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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Ratification of Optional Protocol: Discussion (27 May 2021)

Michael Moynihan: I thank Ms Naughton. Does anybody else wish to contribute? I thank our guests very much for their engagement. It is very important that we have cross-European engagement. With Covid-19, physical meetings have been more difficult. I thank our colleagues in the Spanish Parliament for joining us this morning. I thank all those on the team who have discussed so freely with our committee and...

Nursing Home Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Michael Moynihan: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this much promised debate. I congratulate the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, on steering this through the Department and the Government. I know the tenacious way she applied herself to the job, to ensure the Bill was brought to the Dáil and, hopefully, through the Seanad and onto the Statute Book as soon as possible. I wish to ensure that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (20 May 2021)

Michael Moynihan: It is most important that there is development and a pathway for people throughout the regions. I understand and have studied the Trinity programme, which is centralised in a major urban centre. For people with disabilities, either learning or physical, the difficulty is travelling. What needs to be done in the programme over the next couple of months is to assess the need within...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (20 May 2021)

Michael Moynihan: 80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures in place or planned to improve access to further and higher education and training for learners with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26970/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (20 May 2021)

Michael Moynihan: I want to ask the Minister what measures are in place and, more importantly, what is planned to improve the access of people with learning disabilities to higher education. It is very fundamental. It is important that there are planned improvements in the Department to improve accessibility to higher education for people with disabilities.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015: Decision Support Service (20 May 2021)

Michael Moynihan: I thank Ms Flynn and call Senator O’Loughlin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015: Decision Support Service (20 May 2021)

Michael Moynihan: I thank Senator O'Loughlin and I call Ms Flynn to reply, please.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015: Decision Support Service (20 May 2021)

Michael Moynihan: I thank Ms Flynn and members. I believe that everybody online has been afforded the opportunity to speak. I thank Ms Flynn for her comprehensive overview and the in-depth knowledge that she has of the subject matter, which is clearly a very complex one. From a practical point of view, as of now someone may become incapacitated in mind and body through a brain haemorrhage, or any other...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015: Decision Support Service (20 May 2021)

Michael Moynihan: Yes, what happens in the here and now, and what happens in 2022?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015: Decision Support Service (20 May 2021)

Michael Moynihan: I thank members for their participation and the witnesses for their expertise. The witnesses should continue the good, complex and detailed work that they are doing. It is wide-ranging and needs a huge, dedicated team to bring it to fruition. Our meeting now stands adjourned until the private meeting at 11.30 a.m. on Thursday, 27 May 2021.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015: Decision Support Service (20 May 2021)

Michael Moynihan: The purpose of today's meeting is to discuss the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 and the establishment of the Decision Support Service, DSS. On behalf of the committee, I extend a warm welcome to representatives of Decision Support Service: Áine Flynn, director; Joanna Macklin, head of the panel of management; Kate Frowein, head of registration and supervision; Patsy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015: Decision Support Service (20 May 2021)

Michael Moynihan: I thank Ms Flynn for her comprehensive overview.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015: Decision Support Service (20 May 2021)

Michael Moynihan: Senator Seery Kearney is substituting for Deputy John Paul Phelan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015: Decision Support Service (20 May 2021)

Michael Moynihan: I call Senator Flynn, in substitution for Senator Higgins. Is the Senator online? No. We may come back to Senator Flynn. Deputy Cairns is the next speaker.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (18 May 2021)

Michael Moynihan: 142. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in County Cork currently in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment; the number of persons in County Kerry currently in receipt of the payment; the number in each county who were in receipt of the payment on the same date in April 2021; the number of persons in each county that have received the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (18 May 2021)

Michael Moynihan: 98. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a review of carer’s payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26263/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (13 May 2021)

Michael Moynihan: 140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status and details of the supports provided to the school transport system particularly for schools with high levels of educational disadvantage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25073/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Programme for Government (13 May 2021)

Michael Moynihan: 151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the commitment in the programme for Government to further progress the move towards a needs-based, responsive set of state supports for students with special educational needs and expand early-intervention teams in schools over the next five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25072/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing Disability Services Model and Withdrawal of Occupational Therapies from Schools: Engagement with HSE (13 May 2021)

Michael Moynihan: Apologies have been received from Senator Erin McGreehan. The purpose of today's meeting is to discuss the progressing disability services model and the withdrawal of occupational therapies from schools. On behalf of the committee, I extend a warm welcome to representatives of the HSE, Dr. Cathal Morgan, head of operations, disability services; Professor Malcolm MacLachlan, clinical lead...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing Disability Services Model and Withdrawal of Occupational Therapies from Schools: Engagement with HSE (13 May 2021)

Michael Moynihan: Yes, absolutely.