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Community and Voluntary Sector Workers: Motion [Private Members] (12 Oct 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Labour Party for bringing forward the motion and using their Private Members' slot, which comes around once every six weeks, to put this on the agenda. I have been finding this Private Member's motion to be one of the more difficult I have dealt with because, if I were in opposition, I would be standing alongside the Deputies and in support of them, as I did many a year. That is...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Oct 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: I wish to reassure the Deputy and anyone looking in here that I was very fortunate in the budget to secure €11.5 million with the help of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to ensure that everyone awaiting an assessment of need since last March will be seen. We will clear the entire backlog of assessments of need. We have provision for all.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Oct 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: We are working on that.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: General Practitioner Services (12 Oct 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: I am also responsible for the people of south-east Galway, and the Senator is quite right. We attended that meeting the other night and it is important to share here that a selection of GPs from right across the Ballinasloe, Kilconnell, Kiltormer, Eyrecourt, Lawrencetown area were in attendance. There was one outlier, a Dr. Fahey, who came with me came from Portumna to attend. The whole...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: General Practitioner Services (12 Oct 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: Let us be very clear. The Department funds the HSE. We give the HSE the money and it is up to it to operationalise it. How the HSE decides to do this is out of my control as much as it is out of the control of the Senator. In any case, the HSE get the funds to operationalise it wherever it deems it necessary. The HSE obviously does not deem south-east Galway a priority within its...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: United Nations (11 Oct 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: Ireland ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) on 20 March 2018. The Government has made a commitment in the Programme for Government to ratifying the Optional Protocol to the UNCRPD, following the first review of the state before the UNCRPD Committee. Although the Programme for Government signals that ratification will occur after the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (11 Oct 2022)

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: Health Services (11 Oct 2022)

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 (11 Oct 2022)

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: Hospital Waiting Lists (11 Oct 2022)

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: Health Services (11 Oct 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: As the Deputy's question relates to an operational matter, I am referring the question for response to the HSE for direct reply to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (11 Oct 2022)

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 (11 Oct 2022)

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: Care Services (11 Oct 2022)

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 (11 Oct 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: As the Deputy's question relates to a service issue, it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Psychological Assessments (11 Oct 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: As the Deputy's question relates to a service issue, it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (11 Oct 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: I propose to take Questions Nos. 770, 771 and 772 together. As the Deputy's questions relate to service issues, they have been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Policies (11 Oct 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: I propose to take Questions Nos. 773 and 774 together. As the Deputy's questions relate to service issues, they have been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disability Services (13 Oct 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank Senator Currie for giving me the opportunity to discuss CHO 9. I will just reverse a little, if the Senator does not mind. When we started the assessments of need in October 2020 one of our largest lists in the entire country was in CHO 9. This meant it was one of the last lists to be completed at that point in time. We were completing the assessment of need process, which was the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disability Services (13 Oct 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: The other evening I referred in my speech to Fórsa. It is amazing what happens on the floor of the Dáil because since Tuesday evening, the HSE and Fórsa have met twice and I hear that progress is being made. I also spoke to John Kearney of the National Council for Special Education, NCSE, this morning and I will issue communications to all the special schools. I am waiting...