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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister of State for her opening statement. I want to sound a note of frustration from the off. This committee has been time-bound and we have been very conscious of trying to get through a substantial amount of work in a short space of time. I just want to note a frustration with the timeline. The announcement the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, made on the autism...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: But is phase 1 of the pilot complete?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The report has produced recommendations, has it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Will those recommendations be made public in any way? Will members of this committee, for example, have sight of the recommendations that were produced in phase 1?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It would be important for us to have sight of it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I apologise for interrupting but I am conscious that the Chair will shut me down after five minutes and I have a few more bits and pieces to get through. The Minister of State indicated average vacancy rates for CDNTs were 34% throughout the CHOs. Are there significant variations within this figure? Are there CHOs that are well below 34% or well above it? Within that figure, are there...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will put another question to the Minister of State and while I do so perhaps Mr. O'Connor will be able to dig them out. The Minister of State has responsibility for older people as well as mental health. There is a specific difficulty in dealing with autism and the diagnosis rate of autism among older people because our awareness of autism has only developed in recent years. Has the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We could be proactively autism proofing. Something that comes up over and over again at the committee is that we do not have the diagnoses. We can assume the incidence rate as it is not down to external factors and we know it is genetic. We can presumably infer the incidence rate. Presumably we should be applying a lens. Has Mr. O'Regan had a chance to find my CHO figures?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Are there any specialties for which we are finding it difficult to recruit?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Occupational therapy jumps out.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister for her opening statement and for being with us. I welcome many of the improvements that have been made to the summer programme. It is an issue that this committee has spent a great deal of time on. I want to ask about the planning of special classes in particular. The 900 new special classes are very welcome and much needed. However, in terms of the planning of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: My question is whether we are seeing uniformity of provision or are some geographic areas being left behind. Do we have an analysis on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: With regard to the NCSE policy advice, the Minister said it was received in recent months. Can the Minister be a bit more specific about that? I also want to ask about the response. Presumably, the advice is being considered. Is that response going to be public, do we have a timeline for it and will there be a point at which that NCSE advice is made public?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Would the Minister have a timeline on “imminently”?
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Strategies (23 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 107. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding the implementation of the Roadmap for Social Protection 2020-2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24632/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Transport (23 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 124. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the use of a designated Leap card for the free travel pass, with a view to cross-departmental collaboration towards better public transport services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24634/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (23 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 591. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current cost of the culling of each badger under the TB Eradication Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24324/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (23 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 592. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the breakdown of the rate of use of vaccination and microchipping of badgers under the TB Eradication Programme per annum over the lifetime of the project to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24325/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (23 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 595. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current resources assigned to the badger culling programme and the badger vaccination programme, and their assigned geographical area and rate of culling and vaccination completed in each area over the last five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24328/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (23 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 593. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the project timeline with measurable deliverables with regard to the badger culling programme and badger vaccination programme under the TB Eradication Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24326/23]