Results 61-80 of 125 for going forward speaker:Micheál Carrigy

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Education and Training Provision (7 Dec 2022)

Micheál Carrigy: ...from all over the country. A theme that keeps coming up is the lack of therapy services. When we drill down into that issue, we find there are more than 800 posts that are fully funded by the Government across all therapy services, including speech and language, occupational therapy and psychology, but which are not filled because we do not have qualified people available to take up the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)

Micheál Carrigy: ...and even with a third level education, it gives a lift to me to know that possibility is there but it needs to be worked on and expanded. Following on from today, I would like to see that conversation going further. Whatever support is needed, I know that all of the members here will support this in whatever way we can cross-party to ensure that it happens. We will be publishing a...

Seanad: Forestry: Statements (15 Nov 2022)

Micheál Carrigy: I welcome the Minister of State. I am standing in for Senator Lombard. Today's statements are based on a request submitted by the Senator several weeks ago in respect of the justifiable concerns we had concerning forestry. I refer to the absence of the figures for the new forestry programme. We were hearing talk of that information not being available until January. The Government has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Micheál Carrigy: ...families. As has been mentioned by Deputy Buckley, the fact that it is free but that parents can support it voluntarily with donations, takes away the issue where some families cannot afford to go privately to get the therapy. To be able to provide that free of charge to that number of kids and schools in the region makes me quite jealous of what is in place down there. We spoke about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Micheál Carrigy: ...same issues we had 26 years ago are still here today. As I said, we hope our report will effect change. That this committee is in place has already effected change, be it through extra supports going into third-level education or section 37 with regard to schools. Earlier in our meeting today, the committee issued a resolution with regard to the summer programme. A report will be laid...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Oct 2022)

Micheál Carrigy: ...throughout the country, yet none of the positions are filled because there is no availability in the workforce.The conversation has not taken place between the universities and the HSE. They must forward plan in order to ensure that we have a sufficient number of professionals joining the system in order to be able to fill these positions. We need a debate on adding these professions to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Health: Health Service Executive (18 Oct 2022)

Micheál Carrigy: ...800 for private assessments. We have also heard stories of people getting assessments that are not being recognised. It is not acceptable, to be quite honest. I like the tiered model. That is the way forward. Having listened to the explanation of that model today, I have a better understanding of it and I believe it is the way to go. There will be two more pilot areas, following on...

Seanad: Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Statements (4 Oct 2022)

Micheál Carrigy: I welcome this report. I thank the Minister for the work he has done and the commitment he has given to this report on behalf of the Government. I look forward to seeing its full implementation. The allocation that has been put into budget 2023 is a very strong starting point and sets out the commitment this Government has to our Defence Forces. Senator O'Loughlin spoke about the men and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Disability Matters
Accessibility in the Built Environment, Information and Communication: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Micheál Carrigy: ...committee and to Leinster House, some of whom are autistic persons, it is important that it should be in place. We are ten years behind Stormont. That is not acceptable. I welcome the DCU project. I look forward to seeing that rolled out throughout the country and across all third level institutions. Many advances have been made and funding has been put in place by the Department of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Autism
Accessibility in the Built Environment, Information and Communication: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Micheál Carrigy: ...committee and to Leinster House, some of whom are autistic persons, it is important that it should be in place. We are ten years behind Stormont. That is not acceptable. I welcome the DCU project. I look forward to seeing that rolled out throughout the country and across all third level institutions. Many advances have been made and funding has been put in place by the Department of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Sep 2022)

Micheál Carrigy: ...the country in regard to occupational therapy, speech and language therapy and the lack of qualified people coming out of the colleges to fill positions. It is an important issue. We are going to discuss it at the Joint Committee on Autism in the coming weeks. With regard to the budget, as media spokesperson, I welcome the reduction of the VAT rate on newspapers to zero. The report of...

Seanad: School Transport: Motion (21 Sep 2022)

Micheál Carrigy: ...need people to fill these jobs in our economy, yet families are left in a situation where one parent has to give up a job. I know of a family on a route to Moyne Community School where the father goes to the school at 6:30 a.m. and the child's mother looks after other kids who come from 7 a.m. to allow other parents to go to work. Another family with three children who have been on a bus...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Sep 2022)

Micheál Carrigy: .... This is a committee we wanted to set up because we wanted to make a change. The commitment is there from the leaders of the three Government parties to set up this committee. We want to put forward proposals next March when we will lay a report before both Houses that is going to make changes. Some changes have started to be made as a result of this committee being in place and...

Seanad: Report of the Future of Media Commission: Statements (15 Sep 2022)

Micheál Carrigy: ...make a submission to the commission. We met representatives from the industry, including local radio and newspapers in particular, at a regional and local level around the country in order to put forward their views for the report. This has been reflected in the recommendations that have been made. One of the main findings in the report is the commission's conclusion that: ...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Future of Media Commission Report: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Micheál Carrigy: ...to support the content across all those media. Like other colleagues, I feel that we hedged not making a decision on the television licence, which was a recommendation of the report. We need to go down the route of direct taxation if we are going to maintain all media sources. We must put enough funding in to make sure we are able to maintain regional newspapers and radio stations and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jul 2022)

Micheál Carrigy: ...against unanimously. We should be supporting the clubs, the members, the volunteers, and the sports people but we are not. The CEO and chairperson of the IABA need to step away and step down if we are going to progress boxing in Ireland. The Minister of State and Sport Ireland should take back the threat of withdrawing the association's funding, should ask those people to consider their...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Jul 2022)

Micheál Carrigy: ...on an average figure of 60,000 children born in the country per year, would be €300,000. The heel-prick test was not available for the family that I know but if it was in place for all families going forward, it would mean the treatment, which is recognised and funded by the HSE, could be administered earlier and children would not pass away or be in a position that they cannot...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Jul 2022)

Micheál Carrigy: ...number of special schools in the country are not providing the summer provision. In fact, the children whom the summer provision was set up for in the first instance three-to-four years ago are the ones who are not getting it and they are the children who are most in need. There are parents struggling to get teachers and special needs assistants to do the home provision. The reason we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Micheál Carrigy: ...was difficult for teachers, particularly those who had children at home. It is important to put that on the record. Two words have jumped out at me today: inclusion and partnership. If this is going to work, it will involve partnership with all stakeholders, including boards of management in schools, teachers, the Department and the Government funding it. That has to be the case. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Education: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Micheál Carrigy: I am the last speaker. We have gone slightly over time. We have tried to keep this meeting inside the two hours. I will make a few points. I speak as a parent with personal knowledge. I have also served on the board of management of Ardscoil Phádraig in Granard in north Longford, which has three special classes. Mr. Kearney will know it. It was one of the first schools in the...