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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: That would include anything post-viral, not necessarily long Covid.

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

Neasa Hourigan: ...terms of the more holistic approach around services for children in education and all the things that make up life for a child, are there any support services for children who might be experiencing long Covid who are still expected to go to school every day, etc.?

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

Neasa Hourigan: ...a broad spectrum; it is everything from nystagmus to poisoning. In Ms O'Connell's work, and I presume the witnesses have all had a look at the legislation, is there any particular reason why long Covid would not fit the bill or fit the criteria of the current legislation as written?

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

Neasa Hourigan: If there was a recognition of long Covid under the legislation, would Ms O'Connell expect that it would be time limited to before the vaccine was available?

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

Neasa Hourigan: ...is saying that while the vaccine obviously reduces the prevalence of the disease and the possibility of contracting Covid, it does not necessarily reduce a person's likelihood of contracting long Covid in any way.

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

Neasa Hourigan: I am out of just out of time. Is Ms O'Connell aware of the HSE or any medical professionals in Ireland being involved in any research around long Covid internationally or with partners across the country?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I want to return to something we have spoken about a lot at the committee, namely, the provision of long-term residential facilities for mental health, particularly in Cork. I acknowledge the seriousness with which the HSE listened to the communities and the concerns and needs of the service users and their families. The way ahead is certainly very encouraging for the community,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Mar 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: ...our families and how we care in the home. Can we get an update in that regard, in light of the fact that a very large portion and majority of older people would like to stay in their homes for as long as possible? The programme for Government made a commitment to a statutory right to home care.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for People with Epidermolysis Bullosa: Discussion (28 Feb 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Anecdotally, do the witnesses believe people are travelling long distances to come to Dublin, for example, from down the country for dentistry?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Exactly, because nobody is representing these patients on the NHP. Ms O'Shea talked a little about the difference between the cohort who might experience an event and then maybe need quite long rehabilitation and people who may be born with a congenital issue. It strikes me that there is a parallel between type 1 and type 2 diabetes. We have had a very successful approach to type 1 with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: This is a significant outlay, though. The cost could be up to €1 billion. It is a large project to undertake. Do we have a sense of how long it will take the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform to review this? It is a major infrastructural investment for the State over five to seven years. I am trying to understand how real the numbers are.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: ...with chronic illness who have a tendency to assign issues to their underlying condition? On the third issue, maybe Mr. Callaghan could speak to this. I know the road back from sepsis is very long. For the person I was talking to it was a two-year process and they are only just back to work now. They needed occupational therapy and counselling. Could our guests speak to that?...

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

Neasa Hourigan: As I have many questions, I ask the Chair to stop me if I keep going for too long. I have a number of areas to cover, but I want to start with the issue we have just been discussing. It strikes me that when we talk about mental health in this sector, we use a kind of shorthand. We are trying to deliver services to people who are dealing with something that has happened in their home...

Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: ...to start by getting an update from the witnesses. They probably have it because I keep asking these parliamentary questions. What is now happening to people in east Cork who need a full-time, long-term residential mental health service? What happens to people in east Cork now that Owenacurra is not taking any more residents?

Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: .... Those are not now on the table. There was also a cohort who never stepped through the door of Owenacurra, or who were perhaps making use of intermittent respite beds, and then would have needed long-term residency. Where have those people been put?

Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I fully support the community model. I fully support people staying in their home as long as possible with their family. There will always be a small cohort of people who need 24 hour care in a much more supportive community. We had 20 places in east Cork. Are we now saying that not only do we have no beds in east Cork, but we do not even recognise east Cork as a separate entity to north Cork?

Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: ...with Disabilities, Government policy and HSE policy as set out in Time to Move on from Congregated Settings - A Strategy for Community Inclusion. We know that the two Owenacurra residents were transferred to long-stay wards in St. Stephen's hospital where they were sharing rooms at least initially. One resident was transferred to St. Catherine's ward where they were also sharing a room....

Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Can we get a timeline on when that update can be expected? How long does it take for that kind of capital funding process?

Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: ..., albeit a beautiful, leafy campus. It also seems very medicalised. It is right beside the hospital. There is an elective hospital planned for there too. My understanding is that there was a long-running strategy to move patients out of St. Stephen's to community residences in Mallow, Fermoy and Kanturk. That whole idea of community integration and A Vision for Change was to move...