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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on Carer’s Allowance and Other Social Welfare Schemes: Discussion (29 May 2024)

Erin McGreehan: I welcome the witnesses and I thank the Cathaoirleach for allowing me this space as I am not a member of this committee. I am on the Joint Committee on Disability Matters and we hear about disability, carer's allowance and how it is designed and as was articulated, quite often it is seen as a punishment and penalty on many families and that the practicality of caring is ignored or not looked...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on Carer’s Allowance and Other Social Welfare Schemes: Discussion (29 May 2024)

Erin McGreehan: To follow up on that needs test idea, we have a Green Paper on Disability Reform. That is the exact reason the Green Paper was scrapped to ensure a medical assessment of the person as opposed to something else. The best practice that Ms Cox mentioned, such as tiered payments based on medical need, is something that we no longer have, thankfully, as it was a win for disability groups to get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on Carer’s Allowance and Other Social Welfare Schemes: Discussion (29 May 2024)

Erin McGreehan: I welcome the witnesses. Following on from our last session, we see the harshness that means testing delivers for many families. As I said, it does not take into account the cost of a mortgage, the extra cost of heating a home or the extra cost of having a disability and having to care. It seems that, quite often, the Department of Social Protection appears to have no sense of how it keeps...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2024)

Erin McGreehan: I raise the plight of thalidomide victims again in this House. I ask that An Taoiseach prioritises the talks with the Irish Thalidomide Association and that there is a conclusion to the saga and hell that thalidomide victims have had to go through for more than 60 years. They absolutely deserve a State apology, the acknowledgement of victims who are not as yet acknowledged, adequate...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (23 May 2024)

Erin McGreehan: I welcome the Minister of State. I want to ask the Department of Health to ensure accessibility to healthcare for all patients accessing and engaging with healthcare providers. I ask that all patients are corresponded and communicated with in as accessible a manner as is technologically and physically possible, taking into account the various disabilities within our population. I want to...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (23 May 2024)

Erin McGreehan: Go raibh maith agat. I appreciate this is a general response with regard to accessibility. Absolutely, there has been an awful lot of positive work done with regard to the EU web accessibility directive and we are working through that as a State. Healthcare providers have responsibilities under the existing legislation, which goes back to 2014. People have the right to access healthcare....

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (23 May 2024)

Erin McGreehan: It is amazing what they can do.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (23 May 2024)

Erin McGreehan: I thank the Minister of State.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 May 2024)

Erin McGreehan: I welcome the fact we will hopefully see the framework for the life carbon farming project. That framework will help farmers, foresters and other landowners take climate actions, reduce greenhouse gases and enhance carbon capture. We need EU-wide co-ordinated monitoring of ratification and reporting methods. I ask for a debate in the House on how the Minister is working with his EU...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 May 2024)

Erin McGreehan: I welcome the announcement yesterday that the DART will be extended to Drogheda, County Louth. I commend the previous decision by the shared island unit to fund additional cross-Border Enterprise train services from Belfast to Dundalk. It is now time, with all that investment in our rail system along the east coast, to look properly at the reopening of Dunleer train station. I also request...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (Resumed) (22 May 2024)

Erin McGreehan: I welcome the witnesses. It is great to have them here and I want to congratulate them all on their work to date. What has come across regularly in our meetings on PDS is the frustration, the absolute exhaustion and the desperate worry of parents. It does not really matter what the service is called. The parents and children just want the service. We have said there are good aspects to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (Resumed) (22 May 2024)

Erin McGreehan: It is very hard.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (Resumed) (22 May 2024)

Erin McGreehan: I thank Dr. O'Leary very much.

Seanad: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Erin McGreehan: I welcome the Minister of the State to the House. I very much welcome the opportunity to contribute. I wish I had the opportunity to sign to Senator Clonan's Bill but I was not asked to sign it. Members were reading out the list of colleagues who are signatories to this Bill, but I was not asked to sign it. I absolutely would have signed it and when it came in on Second Stage, we...

Seanad: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Erin McGreehan: Sorry, that is not right.

Seanad: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Erin McGreehan: I will come in briefly. I absolutely agree with what Senator Keogan has said. We went against the Cabinet on the day in question and it was a victory for disability rights.

Seanad: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Erin McGreehan: All of us on this side of the House risked our necks a little because we are in this together.

Seanad: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Erin McGreehan: That was what I wanted to say. We did not put forward tellers on that occasion and were delighted to have that loophole and not to get a slapping.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Challenges Facing the Bus and Coach Industry: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Erin McGreehan: I welcome our guests. I was glad to finally hear disability and accessibility mentioned during the meeting, nearly two hours in. That is very positive. I will focus on those two issues. They were not mentioned in the opening statements. Climate change and sustainability were, but disability and access for people with disabilities were not. I would like our guests' organisations to make...