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Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I appreciate that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Last week, I asked the Taoiseach about the possibility of the TBESS or some bespoke scheme for the likes of Frontline Energy, which buys gas for communal heating systems like the one at Carlinn Hall in Dundalk. We would need to ensure that the benefits of such a scheme were passed on to residents, but it is something that we must consider as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Citizens' Assembly (18 Oct 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 26. To ask the Taoiseach the expected timeline for the citizens' assemblies committed to in the Programme for Government. [45561/22]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Bodies (18 Oct 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 29. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, a statutory agency operating under the aegis of his Department. [45562/22]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Bodies (18 Oct 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 37. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the Policing Reform Implementation Programme Office based in his Department. [45563/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (18 Oct 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 546. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider reinstating one-member arrangements and make those with less than ten members exempt from the additional audit functions; if not, if she will allow for the readjustment of a personal retirement savings account product to allow contributions from employer to employee to be exempt from USC...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Health: Health Service Executive (18 Oct 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I thank the representatives from the HSE for coming before us. I am no different from any other Deputy in that I am also inundated with cases relating to parents of children who cannot access or have difficulties accessing necessary services. I have probably got a greater number of contacts in that regard on the basis that my son is autistic. The witnesses have dealt with the biggest...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Health: Health Service Executive (18 Oct 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Where are we in all that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Health: Health Service Executive (18 Oct 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We are really at the beginning of that discussion rather than anywhere close to delivery.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Health: Health Service Executive (18 Oct 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Right, but we could have this same discussion in four years unless we get to a better place fairly fast.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Health: Health Service Executive (18 Oct 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Will Mr. O'Regan indicate again what the figures are for what we do not have and what we need?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Health: Health Service Executive (18 Oct 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I would appreciate that. Mr. O'Regan has put this in front of everyone it needs to go in front of. It is up to them to do the work. As regards international recruitment, what is the current position in respect of the difficulties with CORU?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Health: Health Service Executive (18 Oct 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We put ourselves under pressure in order to relieve future pressure. That is just the way it is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Health: Health Service Executive (18 Oct 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Regarding the international piece, can anything else be done from the point of view of us being able to get more people with qualifications into the system?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Health: Health Service Executive (18 Oct 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 100%. We needed to do all of that yesterday, to a degree. We have to be imaginative around getting results. Otherwise, I imagine I will hear next year that we cannot deliver the service we need on the basis that we do not have the capacity to do so. That is not much addition to the people in that situation or the families coming to us who are under severe pressure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Health: Health Service Executive (18 Oct 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I get that. That is where I was going next. In fairness, they stated that the assessment of need, as Mr. O'Regan said, is sometimes seen as a panacea whereas it is the same people who provide therapies. They cannot provide therapies when they are doing other work. The option of getting private diagnoses and whatever else was open for parents who could afford it, or were facilitated to do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Health: Health Service Executive (18 Oct 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We were meant to be child based and not diagnosis based, but we are all being forced-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Health: Health Service Executive (18 Oct 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: A lot of those assessments will have to be revisited, if that is requested.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Health: Health Service Executive (18 Oct 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That applies if the person does not require the full 37 hours of an assessment of need.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Health: Health Service Executive (18 Oct 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Within the current setup, if a person knows for definite there is a speech and language issue, the assessment process stops there and then. There is a logic to that. Once the person could access services, I do not think we would hear from him or her again.