Results 521-540 of 6,686 for speaker:Neasa Hourigan

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Infrastructure (7 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 158. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the schemes available to retrofit redbrick and stone-built houses constructed before 1940, mostly categorised as traditionally built buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47940/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (7 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 159. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to extend the warmer homes scheme to traditionally built buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47941/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Energy Policy (7 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 644. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the preparations of the guidance document on improving energy efficiency in traditional buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47939/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (7 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 712. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the consideration being given to the recommendations of the Tax Strategy Group's paper in relation to pay related social insurance, in particular their proposal to eliminate the lower employer social insurance rate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47443/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (7 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 722. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a timeline for the implementation of each of the nine recommendations outlined in the Review of the Reasonable Accommodation Fund and the Disability Awareness Support Scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47620/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (7 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 849. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of “stop and search” operations conducted by An Garda Síochána under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977, in 2022. [48387/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Correspondence (7 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 990. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to a correspondence (details supplied); his response to the issues raised therein; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47591/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (7 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 1187. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on ongoing work to resolve the contractual arrangement issues with general practitioners associated with the upcoming revised tax treatment of general medical services income of general practitioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47857/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Organ Donation (7 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 1109. To ask the Minister for Health whether paired-organ donations will be permitted under the Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47357/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (7 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 1145. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 604 of 25 April and 468 of 18 May and 702 of 27 June 2023, the number of people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties under the care of the Cobh/Glenville and Midleton/Youghal adult mental health teams who have been transferred to continuing care or high-support hostels outside those HSE catchments since...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (7 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 1146. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the planned ending of a special Covid leave with pay arrangement for healthcare workers on 31 October 2023 with the chronic and debilitating nature of that condition for this cohort of staff, who were previously given assurances by his Department that their needs would be met and that these healthcare workers contracted Covid in high-risk...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Research and Training (7 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 1165. To ask the Minister for Health whether his Department will conduct an inquiry into the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland use of a US institute to conduct animal research not in accordance with Irish or EU regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47685/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (7 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 1380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the ongoing work to align adult education tutors to a pay scale of an existing grade in education and training boards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47359/23]

Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Can Ms Fardin Tabrizi explain the difference between a strength-based model and a deficit model?

Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I recognise this conversation from the disability community, by the way. When they go through diagnosis everything is about what is wrong. Then, when they meet the services of people who know, they will say that the person is brilliant at doing something.

Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: It should not be that hard.

Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: A person should be told to get a PPSN the moment they arrive here. We talked about how it is not possible to silo people off into particular areas. However, I am aware that members of the LGBTQI community who come here need specific help and might sometimes find it difficult for ask for that help. Women from ethnic minorities often have poor outcomes in maternal care, for example....

Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Sorry. They are not Garda vetted.

Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: We had a similar conversation with the homelessness services. The privatisation model means that there are staff who do not know which services to direct people to and they are in a role where they have to do that. I did not mean to derail this with the Garda vetting, but my mind is boggled that is the case. I am sorry; the fact that Garda vetting is not required seems to have passed me by.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (24 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 319. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans, if any, to direct all local authorities to accept childcare expenses as a budget line when engaging third-party contractors for works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46168/23]