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Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (15 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (15 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Medical Certificates (15 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Referral to Select Committee (10 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Health pursuant to Standing Orders 95(3)(a) and 181(1).

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank everybody who has contributed this evening. I will split my time in two. I will deal with the legislative side of the Bill, in addition to some of the issues that were brought up, in answer to some of the questions. Deputy Smith asked a number of very important questions regarding how it will all work and whether everyone in the Department of Children, Equality, Disability,...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (10 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am pleased to have this opportunity to address the House on this Bill, which will facilitate the transfer of specialist community-based disability services from the Minister for Health to the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. Broader disability equality policy is already the responsibility of the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Departmental Strategies (10 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Senator for raising this issue today. I am taking this debate on behalf of the Minister of State, Deputy Browne, who sends his apologies. I hope his office contacted the Senator's before this debate. As the Senator will be aware, the courts are independent in their functions under the Constitution and the law. The matter of scheduling court cases is administered by the Courts...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Departmental Strategies (10 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: Yet again, I thank the Senator. The Minister of State, Deputy Browne, says he welcomes the additional €6.7 million provided for in budget 2022, representing an increase over one third in support for the youth justice service. This budget funding provides the resources to kick-start delivery of key objectives in the youth justice strategy and, in particular, the programme to expand...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: General Practitioner Services (10 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Senator for raising this matter, which I am taking on behalf of the Minister for Health. As the House will know, the Government is committed to increasing access to GP care for more children. Following the provision of GP care without charges for all children under six years of age, the Government plans to expand GP care without charges to all children up to and including the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: General Practitioner Services (10 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Senator. She is being very rational in the context of her proposals. If we do not do that early intervention piece, it has a knock-on effect whereby it is more costly in the long run to our health system. I urge the Department of Health and those with whom it is having consultations , be it the HSE or GP practices, to talk about the same cohort of people who need that care....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (10 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (10 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (10 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: I propose to take Questions Nos. 416 and 417 together. As these are service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (10 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (10 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (10 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Departmental Strategies (9 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Senator for raising this matter. I know it is an issue she is continuously working on and trying to progress so it is great to have the opportunity to provide the House with an update. The transport working group was established in 2020 to support work action No. 104 of the national disability inclusion strategy, NDIS, the whole-of-government strategy which is tasked with...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Departmental Strategies (9 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: The wonderful thing about this working group is it will be an opportunity, as I said, to consider what worked well in the past and what resources were removed from people with disabilities which gave them independent access to participation. We all know from people coming to our offices how limited the primary medical certification is, and I think the courts have told us as well. I must...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Pension Provisions (9 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank Senator Kyne for raising that question. As a former financier, the basic thing anybody wants to know about his or her pension is what his or her entitlement is and how to make provisions into the future. That is the essence of pensions. I have a script that I will read. It has been forwarded by the HSE in the west, from Saolta, but I do not accept the answer. It is not good...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Pension Provisions (9 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: I will raise this particular issue with the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, to ensure the Department gets involved at this stage. Workers have a right to access this. The Department knows that the ICT systems in the HSE are back up and running, not just across the Saolta group but in all the various groups. I will also ask that this matter be included on the agenda for the...