Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 12 June 2025
Committee on Children and Equality
Priority Issues Facing the Department: Minister for Children, Disability and Equality
2:00 am
Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein)
I apologise; I had a couple of questions for the Ministry the Minister held previously. Tá fáilte romhaibh go léir. There is no shortage of issues. We had a meeting of the Committee on Disability Matters yesterday and Cara and Mark Darmody appeared before it. They have huge qualms about where the assessment of need, AON, process is going and they fear the only solution the Government will offer will be to change the legislation such that the Government will not be breaking the law, whereas I think everybody will be open to a solution that works. As I have said previously, if we have to change the nature of the assessment of need, our plan has to be to deliver assessments within at most six months. We are talking about figures of 15,000 people where we have not been able to follow through on that six-month-----
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