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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (15 Oct 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I wish to advise the Deputy that engagement is ongoing between relevant stakeholders in relation to finalising the scoping of the relevant elements of a review of the CDNT model of service, with the review to be conducted by the National Disability Authority (NDA). The NDA is the independent statutory body, providing evidence-based advice and research to Government on disability policy and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (10 Oct 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (10 Oct 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (10 Oct 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: The deal was most certainly done.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: The KOSI process was put in place last year. Would you believe it, we are still working our way through the KOSI process. Only yesterday, I visited St. Christopher's Services in Longford. Its back payment of €1.2 million has been allocated and released by the HSE to the provider and will be passed on. A number of other section 39 organisations still need to complete the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Agriculture Schemes (9 Oct 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I will start by apologising for being late to the House.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Agriculture Schemes (9 Oct 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank Senator Kyne for his opening contribution. I am taking this Commencement matter on behalf of the Minister, Deputy McConalogue, who wishes to thank the Senator for raising this important issue. It gives me an opportunity to update our colleagues in Seanad Éireann on the agri-climate rural environment scheme, known locally as ACRES. As the Senator correctly said, ACRES is the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Agriculture Schemes (9 Oct 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Senator for providing the opportunity to discuss this important topic. I reiterate the environmental ambition of ACRES, with Ireland leading the way among other member states in rolling out a national results-based scheme. The first year of such ambitious schemes brings with it complexities and challenges. The Government regrets delays that have been experienced by many...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services Staff (9 Oct 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Senator for raising this important matter. It is important for me to say I have been given my script by the Department of Health on behalf of the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, who apologises for not being able to be here. The Government is hugely committed to supporting the nursing and midwifery workforce and has provided for an unprecedented level of investment throughout its...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services Staff (9 Oct 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: Again, I thank the Senator. It is important to reiterate the Government's commitment to nursing and midwifery. Through the Government's record investment, our health service workforce has expanded exponentially since the beginning of 2020. There are 27,901 more staff in total, with the largest portion of this figure made up of nurses and midwives, amounting to 9,375. Despite this...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Legislative Measures (9 Oct 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Senator for raising this matter. I am responding on behalf of the Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee. Ireland is, in general, a diverse and welcoming country but there are people living here who live in fear simply because of who they are - their identity. The Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill had been due to repeal and replace the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Legislative Measures (9 Oct 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I appreciate the Senator's interest and contribution. The Minister for Justice wants to be clear; Ireland must update its incitement to hatred legislation. If this requires further discussion and debate to reach consensus on how we do this effectively, she is prepared to examine the issues with a view to finding a way forward. While that is happening, we cannot ignore the fact that we need...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Civil Registration Service (9 Oct 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I see the matter was addressed to the Minister for Social Protection-----

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Civil Registration Service (9 Oct 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I do not know on whose behalf I am answering but I will answer it as it has been scripted for me. I thank the Senator for raising this matter. The civil registration service is an important service. There is a legal requirement on every person to notify the service of births, marriages and deaths that occur in the State and to do this in a timely manner. When a birth is registered, it...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Civil Registration Service (9 Oct 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: Absolutely. The Senator saw me trying to figure out which Minister I was answering for at the beginning. The answer I received from the Department of Social Protection clearly tells me the process involved in it. It also clearly tells us how they are trying to move to that digital space to make it more flexible, timely and everything else. It is also important to have that choice. I...

Seanad: Final Report of the Joint Committee on Autism: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Seanad for allowing us to have this debate. It is not really a debate but an acknowledgement of the hard work that the Joint Committee on Autism has done on the report that was produced over 12 months ago. I thank its Chairman, Senator Carrigy, for making sure there were no barriers to this committee being an all-party, cross-party committee, where children, young adults and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Early Childhood Care and Education (9 Oct 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank Deputy Wynne for raising this important issue and for offering the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, the opportunity to respond. I am taking the matter on his behalf. A key objective for the Department is for all children to participate in ECCE, the free pre-school programme. The early childhood care and education scheme, ECCE, is a free universal two-year pre-school programme...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Early Childhood Care and Education (9 Oct 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: As I am taking this on behalf of the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, I must stick to the script. It is intended that, over time, all children with additional needs enrolled in early learning and care in school-aged children services will have access to supports under AIM. To this end, consideration is being given by officials in the Department of children to policy and mechanisms to extend AIM...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Safety (9 Oct 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter. I am taking it on behalf of the Minister, Deputy Ryan. The Minister for Transport has responsibility for overall policy and Exchequer funding in relation to the national roads programme. Once funding arrangements have been put in place with TII under the Roads Acts 1993 to 2015 and in line with the national development plan, NDP, the planning,...