will begin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Institute of Public Health (30 Sep 2025)

Cormac Devlin: Briefly, please.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Institute of Public Health (30 Sep 2025)

Cormac Devlin: I thank the Deputy. Claire Hanna was online, so when she comes back in, I will bring her back in because it is her slot. Next is Dáire Hughes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Institute of Public Health (30 Sep 2025)

Cormac Devlin: That was a nice short question to ask at the end. I like that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Institute of Public Health (30 Sep 2025)

Cormac Devlin: Ms Costello mentioned earlier that there are many health policy areas that the institute focused on, such as alcohol harm, tobacco and skin cancer. She also mentioned gambling harm. As she will be aware, in the South we have set up the regulator, etc., so there have been some changes in that regard. Can she elaborate a little more on the institute's research and its work on gambling harm...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Institute of Public Health (30 Sep 2025)

Cormac Devlin: Ms Costello could send the committee a note.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Institute of Public Health (30 Sep 2025)

Cormac Devlin: Yes, please.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Institute of Public Health (30 Sep 2025)

Cormac Devlin: We will engage again on that aspect. Has the institute appeared before other committees over the period? Obviously, I assume it has appeared before the health committee. What other committees has it appeared before ?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Institute of Public Health (30 Sep 2025)

Cormac Devlin: That would be really helpful in light of the workload we have ahead of us. Dr. Mack spoke to the PEACE-Air partnership earlier on. The partnership, which was announced by the Special EU Programmes Body, involves academic institutions, councils and environmental policy leads in both jurisdictions. Who are the environmental leads, North and South?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Institute of Public Health (30 Sep 2025)

Cormac Devlin: That is okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Institute of Public Health (30 Sep 2025)

Cormac Devlin: I thank Dr. Mack for that. I hear Ms Costello in terms of her ultimate strategy being a roadmap or a joint strategy in order for the institute to progress its work. She spoke about the possibility of a review of the institute's remit and how it can be somewhat reset or enhanced. Where does she see that going? Who would initiate it? Will the request go to the Departments of Health or it...