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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Increased Employment Participation, Self-employment and Entrepreneurship for People with Disabilities: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Michael Moynihan: Will we start with Professor Cooney and then go to Mr. McCann.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Increased Employment Participation, Self-employment and Entrepreneurship for People with Disabilities: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Michael Moynihan: That is a fair endorsement, Mr. Hennessy. There is nothing in it that I could disagree with, not one syllable. Well done.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Increased Employment Participation, Self-employment and Entrepreneurship for People with Disabilities: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Michael Moynihan: Thank you. I call Senator O'Loughlin. I was monitoring her disappearances from the screen.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Increased Employment Participation, Self-employment and Entrepreneurship for People with Disabilities: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Michael Moynihan: We will start with Professor Cooney and Mr. McCann and give the last word to Mr. Hennessy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Increased Employment Participation, Self-employment and Entrepreneurship for People with Disabilities: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)
Michael Moynihan: I thank Mr. Hennessy, Mr. McCann and Professor Cooney. Having listened to their evidence and to the questions of the members, I go back to a phrase I use at all stages: the attitude of the State. The attitude of the State is that there cannot be disabled entrepreneurs, and that is why we have to move as strongly as we can to put even one support in place, as Mr. Hennessy put it. It is a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Michael Moynihan: There are a couple of issues that have come up at the meetings. I will address the representatives of the office of the Ombudsman first, on the various of reports, commentary and discussions that it has had over the years. I am trying to put it in the most diplomatic language. What sense do they from the relevant Departments and sections that are dealing with children, people with...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Michael Moynihan: Does Mr. Leonard wish to contribute? I saw him writing furiously at one stage.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Michael Moynihan: We will start with Mr. Colfer, proceed to the representatives from the Ombudsman for Children and finish with those from the Mental Health Commission.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Michael Moynihan: We will follow up on that request.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Michael Moynihan: The point the Deputy is making, with St. Mary of the Angels being a case in point, is that there is significant potential. Some attitude is given by public officials when they are challenged by families about transferring people. They say they could give respite but that it is respite on a national basis. One family in the south of Ireland have been offered, or threatened with, a place in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Michael Moynihan: I am sorry to interrupt Deputy Healy-Rae but the committee is already ten minutes over time so we must try to conclude. We are here since 5.30 p.m. I will go to the Ombudsman for Children and then to HIQA to respond to those points. I apologise but we need to conclude.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Michael Moynihan: I thank the witnesses very much for a lengthy discussion. We could nearly start again because of the other issues that would come. I sincerely thank the witnesses from HIQA, the Ombudsman for Children and the Mental Health Commission. We will follow up on the points raised and what we need to do to tackle the system.
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Nov 2023)
Michael Moynihan: I welcome the Bill and the opportunity to speak on it. It is important that there is debate. This is the first time that we are debating boundary redrawings under the new Electoral Commission. I called for this body to be set up some time ago. It is of great importance that we have an independent body set up to oversee all elections. We must take great pride in the electoral and...
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Nov 2023)
Michael Moynihan: The Blackwater River decides that.
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Nov 2023)
Michael Moynihan: It has been there long before any of us. Deputy Healy-Rae has left the House but it is a hotly contested part of the country on either side of the Blackwater and on either side of the Cork-Kerry region. What side people are on is contested not just on Munster final day but throughout the year. The point being made is that it is important that county boundaries are not divided up and pieces...
- Science Week: Statements (16 Nov 2023)
Michael Moynihan: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate on Science Week. I applaud the great work being done across every sector in advancing science. Recent studies from the European Union showed the number of young people in Ireland who have gone on to third level education and the on to PhDs. They have contributed enormously to the advances but we have more to do. We often think of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)
Michael Moynihan: The purpose of today's meeting is the discussion on rights-based care for children with disabilities. On behalf of the committee, I warmly welcome representatives from the HSE: Mr. David Walsh, national director of community operations; Mr. Donan Kelly, assistant national director of child and youth mental health; Dr. Amanda Burke, child and adolescent consultant psychiatrist and national...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)
Michael Moynihan: Before we go to members, I note that it is likely we will have the voting block during the meeting, so we will suspend. I hope the Senators keep it going while we are in the Dáil Chamber. However, it is likely that we will suspend for some period. Without further ado, we will go to Deputy Feighan, who is in Senator Seery Kearney’s spot.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)
Michael Moynihan: I thank the witnesses very much. I call our Vice Chair, Deputy Tully.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)
Michael Moynihan: Maybe we will start with Tusla.