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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Approach and Disability Legislation: Discussion (27 Apr 2023)

Michael Moynihan: I thank members and I thank the witnesses for being here. If you look at the questions coming from members, as public representatives we are experiencing the frustrations of families and the challenges that are being faced there. A lot has changed in education provision and throughout the system. I spoke at the Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth last night...

Construction Safety Licensing Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 May 2023)

Michael Moynihan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Construction Safety Licensing Bill 2023. I know a huge amount of work has been done on this at departmental level. In the first instance, it examines the licensing authority and looks at the various challenges with health and safety within the construction industry. There are a huge number of aspects to the Bill, which include looking at the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Behaviour Analysis and Support: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Michael Moynihan: We have apologies from Senator Tom Clonan. The business of today's meeting is consideration of rights-based behaviour analysis and support. I welcome on behalf of the committee Mr. Alan Tennyson, chair of the Irish Society for Behaviour Analysis, ISBA, and Ms Amy O'Keefe, behaviour analyst at the ISBA, and Dr. Michelle Kelly and Dr. Teresa Mulhern from the division of behaviour analysis...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Behaviour Analysis and Support: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Michael Moynihan: I thank Ms O'Keefe. We will now have questions and answers with members. I call Deputy Ellis.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Behaviour Analysis and Support: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Michael Moynihan: Who wants to start?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Behaviour Analysis and Support: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Michael Moynihan: As Deputy Cairns is due in the Chamber, I ask Senator Seery Kearney to allow her to speak first.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Behaviour Analysis and Support: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Michael Moynihan: Senator Flynn asked me to clarify a point in her absence. People who understand neurodiversity and so forth have been critical of ABA and PBS. Has society not been listening to those who have invested hugely in the study autism? Is it not taking what they have to say seriously in light of the fact that those therapies are available? I go back to Senator Seery Kearney's point about the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Behaviour Analysis and Support: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Michael Moynihan: In the context of ABA and PBS, many people within the sector, for want of a better word, are very much against these therapies. Are they not being taken seriously? Is not enough recognition being taken of their opinions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Behaviour Analysis and Support: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Michael Moynihan: I thank Dr. Mulhern, Ms O'Keefe, Dr. Kelly and Mr. Tennyson. The continuing discussion is certainly a challenge to society, and while we need to have more discussion on it across the board, it is a societal issue we have to change. As I always say in regard to people with disabilities, we have to challenge the attitude and the culture at all times. If there is any other information our...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Safety (11 May 2023)

Michael Moynihan: I welcome the opportunity to raise the issue of road safety in the town of Charleville, County Cork, a town that will be known to the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach. This has been a major concern for a long time. Unfortunately, several people in the town have died while crossing the road there. I extend our deepest sympathies to those bereaved because of the tragic loss of people on the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Safety (11 May 2023)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the Minister of State for the reply. The two last paragraphs in the script were the important ones. TII identified a high collision location in the town through the network safety analysis undertaken in 2019. This is not just about collisions, but about life and death. People are losing their lives on the main street in Charleville. I do not want to exaggerate the issue, but it...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (9 May 2023)

Michael Moynihan: 114. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of primary medical certificate appeals currently outstanding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21513/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (9 May 2023)

Michael Moynihan: 110. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has plans to review and expand the current tax incentives for home ownership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21512/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability Inclusive Social Protection: Discussion (11 May 2023)

Michael Moynihan: Apologies have been received from Deputies Cairns and Leddin, and Senator Seery Kearney. Today's meeting concerns disability inclusion and social protection. I welcome, from Rehab, Ms Lucianne Bird, director of learning; Mr. Adrian Stewart, head of employability; and Mr. Michael Meere, a Rehab group advocate and student in the National Learning Network; and Ms Zoe Hughes, senior policy and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability Inclusive Social Protection: Discussion (11 May 2023)

Michael Moynihan: We will go to Mr. Abdalla for comment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability Inclusive Social Protection: Discussion (11 May 2023)

Michael Moynihan: There are the disability allowance, the invalidity pension and all the various schemes. How should we devise a new scheme or how do we underpin a scheme that will allow people to work, have their benefit and hold on to their secondary payments? A few people have mentioned the rural social scheme to me, which was devised approximately 20 years ago for low-income farmers and fishermen. Under...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability Inclusive Social Protection: Discussion (11 May 2023)

Michael Moynihan: We will hear Mr. Stewart followed by Mr. Meere.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability Inclusive Social Protection: Discussion (11 May 2023)

Michael Moynihan: The thanks is on our side because we appreciate the commitment of the witnesses, and the evidence they have given. By their evidence, the committee is strengthened in trying to do its work to improve the lives of people with disabilities, their families and their communities. I thank them sincerely. If there is any further information the witnesses think we should be made aware of, they...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Small and Medium Enterprises (11 May 2023)

Michael Moynihan: 64. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has any plans to review the audit exemption regime for small and micro companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22083/23]