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Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (26 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I am delighted that the transfer of functions of specialist community-based disability services to the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth from the Department of Health took place on 1 March. I thank the Chair and the committee for their forbearance in working with me and interviewing two Ministers of State, at times, about the same topic. I thank the...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (26 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: The Deputy is correct that we are in a recruitment process for the appeals office. It is an independent office but we are in a recruitment process. We will keep the committee updated on it, if that is okay. The Deputy also asked whether I have enough money for staff and recruitment. One never has enough money but at the moment I have a lot of money for the recruitment of staff. What I...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (26 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: Right, and the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, will take the questions about disability.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (26 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank Deputy Tully for the wide breadth of her questions. I will start with the good stories. The good story is about the neuro teams announced in the budget. That speaks a lot to MS and Parkinson's. The community neuro teams are really about putting services into the communities. Two things happened in this year's budget. One was the clinical neuro nurses going directly into the...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (26 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I had just addressed the €67 million, the communication involved and acknowledging what the Deputy had said. The Deputy also referred to the backlog relating to the assessments of need. I was fortunate to secure funding of €13.5 million in the budget to address that backlog. Mr. Ó Conaill from the Department and I had a really good meeting recently with Mr. Gloster. The...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (26 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: The funding was secured in this year's budget. The mapping has been done and it was launched earlier this week. Brian Higgins, as part of the HSE, is working closely on the roll-out of that in the two CHOs, but also on addressing the two other CHOs that were not stepped up in 2018-19. The HSE is engaging with the various organisations, whether it is AIMS Ireland, the Parkinson's...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (26 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: Absolutely. With the likes of Parkinson's it is about preventing readmissions, because it has a lot to do with falls. Having that OT or physiotherapist in the community means we will not have readmissions. We know the cost of readmissions into hospital.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (26 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: That goes down to the proper clinical governance and oversight. Part and parcel of having a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary team is the ability to provide clinical governance and proper training for trainees coming through, such as third-year and fourth-year OTs and physiotherapists. That means they will have a breadth of experience. It also allows people in those teams to...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (26 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: It does not really work in all the CHOs. Some are very good, but not all. By and large, the national policy on access is not working. The policy is not just primary care; it is disability, primary care and mental health. It is about how we can integrate these. When people enter a service they might be in specialised disability services for OT and physiotherapy, but might need access to...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (26 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: On the person in the hospital bed and the family with the ageing parents, it is very frustrating to say we know there are proper pathways that could be delivered on. Respite is the answer for the parent of the teenager. We need more respite and to build more capacity into it. Earlier today, the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, the Minister of State, Deputy Joe O'Brien, and I met the Taoiseach to...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (26 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: This is not that. It is people living their independent lives.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (26 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: In a nutshell, I acknowledge the work the Rainbow Club does and the universal interventions it provides every week to 1,134 families. I cannot applaud it enough. I understand what the Deputy is saying about the grant of €55,000 it receives to deliver the Saturday club. I know it has capacity to support. To be honest, when a service is good, we should support it. We need good...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (26 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: As I said earlier on, there absolutely are plans to expand residential care nationally. Unfortunately, last year, emergency residential care entirely ate up the budget for planned residential care. That is what happened. I am not talking about small money. As part of the action plan that I and the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, are to launch, we need respite and residential care to be...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (26 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: Absolutely. It is an expansion of the community neurological teams. While I was in the Department of Health, I had the support of the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, and the team to ensure there was a funding line in place for neurological services. We also need specialist teams. Over the years, I have managed to create specialist progressing disability services, PDS, teams for the deaf and...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (26 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: Therapists should land in Carrigtwohill for the first time ever on 1 May. They will be accompanied by an OT, a physiotherapist and a speech and language therapist. Myself and the team here have met with Mr. Gloster with regard to whatever cannot be found or filled at that stage. We must have therapists in there. The plan is that on 1 May, therapists will be reinstated in the school. Going...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (26 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister. I completely understand the issue of respite. I am fully supportive of everything the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, has just said. The issue of capital is one of my biggest bugbears. The gathering of data within the Department of Health, as part of the transfer of functions, was very difficult. One of my officials might disagree with that. One of the hardest pieces...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (26 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I know what the Deputy is saying about communication. We have a budget, which was announced. We also have the €100 million in energy funding that the Deputy mentioned and that service providers are waiting to get their hands on. It is their only mechanism. With the support of the Minister, the team with us and the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, I was fortunate to get...