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Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (Resumed) (11 May 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: A question was asked about the complaints and the 14-month delay. I might not have answered the question from Deputy Costello but he was addressing the same point. To be honest I have met with the HSE several times about this. Where there was a reconfiguration of services and an assessment going through primary care and network disability teams, it baffled me how four years or 40 months was...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (Resumed) (11 May 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: The Senator is right regarding the point about therapists. I did not have the answer for Deputy Cairns and I do not have an answer for the Senator on what the turnover is like. In the past, we have not built in enough capacity to support the turnover. The reason we have turnover is because it is very stressful unless there are enough people on the teams to make it work. That is where the...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (Resumed) (11 May 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: I have listened to all the commentary since this committee was formed. To be fair to the Chair and the entire committee, they have focused on this standard operating procedure, SOP. It was part of the pre-Covid transition in January before I arrived as Minister of State. I am not making excuses, but it was already in place. The committee looked into it, brought in the Ombudsman, whom we...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (Resumed) (11 May 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: My understanding is that it is indicative. That was one of my concerns. In the feedback some clinicians would have said 90 minutes is too short. I would have queried that 90-minute process. We need to allow flexibility among the clinicians carrying out assessments. When a person goes in the front door, if it takes longer than 90 minutes to get the assessment done, let it take longer. I...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (Resumed) (11 May 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: The diagnosis of the child’s needs will determine how long an assessment will take.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (Resumed) (11 May 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: I am getting advice on this. What I am led to believe is that it is built in. I can get the Deputy further clarification on that, or I will provide clarification on what "built in" means it to the committee. Does that make sense?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (Resumed) (11 May 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: Not at all.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (Resumed) (11 May 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: If that falls within the disability services, the family need to contact the disability service manager within that CHO.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (Resumed) (11 May 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: First and foremost, I have nine CHO disability managers in the country. They meet me every month, so they are in place - they exist.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (Resumed) (11 May 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: Every €1 that comes through the CHOs goes through our disability managers in the CHOs. If that home care is provided through the disability services, that is the person the parent needs to contact. They will work to signpost and address the issues that the Senator has raised regarding the quality of the audit piece and, perhaps most importantly, the service level agreement that they...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (Resumed) (11 May 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: The Senator is clearly seeing the service and operational issue there and it is not unique, to be perfectly honest. That is why one needs to go back to the HSE because that funding support mechanism is hard-fought and hard-got. The family is very clear on what level of service delivery they expect. If service providers are not stepping up to the mark where they have made a contract - much...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (Resumed) (11 May 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: The Chairperson and myself would have sat together when we spoke on the autism strategy in the past. The reason I am acting as chairperson of the group is to assist in opening doors. This is to do with health, employment, housing and education. I confirm that it is not just Department officials who will be sitting on this strategy group by any manner or means. There will be an open...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (Resumed) (11 May 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: First and foremost, the review that is currently taking place was commissioned by the HSE in March 2021. The full review will be complete by March 2022. There will be an interim review after six months to see how progress is going. That process is under way. One could say we are nearly a quarter of the way into the review. Second, the Senator referred to CHOs that have cleared their...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (Resumed) (11 May 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: There are many concerns because families are waiting far too long for an intervention. Nobody will deny that. While children were waiting for an intervention, assessments were being cleared. I made that a priority in that if I cleared the backlog of assessment of needs I could then focus on the intervention. That is what it is about. That is the nut I want to crack. I want to get...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (Resumed) (11 May 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: I will come back to the Chairperson on that and she can relay the information to the Deputy.

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (6 May 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: I will take those questions if I may. I thank Deputy Canney for raising these matters. I will take his last question first. He is quite right in what he has said about primary medical certificates. There was very little movement on them up to last December and into January. I met the primary medical certificate team myself two months ago. In the past two months, 471 assessments have...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Medical Certificates (5 May 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: The Disabled Drivers and Disabled Passengers (Tax Concessions) Scheme is underpinned by statute and comes within the remit of the Department of Finance and the Revenue Commissioners. A requirement of the scheme involves Health Service Executive (HSE) Community Medical Doctors making a clinical determination as to whether an individual applicant meets the specified medical criteria for a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Special Educational Needs (5 May 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (5 May 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: I propose to take Questions Nos. 505 and 506 together. As these are service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (5 May 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly.