Results 1-20 of 114 for going forward speaker:Michael Moynihan

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Michael Moynihan: ...that their dreams and aspirations were pounded out of them when they were in these institutions, as though they were non-human and were not entitled to have the same as any other human being. This goes back to the Proclamation of independence and cherishing all people and citizens of the State equally. It is hugely important that now and in the future we, as public representatives,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Planning for Inclusive Communities: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Moynihan: The advice I got, as recently as last Friday, was that the local authority would have to liaise with the Department. I outlined the reasons and went back to the appeals body within the local authority. We had been given every encouragement, as an awful lot of people with disabilities are, to go on the housing list, because that is a mechanism for the service provider to access capital...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Planning for Inclusive Communities: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Moynihan: ...is taken of that. The other matter is the limitations of the grants. A number of members raised the issue of the level of funding seriously needing to be looked at in terms of budgets going forward. To address Deputy Ellis's point on a local authority house that needs adaptation for the tenant in it, when somebody comes to us with information and we find out it relates to a local...

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Michael Moynihan: ...trauma that is inflicted on the family, the person who loses their life and the consequences of that. We have to sympathise, in the first instance. We also have to say that we need to bring forward rules and regulations in a data-based context to ensure that we have important legislation underpinning and encouraging road safety. I meet many people across the country. They talk about...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Nov 2023)

Michael Moynihan: ...just on Munster final day but throughout the year. The point being made is that it is important that county boundaries are not divided up and pieces of different constituencies put in. I remember going back a number of years ago where part of west Limerick was put into north Kerry. There may have been a precedent way back 50 or 60 years ago for that particular change but to not divide...

Joint Committee on Disability Matters Report: Motion (26 Oct 2023)

Michael Moynihan: ...a community, to be wanted in a community and to have a sense of self-worth. We need that to guide the Joint Committee on Disability Matters and this House, and the decisions that are made by the Government. We must acknowledge the pyramid of need is out there. Everybody needs to have a sense of self-worth and a journey, and needs to be supported. Families face a constant battle to...

Joint Committee on Disability Matters Report: Motion (26 Oct 2023)

Michael Moynihan: ...the system. If one has locally-led deliveries like the section 39 organisations, they are very close to their communities and can see the challenges for families. To that end, the decisions made a week and a half ago on the pay settlement are important to ensure that goes right through, and that pay parity becomes the norm as we go forward into new pay rounds. That is the delivery of...

Road Safety: Statements (26 Oct 2023)

Michael Moynihan: ...surfaces as traffic comes into the town, but also looking at a relief road in the interim before the bypass itself is built. That bypass will have to be built. It was stopped almost a decade ago and it is now time to move it forward. There is movement on it, but we need to ensure it is there because as our population continues to grow the regions are going to be the hugely important...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: National Disability Inclusion Strategy: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Moynihan: ...than four participants. Many of those were applying under the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications capital assistance, CAS, programme and building their own houses. This is going back 20 years ago. That has been stopped by and large by the section 39 organisations because of the level of bureaucracy and challenge that exists within them. In some instances, there is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 May 2023)

Michael Moynihan: Balanced regional development is very important. In light of everything that is happening with the cities, the shortage of housing and everything else, it is the way forward. In that context, there is particular need to prioritise the M20 connection road between Limerick and Cork and beyond. The recent tragedies on the streets of Charleville are a major concern for all those representing...

Construction Safety Licensing Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 May 2023)

Michael Moynihan: ...a huge number of aspects to the Bill, which include looking at the licensing authorities, their decisions and who they are. Many contributors have spoken about apprenticeships and how we are going to get more people into the construction industry. That starts at a very young age in trying to get people who are well-handed and very gifted with their hands to see there is a trajectory...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Approach and Disability Legislation: Discussion (27 Apr 2023)

Michael Moynihan: ...in education provision and throughout the system. I spoke at the Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth last night about the attitude towards this and that probably goes back to the use of language in circulars in the 1950s and 1960s and so forth. We have come a long way but we have a long road to go as well in our attitude. On school transport in the...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (26 Apr 2023)

Michael Moynihan: ...and the Minister of State. It is great to see them in their new Department. It has been talked about for a long time over the past two and half years. It is there now and we need to move forward on it. There are a number of issues which I want to raise. I took a phone call this afternoon from a mother whose autistic child had been seeing a consultant paediatrician, but the language...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (28 Mar 2023)

Michael Moynihan: I look forward to the report. Many people will be trying to put forward views on the report when it is published. The Minister stated it will be published in May. Will there be a period thereafter when Members will have an opportunity, either at committee level or in the House, to discuss the report and put our views forward? Many Members will have views about how we should go forward and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Accessing Justice: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Michael Moynihan: .... Some mornings the evidence is quite challenging, as it was this morning. The figure of 300 people alone being sentenced in January 2023, since the courts opened, is quite a stark figure as we go forward. That presents enormous challenges to the Prison Service and the State. There are 140 vacancies in the Prison Service and some prisons are at 117% capacity so there are challenges,...

Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Michael Moynihan: ...which reaches out to the community. It is important that we acknowledge the volunteers who work in the credit union movement and the work they do. It is a community initiative. They see the good that is being done. They are volunteers who we should encourage because we have seen that volunteerism is pulling back in society and it is important that we acknowledge it. I come from not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability Proofing and Data: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Michael Moynihan: ...what we should now do on all the issues that were thrown up. First, we should make a submission to the CSO on the evidence we have got over the years on data collection and how we see the census going forward from the evidence of the lived-experience we have heard. The optional protocol comes in every day. The review of the Disability Act is something we will have to look at. Deputy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Education and the UNCRPD: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Sep 2022)

Michael Moynihan: ...Council for Special Education but it is something that needs to be looked at to ensure the method of appeal is not cumbersome. I certainly have come across situations where they have had to go to the nth degree and eventually they get it. The Department will say that a huge number of SNAs are being appointed overall but there may be something that should be looked at in that regard. ...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Help Service (2 Jun 2022)

Michael Moynihan: ...a week. Three nights were allocated because family members were travelling long distances from where they were living to provide the care, day and night, for the person who is ill. The family got a commitment in writing from the HSE to the provision of care three nights per week, but that approval was subsequently withdrawn. It is completely unacceptable that this should happen to...

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Jun 2022)

Michael Moynihan: ...legal expertise and advice for families to navigate through that, when they look for to draw down funding for the needs of a person. I have seen families get completely frustrated by having to go back to the courts to make a case and so on. We have to be very mindful that we are talking about very vulnerable people at a very vulnerable time for families and everybody else. The least we...