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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (20 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: As this 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: Disabilities Assessments (20 Apr 2023)

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

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: Speak for yourself.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (26 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: As this 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 (26 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: As this 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 (26 Apr 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: Disabilities Assessments (26 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: As this 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: Disabilities Assessments (26 Apr 2023)

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

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (26 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I am delighted that the transfer of functions of specialist community-based disability services to the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth from the Department of Health took place on 1 March. I thank the Chair and the committee for their forbearance in working with me and interviewing two Ministers of State, at times, about the same topic. I thank the...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (26 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: The Deputy is correct that we are in a recruitment process for the appeals office. It is an independent office but we are in a recruitment process. We will keep the committee updated on it, if that is okay. The Deputy also asked whether I have enough money for staff and recruitment. One never has enough money but at the moment I have a lot of money for the recruitment of staff. What I...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (26 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: Right, and the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, will take the questions about disability.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (26 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank Deputy Tully for the wide breadth of her questions. I will start with the good stories. The good story is about the neuro teams announced in the budget. That speaks a lot to MS and Parkinson's. The community neuro teams are really about putting services into the communities. Two things happened in this year's budget. One was the clinical neuro nurses going directly into the...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (26 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I had just addressed the €67 million, the communication involved and acknowledging what the Deputy had said. The Deputy also referred to the backlog relating to the assessments of need. I was fortunate to secure funding of €13.5 million in the budget to address that backlog. Mr. Ó Conaill from the Department and I had a really good meeting recently with Mr. Gloster. The...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (26 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: The funding was secured in this year's budget. The mapping has been done and it was launched earlier this week. Brian Higgins, as part of the HSE, is working closely on the roll-out of that in the two CHOs, but also on addressing the two other CHOs that were not stepped up in 2018-19. The HSE is engaging with the various organisations, whether it is AIMS Ireland, the Parkinson's...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (26 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: Absolutely. With the likes of Parkinson's it is about preventing readmissions, because it has a lot to do with falls. Having that OT or physiotherapist in the community means we will not have readmissions. We know the cost of readmissions into hospital.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (26 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: That goes down to the proper clinical governance and oversight. Part and parcel of having a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary team is the ability to provide clinical governance and proper training for trainees coming through, such as third-year and fourth-year OTs and physiotherapists. That means they will have a breadth of experience. It also allows people in those teams to...