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Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Report on Assessments of Need for Children: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Erin McGreehan: I wish our former Chair, former Deputy Kathleen Funchion, now an MEP, the very best of luck and the best of health in Brussels. The Minister of State is welcome. It is always good to have a Minister in front of us. The assessment of needs, as she knows, has been a topic of conversation in both this committee and indeed the Joint Committee on Disability Matters. We have had many...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Report on Assessments of Need for Children: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Erin McGreehan: I am disappointed. Hopefully by highlighting-----

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Report on Assessments of Need for Children: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Erin McGreehan: I see the HSE is slow to appoint therapists. There seems to be a significant blockage in appointing therapists in special schools, particularly when there is evidence abroad that this works. It shows good results. Even back as far as 2009, the HSE's own reports and policy documents state that parents could and would work between schools and health centres, but even with its own policy...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Report on Assessments of Need for Children: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Erin McGreehan: Okay.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Report on Assessments of Need for Children: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Erin McGreehan: Progressing disability services is not working to the goal of the policy, but we know not all of it is not working. Has the HSE examined the flexibility in relation to unpicking those parts of PDS that are working and amending the stuff that is not? It is not a complete failure. We had people speaking to us at the disability matters committee very recently about how it is a good policy...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Report on Assessments of Need for Children: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Erin McGreehan: Absolutely.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Report on Assessments of Need for Children: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Erin McGreehan: I will come back in during the second round if that is all right. I thank the Minister of State.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Report on Assessments of Need for Children: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Erin McGreehan: I have a question on the assessment of needs and the progressing disability services, PDS, system as a whole. We are talking about reviews and the system not working. Some clinicians have expressed to various committees, or to members of committee delegations that have visited CDNTs, that an assessment of needs is not the best way for them to be seeing children. They would rather treat...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Report on Assessments of Need for Children: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Erin McGreehan: Can I ask another question?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Report on Assessments of Need for Children: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Erin McGreehan: It is a separate but very much related issue and it is to do with the rights of students with disabilities and the need for extra accommodations. The Minister of State's Department is responsible for the public sector duty and the UNCRPD, as a lead Department. Recently I have been highlighting the barriers students with disabilities face during the leaving certificate in terms of access to...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Report on Assessments of Need for Children: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Erin McGreehan: I appreciate that and I thank the Minister of State.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jun 2024)

Erin McGreehan: I have received confirmation from my colleague, the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy McConalogue, that he is in a position to support farmers in north Louth with funding to bring their lands back to the pre-flooding position. Last October, as we all know, there was serious flooding in north Louth and many other areas of the country. Severe damage was caused to fields,...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Engagement with Chairperson to the Board of RTÉ (12 Jun 2024)

Erin McGreehan: I am very glad to have the opportunity to speak. I am speaking on a slightly different issue which affects about 400,000 RTÉ viewers in the country. I refer to accessibility and inclusion in programming. We have subtitling, audio description and Irish sign language, ISL, which are important. RTÉ is doing well on subtitling and is surpassing many targets. Audio description on...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Engagement with Chairperson to the Board of RTÉ (12 Jun 2024)

Erin McGreehan: The election coverage was wonderful, and I was hooked on it all weekend. However, it would be wonderful to have ISL. It would be wonderful to have someone standing there so everyone was able to hear the news. It would be a fantastic thing for RTÉ to look at for the next general election. People who cannot hear should be able to get the news. It would be a wonderful and inclusive...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (11 Jun 2024)

Erin McGreehan: It is laughable that we are piloting accessible and inclusive education. The Minister of State said things have changed and there are digital papers. We need papers in Braille. We need to consider all of our students. The current system is restrictive and there is no flexibility. Students with disabilities are not a homogenous group. Reasonable accommodations for one are completely...

Seanad: Control of Dogs (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Erin McGreehan: Can I come in?

Seanad: Control of Dogs (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Erin McGreehan: Do not construe it to be racist.

Seanad: Control of Dogs (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Erin McGreehan: Abide by the law.