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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: I have two questions. I will start with the second one, which is to Mr. Mulhern. He said 96 projects are going at pace at the moment. Was universal design a consideration? How many of those projects have units held aside for people with additional needs in line with the UNCRPD? That means universal access. A person in a wheelchair needs to be able to do the 360°.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: How many houses in the last four years were allocated to people with additional needs with universal design?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: All right. It is amazing. The Land Development Agency was in here last week and told me it was only in planning and that there was no house delivered under universal design. That is neither here nor there. It is part of the planning now. Returning to Ms Finney, when Deputy McGrath was asking a question earlier she referenced exiting homelessness into more long-term arrangements. Will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: What about more hubs? Should we be looking at having an allocation in the more rural counties?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: How many of those are social workers?

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2025: Free Legal Advice Centres (18 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: I apologise for being late. I do not see it as a double entitlement. First, as Senator O'Reilly and Mr. Bowes have rightly said in their remarks, a lot of the people who pass away already have contributory entitlements. The widow or widower is actually only claiming off his or her late spouse's entitlement. If a person becomes ill, he or she becomes ill in his or her own right. That is...

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Effect of Child-related Benefits on Child Poverty and Deprivation: ESRI (18 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: I really welcome this Economic and Social Research Institute report. A bespoke piece of work like this gives us a great understanding and a wider context. At the end of the day, it helps us form policy and a direction when it talks about €773 million, because the budget last year for social protection was about €2.5 billion. I was doing a bit of research to see if there is...

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Effect of Child-related Benefits on Child Poverty and Deprivation: ESRI (18 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: I want to tease that out a little bit further. There is the figure of 195,000 children, and then there is a figure of 100,000 children in consistent poverty. Have the witnesses the data behind that research to say it is X number of families of lone parents that fall into that category? Or, it is X number of families that are in receipt of the disability allowance, for example. The...

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Effect of Child-related Benefits on Child Poverty and Deprivation: ESRI (18 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: Straight away that is an identification as to where we should be, at a very minimum, raising the bar. That is very important and I thank the witnesses for their contributions.

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Effect of Child-related Benefits on Child Poverty and Deprivation: ESRI (18 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: Thank you, a Chathaoirligh, for letting me in for just a quick question. Going back to the figure of 100,000 children, is the €770 million cost solely for the 100,000 children? Is it the cost for the 195,000 children? I am just trying to work out that figure of €770 million. What does it equate to in the number of children?

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Effect of Child-related Benefits on Child Poverty and Deprivation: ESRI (18 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: It would cost €770 million. That is an important one for us to know, Chair, as to what we have to benchmark against when we are looking at making submissions to the Minister. That €770 million is to take 25,000 children out of consistent poverty.

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Effect of Child-related Benefits on Child Poverty and Deprivation: ESRI (18 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: That income poverty could also be looked at on the means side of things or on disregards because it puts more money, on whatever basis, back into the parents' pockets.

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Effect of Child-related Benefits on Child Poverty and Deprivation: ESRI (18 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: That is only for a person who is in receipt of the widow's or widower's pension.

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Effect of Child-related Benefits on Child Poverty and Deprivation: ESRI (18 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: Are there others as well?

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Effect of Child-related Benefits on Child Poverty and Deprivation: ESRI (18 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: They are doing very well.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (17 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister of State for being here this afternoon and showing her commitment by taking this Commencement matter. I also thank the Cathaoirleach for selecting it. The question relates to the development of an equine therapy centre on the Toghermore House site. When we talk about equine therapy and children with additional needs, it is important to realise the value it provides...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (17 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister of State. In the one minute allocated to me and her response, I would like to know that the €650,000 funding secured in last year's budget has been ring-fenced for the revenue spend and staff development piece related to the equine therapy development at the Toghermore regional campus. That would also cover Mayo and Roscommon. That €650,000 funding fell...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (17 Jun 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: I move that the House stand suspended until after the vote.