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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: Yesterday was a proud day for us in Portumna, where we opened the historic courthouse. That was thanks to the investment of rural regeneration and development fund, RRDF, moneys. Some €3.2 million was spent on it, of which €2.9 million was allocated from the Department. This goes back to the then Minister, Michael Ring, fighting hard for recognition of the need to invest in...

Seanad: Nursing Homes and Care for Older Persons: Statements (26 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Leader of the House for ensuring we are having statements on this today. They are timely. I thank the Minister of State for taking the time to appear before us to allow us the opportunity to speak about what we witnessed on "RTÉ Investigates". It is unfortunate that we have to rely on a television programme to do the job of HIQA. If we are to talk about the elephant in...

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (26 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: We have no other Senators offering so I call the Minister to conclude.

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (26 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (26 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (26 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: When it is proposed to sit again?

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (26 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Disability (Personalised Budgets) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: Not at all.

Seanad: Disability (Personalised Budgets) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: I am conscious that the Minister needs to leave and that the Minister of State, Deputy Hildegarde Naughton, will take over. I call Senator Boyhan.

Seanad: Disability (Personalised Budgets) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: Before we go forward, I want to get the technicalities right. The Senator is proposing an amendment to amendment No. 1. Is the amendment seconded?

Seanad: Disability (Personalised Budgets) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: Actually, we have time, so I invite the Senator to take his time.

Seanad: Disability (Personalised Budgets) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: Seeing as we have no other Senators offering contributions, we will now move on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: I welcome the witnesses and I apologise for not being here at the start. I will start with a little statement about what I am trying to understand here. To me, when we are addressing homelessness, the key worker, who makes it all work, is the social worker. My question to the local authorities is this: how many social workers work are there in their housing departments? That is the first...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: All right. That brings me on to this point which goes back a number of months ago. I will address this to Mr. Kehoe, the CEO. I am new to the housing committee so there is a lot of terminology and acronyms that I am trying to catch up on. At recent LAMA and CCMA conferences I could not understand how we did not put a focus on social workers to ensure we model what is there for elder care....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: To me, not having them or not applying for them is one thing but there is also not a funding budget for them. There is not a funding budget where social workers are specifically placed within the housing section of the local authorities. Therein lies the joined-up thinking piece. In this, needs are identified and prioritised and the housing departments link back in with the HSE and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank Mr. Gleeson, but the missing piece here is the link worker. While meetings are being held every three weeks, the day the person makes the phone call or arrives to the desk is missing. The first point of contact is with the local authorities, so we need the daily pick-up person there, that link worker, but also it needs to be mirrored out after that. There is a good piece that can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: I will build on that point. We must look at the strategy that has been proposed and mirror the previous youth homelessness strategy into the family piece working in collaboration with the various agencies and local authorities. They have actions for prevention, wraparound services, and an exit strategy. We have seen that approach work previously.