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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (1 May 2024)

Michael Moynihan: Would it be the Government or the State that would present them together?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (1 May 2024)

Michael Moynihan: We will have to ask in a different forum. I thank all the witnesses, and I also thank them for bearing with us while we were voting. I thank them for their evidence and ask them to keep engaging with us. We will be at a tremendous loss as a committee from here on because Brenda McCauley is leaving us. She has been absolutely outstanding with her background team. She has done a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (2 May 2024)

Michael Moynihan: 99. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an overview of the progress made to date under National Strategic Outcome 8 of the National Development Plan 2021-2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19790/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (2 May 2024)

Michael Moynihan: 225. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter in relation to milk quota scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19930/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 May 2024)

Michael Moynihan: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children, education and disability will meet next. [17782/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Deprivation of Liberty: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Michael Moynihan: We have apologies from Senators Clonan and McGreehan. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the deprivation of liberty. I welcome on behalf of the committee representatives from the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Dr. Rosaleen McDonagh, commissioner; and Adam Harris, commissioner. We also have Professor Gautam Gulati, consultant forensic psychiatrist and adjunct clinical...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Deprivation of Liberty: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Michael Moynihan: I thank Professor Gulati. We will go to Deputy Feighan, who is in place of Senator Mary Seery Kearney.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Deprivation of Liberty: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Michael Moynihan: Our next speaker is Deputy Tully.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Deprivation of Liberty: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Michael Moynihan: That is quite okay. Thank you for your co-operation and attendance at this meeting and indeed your co-operation and attendance at other meetings as well. We really appreciate it. Keep in touch. I call Mr. Harris.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Deprivation of Liberty: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Michael Moynihan: A couple of issues came across. Our guests very forcibly referred to housing, housing, housing. It is a determining factor in the deprivation of liberty, whether in a prison setting or in the context of independent living for people. The housing issue is crucial. We have had many meetings at this committee about types of housing and its adaptation. It may not be a panacea, but if more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Deprivation of Liberty: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Michael Moynihan: For once we have a bit of time so there is no need to apologise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Deprivation of Liberty: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the representatives of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission and Dr. Rosaleen McDonagh for being here this evening and for a very challenging discussion. It is not simple. I refer to the evidence given by witnesses and particularly the comments from the members. We hear a lot of evidence week in, week out but today was very thought-provoking. There is a lot society...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Deprivation of Liberty: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Michael Moynihan: If we take a person in a household with a disability or mental health issues, the whole household is consumed by it. There are decisions made for possibly two generations of that particular family. We can see where they are going to. We have major debates on major subjects. There is a major debate on how we are going to be really inclusive because there is a role for everybody in society....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (9 May 2024)

Michael Moynihan: 59. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the $61 billion in aid for Ukraine recently approved by the United States Congress; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20583/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (9 May 2024)

Michael Moynihan: 66. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his response to the recent comments by President of France that Europe faces an existential threat from Russian aggression; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20582/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (Resumed) (22 May 2024)

Michael Moynihan: We have received apologies from Deputy Feighan and Senator O'Loughlin. The purpose of today's meeting is a discussion about applying evidence to the aspiration for equality in children's disability services. On behalf of the committee, I warmly welcome Dr. Noreen O'Leary, lecturer, school of population health, Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland; and Ms Geraldine Moran, assistant...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (Resumed) (22 May 2024)

Michael Moynihan: I thank Deputy Ellis. I call Deputy Murnane O’Connor in place of Senator O’Loughlin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (Resumed) (22 May 2024)

Michael Moynihan: That was approved by the Government this morning. While I do not have the full details of it, there was money committed to that by the Government this morning.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (Resumed) (22 May 2024)

Michael Moynihan: I do not have the full specifics but I know there was money committed to it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (Resumed) (22 May 2024)

Michael Moynihan: I hope we will get the ins and outs of it and the information.