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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Registration of Births (16 Nov 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: I will articulate everything the Senator has said here today following his meeting with the seven individuals only yesterday. When in opposition, during the previous Government I spoke ad nauseamon illegal births. We cannot shy away from this. What has happened is wrong and now it is time to tell the truth, lay it bare and give people back their identity.

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (16 Nov 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: That seems to be the case, given what has been said about an ambulance going from Donegal to Tipperary. I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion this evening. I am glad to say we are not opposing it. No differently from anybody else in the Chamber, I have listened to the debate on the motion in its entirety. I have a record of answering debates on ambulance services in...

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (16 Nov 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: I will come to that next. A number of elements need to be there. There is a different hierarchy within the EMTs, the paramedics, the advanced medical practitioners, and a broader advance of other groups like the community first responders, CFRs. We have 275 CFRs. They were stood down during the Covid period, but 125 of them are working again. I hope that will come to bear when there is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Educational Psychological Service (16 Nov 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: My Department’s National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) provides educational psychological support to all primary and post-primary schools including the school in question. This involves direct support in the event of a critical incident, access to national and regional support and development work to build school capacity to support students, access to a NEPS psychologist...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (16 Nov 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: Almost ten years ago, the Time to Move on from Congregated Settings Report identified approximately 4,000 people with disabilities living in congregated type settings. The 2011Report expected that decongregation could happen at a much faster pace than was actually possible. Since 2014, the Transforming Lives Programme provides the framework for implementation and for putting policy into...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (16 Nov 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: I propose to take Questions Nos. 526 and 527 together. As these are service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (16 Nov 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (16 Nov 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (16 Nov 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (16 Nov 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (16 Nov 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (16 Nov 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (16 Nov 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Special Educational Needs (16 Nov 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (16 Nov 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: Additional funding of €7.8 million was provided to the HSE in August last year to address the issue of a backlog of Assessments of Needs for children. This initiative has resulted in approximately 6,040 children having had their Assessment of Need completed since then, thus reducing the backlog to 520 cases, or a 92% reduction, at the end of September. To further address waiting...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (16 Nov 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (16 Nov 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (17 Nov 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: 127. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) can apply for carer’s benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56331/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (17 Nov 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: In the context of correspondence with the HSE on a National Independent Review Panel report, the Brandon Report, the HSE has advised me that there is no ongoing risk to service users and that there is a commitment to the implementation of the specific recommendations arising from the report. This is in addition to making substantial changes to the wider Disability services in the area...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (17 Nov 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: On assuming Ministerial responsibility for Disabilities in the summer of 2020, one of the issues I immediately sought to remedy was the number of overdue Assessments of Need for children across the country. At the end of June 2020, this backlog, for a number of reasons, had risen to approximately 6,500. By working with Minister Donnelly, I secured Sláintecare funding of €7.8...