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Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (14 Feb 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: The implementation of the Progressing Disability Services for Children & Young People (PDS) programme is agreed Government and HSE policy and seeks to address the previous inequity in service provision whereby there may have been an excellent service for some children and little or no service for others. However, it has been acknowledged that the transition to policy-based...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (14 Feb 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (15 Feb 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: The European Commission has announced its intention to introduce a legislative proposal to create an EU Disability Card that will be recognised in all Member States. Development of the proposal is currently in its early stages at EU level. The Commission conducted a call for evidence to inform an impact assessment in late 2022. A public consultation also recently opened for feedback. The...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (15 Feb 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (15 Feb 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (15 Feb 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medical Cards (16 Feb 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Deputy for raising this important issue, which I am taking on behalf of the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy O'Gorman. He sends his apologies but he had to attend a meeting. I thank the Deputy for raising this important health benefit for discussion. The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill will provide financial payments...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medical Cards (16 Feb 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I again thank the Deputy for raising this matter. I want to clarify one point. I said earlier, "While acknowledging the challenge that healthcare costs can vary significantly across different individuals and different jurisdictions, a payment of €3,000 would represent a practical measure of acknowledgment for those who are living overseas and choose not to avail of the enhanced...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medical Cards (16 Feb 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: The assessment is covered. Exactly as the Deputy said, if a prioritisation needs to be expedited, everybody will work to ensure that happens.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (16 Feb 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue and allowing me the opportunity to update the House on the plans to develop a 60-bed residential care centre at St. Patrick's Hospital, Cashel. In early 2016, a capital programme for older persons residential centres was developed in response to the introduction of HIQA's national residential care standards for older people and the requirement that...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (16 Feb 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I am not one to defend the HSE but it has said that it got this wrong and apologised for that. Let us not go into conspiracy theories.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (16 Feb 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: The HSE answered a parliamentary question incorrectly. It rectified that answer today. I am now answering the Deputy's question so that he can tell his constituents that the design of a 60-bed unit is under review. That is important.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (16 Feb 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I will read the closing statement because I am only the pigeon in the middle. Is that all right?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (16 Feb 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I again thank the Deputy for raising this issue. Work under the capital programme is progressing across the country to replace, upgrade and refurbish our current stock of community nursing units in response to the introduction of HIQA's national residential care standards for older people. The HSE is committed to the development of a new community nursing unit for Cashel. Provision has...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (21 Feb 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: While I recognise the critical importance of adequate transport and mobility supports, my Department has no responsibility for the administration of any specific transport or mobility scheme. Government is committed to addressing the barriers and challenges faced by people with disabilities across Ireland, and the issue of transport and mobility supports has been given important recent...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Irish Sign Language (21 Feb 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: The Irish Sign Language Act 2017 (ISL Act 2017) recognises the right of ISL users to use ISL as their native language, and to develop and preserve it. In addition to specific obligations on named Ministers, the Act places a statutory duty on all public bodies to provide ISL users with free ISL interpretation when availing of or seeking to access statutory entitlements and services provided by...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (21 Feb 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: The European Commission has announced its intention to introduce a legislative proposal to create an EU Disability Card that will be recognised in all Member States. Development of the proposal is currently in its early stages at EU level. The Commission conducted a call for evidence to inform an impact assessment in late 2022. A public consultation also recently opened. The Commission hopes...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Reviews (21 Feb 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: Ireland remains firmly committed to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), a major international human rights treaty that sets out the specific rights of children. The UNCRC was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989 and Ireland ratified it in 1992. Ireland is required to submit regular state reports on measures it has taken to progress the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (21 Feb 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: The Government decided to close the Mobility AllowanceandMotorised Transport Grant administrative Schemes in 2013, on foot of the Ombudsman reports in 2011 and 2012 regarding the legal status of both Schemes in the context of the Equal Status Acts. Both schemes remain closed. Under the National Disability Inclusion Strategy, the Action 104 Transport Working Group was established in 2020 to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (21 Feb 2023)

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.