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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (23 Feb 2022)
Michael Moynihan: 203. To ask the Minister for Health if general practice nurses will be included in the Covid-19 recognition bonus payment;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10160/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (23 Feb 2022)
Michael Moynihan: 204. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the reimbursement process for the drug luxturna; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10161/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (23 Feb 2022)
Michael Moynihan: 205. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the establishment of a primary care centre in Millstreet, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10162/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (23 Feb 2022)
Michael Moynihan: 206. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the establishment of a primary care centre in Kanturk, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10163/22]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (17 Feb 2022)
Michael Moynihan: Apologies have been received from Deputies Cairns, Canney, Phelan and Wynne, and Senators Higgins, McGreehan and O'Loughlin. The purpose of today's meeting is to resume our discussion on aligning education with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UNCRPD. On behalf of the committee, I welcome Ms Kerry Lawless, Ms Catherine Kelly, Mr. Barry McGinn and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (17 Feb 2022)
Michael Moynihan: Mr. McGinn and Ms Newman will now make their opening remarks. Does Mr. McGinn want to go first?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (17 Feb 2022)
Michael Moynihan: Go raibh míle maith agat. Ms Newman is the first witness to attend the committee in person since its inception at the end of 2020, so she is making history today. I call Ms Prendeville of the National Council For Special Education, NCSE.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (17 Feb 2022)
Michael Moynihan: Does Ms Lawless wish to make a comment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (17 Feb 2022)
Michael Moynihan: I thank Ms Lawless. I call Ms Kelly now, then Ms Newman, and we will return then to members.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (17 Feb 2022)
Michael Moynihan: Take your time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (17 Feb 2022)
Michael Moynihan: I thank Ms Newman. With the permission of Deputy Eugene Murphy, I want to bring in Deputy Hourigan and I will return to him then, if that is okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (17 Feb 2022)
Michael Moynihan: We might ask Mr. Gilvarry and Ms Newman to comment on their lived experiences. Is there a quick fix? What one challenge could be dealt with almost immediately?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (17 Feb 2022)
Michael Moynihan: I ask the Ms Prendeville the status of the early intervention ASD classes. Is there a policy to phase them out and replace them with the AIM model in preschool and early childcare?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (17 Feb 2022)
Michael Moynihan: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (17 Feb 2022)
Michael Moynihan: Okay. We will go to the witnesses in the order they contributed at the start and give them a few minutes to respond to any outstanding points raised by Senator Seery Kearney and Deputy Murnane O'Connor. I call Ms Lawless.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (17 Feb 2022)
Michael Moynihan: We will keep at it. Do either Ms Kelly or Mr. Gilvarry want to make a brief comment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (17 Feb 2022)
Michael Moynihan: We are awaiting the access and inclusion model report. Am I to understand that no decision is being taken on early intervention classes until that report is published? Is my understanding correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (17 Feb 2022)
Michael Moynihan: That is okay. We will await that. Our guests empower us every week and give us information. We must try to deal with that information and move things on, and we are committed to that. I thank our guests for their participation and our members for their dedication to the job at hand. I also thank our team for how they have organised everything.