Results 2,441-2,460 of 6,530 for speaker:Ruairí Ó Murchú
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: We talk about delivering on everything. This is constantly talked about in the public domain but we never get to the secondary point of ceasing to mention it because the issue is dealt with. Could I get some sort of submission in relation to AAC and best practice? In the best case scenario, what direction should we be heading in? The witnesses have gone through some of the detail, but...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: On everything else, just better, quicker and faster.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: There have been promises to do it and it has not been done yet.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: However, professionals will find ways to make it work, as happened-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is a request. It would be fair to say that it is frightening that has not happened in some shape or form.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: I understand that no one is trying to make it worse. Most-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: The stool would fall over.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is fairly straightforward. I can see the Chair is getting worried or angsty.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: I imagine the Chair will deal with the RPM piece, which I was going to revisit. We had Fiacre Ryan here at a previous meeting. I do not think any of the members is wedded to any technology or particular means or model that works. The piece of work that Ms Lawlor talked about is grand and is evidence-based, but there are obviously systems which are working. What is being done in that field...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: It needs flexibility given that it-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: Ms Gleeson-Cary is asking for her association to be involved in that review because otherwise we could end up with more of the same.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: People imagine somebody coming in on a white steed being able to save the day in a medical way.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is that the care is aimed at the child and it is not a service saying, "No room at the inn here for reasons X, Y and Z." Parents generally just want the means to deal with a particular issue. If that is anxiety or whatever, they do not need to be passed to CAMHS; they just need a solution.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is the same. It is flexibility within the service and ensuring that the professional bodies are involved in the conversation about the service delivery.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: I accept regarding assessments of need that there is a legal framework and that has to happen. Taking the law out of it, what is the best case scenario we could be looking at? Maybe it is the AON exactly as it exists.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: Given the imperfect world in which we do not have sufficient capacity and will not have the capacity we want, what can we deliver in the interim? When can we have a straight conversation with parents on what we can offer them that is not absolutely failing their kids, which it is at this point in time?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: I will ask that across the board. What is the best we can do in such circumstances? The question on assessments is probably dealt with but does anyone want to come in on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: Obviously we dealt with some of that before the sound echo issues started. Dr. Higgins has given the answer in relation to the PTA in particular and the fact that the assessment procedure is not straightforward. The same sort of assessment procedure, no more than the same sort of therapy procedure, will not work for every individual case. What is the best case assessment scheme, for want...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: I get it. It was always going to fail and fail miserably because it was never fit to do what it needed to do. I get that we are dealing with a wide range of-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: I appreciate that, Chair. I was running late from a meeting on the previous occasion. In fairness, I was going to send a question through but it was dealt with. That is the nicest thing I will say about anyone during the whole of this week. I will break this up into two areas - assessment and therapies. I will paraphrase or synopsise, and the panel may correct me if I am wrong in what...