Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 17 May 2022
Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth
Ukrainian Crisis: Discussion
Mary Seery Kearney (Fine Gael)
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Lest there be any confusion of any sort, none of the organisations I deal with has moved children under any circumstances, although they do work with families. Organisations such as AsIAm have been providing fantastic resources with respect to autism services. How do you communicate a war to children who have profound disabilities, who are living with their families and who have to go to a bunker only to find, when they come out, that their home is gone along with their mobility aids and everything like that? There is a need to get mobility aids to Ukraine as well as to support those families but not those operating on an institutional basis.