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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: I welcome our guests and thank them for their work and contributions. It is really fascinating. I get the sense though that we have taken the foot off the gas in this whole area for a while. I notice the national disability inclusion strategy has finished up. Do we know whether there are plans to start another one? If so, when will that happen? Also, who is driving this? Who is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: I agree with Dr. Hartney but I also think we need somebody to champion this because if everyone is responsible sometimes nobody is responsible. We need somebody to really put it all together at the same time. Dr. Hartney also mentioned in her correspondence to the committee that an EU comparison shows that Ireland has the fourth lowest employment rates for people with disabilities in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: That is not particularly in the committee's area but it does impact on employment so we will keep a close eye on that one. Dr. Hartney also mentioned that she has advised the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment that they can collaborate with other relevant Departments to provide necessary supports and information for employer bodies and employers. Can she tell us more about that?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: I thank Ms Wilkinson. That is an Open Doors Initiative programme.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: I am a board member so I am aware of the Open Doors Initiative and the work it does. Rehab is our supporting partner. I am not sure whether Pobal or the National Disability Authority, NDA, are involved directly as partners or members. However, I agree that the work they have done is amazing. There is a great deal more that can be done. Are the witnesses aware of the work of the Crann...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: This is very interesting and we are learning more and more. I was a guidance counsellor in another life a long time ago. I know the value of career guidance counsellors in our school and how they can work. There is much work to be done with career guidance counsellors in this transition. The point about special schools is well made. I am aware they are designated as primary schools and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Strategy and Impact on Disabled Persons in the Workplace: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: I fully agree with these points and they are very important. Guidance counsellors have certain skills but they definitely need upskilling in this area. They need more information and support in respect of how they can assist students with various forms of disability. We are in a time of full employment and one of the big issues we come across is employers contacting us to say they cannot...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sport and Recreational Development (21 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: 92. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will report on the work of the National Swimming Strategy Working Group; the number of times that the group has met since its establishment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8582/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sport and Recreational Development (21 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: 105. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she expects analysis of the public consultation responses to the National Swimming Strategy to be concluded and the Strategy finalised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8581/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (21 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: 401. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 156 of 9 February 2023, if her Department has considered fully funding post-primary teachers to participate in upskilling programmes for the teaching of home economics, similar to the funding provided for upskilling programmes in mathematics, physics and Spanish; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (21 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: 501. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 84 of 9 February 2023, the transport supports that are in place to enable young adults with intellectual disabilities to attend further education, employment or training facilities which are located at a distance from their homes; and if he will make a statement on the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (23 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: 6. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the way her Department is supporting men’s sheds and sister sheds; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9020/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (23 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: The Minister is always welcome in Cork, and I for one appreciate the work she is doing and the money she has been making available to communities there, even if others do not. How is the Minister supporting men's sheds, women's sheds and sister sheds, which are a positive development? The work they are doing is amazing and the impact they are having is fantastic. I am aware the Minister...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (23 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister sincerely for the work she is doing. I also compliment the Irish Men's Sheds Association, its chief executive and others on the work they are doing, their professionalism and the way they go about their business. In a very short time, it has grown into a large organisation that impacts on many thousands of men, and now women, across the country. It is a really good...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (23 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: Again, I join the Minister in acknowledging the work the men's sheds are doing for their members and also for their local communities. They often get involved in local projects and help other organisations and community groups by offering the woodworking and other skills their members have. This is having a big impact. We have an impressive men's sheds group in my home town of Midleton and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (23 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: I compliment the work the Minister and her Department are doing in this area. The Minister is right when she says that local communities should have a voice. However, there are areas where local communities do not have a voice because there is no local organisation or community council or whatever established. If that is the case, that community loses out and quite often it might be the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Work Permits (23 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: The Department website identifies intra-company transfer employment permits as being invaluable and very important in bringing highly skilled people and personnel into the country. However, spouses, partners and dependants of intra-company transfer employment permit applicants are not eligible for a dependent, partner or spouse employment permit and must apply for a separate employment...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Industrial Development (23 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: 76. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of inquiries made in respect of the IDA Ireland site in Ballyadam, Carrigtwohill, County Cork, in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; the reason the site is not being developed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9018/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Industrial Development (23 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: The Minister will be very aware of the IDA Ireland site in Ballyadam in Carrigtwohill, which is known as the former Amgen site. It has been lying idle now for the last 17 years. It is probably one of the best resourced and serviced sites in the country, with a motorway on one side, a rail line on the other, and Cork Airport, the Port of Cork, plenty of third level institutions, employment...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Industrial Development (23 Feb 2023)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister, but he did not tell me how many inquiries about the site had been made in the past while. I was told in 2015 by the then Minister, Deputy Bruton, that there had been four significant inquiries, but these did not come to anything. Is it not a fact that the road infrastructure deficit is the main reason the site is not being developed? Does the Minister agree with...