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Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Paul Donnelly: I welcome the U-turn, flip-flop or withdrawal or whatever word the Minister wants to use with regard to this Green Paper. First and foremost, the biggest congratulations must go to the disability activists who, from the very start, feared the direction of this Green Paper. For me, it really brought up the old saying, "When England sneezes, Ireland catches a cold." With this, we can say...

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Pat Buckley: I thank the Minister for being here today. I thank Solidarity-People Before Profit for tabling this motion. Much has been covered here. This is about disability justice and disability injustice. Many people have covered the options of trying to get work, proper living accommodation and public transport. There is a myriad of barriers after barriers. I have raised how bad the system is...

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Mairead Farrell: I thank Solidarity-People Before Profit for tabling this motion. It is important that we recognise that the voices of people with disabilities were heard and that thanks to their activism, the Green Paper was scrapped by the Government. That was the right thing to do. It is essential that all disability policy is centred on a human rights-led approach and that people are listened to. I...

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: I thank Solidarity-People Before Profit for tabling this really welcome motion. The Government's decision to scrap the Green Paper on Disability Reform last week was the right thing to do but it should never have been presented in the first place. It took much too long to scrap it. Activists in this area deserve much praise for the pressure they exerted on the Government. The truth of the...

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: I, too, welcome the decision to scrap the Green Paper on Disability Reform. My colleagues in Sinn Féin and I had grave reservations about it and had called for it to be binned. As Sinn Féin spokesperson on disability, along with its spokesperson on social protection, Deputy Ó Laoghaire, I met a wide range of disabled people and representatives of disability organisations to...

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Mark Ward: I want to use my limited time to speak about how children with disabilities are being failed by the Government. I acknowledge this is more related to the brief of the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, than that of the Minister present, Deputy Humphreys. I will give the example of a young boy from my constituency, whom I will call John for the purpose of anonymity. John is 11 years old...

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Michael Ring: The next speaking slot is for Sinn Féin, with a number of speakers offering. I ask Deputies to be fair to their colleagues in sticking to their individual time allocations. Deputy Ó Laoghaire is up first. He has five minutes.

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The announcement last week that the Green Paper on disability payments is being scrapped was received with relief by many people with disabilities. However, it does, of course, raise further questions as to what happens next. In several respects, the consultation on the Green Paper was badly handled. My party's disability spokesperson, Deputy Tully, and I have met well over a dozen groups...

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The failure of successive Governments to vindicate the rights of people with disabilities is testified to by many failures. However, one that sums it up is that for 11 years, there was a campaign by people with disabilities and disability activists just to get governments to honour their commitment to ratify the UNCRPD. It took 11 years of campaigning from the first commitment to ratify the...

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: We consulted extensively. The Deputy is wrong.

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not according to them.

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Deputy is wrong. I will give him a list of-----

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not interrupt the Minister. The Government got a kicking in the recent referendum precisely for that reason. People with disabilities felt insulted, treated with contempt and ignored. They expected to be given rights in that referendum. My God, I certainly am not a fan, as I do not think anybody could be, of the previous constitutional wording, which did nothing for people with...

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: I want to start by thanking all the disabled people's organisations that have participated in preparing this motion. Their demands are front and centre, which is exactly as it should be. So far, there is no sign of a Government countermotion, so I presume that means the Government is not going to oppose our motion and will allow it to pass. Before there is uproar and celebration in the...

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I welcome the opportunity to discuss the important issue of supports for disabled people. I launched the consultation process on the Green Paper last September. It is very important to say that this is all Green Paper ever was - a consultation document - and I want to be very clear about that. Based on the feedback we have received to date, it is clear to me that there are significant...

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: Disability justice is social justice and social justice is disability justice. The Green Paper that was scrapped earlier this week was straight out of the Tory handbook. If we look at what the disability payment scandal did to people in Britain, it shows that pushing people to the margins compounds a terrible issue. Disabled people disproportionately suffer from poverty, alienation and...

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that the Department of Social Protection's Green Paper on Disability Reform: — proposes to introduce three "tiers" of payments depending on a person's supposed ability to work; — was published with no consultation with disabled people, and is opposed by a wide range of disabled people and their organisations; - will do nothing to...