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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Service Executive (16 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: The HSE supports special schools that cater for particular types of disability and special needs. These special schools are mainly attached to non-statutory service providers funded by the HSE, many of whom will have support staff, including nursing, in place. These services have been developed by individual service providers and reflect the individual experience and expertise of providers...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (16 May 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: Departmental Funding (16 May 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 (16 May 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 (16 May 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 (16 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: As the Deputy may be aware, the HSE provides specialist disability services, including Day Services and Rehabilitative Training, to people with disabilities who require such services, and people with intellectual disabilities would form the majority of service users who are supported by these services. While day service funding does not include transport, some transport supports are provided...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Irish Sign Language (16 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: The Irish Sign Language Act 2017 was signed into law on 24 December 2017 and I commenced the Act jointly with my colleague the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy O'Gorman in December 2020. The Act recognises the right of ISL users to use ISL as their native language, and to develop and preserve it. The Act places a statutory duty on all public...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (16 May 2023)

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

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy. (25 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I acknowledge Noel's family who are here with us. We have Mary, Joan, Emer, Lisa and Rory, along with his most wonderful grandchildren and his sisters Marian and Nóirín. Like Deputy Canney, I am going to take a bit of a different tack. I am in politics because of Noel Treacy. He was the man who came into a house in Abbeyknockmoy and opened his book and said, "If you are really...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services Waiting Lists (18 May 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 (18 May 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 (30 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. As part of the progressing disability services, PDS, roadmap process, I will be meeting with Mr. Bernard Gloster tomorrow and recruitment and retention will be addressed. I refer as well to increasing the attractiveness of recruitment into those various clinician posts, examining how we can put apprenticeship models in place and how we can attract...

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Deputies for raising this important motion. I am happy to have the opportunity to discuss the issue of respite services with them this evening. As my colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, has already stated, the Government is not opposing this motion on the grounds that we share a desire to see increased respite services for people with disabilities and the loved ones...

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: Right.

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: Yes.

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: That is the answer for Stranorlar. There are four beds there.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disabilities Assessments (30 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: Children with complex special needs access therapy services through the children’s disability network teams, CDNTs. These services can be accessed through the assessment of needs, AON, process but children do not require an assessment of need under the Disability Act to access health services. The Government and the HSE both acknowledge the challenges in meeting the demand for these...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disabilities Assessments (30 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I totally understand what the Deputy is saying. When the court judgment came in March 2022, PTAs were stood down completely. They stopped. That was a decision that we made at that stage within the Department of Health. We did not challenge it. We reverted back to the original assessment of need process. The PTAs no longer exist. They had been in operation from January 2020 to when they...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disabilities Assessments (30 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I completely agree. In actual fact, I said the first day I became a Minister of State that we do not need 100% of a workforce but 140%, in order to ensure people can go on maternity leave. I agree with the Deputy on that. The HSE is back-filling. Funding was provided to ensure managers of the CDNTs could be back-filled. It is also very important for the HSE to implement its own policy,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (30 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: The Cost of Disability in Ireland report was commissioned by the Minister for Social Protection and prepared by Indecon International Research Economists. It was published in December 2021. It provides important evidence of the additional costs that people with a disability face. The report has implications for many areas of public policy. A whole-of-government approach is required to...