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- Assessment of Need: Motion [Private Members] (20 May 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: I acknowledge the contributions of everyone here and assure them this issue of assessment of need is a top priority for me as a Minister of State with responsibility for disability who sits at the Cabinet table and indeed it is a priority for the whole of Government, as is the national disability strategy. As Deputies know there is a disability unit set up within the Department of the...
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (20 May 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: 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 (20 May 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: 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 (20 May 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: HSE-funded day programmes for people with intellectual disabilities, autism, or complex physical disabilities include a range of centre-based and community-based activities. Access to services is based on an individual’s needs rather than on their diagnosis. The focus is on supporting people to participate in the mainstream activities and in the life of their community, in line with...
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (20 May 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: 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 (20 May 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: 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: Care Services (20 May 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: Since November 2013, all designated centres for people with disabilities, both children and adults, must be registered with the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA). HIQA is the independent Authority under the aegis of the Department of Health, which was established to drive continuous improvement in Ireland's health and personal social care services, monitor the safety and quality...
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (20 May 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: 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 (20 May 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: 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 (20 May 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: As this question refers to the 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: Equality Issues (20 May 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: Under the Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2020-2025 and led by the Minister for Social Protection, there is a commitment to reduce the at risk of poverty and social exclusion rate for people with disabilities to 28.7% by 2025 and then to 22.7% by 2030. The latest 2024 EU Survey on Income and Living Conditions data show that the at risk of poverty and social exclusion rate for people with...
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of People with Disabilities (20 May 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: Government acknowledges the higher rates of economic disadvantage experienced by people with disabilities in our country. It is government policy to continually work to reduce poverty and inequality, including in relation to disabled people and their experience of economic disadvantage. Under the Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2020-2025, coordinated by the Minister for Social Protection,...
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Equality Issues (20 May 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: Government recognises the extra living costs experienced by people with disabilities and the ways in which these costs can negatively impact the lives of disabled people and their families, often leading to an increased risk of poverty and financial insecurity. The Cost of Disability in Ireland report (2021), commissioned by the Minister for Social Protection and prepared by Indecon...
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Equality Issues (20 May 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: I thank the Deputy for this question and would emphasise my Department's continued commitment to building out the research and evidence base to support policy development. Responsibility for the collection of data in relation to poverty falls principally to the remit of the Minister for Social Protection, under the Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2020-2025. The Roadmap for Social Inclusion...
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (20 May 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: 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 (20 May 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: 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 (20 May 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Home Care Packages (20 May 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: 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 (20 May 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: 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 (20 May 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: 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.