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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: It does not really work in all the CHOs. Some are very good, but not all. By and large, the national policy on access is not working. The policy is not just primary care; it is disability, primary care and mental health. It is about how we can integrate these. When people enter a service they might be in specialised disability services for OT and physiotherapy, but might need access to...

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: On the person in the hospital bed and the family with the ageing parents, it is very frustrating to say we know there are proper pathways that could be delivered on. Respite is the answer for the parent of the teenager. We need more respite and to build more capacity into it. Earlier today, the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, the Minister of State, Deputy Joe O'Brien, and I met the Taoiseach to...

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: This is not that. It is people living their independent lives.

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: In a nutshell, I acknowledge the work the Rainbow Club does and the universal interventions it provides every week to 1,134 families. I cannot applaud it enough. I understand what the Deputy is saying about the grant of €55,000 it receives to deliver the Saturday club. I know it has capacity to support. To be honest, when a service is good, we should support it. We need good...

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: As I said earlier on, there absolutely are plans to expand residential care nationally. Unfortunately, last year, emergency residential care entirely ate up the budget for planned residential care. That is what happened. I am not talking about small money. As part of the action plan that I and the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, are to launch, we need respite and residential care to be...

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. It is an expansion of the community neurological teams. While I was in the Department of Health, I had the support of the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, and the team to ensure there was a funding line in place for neurological services. We also need specialist teams. Over the years, I have managed to create specialist progressing disability services, PDS, teams for the deaf and...

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: Therapists should land in Carrigtwohill for the first time ever on 1 May. They will be accompanied by an OT, a physiotherapist and a speech and language therapist. Myself and the team here have met with Mr. Gloster with regard to whatever cannot be found or filled at that stage. We must have therapists in there. The plan is that on 1 May, therapists will be reinstated in the school. Going...

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 the Minister. I completely understand the issue of respite. I am fully supportive of everything the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, has just said. The issue of capital is one of my biggest bugbears. The gathering of data within the Department of Health, as part of the transfer of functions, was very difficult. One of my officials might disagree with that. One of the hardest pieces...

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 know what the Deputy is saying about communication. We have a budget, which was announced. We also have the €100 million in energy funding that the Deputy mentioned and that service providers are waiting to get their hands on. It is their only mechanism. With the support of the Minister, the team with us and the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, I was fortunate to get...

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 have been Minister of State for the last two and a half years. I have shared my experience with the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, and my frustration with the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, that we have the national policy on access, which is a HSE document that sets out how the integrated services work. We all believe in people having their own front door they can walk through, but when...

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 is something that I, along with the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, and the team here, have as a priority. We have three priorities. One of them is personal assistance, PA. If the person in the hospital could come out and have PA hours, they could be in supported living. It is the same with the parents of the woman in her 40s. It is not home help. There is a difference between PA...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (27 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 (27 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 (27 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: Rights of People with Disabilities (27 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: The issue of mobility supports for people with disabilities is a key priority for me as Minister of State with responsibility for Disability. In furtherance of Action 104 of the National Disability Inclusion Strategy, a Transport Working Group was established in 2020 by the National Disability Inclusion Strategy Steering Group to formulate proposals on how transport supports could be better...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (25 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: 126. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline the process in place for the foreign birth registration of a child born to a mother born in the US who is an Irish citizen and a US-citizen father where the parents want to apply for an Irish passport for their child. [19198/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Grant Payments (25 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: 352. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of approvals made for the workplace equipment adaptation grant in each of the years 2018 to 2023, inclusive; the average timeline for approval; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18924/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (25 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: 378. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) can expect a decision from the officer in relation to an appeal lodged for the carer's allowance; the reason for the delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19546/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (25 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: 379. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) can expect a decision from the officer in relation to an appeal lodged for a carer's allowance; the reason for the delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19547/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (25 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: 380. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) can expect a decision from the officer in relation to a financial appeal lodged for a disability allowance; the reason for the delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19548/23]