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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Enabling Community Inclusion for People with Disabilities (Resumed): Disability Equality Specialist Support Agency (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Moynihan: It is extremely frustrating is it not? That is the challenge. We may pursue that in the channels that are open to us, and we might throw some spotlights on it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Enabling Community Inclusion for People with Disabilities (Resumed): Disability Equality Specialist Support Agency (3 Jul 2024)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the witnesses very much for appearing before the committee. We really appreciate it. I thank them for the work they do. It is greatly appreciated. Our job is now to try to ensure that it does not veer off the radar completely. I thank the members and our team. We will adjourn until next week at 5 o'clock.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (27 Jun 2024)

Michael Moynihan: Yes, I did attend the meeting. In the first instance, I commend what the section 39 or charitable organisations are doing throughout the country in providing services on behalf of the State. This is one of the charity organisations that is providing services which are not being provided by the State but should be provided by the State. The State is failing to ensure that money is provided...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (27 Jun 2024)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the House for allowing me the opportunity to raise this issue. The Crann project in Ballincollig in County Cork is a fantastic innovation that has been developed over the last number of years. The board of directors and the team there have developed fantastic facilities for people with disabilities, therapeutic facilities for rehabilitation and indeed play therapy. They are also...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (27 Jun 2024)

Michael Moynihan: 35. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the discussions and engagement he has had with EU counterparts on the grave situation in Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27271/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (27 Jun 2024)

Michael Moynihan: 49. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had any engagement with Brazil, India, or South Africa over their failure to sign up to a joint communique issued at the end of a Ukraine peace conference in which more than 80 countries and international organisations endorsed Ukrainian territorial integrity in the face of Russia’s invasion; and if he will make a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Department of Education (25 Jun 2024)

Michael Moynihan: Apologies have been received from Senators O'Loughlin and McGreehan. On behalf the committee, I welcome the Minister of State with responsibility for special education and inclusion, Deputy Naughton, and Mr. Frank Hanlon, Mr. Martin McLoughlin and Mr. Brendan Doody, principal officers in the special education section of the Department. The Minister of State may call on her officials to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Department of Education (25 Jun 2024)

Michael Moynihan: I call Deputy Paul Donnelly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Department of Education (25 Jun 2024)

Michael Moynihan: I have a question on the template. In the last 24 or 48 hours I have been advised of a special class in a primary school. It was redesignated as a special class. The six kids in the class could have stayed in that for an extra year. The board of management took a decision to redesignate it so that the six kids could stay in place, but the patron overruled the board of management. That...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Department of Education (25 Jun 2024)

Michael Moynihan: I know the NCSE met the board of management of one school in County Cork. It has special classes associated with a primary school but it wanted to build a special school on the campus. In my experience and from evidence we are getting, I know there is a chronic shortage with kids from Cork having to go to Limerick, Kerry and Tipperary. Is the NCSE due to make any decisions in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Department of Education (25 Jun 2024)

Michael Moynihan: Thank you, Deputy Ó Murchú. I think he has-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Department of Education (25 Jun 2024)

Michael Moynihan: I am just trying to follow through on the patronage issue. I will talk to the Deputy directly on this because I know the NCSE has been involved. I thank everyone for their contributions. There is a lot of work to do but I acknowledge the sincerity of those involved. It has been a long session this evening. Our meeting stands adjourned until tomorrow at 5 p.m. That may change, subject to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Department of Education (25 Jun 2024)

Michael Moynihan: Were the patrons the diocese in those instances?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (25 Jun 2024)

Michael Moynihan: 133. To ask the Minister for Finance when the terms and conditions of the primary medical certificate scheme will be amended to include single arm amputees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26888/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (25 Jun 2024)

Michael Moynihan: 134. To ask the Minister for Finance if the criteria for the primary medical certificate scheme can be amended to include people with MS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26889/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (25 Jun 2024)

Michael Moynihan: 177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports available for teachers with disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26891/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (25 Jun 2024)

Michael Moynihan: 178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a teacher in County Cork (details supplied) will be eligible to register under route 4 with the Teaching Council; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26892/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (25 Jun 2024)

Michael Moynihan: 375. To ask the Minister for Health the key dementia policy initiatives that he and his Department have taken in the past year to improve supports for people with dementia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26771/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Management (18 Jun 2024)

Michael Moynihan: 106. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider establishing a fund for communities to finance traffic calming measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26124/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Management (18 Jun 2024)

Michael Moynihan: 107. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the supports that are in place to assist local authorities with regards to traffic-calming measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26125/24]