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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability, Mental Health and Ageing: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (17 Nov 2022)
Holly Cairns: The overlap between disability, mental health and old age is complicated. It is important for the committee to take time to discuss this theme. I thank the Minister of State for attending today. Mental health falls under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, CRPD, which gives people with mental health conditions additional protections and rights. As people age, they...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability, Mental Health and Ageing: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (17 Nov 2022)
Holly Cairns: Before we move off the home care model, am I correct that what is being done to support specifically the support workers is to ensure they get the minimum wage?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability, Mental Health and Ageing: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (17 Nov 2022)
Holly Cairns: The living wage.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability, Mental Health and Ageing: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (17 Nov 2022)
Holly Cairns: There clearly is. The Minister of State said that it is a 50:50 split between the public and private sectors. What is being done to stem that growing dependence on the private sector?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability, Mental Health and Ageing: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (17 Nov 2022)
Holly Cairns: Was that through the private sector?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability, Mental Health and Ageing: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (17 Nov 2022)
Holly Cairns: Is that 60% private or 60% public?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability, Mental Health and Ageing: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (17 Nov 2022)
Holly Cairns: Does the Minister of State see it getting back to 50:50?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability, Mental Health and Ageing: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (17 Nov 2022)
Holly Cairns: What is the timeline for this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability, Mental Health and Ageing: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (17 Nov 2022)
Holly Cairns: With regard to regulation of home support services, will there be an independent regulator? Is that what is being looked at?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability, Mental Health and Ageing: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (17 Nov 2022)
Holly Cairns: But there will be no regulator
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability, Mental Health and Ageing: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (17 Nov 2022)
Holly Cairns: After diagnosis, would two separate instruments have to be drafted?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability, Mental Health and Ageing: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (17 Nov 2022)
Holly Cairns: It is worth pointing out to the Minister of State that the Irish Dementia Working Group has pointed out issues around that when a person receives a diagnosis.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability, Mental Health and Ageing: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (17 Nov 2022)
Holly Cairns: I have a final question on the national policy on access to services and how well integrated it has been.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability, Mental Health and Ageing: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (17 Nov 2022)
Holly Cairns: Children's services. It is probably a separate example but it is the children's services in terms of integration I am wondering about.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability, Mental Health and Ageing: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (17 Nov 2022)
Holly Cairns: No, these are for children trying to get from the Beara peninsula into Bantry for education purposes. I had a Topical Issue matter on it yesterday that was taken by the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte. The HSE gave a response stating that there was a bus service, and the Minister herself said that all she had to do was google it to realise there was not. The local Society of St. Vincent...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability, Mental Health and Ageing: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (17 Nov 2022)
Holly Cairns: That would be great. It is as McArdle said that there should be one point of contact and then the stuff is there for you afterwards. That is just not the case for most people.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability, Mental Health and Ageing: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (17 Nov 2022)
Holly Cairns: Education.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability, Mental Health and Ageing: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (17 Nov 2022)
Holly Cairns: There is an issue there for sure, if that could be looked into. The last question is about the name of the ADHD app.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (16 Nov 2022)
Holly Cairns: I thank the Minister of State for her response and engagement with this issue. She mentioned that people in west Beara have approached Local Link. I assure the Minister of State that I have also met with Local Link on this issue. It is doing everything it can to try to find additional funding support. At present, it simply does not have the funds to provide an additional service. It...