Results 1-20 of 247 for long speaker:Neasa Hourigan

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: ...18 months of data. This will push it very far out. Surely the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform can see this is not a reasonable way to make a decision. If it accepts that point, how long will it take the HSE to do the business case? How long did it take in the case of the partnership with the US company with regard to newborns, for example? How long will it take the HSE to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Nov 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 190. To ask the Minister for Health the supports, guidance and information available to patients experiencing long Covid-19 symptoms; his plans to establish a dedicated centre to help those suffering from long Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38908/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (23 May 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Will the Minister outline the Department's plans to provide support for healthcare workers experiencing long Covid as a result of their service? What are the Minister's plans to provide a recognition of long Covid under the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005? Can I have a statement on the matter?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (19 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 1714. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 485 of 16 November 2021, the names of the long-stay facilities that service users under the care of the Midleton, Youghal and Cobh, Glenville adult mental health teams may have been referred to for respite or long-stay placements since February 2021. [1407/22]

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?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Mar 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: In some ways, the matter I want to talk about - the ongoing issue of long Covid and how it affects healthcare workers - is related to the pressure that we see in emergency departments and hospitals because it speaks to the staffing issue we are experiencing in the health service. By "healthcare workers", I do not just mean nurses and doctors. I also mean healthcare assistants, cleaners,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (9 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 170. To ask the Minister for Health his views on long-stay wards in St. Finbarr’s Hospital and St. Stephen's Hospital being the continuing care placement options for east County Cork service users requiring long-stay mental health placements into the future under current HSE plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7088/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 May 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 641. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide for the recognition of long-Covid in children; if his Department has reviewed best practice from other jurisdictions such as the UK NHS’s setting-up of specialist long-COVID services for children and young people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22617/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 200. To ask the Minister for Health the number of healthcare workers known to be currently out of work due to long-Covid symptoms; his plans to devise a scheme that would grant financial security to those healthcare workers with long-Covid who contracted the virus in the workplace; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7690/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (23 May 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 83. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline her Department's plans to provide support for healthcare workers experiencing long Covid as a result of their service; her plans to provide recognition of long Covid under the section 87 of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24358/23]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on the Fiscal Position (16 Jun 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: I bring Mr. Barnes back to the very first point he cited, that there will be spending pressures associated with an ageing population, and the council is publishing a long-term stability report in this regard. Is there a resolution to the financial pressures around an ageing population other than a long-term project around pensions, or what can we expect to see in that report?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (23 Nov 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: 674. To ask the Minister for Health the dates of the scheduled administration of the first dose Covid-19 vaccines to long-stay patients aged 65 years plus to long-stay patients under 65 years of age and to acute patients in St. Stephen's Hospital, Glanmire, County Cork, respectively; and the dates of the scheduled administration of the first dose Covid-19 vaccines to nursing staff of St....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: ...Question No. 458 of 13 October 2022, if he will provide details of any pay scheme that may have been agreed by his Department for section 39 healthcare workers who are unable to work due to long-Covid; the way in which this scheme differs from the pay scheme for other healthcare workers with long-Covid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53237/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (28 Mar 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 674. To ask the Minister for Health the dates that meetings were scheduled, since June 2022, between his Department and trade unions representing healthcare workers with long Covid to discuss pay issues relating to this medical condition; the dates of such meetings his Department and trade unions on long Covid and healthcare workers that were cancelled by his Department since June 2022; the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: ...ask about something specific but I will add a comment first. This is in my constituency so I will call it out. Given the cohort and the demographics, I am also amazed that we have not funded the long Covid clinic at the Mater. It seems like a no-brainer. It is absolutely required in that area and it seems there is huge wealth of knowledge there. I want to talk about children and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (21 Oct 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: ...in order to get through as much as we can. I will begin with the numbers in the accounts that relate to the rental of temporary school accommodation. I am sure everyone in the room could name a long list of schools in his or her area that have some sort of long-term temporary school accommodation. The list includes St. Patrick's Senior National School in Skerries, Rosmini Community...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (16 May 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: ...of 28 March 2023 and 1451 of 18 April 2023, the dates that meetings were scheduled since June 2022 between representatives of his Department and trade unions representing healthcare workers with long Covid to discuss pay issues relating to this medical condition; the dates of such meetings between his Department and trade unions on long-Covid and healthcare workers that were cancelled by...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: ...access to diagnostics and community health networks. I understand that these are in some cases putting down the systems that will make Sláintecare possible. However, they seem like fairly long-term commitments and they will add to the base. Has the Minister any response to IFAC's position? Is there a plan for funding it in the long term?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (23 Mar 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: ...mental health services have agreed with CHO 4 senior HSE management to accept referrals of service-users under the care of the Midleton, Youghal and Cobh Glenville adult mental health teams for long-stay and respite placements in the community residences attached to their local catchment areas into the future; when, in the case of each clinical director, these agreements had been reached;...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-budget Engagement: Minister for Finance (1 Oct 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: ...months. I am interested in the view being taken on the pressure that health expenditure will bring to bear on the budget and how we are managing that in a dynamic situation where this could be a long-term pressure on the budget. By the very nature of the sudden onset of Covid-19, we have had to expend vast quantities on money without the level of oversight or scrutiny we might otherwise...