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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning disability services with the UNCRPD and considering the future system and innovation: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Dec 2021)

Michael Moynihan: Do Dr. and Ms Walsh want to come in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning disability services with the UNCRPD and considering the future system and innovation: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Dec 2021)

Michael Moynihan: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning disability services with the UNCRPD and considering the future system and innovation: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Dec 2021)

Michael Moynihan: Thank you. I thank the witnesses for their honesty. We are intercontinental this morning in more ways than one, with witnesses contributing remotely from abroad and describing their lived experiences in Australia as well. Throughout our committee work we have spoken about the lived experience of people with disabilities and their families. It has been very powerful to hear Dr. Walsh and Ms...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning disability services with the UNCRPD and considering the future system and innovation: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Dec 2021)

Michael Moynihan: Ms Loughlin is anxious to come back in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning disability services with the UNCRPD and considering the future system and innovation: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Dec 2021)

Michael Moynihan: The two things coming out of this meeting are funding and attitude. I thank all our witnesses sincerely for a very informative discussion, our members for their commitment to the Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters every week and our team in the background that keeps it going. If there is any information or evidence the witnesses would like to share with the committee either now or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning disability services with the UNCRPD and considering the future system and innovation: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Dec 2021)

Michael Moynihan: Does Deputy Wynne want to comment further on an issue she raised with Mr. Broadhead?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning disability services with the UNCRPD and considering the future system and innovation: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Dec 2021)

Michael Moynihan: Do Louise, Joanne or Aoife want to make any comment? They are okay. I thank the witnesses for their very thought-provoking discussion. Deputy Cairns is indicating.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Personal Transport for People with Disabilities: Office of the Ombudsman (16 Dec 2021)

Michael Moynihan: Apologies have been received from Deputy Murnane O'Connor and Senator Seery Kearney. The purpose of today's meeting is to discuss the report, Grounded - Unequal access for people with disabilities to personal transport schemes. On behalf of the committee, I welcome Mr. Peter Tyndall, Ombudsman, and Ms Sarah Cooney, principal officer at the Office of the Ombudsman. I thank them for agreeing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Personal Transport for People with Disabilities: Office of the Ombudsman (16 Dec 2021)

Michael Moynihan: I thank Mr. Tyndall and Ms Cooney for their thought-provoking evidence. On the last point, the committee should write to the HSE and the Minister for Health in advance of the agreement of the NSP in order to put our weight behind the witnesses’ opinions, to ask for an urgent review of that and to ask that funding would be made available in the service plan. We should do that as early...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Personal Transport for People with Disabilities: Office of the Ombudsman (16 Dec 2021)

Michael Moynihan: Does Mr. Tyndall wish to comment on my reflection on this morning's meeting, the frustration that exists and what we are hoping to do from the committee's point of view?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Personal Transport for People with Disabilities: Office of the Ombudsman (16 Dec 2021)

Michael Moynihan: I thank Mr. Tyndall for his honest and forthright appraisal of the situation and his comments, which are greatly appreciated.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Personal Transport for People with Disabilities: Office of the Ombudsman (16 Dec 2021)

Michael Moynihan: Bear with us, as we have some technical issues with Mr. Tyndall's connection. Can he hear us?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Personal Transport for People with Disabilities: Office of the Ombudsman (16 Dec 2021)

Michael Moynihan: We will reflect on that and it is something we will certainly do. We are anxious to get movement on this. I wish Mr. Tyndall the very best in his onward journey. I thank him for his contribution to the Office of the Ombudsman and in the various roles he has had. No doubt, he will be an influencer in the various roles he has next because he has enormous capability and he has shown huge...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Company Registration (19 Jan 2022)

Michael Moynihan: 77. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will review the loss of the audit exemption on late filing by the Companies Registration Office which is placing a significant financial burden on small businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63302/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (20 Jan 2022)

Michael Moynihan: 8. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of the Civil Service Renewal 2024 Action Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2548/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (20 Jan 2022)

Michael Moynihan: 38. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of expenditure in 2022 that has been allocated in relation to Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2547/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (19 Jan 2022)

Michael Moynihan: 1502. To ask the Minister for Health the number of deaths from Covid-19 in nursing homes in 2020 and 2021; the number of deaths in each year involving patients with dementia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63419/21]

National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)

Michael Moynihan: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate on broadband. The issue is that broadband is the great enabler for rural Ireland. In many of the debates we had a number of years ago, we looked at broadband to try to have connectivity within rural Ireland. In the intervening two years, Covid-19 has shown us what rural Ireland can do. Despite the protests of the policymakers that we...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (1 Feb 2022)

Michael Moynihan: 140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her strategy to support students in an alternative education setting, including its regulation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4668/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (1 Feb 2022)

Michael Moynihan: 160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the review of the school transport system; when the final report is expected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4669/22]