Results 1-20 of 47 for cavan speaker:Anne Rabbitte

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Mar 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank Deputy Smith for raising this important issue here today. The local HSE has made a proposal for a stand-alone respite centre for Cavan-Monaghan, for Cavan. It will support 50 families and it will be open 52 weeks of the year. Along with the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, I am currently finalising the national respite plan within which Cavan-Monaghan is a priority. Funding has been...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Further and Higher Education (9 Nov 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: ...it. I am taking the Topical Issue all the same nonetheless. I thank the Deputy for raising this matter as it gives me the opportunity to set out for the House the position with regard to Cavan Institute and further education provision for Cavan town. Cavan Institute was established, as the Deputy said, in 1985 and has provided a high-quality educational service to the people of Cavan...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (30 Nov 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I am informed by Tusla that a number of interagency meetings have been held since 2022 to explore how to progress the development of a refuge in Cavan-Monaghan. Some steps have been taken through engagement with two county councils to identify a suitable site. A site at Cootehill in the ownership of Cavan County Council has initially been proposed for consideration. The Tearmann Domestic...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (5 May 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: ...Monaghan at the request of Deputies Niamh Smyth and Brendan Smith, and where I also met Senator Gallagher, the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, and Senator Joe O'Reilly. I was informed by the local CHO in Cavan that the disability services provide respite for adults and children in Annalee View Respite Centre, Cootehill, County Cavan, on alternative weeks. To be honest with the Deputy, I was...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (29 Feb 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: A capital funding proposal has been submitted to the national HSE office for a bespoke stand-alone respite service facility in Cavan-Monaghan for children up to the age of 18 with an intellectual disability and high-support medical and complex needs. It is important to say the capital plan has not been published yet but the application has been submitted. At the moment I cannot confirm it...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (18 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: ...and social care sector, and impacting on the ability of the HSE and other providers like the IWA to deliver services. Due to the sudden and unplanned extended leave of key staff members, IWA Cavan found itself in a position where it could not safely continue to provide full services within its centre. IWA Cavan implemented a contingency plan to provide community outreach support to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Services for Children with Disabilities (15 Feb 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...I will agree to meet the family concerned. I will also take this matter up, before I meet with the family, if the Deputy will give me the case details. While he may feel this just applies to the Cavan-Monaghan region, as far as I am concerned, it is hard to believe and credit in the 21st century that the behavioural barrier is still in place in a lot of places around the country....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (18 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: The date for the publication of the 2023 staff census will be in the next two weeks. While I do not have a specific figure for Cavan and Monaghan, I know that for CHO 1, which covers the Cavan and Monaghan areas, there were 88 people who expressed interest. As to what measures are being taken, the national team development of the programme is holding lunchtime webinars. There are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (29 Feb 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: The Government acknowledges challenges faced by children and young people with disabilities and their families accessing essential therapy services in Cavan and Monaghan. The staff vacancy rate for Cavan, which is an Enable Ireland team, is currently 58% with a total of 11.96 whole-time equivalent staff in situ. The staff vacancy rate for Monaghan HSE is at 39%, with a total of 17.81...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (30 Nov 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...undertaken identified 12 locations nationwide where the delivery of 78 family refuge spaces would have the most impact if prioritised. The initial areas identified in the Tusla review include Cavan-Monaghan, where eight family places are suggested as a starting point for prioritisation. An interagency group has been established to further this development and several meetings have taken...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Nov 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Deputy for raising this important issue. I have a meeting with CHO 1 next week to address the issues facing Enable Ireland in the Cavan area and to address exactly what the Deputy has raised and what we can do in the interim to assist with recruitment and retention in that service.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (30 Apr 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Deputy. The Government acknowledges the challenges faced by children and young people with disabilities and their families in accessing essential therapy services in Cavan and Monaghan. It is important to say that along with the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, and Deputies Brendan Smith and Niamh Smyth, I visited Monaghan in the past month and met the families concerned. Lead...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Services for Children with Disabilities (15 Feb 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...is not how we do business. It is all supposed to be about closest to home, building that relationship and ensuring the children have the support in their own community. Sending a child from Cavan or Monaghan down to Westmeath is not good practice. It tells me that the CHO is under-resourced and does not have enough funding to support the children in its own area. We have a similar...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (4 Jul 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...the context of the assistant grades, and some ETBs are incredibly proactive in that regard. In respect of physiotherapists, 73 assistant grade therapists qualified at levels 5 and 6 at the ETBs in Cavan-Monaghan, Dublin city, Dún Laoghaire, Kerry and Limerick. That amounts to 85 in total who have qualified as assistants. They are a great support to physiotherapists at a senior...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disability Services (11 Jul 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Senator. It is also important to note that Ms Edel Quinn in CHO 1 is working closely with Ms Breege O'Reilly, and working locally with the Cavan-Monaghan disability service leads in the HSE to ensure that we have a building that is fit-for-purpose for the people in the area. They are working to ensure that we can build up the hubs and the satellites but also to make sure that we...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disability Services (17 May 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Deputy for tabling this Commencement matter and keeping it on the agenda. It was fantastic to meet him when I was in counties Cavan and Monaghan. I commend the teams I met with, both the Enable Ireland team and our HSE team on the ground. Both gave their time willingly to discuss the issues the Senator has eloquently raised and both said the same. One of the issues related to...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disability Services (7 Feb 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: ...over the country. To be quite honest, the lack of respite services when I came into this portfolio was one of the reasons I made it a priority. The Senator identified an issue in his county of Cavan. There is no doubt that the current arrangement cannot stay as is. The status quo cannot stay in place when two counties are sharing children's respite on alternative weekends. It is no...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (23 Jan 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: ...adults or the younger adults. One house will be left for adult respite services and we will have a children's respite facility. The capital plan is being launched in the next two or three weeks. Cavan is in the capital plan because of the advocacy that has gone on. We will await its publication to see that through. On special schools, the Deputy knows as well as I do that I do not...

Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (13 Jun 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: ...does not have the space. It is a community crèche in which the Government invested heavily. I have a concern around capacity. There is a capacity issue in my colleague Deputy Smyth's constituency of Cavan-Monaghan as well. It is not just in isolated areas, we have issues around it and I wonder how we can address it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (29 Feb 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: It is important for me to recognise the staffing deficits in Cavan and Monaghan. Not only do I recognise it but so does the HSE. Hence, when the children's disability service grant is launched, I hope the Deputy will see an uplift in support for the families and the children. The recruitment is taking place as we speak. When I met the leads and the heads of the HSE only last Tuesday I...