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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (19 Jun 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, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Correspondence (18 Jun 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, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (18 Jun 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.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services (17 Jun 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: This is a new structure being rolled out. It has taken the team a little time to set up the structures. The funding was in place and they are now rolling out those teams across the country. We will complete the national roll-out of the HSE community neuro-rehabilitation teams. We will develop more regional inpatient rehabilitation beds as well, implement community-based, multidisciplinary...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services (17 Jun 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank both Deputies. I am looking forward to my visit to An Síol tomorrow morning and to seeing the Deputy there. I know they are doing fantastic work there on the ground. I am visiting these services throughout the country. When I am in these services, I meet people who have acquired brain injuries. I see the results of road traffic accidents and the importance of these...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (17 Jun 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: Ireland ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UNCRPD, in 2018. Since ratification, Ireland's approach has been to ensure cumulative advancements over time. The programme for Government commits to delivering a new national disability strategy that will provide an overarching framework for advancing the State’s obligations under the UNCRPD....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (17 Jun 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: I will answer the Deputy's last question first. Housing and disability are absolute priority for the Government y. We all know knocking on the doors in the general election campaign the importance of disability right across the sector. Last week, I attended the United Nations disability conference in New York. The Irish delegation travelled with leading disability groups from Ireland who...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (17 Jun 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: There has been, and there will continue to be, robust consultation with all the key stakeholders, disability groups and DPOs. To give the Deputy an example of our track record on that, for this disability strategy we had extensive public consultation, which concluded last year. That included 34 focus groups and almost 500 responses to a national questionnaire. We had town hall events in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services (17 Jun 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank the Deputy for raising this important issue. The overarching aim of the neuro-rehabilitation strategy is the development of neuro-rehabilitation services to improve patient outcomes by providing safe, high-quality, person-centred neuro-rehabilitation at the lowest appropriate level of complexity. It straddles acute hospitals and primary care as well as specialist community-based...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (17 Jun 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank the Deputy. On 26 April 2023, the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015, along with most of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Act 2022, were commenced, replacing the wards of court system. That Act places individuals at the centre of decisions that affect them and provides for the necessary supports to enable persons with capacity difficulties to retain...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (17 Jun 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: As the Deputy was speaking, I was reminded of people in a similar situation who have come into my constituency office. Often they are parents who have a grown-up adult child. Their question is what will happen to their child when the parents pass away. We cannot always answer those questions, but they will be looked after. It is all about this forward planning and having the data. As...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (17 Jun 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: Both Deputies have raised important points. For example, when somebody is leaving the school setting, there needs to be a transition. We are doing work in that regard. The person-centred plan has been developed with each person, his or her family and his or her support person, looking at ensuring that this person with a disability is making informed choices about what he or she wants to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (17 Jun 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: The Government recognises the importance of early intervention for children with disabilities and ensuring they receive the right services at the right time. Under the programme for Government, we are committed to ensuring children and their families who need early intervention and therapy input can access it in a timely way. The key vehicle for change and improvement is the roadmap for...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (17 Jun 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: We are doing a number of things in recruitment and retention. We have bursaries in place. We are opening up HSE panels. We have HSE advertising streams. We also have a number of fairs, including one in May where one of the top priorities was to recruit people and to introduce people to social care therapists, occupational therapists and speech and language therapists. We have 150 extra...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (17 Jun 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: I assure Deputy Lawless that absolutely everything is being done. What is happening now is what I have just listed out. We also have domestic and international recruitment drives happening all the time, as we speak. We also have an expedited CORU registration process from this year. This is specifically for people who may have trained abroad and want to come here to work. We want to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (17 Jun 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: Deputy Lawless can come back to me afterwards.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disabilities Assessments (17 Jun 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: Regional assessment hubs are being rolled out. We had a meeting with the CEO of the HSE, Bernard Gloster, on that. I can get updated information for the Deputy on that. My understanding is that they are starting to be rolled out. That will help to reduce waiting lists. We have also worked with the HSE to seek to introduce specific recruitment and retention initiatives for therapists...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (17 Jun 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: A number of things are happening here. There is an increased demand for assessments of need. We are all very aware of the reasons for that. For many, it is about getting access to services as well as wanting to know about a disability and getting a diagnosis. All these form part of the demands on the system. The Deputy will know we are doing work through a Cabinet committee on...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (17 Jun 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: To answer the last question first, ensuring that children have access to the therapies they need is absolutely my priority and our priority as a Government. It is for that reason that my colleague the Minister, Deputy McEntee is continuing the work that myself and the Minister, Deputy Foley did when we were in the Department of Education on special education with in-school speech and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disabilities Assessments (17 Jun 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: As I have said, the Government absolutely recognises that waiting times for assessment of need is far too long and we are committed to reforming the assessment of need process. Both this Department and the HSE have been working intensively to progress measures to address these waiting times. I want to emphasise again to parents that while children have a right to apply for the assessment...