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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Disability Services Data (8 Dec 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: The area of disability services is a priority area for this Government. To support people with a disability, significant resources have been invested by the health sector in disability services, and the Government has ensured that an additional €100 million is being provided for new disability measures next year under Budget 2021. These measures will include an additional 80,000...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Disability Services Data (8 Dec 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: The Government is committed to providing services and supports for people with disabilities which will empower them to live independent lives, provide greater independence in accessing the services they choose, and enhance their ability to tailor the supports required to meet their needs and plan their lives. As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Disability Services Data (8 Dec 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: I propose to take Questions Nos. 677, 679 and 680 together. The Programme for Government, Our Shared Future,recognises the need to improve services for both children and adults with disabilities through better implementation and by working together across Government in a better way. The Government commits to prioritising early diagnosis and access to services for children and ensuring that...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Disability Services Data (8 Dec 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: The Programme for Government,  Our Shared Future,  recognises the need to improve services for both children and adults with disabilities through better implementation and by working together across Government in a better way.  The  Government commits to prioritising early diagnosis and access to services for children and ensuring that the most effective interventions are...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Disability Services Provision (8 Dec 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: The Programme for Government,  Our Shared Future,  recognises the need to improve services for both children and adults with disabilities through better implementation and by working together across Government in a better way.  The  Government commits to prioritising early diagnosis and access to services for children and ensuring that the most effective interventions are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (3 Dec 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: The Programme for Government, Our Shared Future, recognises the need to improve services for both children and adults with disabilities through better implementation and by working together across Government in a better way. The Government commits to prioritising early diagnosis and access to services for children and ensuring that the most effective interventions are provided for each...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (3 Dec 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: The Deputy may already be aware that my colleague, the Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe T.D., has responsibility for the Disabled Drivers and Disabled Passengers (Tax Concessions) Scheme, which provides tax relief for the purchase of adapted vehicles for disabled drivers and passengers. The Scheme is operated by the Revenue Commissioners. Minister Donohoe advised me that the...

Pay for Student Nurses and Midwives: Motion [Private Members] (2 Dec 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following: "notes: — the exceptional contribution that nurses and midwives, including students, have made to the Covid-19 pandemic response; — that this was particularly important during the first wave of Covid-19 due to the high number of hospitalisations and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Funding (2 Dec 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: The Government is committed to providing services and supports for people with disabilities which will empower them to live independent lives, provide greater independence in accessing the services they choose, and enhance their ability to tailor the supports required to meet their needs and plan their lives. As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Funding (2 Dec 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: I propose to take Questions Nos. 142, 143 and 144 together. The Programme for Government, Our Shared Future,recognises the need to improve services for both children and adults with disabilities through better implementation and by working together across Government in a better way. The Government commits to prioritising early diagnosis and access to services for children and ensuring that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (2 Dec 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: The Programme for Government, Our Shared Future,recognises the need to improve services for both children and adults with disabilities through better implementation and by working together across Government in a better way. The Government commits to prioritising early diagnosis and access to services for children and ensuring that the most effective interventions are provided for each...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Data (2 Dec 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: The Programme for Government, Our Shared Future,recognises the need to improve services for both children and adults with disabilities through better implementation and by working together across Government in a better way. The Government commits to prioritising early diagnosis and access to services for children and ensuring that the most effective interventions are provided for each child,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Housing Adaptation Grant (2 Dec 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: Housing adaptation grants do not come within the remit of my Department and are a matter for the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. I am informed by that Department that it provides funding to local authorities for the Housing Adaptation Grant Scheme for Older People and People with a Disability in private houses. For the purposes of the grant, household income is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (2 Dec 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: The Government is committed to providing services and supports for people with disabilities which will empower them to live independent lives, provide greater independence in accessing the services they choose, and enhance their ability to tailor the supports required to meet their needs and plan their lives. As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Support Services (1 Dec 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank Deputy Clarke again. I am not one for sound bites at all. I am more a person of action in respect of understanding exactly what is going wrong behind the system. The Deputy is right in everything she said. I will not contradict one bit of it. I will talk about the MRC for one moment, however. I went to the MRC with the Ministers of State, Deputies Burke and Troy, in August and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Support Services (1 Dec 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank Deputy Clarke for raising this valuable issue and giving me the opportunity to speak on it. Several weeks ago, I spoke about Offaly with Deputy Nolan. She raised the matter that evening. Deputy Clarke talks about the constituency of Longford-Westmeath. I talk about the community healthcare organisation area that covers Longford, Laois, Offaly, Westmeath, Louth and Meath. That...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (1 Dec 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: Responsibility for the Domiciliary Care Allowance transferred from the Department of Health to the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection in 2009. However as the service matter raised by the Deputy relates to 2005, I have arranged for the Deputy’s question to be referred to the Health Service Executive, which administered the allowance at that time, for investigation...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance (1 Dec 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: By way of background, two schemes, the Mobility Allowance and Motorised Transport Grant, were put in place in 1979 and 1968 respectively, for operation by the Health Service Executive (HSE) at a time when there was limited availability of accessible public transport. The Government decided to close these administrative schemes in 2013, on foot of the reports of the Ombudsman in 2011 and 2012...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (1 Dec 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: The Government is committed to providing services and supports for people with disabilities which will empower them to live independent lives, provide greater independence in accessing the services they choose, and enhance their ability to tailor the supports required to meet their needs and plan their lives. As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (1 Dec 2020)

Anne Rabbitte: The Government is committed to providing services and supports for people with disabilities which will empower them to live independent lives, provide greater independence in accessing the services they choose, and enhance their ability to tailor the supports required to meet their needs and plan their lives. As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to...