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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (18 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: 1306. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated capital cost of providing 1,200, 1,450 and 1,700 additional day service places for school leavers and graduates of rehabilitative training, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17912/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (18 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: 1307. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current cost, including staff and operating cost, of providing 1,200, 1,450 and 1,700 additional day service places for school leavers and graduates of rehabilitative training, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17913/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (18 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: 1481. To ask the Minister for Health if speech and language therapists, on registration with CORU, who received their training outside of the State but are missing components required by CORU, such as dysphagia, can be recruited to practice while undergoing in service training on the components they are missing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16862/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (18 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: 1482. To ask the Minister for Health the average timeframe wheelchair users are waiting to receive their first wheelchair from application to handover; the average timeframe wheelchair users are waiting for a replacement wheelchair from application to handover; the average cost of replacing a wheelchair; the funding that was allocated for the replacement of wheelchairs over the past five...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Qualifications Recognition (18 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: 1483. To ask the Minister for Health the average processing period for the recognition of qualifications by CORU of speech and language therapists, occupational therapists and physiotherapists who were trained and qualified in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16866/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: 1506. To ask the Minister for Health if he will commit to having the health technology assessment by HIQA into the addition of spinal muscular atrophy to the national new-born bloodspot screening programme or heelprick test completed in time for its consideration by the National Screening Advisory Committee at its September meeting, which coincides with new-born screening month; if there is a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Diagnoses (18 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: 1512. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the response from An Tánaiste on 23 March 2023 in relation to the use of the National Treatment Purchase Fund for those seeking an assessment of need, where he stated that while “[p]redominantly, it has been used for inpatient acute treatment... the Minister has indicated in the past that it can be used for disabilities... and also...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (18 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: 1602. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 174 of 22 June 2022, if the further steps (details supplied) have been implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17444/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: A Rights-Based Approach and Disability Legislation: National Disability Authority (20 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: Apologies have been received from the Cathaoirleach, Deputy Moynihan, though he is here for a short part of the meeting. Apologies have also been received from Deputies Dessie Ellis and Jennifer Murnane O'Connor. The purpose of today's meeting is a discussion about the rights-based approach and disability legislation. I would like to extend, on behalf of the committee, a warm welcome to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: A Rights-Based Approach and Disability Legislation: National Disability Authority (20 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: Deputy Higgins is joining the meeting remotely. Is the Deputy within the precincts of Leinster House?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: A Rights-Based Approach and Disability Legislation: National Disability Authority (20 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: I invite the Deputy to ask her questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: A Rights-Based Approach and Disability Legislation: National Disability Authority (20 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: I can hear you perfectly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: A Rights-Based Approach and Disability Legislation: National Disability Authority (20 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: Has the Deputy any other questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: A Rights-Based Approach and Disability Legislation: National Disability Authority (20 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: I thank the Senator. I give apologies on behalf of Deputy Canney as I neglected to do so at the beginning of the meeting. I have a few comments and questions of my own. I thank the NDA officials for the opening statement. It encompassed an awful lot of what we discuss at this committee regularly. We hear from people with lived experience. There is nothing in there we could disagree...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: A Rights-Based Approach and Disability Legislation: National Disability Authority (20 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth was chastised, for want of a better word, by the UN in the context of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the lack of progress on inclusive education. It is, therefore, something that needs to be progressed. The NCSE has prepared a document and it was submitted to the Department, but I do not think we have got...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: A Rights-Based Approach and Disability Legislation: National Disability Authority (20 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: The sectoral plans under the Disability Act were talked about. Were they produced for a number or years or was it just once?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: A Rights-Based Approach and Disability Legislation: National Disability Authority (20 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: It is something worth looking at.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: A Rights-Based Approach and Disability Legislation: National Disability Authority (20 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: Absolutely. I thank our guests for their insightful contributions. As I said, a number of Departments have been invited to meetings in the coming weeks on the back of this one, so we will be putting the questions and points the guests made today to them. The meeting is now adjourned. The next meeting of the joint committee will be in private on Wednesday, 26 April 2023 at 3.15 p.m.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: A Rights-Based Approach and Disability Legislation: National Disability Authority (20 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: Senator O’Loughlin and others mentioned employment. We are a laggard in relation to Europe in the number of people who are employed. Dr. Hartney talked about different surveys that have been carried out around people declaring a disability. In my previous job, there was a confidential survey and one declared whether one had a disability. However, many people who had disabilities,...