Results 21-40 of 267 for long speaker:Neasa Hourigan

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I am sorry but how long has this issue been in the public domain? Is it more than ten days?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services (21 Sep 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: ...overly centralised in a way that creates barriers for people. By that, I mean we should not make it that people have to travel very far to receive services and not have them on waiting lists so long that the service becomes ineffective. If the waiting lists are long, it is not an effective service. Timely service provision is required. These are all things set out by WPATH. It is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: ...of rooms are not complete, but 607, I think it was said, have been offered by BAM as complete. Can the witnesses just give me a little narrative understanding? BAM is offering them up. How long is the process for the NPHDB to sign off on them? If they are not being signed off, is there a running thread here whereby there is some particular issue or snag that keeps coming up? Is it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay. What is the timeframe then concerning how long it will take? Who is doing the review?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: How long will that process take?

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (27 Jun 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: ...2023, if she will provide an update on her engagements with the Minister for Health and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment in relation to supports for health care workers experiencing long-Covid as a result of their service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30633/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Policy (27 Jun 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 706. To ask the Minister for Health if he will identify the national mental health policy guiding Cork HSE management in its plans to replace long-stay mental health facilities in hospital campus locations in St. Stephen's Hospital and St. Finbarr's Hospital with new congregated settings involving a 50-bed unit in St. Stephen's Hospital and a 20-bed unit in St. Finbarr's Hospital; if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (20 Jun 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: ...; if so, by how much; the number of service-users who will be accommodated on site when the building works are complete; if these will include service-users referred for acute admissions as well as long-stay residents; the breakdown of bed capacity for each cohort; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29365/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: .... Has the issue of housing come up? I am from a constituency, Dublin Central, where there is a significant issue in that healthcare facilities are looking at what equates to semi-permanent or long-stay places where people can stay, particularly people coming into the country, for 12 to 18 months. This is often because medical staff have to rotate to different facilities. It strikes me...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Can I point out that during the conversation we talked about budgetary oversight? We were asking for a three- to five-year, medium- to long-term forecast - not current spending.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Prison Service (25 May 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: ...issues. People with ASD have cognitive, sensory and social challenges that would be exacerbated by overcrowding. The Prison Service was before the Joint Committee on Disability Matters not too long ago and I was very impressed with its engagement on the issue but there is only so much it can do to provide services for that very high number of people who have ASD in the prison population...

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

Neasa Hourigan: ...when I brought those principles to the attention of the Minister and the Minister of State. I highlighted that the EU Advisory Committee on Health and Safety at Work has recommended recognition of long Covid. At the time, I was told the Department would take that away and review it, in addition to consulting with the Minister for Health. Where are we with that?

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

Neasa Hourigan: ...the best history in dealing with post-viral illnesses, recognising them early and giving people supports. I welcome Deputy Colm Burke's comments. We have seen some countries in the EU recognise long Covid and provide social supports in respect of it. France, Italy, Denmark and Sweden have all accepted that Covid is not going away and, therefore, we will have people with long Covid for...

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]

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?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Access to Community Neurological Rehabilitation Teams: Discussion (17 May 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: That is very interesting because often we are seeing a long lead-in time just to get the staff ready but Dr. Coote is saying there are a pool of people rearing to go and would like to be staff. It seems incredible to me that someone could live in Beaumont or Marino and his or her first point of care or acute setting is there and then he or she has nothing. Professor Pender said people are...

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 (16 May 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 642. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to integrate services for children into the HSE’s long-Covid services framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22618/23]

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

Neasa Hourigan: ...Question Nos. 200 of 15 February 2023, 1151 of 21 March 2023 and 1452 of 18 April 2023, the number of staff directly employed by the HSE known to be on leave from work for more than one year due to long-Covid symptoms, as evidenced by their receipt of special Covid leave with pay for that period of time; the reason the HSE has not released this figure in response to previous Parliamentary...

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...