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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Flexible Work Practices (31 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 22. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when successful projects in Dún Laoghaire will be announced under the Connected Hubs Fund aimed at further supporting the development of remote working facilities across the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27396/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (31 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 428. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on a meeting with an organisation (details supplied) and the State Examinations Commission in relation to State exams and for an advance notification process to be put in place for students with epilepsy in cases in which they have a seizure on the day of an exam; when further details of this proposed process will be...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (31 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 589. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the provision of a domestic violence refuge for Dún Laoghaire; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27738/22]

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I only want to discuss therapeutic services for autistic children. What will be done to try to make sure that people are getting assessments of need and the therapeutic services that they need? In my constituency, I have one child whose parents were told by the HSE that there was an assessment of need done on 10 May 2021. I questioned the parents about this and they were confused because...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What is the timeline for that? What are the HSE's interim solutions?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What does that mean? I ask Mr. Reid to speak to me in practical terms. I have a child who is waiting 26 months for an assessment. When is he likely to get an assessment under the new plan? If a child is born today down the road in Holles Street Hospital and an issue becomes apparent in the first year of his or her life, under the timeline for the interim solutions and new plan, when will...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is not the experience of the breadth of my constituents. I appreciate that it may be so, but I assure Mr. Reid that it is not so on the ground.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: My point is that people do not get the services in a universal way. I am sorry to cut across Ms O'Connor. That may be so in some community healthcare organisation, CHO, areas. The witnesses will be aware that the Ombudsman for Children is doing a report on the consistency across CHO areas, which is due to be published in 2022. Certainly, in my own area of CHO 6, it is not so for the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Then there is the additional complication of an intellectual disability being brought in with an assessment of need in respect of autism and how that can be an additional complicating and delaying factor.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I could not agree more. It is not an either-or thing. It is very much both and they do not need to contradict each other and there is no need to have a stream that delays or impedes the delivery of therapeutic services, which is all that parents want.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I do know indeed. I have another case in my constituency of a child who is 17 and is about to age out of the process but is yet to receive an assessment.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Department has a substantially increased budget for this. The Minister announced an additional 100 posts and then another 80 posts, 24 of which were to be allocated to my area. I appreciate Ms O'Connor cannot speak about the 24 posts but how many of the 180 have been filled?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Funding is not the issue.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Assistant psychologists were going to be attempted to be used to try to help. Will Ms O'Connor tell me more about that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: How quickly can that be done?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I appreciate the recruitment challenge but there is a sense of ongoing drift. Again, on the timely assessment for the child who is five years and has waited 26 months for assessment or the child born today who will be identified as having a difficulty, under the new process Mr. Reid is developing with the Minister now, what is the interim solution and when will we have a timeline for the new...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Will Ms O'Connor give me a ballpark? Is it a year, three years or three months?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Why would the priority be to reassess children under that system rather than prioritise children who are growing up with difficulties not being addressed?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: And that is a priority because of what exactly? What is the pressure there making it more of a priority than assessing children?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Yes, fine, but what is it in the court ruling that says that must be prioritised over other things, or is that the HSE's interpretation of it?