Results 181-200 of 267 for long speaker:Neasa Hourigan

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: ...licence fee and the justification for it. I am very proud of the fact that we have a publicly funded national broadcaster. That is incredibly important. We are all trying to reach a sustainable long-term approach for RTÉ. In other countries we have seen a state-supported free media as a target to be undermined and de-funded. The only people that suits is populists, conspiracy...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting (20 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: As somebody who has worked in policy for quite a long time, the way of calculating the gender pay gap has been in the public sphere for well over five years, certainly since 2017 when RTÉ’s first report was done. If there was a will within the organisation to provide that information, it would have been done. Is Ms Forbes telling me RTÉ could not do it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: ...am very mindful that, post Covid, we really do not know what the landscape is going to look like in terms of the impact of drugs. We are very likely to experience the ripple effect of Covid for a long time to come. I would like to know, from the Minister of State, where that more centralised strategy is coming from. I do not necessarily believe it is in line with the national drugs...

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]

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

Neasa Hourigan: ...Cork adult mental health services have agreed with senior management to accept referrals of service users under the care of the Midleton, Youghal and Cobh, Glenville adult mental health teams for long-stay or respite placements in the community residences attached to their local catchment areas into the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1408/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: ...east Cork is to have zero residential facilities and to move people to St. Stephen’s facility? That seems to be what the HSE is saying, namely, that it sees no qualitative difference between that and long-stay hostels and that it has no intention of replacing these residential places. The reason I ask is because that is directly in conflict with the Sharing the Vision policy,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: .... Much of what we are discussing today comes back to a duty of care for people who are very vulnerable. Families are depending on the HSE to uphold the duty of care for relatives living in long-stay mental health facilities. I inquired about this kind of duty of care aspect as it relates to vaccinations at St. Stephen's Hospital, which has been much discussed today, and elderly...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (8 Dec 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: ...the parliamentary precincts and, as such, may not benefit from the same level of immunity from legal proceedings as witnesses who are physically present. Witnesses are again reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise nor make charges against any person or entity, by name or in any way as to make him, her or it identifiable, or otherwise engage in...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (8 Dec 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: ...to forecast this. As a follow-up on that issue, notwithstanding any difficulty and snarkiness that might occur, who is best placed to undertake that kind of costing? I presume it would be quite a long-term costing. Certainly we are talking about the timeline up to 2050, if not beyond. Who do our guests consider would be best placed to make those kinds of forecasts?

Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: ...the witnesses for their time. This is such an important subject. I think of these sessions as some of the most important work that I will do this year. As stated, this legislation has been a long time coming. Almost all of those who have appeared before the subcommittee over the past year have said that this legislation is so badly needed. I thank the witnesses for their time and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Services with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Nov 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: ...I want to raise the issue of home care supports and their availability. There is a commitment in the programme for Government to statutory home care provision. If people have a chronic illness or long-term disability, the level of training home care workers would benefit from is quite important. As we move towards implementing that statutory entitlement and the provision of more home...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Services with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Nov 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: ...those primary care services. I want to flag that for people. I have a quick question for the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte. Has there been any consideration within her brief of the issue of long Covid?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Inflation: Discussion (resumed) (24 Nov 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: ...remotely from a place outside the parliamentary precinct may not benefit from the same level of immunity from legal proceedings as a witness physically present does. Witnesses are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him, her or it identifiable or...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Inflation: Discussion (resumed) (24 Nov 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: ...in the past number of weeks, we have seen a province in Canada almost cut off from the rest of the country due to climate events. Are those two issues linked? Considering we look at medium- to long-term budgetary issues in this committee, what does the ECB consider to be the timeline for those issues to have a significant impact? Is it five or ten years? We were talking about economic...

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....

Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Nov 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: ...a street is a vulnerable pedestrian. That is not just a pedestrian but a vulnerable pedestrian; somebody who might have mobility issues; who might be older and who might find it difficult to walk long distances; who might find it difficult to cross a road in the time the pedestrian crossings give him or her; or who might not see a kerb. The second most important user of a street is the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Inflation: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: ...outside the parliamentary precincts, as such they may not benefit from the same level of immunity from legal proceedings as a witness physically present does. Witnesses are again reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him, her or it identifiable, or otherwise...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (16 Nov 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: ...Lee and North Cork adult mental health services have agreed to accept referrals of service users under the care of the Midleton and Youghal and Cobh and Glenville adult mental health teams for long stay or respite placements in the community residences attached to their catchment areas into the future; if there is a waiting list for any of the community mental health residences in West...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (16 Nov 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: ...Minister for Health the residential settings that service users under the care of the Midleton and Youghal and Cobh and Glenville adult mental health teams may have been referred to for respite or long stay placements since February 2021; and the number of service users referred. [55480/21]