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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Approach to Day Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)

Seán Canney: On that, how will Delta Centre get the resources behind it? When Ms Morrissey Forde says that, what does that mean?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Approach to Day Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)

Seán Canney: Is Delta Centre CLG not getting enough funding?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Approach to Day Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)

Seán Canney: On that point, I want to read out what was said. What was said was that it is important to remember that as these are private employers, and as such, the Government has no authority or ability to change the terms and conditions for these workers. At the same time, is Delta Centre CLG being told it cannot do certain things?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Approach to Day Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)

Seán Canney: So really the parity between the sections 38 and 39 is not on the agenda for the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Approach to Day Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)

Seán Canney: If a salary equal to it could be offered-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Approach to Day Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)

Seán Canney: What kind of percentage increase would be needed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Approach to Day Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)

Seán Canney: No. How much does the overall budget have to go up?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Approach to Day Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)

Seán Canney: That is a 15% addition to the budget.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Approach to Day Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)

Seán Canney: What budget is currently given?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Approach to Day Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)

Seán Canney: A 15% addition is €1.5million. What is Ability West's budget?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Approach to Day Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)

Seán Canney: Ability West would need 50% more.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Approach to Day Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)

Seán Canney: It must be disappointing each year when the budget is received.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Approach to Day Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)

Seán Canney: I thank the Chair and welcome the witnesses. Carla was here and Paul is here now. There has been a lot of talk I have listened to, and I was listening on the monitor before I came to the committee room, about resources, under-resourcing and this type of thing. The witnesses talked about the section 38 organisations and section 39 organisations. I have a reply from the Minister for Finance...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Approach to Day Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)

Seán Canney: That is what I am trying to get at. We can cod ourselves all day but we need to get the fundamentals and the budget right.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (28 May 2024)

Seán Canney: 30. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will provide the temporary accommodation necessary to allow a school (details supplied) to carry out proposed works; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23810/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (28 May 2024)

Seán Canney: The Minister might have a different numbering system.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (28 May 2024)

Seán Canney: It is about temporary accommodation for Lough Cutra National School in County Galway. It is looking for temporary accommodation while the existing school is refurbished top to bottom. It is not being funded for the temporary accommodation it needs to keep the school going while construction work goes ahead.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (28 May 2024)

Seán Canney: I submitted the question. I will give the Minister the kernel of it. The school got an additional accommodation grant but it is a total refurbishment of the school. The problem is that every one of the students has to be taken out of the school and there is no place locally to put them. The Department has said it must find its own accommodation to put them in temporarily for about six...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (28 May 2024)

Seán Canney: 32. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will instruct Bus Éireann to ensure school bus services are in place to deal with the demand for the commencement of the school year in August 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23809/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (28 May 2024)

Seán Canney: The Chair has put me up again for Question No. 32. Has Bus Éireann been allocated the necessary resources to make sure there is the adequate number of buses and sizes of buses in place for the school year in September? Last year, we saw lots of problems arise. Buses were not in place, some started off and after a week they stopped. A lot went on and there was a lot of stress. It...