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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Transport Schemes: Discussion (7 Jul 2022)

Michael Moynihan: Who wants to lead off?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Transport Schemes: Discussion (7 Jul 2022)

Michael Moynihan: I call Senator Seery Kearney who is taking Deputy Phelan's slot.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Transport Schemes: Discussion (7 Jul 2022)

Michael Moynihan: I call Deputy Canney. I know he is under considerable time constraints, so I apologise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Transport Schemes: Discussion (7 Jul 2022)

Michael Moynihan: It is very important that we get the lived experience every Thursday morning and reflect on it. I know the members take very seriously our obligation as members of the committee. There has been a number of issues in this morning's evidence, among which there is a proper mobility. I know that Mr. Carty alluded to there being intricacies and challenges in having it be universal and making it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Business of Joint Committee (14 Jul 2022)

Michael Moynihan: There is an urgent Government meeting taking place and the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Deputy Simon Harris, will be delayed. I propose that we suspend this meeting until we can get confirmation in the next ten or 15 minutes, and then start the meeting. We must start the meeting at that time. To cover us all and to be on the safe side, we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Education and the UNCRPD: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the Minister. Our first contributor is Deputy Tully, the Vice Chairman of the committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Education and the UNCRPD: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the Minister. Our next speaker is Deputy Cairns.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Education and the UNCRPD: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Michael Moynihan: I thank Deputy Cairns.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Education and the UNCRPD: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Michael Moynihan: I thank Senator O'Loughlin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Education and the UNCRPD: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Michael Moynihan: I thank members for their contributions. Each week people come before us whose officials are predominantly people who have disabilities or they are advocacy groups. They talk about a pathway to engage fully with society. We have seen the challenges in primary and post-primary and on into adult life. Many voluntary groups and schemes that members talk about have developed right throughout...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Education and the UNCRPD: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the Minister for his engagement with us this morning. I thank the members sincerely for all their work on the committee throughout the year. Their engagement makes the committee work as it is working. I thank them for the enormous work they have done every Thursday morning and judging by the private session this morning and what they are looking for in September we would nearly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Education and the UNCRPD: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Michael Moynihan: Apologies have been received from Deputy Seán Canney. On behalf of the committee, I welcome the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Deputy Simon Harris, and Mr. Enda Hughes and Mr. Aongus McGrane from the equality, diversity and inclusion unit at the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. I remind members...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Flexible Work Practices (15 Sep 2022)

Michael Moynihan: 19. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on the remote working strategy. [45165/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Insurance Industry (15 Sep 2022)

Michael Moynihan: 70. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on the implementation of the insurance reform agenda. [45166/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flexible Work Practices (22 Sep 2022)

Michael Moynihan: 108. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to expand remote-working relief in budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46279/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flexible Work Practices (22 Sep 2022)

Michael Moynihan: On Question No. 108, to expand on the points on working from home that have been made, the Department and Minister must take recognition of the benefit of working from home for people and to society. People had long commutes and then started working from home. We must accept as a State that working from home which, for want of better English, was a by-product of Covid-19, has such huge...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flexible Work Practices (22 Sep 2022)

Michael Moynihan: I take the point regarding the State but we also need to take recognition of the State employees who can work from home, provide the same service and do the same job equally well from home a number of days per week. The State needs to examine this and make sure it has have every incentive in place in order that people are not commuting from the likes of my area in Duhallow to other large...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (22 Sep 2022)

Michael Moynihan: I support Deputy Tully. We are constantly hearing about this at the Joint Committee on Disability Matters. The issues of disabled drivers and mobility need to be treated as a matter of extreme urgency by Governments and Departments to try to get a resolution to it. These people need a resolution of this point.