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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Special Educational Needs (26 Oct 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. As the Deputy may be aware, the industrial action that commenced on Friday 6thOctober, by management and administrative grades in Fórsa Trade Union in the HSE, will impact on the response times to Parliamentary Questions and Representations.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (26 Oct 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. As the Deputy may be aware, the industrial action that commenced on Friday 6thOctober, by management and administrative grades in Fórsa Trade Union in the HSE, will impact on the response times to Parliamentary Questions and Representations.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Special Educational Needs (26 Oct 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. As the Deputy may be aware, the industrial action that commenced on Friday 6thOctober, by management and administrative grades in Fórsa Trade Union in the HSE, will impact on the response times to Parliamentary Questions and Representations.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (7 Nov 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Deputy for raising this important question. The Department, along with the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, has engaged with the HSE to ensure the recruitment pause for certain grades does not unduly affect the provision of existing disability services. On the day we launched the roadmap, the Minister and I met Bernard Gloster, Bernard O'Regan and David Walsh. The whole purpose of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (7 Nov 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: That is ridiculous.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (7 Nov 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I appreciate exactly where providers are coming from and the uncertainty that correspondence caused, but I do not accept it will take months upon months for staff organisations were interviewing to be taken on for posts. Disability services is probably one of the only services across the HSE that is recruiting at this moment in time and it is doing so across all the posts I laid out for the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (7 Nov 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I reassure the Deputy that, as David Walsh said, this should ideally encompass residential, respite, personal assistance day services and CDNTs. He also said it would be limited to roles to which he referred. The entire disability service, be it respite, residential, personal assistance day services or CDNTs, the HSE and section 38 and section 39 organisations will continue to recruit....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (7 Nov 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I absolutely agree it is vital for people with disabilities. That is why the Government has added 270,000 additional hours in the past four budgets. We have increased PA by 15% of what is there already. I totally agree that PA is important not just for accessing education, but also ensuring that as a person steps out of education, he or she can step directly into employment. The HSE...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (7 Nov 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: The Deputy has asked a lot of very matter-of-fact questions. It is recognised that there are inconsistencies among disabled people in accessing PA support. That is why we have established a PA review group within the Department to develop a protocol for the eligibility and allocation of personal assistance services based on a universal agreed definition of personal assistance in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (7 Nov 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: The Deputy is putting me on the spot as to what the actual budget is for this year. I believe it is €2.5 million. In 2020, 40,000 additional hours were added; in 2021, 40,000 additional hours were added; and in 2022, 120,000 additional hours were added. In 2023, 70,000 were added, and the Deputy has asked why there has been a drop. To be quite honest, it was to do with the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (7 Nov 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I greatly value the role played by disabled persons organisations, DPOs, in representing the living experience of people with disabilities in Ireland. This is crucial to the development, implementation and monitoring of law, policy and human rights in Ireland. DPOs are explicitly recognised in the UNCRPD through Articles 4(3), 33(3), and General Comment No.7. In response to the...

Home Care Workers and Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I welcome the opportunity to address the House on the issues raised by Deputies tabling the motion. I would like to begin by echoing my colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, in her opening remarks and to thank the Deputies for their constructive and positive contributions to this important motion on the issue of home support. I want to acknowledge the input of all Deputies...

Home Care Workers and Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I acknowledge it is an issue but at the end of the day, that is the rate set out in the tender document that was recently reviewed and agreed. Regarding the Deputy hauling me over the coals on disability, I have not yet reached that rate whereas at least in the case of older people, the tender document has been produced and agreed at €34 per hour. Unfortunately, it is not being passed on.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (7 Nov 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: Over the past three years significant resources have been invested in disability services, with core funding increasing from €2.2bn in 2021 to €2.8bn in 2024. The increase in 2024 includes €131m for existing level of service funding and €64m for new development measures . This represents a €195m or 7.6% increase on 2023 funding levels and reflects the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Assisted Decision-Making (7 Nov 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: On 26 of April this year I commenced the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015, along with the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Act 2022. Since commencing the Act, a total of 631 completed applications for a range of decision support arrangements have been submitted to the Decision Support Service (DSS). Of those applications, 67 have so far been fully processed and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Care Services (7 Nov 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. As the Deputy may be aware, the industrial action that commenced on Friday 6th October, by management and administrative grades in Fórsa Trade Union in the HSE, will impact on the response times to Parliamentary Questions and Representations.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of People with Disabilities (7 Nov 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: As Minister of State with responsibility for Disability, it is very important to me that we address the most significant challenges and barriers that people with disabilities face on a daily basis across Ireland. Continuously advancing in terms of the rights and obligations set out in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) is a priority for my Department. ...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (7 Nov 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. As the Deputy may be aware, the industrial action that commenced on Friday 6thOctober, by management and administrative grades in Fórsa Trade Union in the HSE, will impact on the response times to Parliamentary Questions and Representations.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (7 Nov 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. As the Deputy may be aware, the industrial action that commenced on Friday 6th October, by management and administrative grades in Fórsa Trade Union in the HSE, will impact on the response times to Parliamentary Questions and Representations.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (7 Nov 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. As the Deputy may be aware, the industrial action that commenced on Friday 6thOctober, by management and administrative grades in Fórsa Trade Union in the HSE, will impact on the response times to Parliamentary Questions and Representations.