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Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Parking Provision (8 Jul 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 743 and 744 together. Ensuring the accessibility of transport, infrastructure and the built environment for people with disabilities is a key priority for Government. Significant work continues to be undertaken on the finalisation of a new National Disability Strategy, and publication is expected shortly. The Strategy will provide a blueprint for the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (8 Jul 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: HSE-funded day programmes for people with intellectual disabilities, autism, or complex physical disabilities include a range of centre-based and community-based activities. Access to services is based on an individual’s needs rather than on their diagnosis. The focus is on supporting people to participate in the mainstream activities and in the life of their community, in line with...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Nursing Homes (8 Jul 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: The Ombudsman’s 2021 “Wasted Lives: Time for a Better Future for Younger People in Nursing Homes” report, highlighted the need to facilitate the transition of individuals under the age of 65, from Nursing Homes to community living and enhance the living conditions for those currently living in Nursing Homes. The HSE is co-ordinating a programme of work to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (3 Jul 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: The HSE provides specialist disability services, including Day Services and Rehabilitative Training, to people with disabilities who require such services, and people with intellectual disabilities would form the majority of service users who are supported by these services. While day service funding does not include transport, some transport supports are provided by the HSE or funded...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (3 Jul 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (3 Jul 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (3 Jul 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: The HSE provides a range of assisted living services including Personal Assistance (PA) Services to support individuals to maximise their capacity to live full and independent lives. PA is provided either directly by the HSE or indirectly though a range of voluntary and private service providers. The average rate for PA service delivery is currently €25 per hour. The estimated...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (3 Jul 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: The Action Plan for Disability Services 2024-2026 represents the first phase of implementing the recommendations of the Disability Capacity Review to 2032. It sets out a range of actions designed to provide better access to disability services. It intends to maximise the impact of service delivery through strategic change and to enable better planning and management through improved...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Assisted Decision-Making (3 Jul 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank the Deputy for their question regarding the online application process for Enduring Powers of Attorney (EPAs) under the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act, 2015. EPAs are a vital advance planning tool that enable adults to plan ahead for a time when they may have diminished decision-making capacity, ensuring that a person’s wishes are known and respected. The...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (3 Jul 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Parking Provision (3 Jul 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: Ensuring the accessibility of transport, infrastructure and the built environment for people with disabilities is a key priority for Government. Significant work continues to be undertaken on the finalisation of a new National Disability Strategy, and publication is expected shortly. The Strategy will provide a blueprint for the genuine advancement of the rights of people with...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jul 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank members of the committee for their invitation to come before them to detail the wide range of work being undertaken within the Department of Children, Disability and Equality with regard to improving service provision for people with disabilities. I wish to express how pleased I am to attend this committee and I wish members well in their work. I look forward to engaging with them....

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jul 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank the Deputy for his question. We have a neurorehabilitation strategy and that is the development of neurorehabilitation services to improve inpatient outcomes by providing safe, high-quality, person-centred, neurorehabilitation at the lowest appropriate level of complexity. That straddles acute hospitals and primary care, as well as specialist community-based disability services. We...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jul 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: What we are doing from this strategy is the community-based aspect. The big call from people after they go through a trauma like that and get their intensive neurorehabilitation in the likes of the NRH is that they would have community-based access. I am open to that as regards the needs there. The strategy looks at regional step-down beds. It is important that people can get access to...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jul 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank Deputy Quaide. First, regarding NRH, that would come under the Department of Health. This is where our national disability strategy will come into play. I have certain levers within my Department but it is through working with my Cabinet colleagues that we can ensure we are providing the acute services as well as the community and step-down services. The Deputy is absolutely...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jul 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank Deputy Keogh for her question. Yes, I think we have all been in situations in our constituency office where somebody has come in looking for a primary medical certificate and sometimes you just know they are not going to eligible although they really need the service. That is why the Department of Finance was reviewing this scheme. It will be with the Department of Transport. The...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jul 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank the Deputy. We had a great day in Mayo. I saw the faces of those young children when they had access to mobility trikes to be able to go for a walk and enjoy the greenways in Mayo with their families, which they could not do before. It is absolutely transformative. I thank those organisations for the work they do. I have Estimates and a budgetary process to go through but I see...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jul 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: Another real good example is that I was in Cork where I visited Autism Assistance Dogs Ireland and My Canine Companion. I will give a really good example. A principal in a school said to me that the school has one of these dogs that is specially trained to work with children with autism or disabilities. She said she used to have to coax the child into school in the morning. The dog in the...