Results 21-27 of 27 for cork speaker:Emer Higgins

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Analysis of the Issues Paper (12 May 2022)

Emer Higgins: ...on what is an exceptionally important topic. I say a special thank you to Professor Conor O’Mahony, the special rapporteur on child protection from the School of Law in University College Cork for joining with us and for sharing his own legal expertise with the committee.

Women's Health Action Plan: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Emer Higgins: ...; four specialist menopause clinics; the expansion of specialist services and out-of-hours care for paediatric gynaecology; the first GP lead for women’s health; the expansion of endometriosis services in counties Dublin and Cork; and a maternity bereavement experience survey, which is the first of its kind. These are all very welcome initiatives and they span the gamut of...

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)

Emer Higgins: ...councillors play. This Bill, as it is currently set out, erases the opportunity for councillors to sit on university governing bodies. Twenty-five councillor seats will be lost across University College Cork, UCC, UCD, the National University of Ireland Galway, NUIG, and the University of Limerick, UL. In many cases, these are not new seats but have been in place since 1908. It would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Emer Higgins: ...elsewhere and adapting it to the needs of other areas. I would be very interested in hearing her top three nuggets that she thinks we could do quickly, whether that be things she learned from Cork or Italy. Mr. Hogan interjected to recount the experience from Flanders with its regeneration projects. He also spoke about Amsterdam. I would love if he took a minute to talk to us about the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Emer Higgins: ...housing. It also means supporting people who want to purchase privately like first-time buyers or those who want to downsize. The Minister clearly outlined that in areas like Dublin and Cork where affordable is most needed, it will be prioritised and delivered. He indicated that sites in these areas will have up to 80% or 90% affordable and 10% social housing. That is good and where we...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (28 Jul 2020)

Emer Higgins: ...the number of deaths recorded in the HRB’s national drug-related deaths index in which nitrous oxide was implicated; if two recent deaths in Tallaght, County Dublin and in Millstreet, County Cork which the media have reported as being as a result of nitrous oxide abuse will be recorded in the HRB’s national drug-related deaths index; and if he will make a statement on the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Substance Misuse (15 Jul 2020)

Emer Higgins: ..., nitrous oxide has been linked to 17 deaths within three years. Tragically, we have suffered our first deaths as a result of this scourge with the media reporting deaths in Millstreet in County Cork and Tallaght in Dublin. The easy availability of nitrous oxide really is shocking. If one types "buy nitrous oxide" into a search engine now one will see an ad displayed, which the search...