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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: I welcome the witnesses. It is disappointing that the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, did not see fit to attend. While no one can doubt the Minister of State's commitment, given the scale of the issue involved and the failure to progress disability services, the least families would expect is the presence of the Cabinet Minister. The evidence is overwhelming that progressing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: It is for the HSE. As regards staffing, it is obvious that there is a self-perpetuating issue. Under-resourced teams lead to over-stretched staff who believe they are not providing the care they wish to provide, feel they are being ethically compromised within their job and are limited in the work they can do with children. They migrate to other countries or go into private practice just...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: They will be in place by the end of the year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: Will the HSE commit to meeting parents' groups that have formed their own version of this in the interim? The end of the year is a long time away.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: In some cases, there have been no meetings with management. Can I get a commitment that in CHO 4, for example, there will be engagement by management with the parents there because they have been repeatedly trying to get a meeting?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: I thank Mr. O'Regan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: I asked a specific question on that issue. That makes sense. The policy goes out and each CHO then implements it and there may not be uniform implementation of that. Has there been constructive engagement from all primary care in each CHO?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: Is it uniform? Is there any oversight of it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: Is it being monitored and tracked? How is it going? As we all know it is not going well, what is being done to identify those gaps and the different approaches in CHOs to ensure a more uniform approach or the right approach?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: The one size does not fit all in every CHO.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: What is the oversight? What is the monitoring of how it is going?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: I also have questions. On that specific point, if there is oversight of the national access policy, how is it going? If this basic policy is not working effectively, which very often it is not, what is being done to monitor and address that? Standardising will not necessarily work with the different needs of individuals.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: Despite the lengthy reply, I did not get a proper answer on the basic national access policy. How is primary care engaging with it? How is it being tracked and monitored? It would be helpful to get an answer to that. How many of the CDNTs are fully staffed now? We know that three and a half months ago none of them were fully staffed, not mention the question of retention of student...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: Are the solutions proposed by the Minister of State going ahead?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: Are there timeframes for them?

Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 30: In page 52, after line 28, to insert the following: “PART 6 AMENDMENT OF CLIMATE ACTION AND LOW CARBON DEVELOPMENT ACT 2015 Amendment of section 1 of Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 41.Section 1 of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 is amended by the insertion of the following definition after the definition of...

Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 17: In page 13, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: “(o) to facilitate and support initiatives undertaken by communities or organisations which promote the principles of a just transition and climate justice;”.

Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: On amendments Nos. 5, 6 and 8, I am delighted to see the Minister has accepted some of Deputy Whitmore's amendments, including reference to various important national strategies such as the national biodiversity strategy, the national disability inclusion strategy, and the roadmap for social inclusion. This will help ensure the Bill is poverty-proofed and conscious of disability matters. ...

Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 1: In page 6, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: ""Just transition" means a transition that ensures the economic, environmental and social consequences of the ecological transformation of economies and societies are managed in ways that maximise opportunities of decent work for all, reduce inequalities, promote social justice, and support industries,...

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: I am deeply worried about this Bill. When I was driving up from west Cork this week I was trying to think about how I could convey my profound concern for what the Government is doing. This Bill will have far-reaching consequences for disabled people, older people and individuals experiencing mental health difficulties. It affects how they can make decisions about their lives. This Bill...