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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Ms Rogers is absolutely correct. For clarity, there is an acceptance at those meetings that the recruitment embargo should not apply and yet it is repeatedly coming up in those meetings for discussion around the impact it might be having on the service.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Let us stay on the issue of delay. As Ms Rogers has mentioned a few times, we were expecting to see some of those teams in place in early 2024 but now it will be late 2024, hopefully. Ms Rogers can tell there is a lot of frustration in the room. We had all thought we were moving forward and it seems now that we have delayed. It is worth contextualising that the teams that are already...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay. The reason I asked is because I am aware that CHO 4, CHO 6 and CHO 7 are the next branch or rung. Given what we know about staffing and putting those teams in place more than a decade ago - at the last session we talked about how this is not about capital investment or accommodation necessarily, but rather hours and staffing - how long does Ms Rogers expect the kind of transition...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Six to nine months, okay. If we are starting in late 2024, we are talking about mid-2025. While I do not like to be too parochial about these matters at committees, I will ask for a selfish reason about CHO 9, which is an area I represent. We are not even talking about CHO 9. When we talk about the catchment areas of these CHOs, we are often talking about populations between 300,000 to...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority (8 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 118. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide NTA surveys of passengers at Dublin Airport 2016 and 2022 (details supplied), including a legend for the codes used in these spreadsheets; and to provide data on landside origins/destinations of passenger trips to and/or from Dublin Airport based on data NTA has collected in respect of 2016 and 2022. [20336/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (2 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 111. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline the engagement his Department has had with the German Government regarding the suppression of the use of the Irish language at public events in Germany; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20048/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I take it as read that the vast majority of people in dental practice would welcome some more verifiable means of regulation. I see all the witnesses nodding their heads. We do not have a register of dental practices. I will use the two minutes remaining to me to talk about that. Reference was made to a practice somewhere in Drumcondra, which is in the constituency I represent. That is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (30 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 322. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her Department’s views on whether the guidelines on the use of school buildings outside of school hours prohibits the provision of sibling hour and afterschool facilities at a school building (details supplied) as per the decision of the board of management at the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19248/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (30 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 474. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rationale for the conditions for the PRSI contributions for the benefit payment for 65-year-olds; the reason a person would not be eligible for the benefit payment at 65 years old, even if they are eligible and have made enough PRSI payments to qualify for the State pension a year later; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Consultations (30 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 586. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has engaged with the Minister for Education with respect to guidelines on the use of school buildings outside of school hours issued by her Department which are now being cited as justification by a board of management for terminating afterschool and sibling hour services at national school (details...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for the Blind and Vision Impaired: Vision Ireland (24 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I view this as the beginning and that we will get a strategy. I second Deputy Durkan's proposals on the next actions for the committee. In that context, it strikes me there are issues that I would like to put on the record. There are always cohorts that remain excluded from the eye-test scheme. People either have to have a medical card, fall under the treatment benefit scheme or hold a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for Persons with Lung Fibrosis: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Has it not been funded at all?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I will stay on the issue of children for a moment. The last time we spoke, the Government was not accepting or recognising long Covid in children more generally. At the time, the NHS in the UK had just made that move. Does the health system now recognise that long Covid occurs in children?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank Ms O'Connell for that clarity. I will move on to the occupational injuries scheme. This is an area in which there is already good legislation around supporting people who have contracted illnesses through their workplace. It is a very broad spectrum. It is not that they do not recognise a broad spectrum; it is everything from nystagmus to poisoning. In Ms O'Connell's work, and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I am referring to before those later diagnoses because, obviously, we are not at the height of the pandemic now. I am trying to get a sense of how common it is now to contract.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: There was a specific package or programme with funding on its own to look at the recruitment issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: It is at a standstill.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I will move to the clinical trials but, before I do so, I will make a point about the barriers for people in areas of deprivation or in low-income households to go to a GP, at a very low level, to get checked if they are feeling unhappy. In my area in particular, and other Deputies represent areas of deprivation, getting an appointment for a GP, even if people have the money, is very...