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Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Bríd Smith: Problem solved.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (19 Sep 2024)

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (19 Sep 2024)

I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 37 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy James O'Connor - To discuss flood relief measures in the east Cork region. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan - To discuss the lack of bus infrastructure in housing estates across Limerick. Deputy Pat Buckley - To discuss the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (19 Sep 2024)

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Public Transport (19 Sep 2024)

Public Transport

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Public Transport (19 Sep 2024)

Duncan Smith: I raise the shambles of the timetable change in the northern commuter line implemented by Irish Rail in two stages over the past three weeks. We, the commuters of north County Dublin, Fingal and indeed some of the Minister of State's constituents, are not happy. They are experienced commuters used to timetable changes throughout the years. This has been an absolute shambles for a number of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Public Transport (19 Sep 2024)

Thomas Byrne: I thank Deputy Duncan Smith for raising this topic. I am taking this Topical Issue on behalf of the Minister for Transport, Deputy Eamon Ryan. Deputy Smith is right; quite a number of my constituents who use Laytown, Drogheda, Stamullen and Gormanston stations are affected by this. The Minister for Transport has responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to public...

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Bríd Smith: I thank those in the Gallery who have come here today and who consistently campaign for their children, all our children and all of us with the work they do. I congratulate Greg from Ballymun and his missus, Celine, because they have fought like tigers in Finglas and got their son a place when, up to the last minute, he had not got one. Likewise, to Nicola O'Dea. I do not think she is here...

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One hundred and ten thousand.

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Bríd Smith: Let me come to that. She does not address how she is going to engage the 375 extra clinicians that the HSE says we need to clear that waiting list for assessment of need. There is not a word about that. Nor do we hear, as Deputy Boyd Barrett pointed out there, about the 110,000 children waiting for therapies. There is a 30% overall void in the number of therapists available. The Minister...

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: I thank everybody who has participated in the debate. I have sat through many debates like this in the Dáil and heard the Minister of State's responses in the past. I have heard about the pilot schemes, the task forces and the marginal improvements in a horrendous situation. It is still horrendous. If you go from waiting six years for an intervention that your child needs to waiting...

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: Next, I think, we are back to a Government slot. I am sorry; my apologies to Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne.

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach Gníomhach. I welcome the motion put forward by People Before Profit-Solidarity on this very important issue. I have been raising the waiting lists, specifically in Clare, for the last number of months, and I have the numbers of the first contact and those waiting on the initial contact. There are still 36 children in care who are waiting...

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank Deputies for bringing forward this motion and I welcome the opportunity to speak to the House to reassure Deputies that the Government is fully committed to people with disabilities and their families. I do, of course, acknowledge that there are important challenges that we must address, many of them raised by the Deputies in their contributions, if disability services are to fully...

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Thomas Pringle: I fully support this motion regarding disability and special needs provision and thank People Before Profit for raising this very important issue. First, I wish to highlight the urgency needed in the full ratification of the optional protocol of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The fact that the protocol and amendments to the Education for Persons...

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Gary Gannon: I thank People Before Profit for bringing forward an excellent, timely and powerful motion with so many meaningful suggestions. To enact even half of them would make a substantive difference to the lives of countless people the length and breadth of this country. I hope many of these measures will be reflected in the budget when it is presented to us early next month. At the heart of the...

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Seán Canney: I welcome the motion by People Before Profit, and the opportunity to speak on it. I am a member of the disability matters committee. For nearly five years, we have been hearing from different parents and representative groups what is going on and the way they are experiencing life, living with a disability or with a family member who has a disability. We hear it in our constituency...

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I have just been sent an email from Scoil Bhríde Shelagh, which is in north Louth. It states its main worry is that while it has had an additional school accommodation application submitted to the planning and building unit of the Department of Education since October 2023, this was put on hold after the sanctioning of its two autism classes because the Department had pulled the...

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Duncan Smith: I thank People Before Profit–Solidarity for this comprehensive motion on this most important area. As Deputy Cullinane said, we could paper the walls of the Dáil with debates we have had on disability and special needs provision. The figures on assessments of needs are stark, considerable and shameful. Just under 11,000 children are awaiting an assessment of need and 110,000...

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: While there are a lot of failures this Government is overseeing, the failures in disability services are probably the single greatest failure. Like all the other failures, what we get from the Taoiseach is soundbites rather than solutions. My experience of dealing with families in Monaghan is a familiar story, from listening to other Deputies. Families are waiting far too long for an...