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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Education: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Marian Harkin: It is great to have our first public meeting. Many people are very interested in this subject and we have a huge responsibility on our shoulders. I look forward to working with everybody so that we can produce a comprehensive and, hopefully, action-oriented report. I welcome our colleagues from the NCSE. Mr. Kearney said he was fairly new to this job, so I wish him well. My first...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Education: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Marian Harkin: Are there enough supports for schools? Change is always very difficult. Mr. Kearney is a school principal and he knows this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Education: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Marian Harkin: Is it being given? Is it available? Is it there? Do schools feel it is there for them and that they can use it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Education: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Marian Harkin: I hear what Mr. Kearney is saying but I am looking at it from the other perspective. I hear what he has said about certain hotspots. Change is always difficult. It is difficult in any institution and educational institutions are the same as all others. For change to happen significant supports are needed. The carrot is much more important than the stick. I am not saying the legislation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Education: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Marian Harkin: So much more is needed but Mr. Kearney knows that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Education: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Marian Harkin: Does the NCSE believe it should be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Education: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Marian Harkin: Our time is running down. Does Ms Prendeville have numbers for me?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Education: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Marian Harkin: Many people have spoken about the need for wraparound therapies for students. Like everyone I have heard many parents, particularly in Sligo, speak about the lack of these. How much of the budget was spent last year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Education: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Marian Harkin: The overall budget.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Education: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Marian Harkin: Will Mr. Kearney send me details on this please?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Education: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Marian Harkin: I thank Mr. Kearney.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Education: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Marian Harkin: I thank the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Education: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Marian Harkin: Right now?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Jun 2022)

Marian Harkin: Last night, I received a devastating response to a Topic Issue matter I raised about the closure of the catheterisation laboratory, cath lab, at Sligo University Hospital. There were no new proposals offered; just excuses. I was told about the existing link with University Hospital Galway but the recent national heart attack audit confirmed that the average travel time between the two...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Jun 2022)

Marian Harkin: The Minister for Health has just left the Chamber.

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jun 2022)

Marian Harkin: I thank Deputy Connolly for her comprehensive and eminently reasonable motion on the provision of adequate respite care services. This motion lays bare the cruel situation in which many family carers find themselves and asks that an adequate and sustainable service is put in place. It also very reasonably asks that all respite beds closed as a result of Covid be reinstated. This is what we...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Appointments to State Boards (22 Jun 2022)

Marian Harkin: 50. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the circumstances relating to the appointment of a person (details supplied) to a company; the due diligence that was carried to ensure that the nomination was legitimate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33072/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (21 Jun 2022)

Marian Harkin: I do not doubt the sincerity of the Minister of State. I have read the answer which stated that the HSE advised that all options had been explored. What were those options? When did they know? What did they do? We are getting absolutely no information. The Minister of State spoke about when she was first elected to the House. Back in 2018 a colleague of hers, the former Deputy, Eamon...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (21 Jun 2022)

Marian Harkin: Last week, the Saolta University Health Care Group announced the closure of the two day per week cath lab service at Sligo University Hospital, SUH. This announcement sent shockwaves not just through the community in Sligo, but across Leitrim, Roscommon, Donegal, Mayo and Cavan. This two day per week service was inadequate to begin with. What we really need is a full-time service. It is a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (21 Jun 2022)

Marian Harkin: 263. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm if County Sligo will be included in the mica/pyrite redress scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32138/22]