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Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (29 Jul 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: The HSE provides a range of assisted living services including personal assistance (PA) and home support services to support individuals to maximise their capacity to live full and independent lives. The Action Plan for Disability Services 2024-2026 commits to delivering 800,000 additional hours of PA and 110,000 additional hours of home support. To support the fulfilment of these...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (29 Jul 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: A personalised budget is an amount of funding allocated to an eligible person with a disability to enable them to make their own arrangements to meet specified support needs. A key strength of the personalised budget model is the enhanced autonomy and flexibility it offers. Individuals’ can select services that are most relevant and meaningful to them, defining the quality, scope, and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (29 Jul 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, Disability and Equality: Home Help Service (29 Jul 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 2525 and 2526 together. The HSE provides a range of assisted living services including Personal Assistance (PA) and Home Support (HS) Services to support individuals to maximise their capacity to live full and independent lives. PA and Home Support Services are provided either directly by the HSE or indirectly though a range of voluntary and private...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (29 Jul 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, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (23 Sep 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: This Government and I recognise the importance of early intervention for children with disabilities and ensuring they receive the right services at the right time. The Programme for Government commits to ensuring children and their families, who need early intervention and therapy input, can access that support in a timely way. The National Programme on Progressing Disability Services...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (23 Sep 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank the Deputy for this question. The design and development of the recently launched National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030 involved ongoing, regular engagement with colleagues across government, including engagement with the Department of Transport. Transport and Mobility is one of the core five pillars of the Strategy. The Department of Transport is leading on...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (23 Sep 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank the Deputy for this question. Following on from the launch of the National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030 on 3rd September, Government is committed to its full delivery and implementation. Robust delivery and monitoring structures have been co-designed with stakeholders to ensure that strong focus and consistent oversight is kept on the realisation of the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (23 Sep 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: Government is committed to ensuring that disabled people are supported to live full lives of their own choosing, on an equitable basis with all others in society. The accessibility of towns and villages is very important in ensuring that disabled people can participate and thrive within their own communities. It is also complex, encompassing the provision of safe, reliable and accessible...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (23 Sep 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank the Deputy for this question in relation to the provision of changing places toilet facilities. I know from my engagement with disabled people that this is a critical issue when it comes to participation in social and cultural life. Changing Places toilets are an important instrument for accessibility, ensuring greater accessibility of sanitary facilities to disabled people in...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (23 Sep 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: Under Part 3 of the Disability Act 2005, all public bodies are required to ensure that its public buildings are, insofar as practicable, accessible to persons with disabilities. Equally, where a service is provided by a public body, that body is obliged to ensure that the provision of access to the service by persons with disabilities is integrated. The National Human Rights Strategy for...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (23 Sep 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank the Deputy for their question regarding the Decision Support Service (DSS) and the Enduring Powers of Attorney (EPA) application system. EPAs are a vital advance planning tool that enable adults to plan ahead for a time when they may have diminished decision-making capacity, ensuring that a person’s wishes are known and respected. Ensuring that the EPA application process is...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Assisted Decision-Making (25 Sep 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank the Deputy for their question regarding the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 (the 2015 Act) and the system of wardship. The 2015 Act brought about an end to wardship in the State for adults, by repealing the Lunacy Regulation (Ireland) Act 1871 and replacing the wards of court system with the new process for appointing tiered decision support arrangements that is now...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (1 Oct 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 168 and 169 together. 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, Disability and Equality: Disabilities Assessments (30 Sep 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank the Deputy for this question in relation to the provision of accessible toilet facilities. I know from my engagement with disabled people that this is a critical issue when it comes to accessing vital services and participation in social and cultural life. Government launched the National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030, which is Ireland’s comprehensive...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (30 Sep 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: Ensuring that people with disabilities can live lives of their choosing in accessible housing and as independently as possible is a key priority for Government. That is why housing was a key consideration throughout the development process for the recently published National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030. As part of the development process for the Strategy, my...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 Sep 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: 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 by the HSE or funded...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disability Services (8 Oct 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank Senator Lynch for raising this important issue and offering me the opportunity to respond. Day services are Health Service Executive-funded programmes for people with intellectual disabilities, autism or complex physical disabilities. That includes a range of centre-based and community-based activities. Access to services is based on an individual’s needs rather than on...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disability Services (8 Oct 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: I hear the concerns the Senator is raising. I will continue my engagement with the HSE to make sure the service gets up and running. I have been told by the HSE that some of the staff are in place and that recruitment is ongoing. I absolutely accept and understand the consistency and surety that are needed for individuals who want to use this day service, and they must get that. We need...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Hildegarde Naughton: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak this evening. When this Government took office last January, we promised a step change in the delivery of supports and services for people with disabilities and their families. Budget 2026 is the first step in delivering on this ambition. Some €3.83 billion will be provided to specialist disability services in 2026. That is an...