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Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Participation in Education: Department of Education and Youth (17 Jul 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: To finish, I want to emphasise that we have to get parental buy-in on this and we have to look at some projects to do that. If projects are there at the moment, they are not working as successfully as we wish. We are going to be here again for years with the same problem unless we address the issue of parental involvement.

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: Apologies have been received from Deputies Seamus Healy and Liam Quaide, and Senators Nikki Bradley, Maria Byrne and Laura Harmon. The purpose of today's meeting is to continue the discussion about progressing the delivery of disability policies and services. On behalf of the committee, from An Coimisiún Toghcháin, I extend a warm welcome to Mr. Art O'Leary, chief executive, Mr....

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: Thank you, Mr. O'Leary. Now I call on Dr. Aoife Price to make her opening statement. Dr. Price joins us online.

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank Dr. Price. I now invite members of the committee to put their questions. When I call them to speak, members should adhere to the agenda and the items for discussion. They have seven minutes in the first round and if we have time we will come to a second. The first speaker on the rota is Senator Margaret Murphy O'Mahony from Fianna Fáil. Gabh mo leithscéal, it is Deputy...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: With the indulgence of the committee, can I go to the people online? Does Dr. Price want to comment on any of those questions?

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank Professor Flynn.

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank the witnesses and Deputy Ó Murchú. That concludes round one. I have a quick query. As the witnesses and others have referenced, and as we are all aware, there are cases of people who have an access problem getting into a polling station. Do we have figures on the number of polling stations where we still have problems? Is there a follow-up from that? This is not...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: The problem with that is people in marginalised areas sometimes do not have the ability to check the register and if they do not get a polling card, they believe they cannot go to vote. I remember Mr. O'Leary on Live 95. I was on social media as well. We did not reach all the people we needed to reach.

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: The other issue is that people raised concerns about disability access to the polling station. Is there a follow-up on that so when the presidential election is on, we do not go back to seeing problems in polling stations for the same people?

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: They have done that.

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: Members will go in the same order in the second round. The first contributor is Senator Murphy O'Mahony.

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: You have five minutes.

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: I did not mean it from that point of view. I meant I had not said it to her.

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: If the Deputy wants answers to his questions, he should be aware that he is running out of time.

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: Does Ms Price want to come in?

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: We are running out of time. I want to come to Dr. Price, who has indicated a desire to speak.

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: Sorry, we have lost sound. Is Dr. Price on mute?

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: We have sound now.

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank Dr. Price. I advise her that we lost some of her content, but we got most of it. We understand her point. It was no fault of Dr. Price; it was to do with a technical issue here.

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Maurice Quinlivan: That finishes the second round of questions. I agree with what Senator Carrigy said about registering disabled people to vote. Doing that through their organisations may be the way to go, particularly if all of those involved are registered with those organisations. Is the Electoral Commission interested in providing funding to these organisations? Mr. O'Leary stated that the commission...