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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (18 Jun 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: Will the Minister provide further information on the timeline? We would all welcome that there needs to be a move away from the private sector. Some of the locations have been utterly unsuitable for all. It is fair to say we have to do whatever we can to look after people who are fleeing dreadful sets of circumstances and the rest of it. However, we need to get a system that works and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (18 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I agree with much of what the Deputy said. We have to remember we are rebuilding our international protection system in real time. For years we were not getting anywhere close to the European average for international protection applicants. Since 2022 we have been getting the average, but our system was not built for those numbers. We are having to rebuild the processing system. The...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (18 Jun 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: Has the Minister further information on the timeline and when we will see this move occurring? That is obviously accepting that as things happen there needs to be a huge amount of planning work done. There has to be interaction with those communities where some of these are to be located. Suitability has to be at a premium. Beyond that, will the Minister say where we are as regards...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (18 Jun 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: The comprehensive accommodation strategy is to run until 2028. The vision set out in my answer of 13,000 beds and the various elements is something we wish to achieve by 2028. We have already taken significant steps in the use of State land. That has been a huge change. There is the site at Crooksling, County Dublin, and at Trudder, County Wicklow, where we are now accommodating a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (18 Jun 2024)

Questions Nos. 46 and 47 taken with Written Answers.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (18 Jun 2024)

Disability Services

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (18 Jun 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 48. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of the critical shortage of personal assistant hours for people with disabilities in this country in general; the reason a person (details supplied) has been put in a position where their 70-year-old parents are assisting them because they receive no PA support two days a week and only half-day...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (18 Jun 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I ask the Minister if he is aware of the critical shortage of personal assistant hours for people with disabilities across the State, and the reason a person whose details have been supplied has been put in a position where they receive no PA support two days a week and only half-day support for two other days. I ask for his views on whether his Department is adequately supporting disabled...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (18 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: The HSE, either directly or indirectly through a range of voluntary and private service providers, provides a range of assisted living services including PA and home support services. Some 80% of specialised disability provision is delivered through non-statutory sector service providers. PA services provide one-to-one support to people with physical disabilities in their homes and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Care Services (18 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: There is no doubt that we have had challenges with recruiting staff. Funding has been provided. The Deputy has mentioned all the brilliant organisations in his area. When they are working at full tilt in the Cork area, they are providing 10,000 bed nights on an annual basis. That is just Cork alone. He talked about Enable's Lavanagh House. That has not got full capacity yet. It is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Care Services (18 Jun 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: In some cases when residential respite is not being offered, respite in the home is being offered as a substitute. It can work for some people but for many others it does not really happen. It is not like the family will be going away for a family event without a key member of the family while the respite is ongoing. There might be a call to say they are in trouble and need the support of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Care Services (18 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: There is no doubt that respite is not one-size-fits-all. Respite needs to be a suite of measures whether it is after-school, Saturday clubs, sibling clubs or holiday camps as well as the in-home support, the residential part of it, the shared care and the home support. It is a suite of measures. Where families are finding that the in-home support is not actually meeting their needs, that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Care Services (18 Jun 2024)

Questions Nos. 36 to 39, inclusive, taken with Written Answers.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (18 Jun 2024)

Disability Services

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (18 Jun 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 40. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are plans for new therapies for autism to be used in the public health sector; if so, when it is hoped that they will be available for children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26056/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (18 Jun 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: Does the Minister of State have any plans for new therapies to be used? The question submitted stated "in the public health sector", but I mean across the board. We have spoken before about getting the best bang for buck. It is two things. We all know we need speech and language therapy, OT and other services. We need to put them where we get the best bang for buck along with any...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (18 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: Both the Government and the HSE acknowledge the ongoing challenges faced with the delivery of therapies for children with autism and their families. Disability services are provided based on the presenting needs of an individual assessment according to the person’s requirements and care needs. The HSE is focused on implementing the actions of the PDS roadmap which will target...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (18 Jun 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I will break this into two parts. There is assessment and then ensuring there are therapies. We know a workforce planning piece needs to be done. I do not know how many times I have said that even if we get that piece right, it will take a number of years to have everybody in place, involving CDNTs, primary care and all the rest of it. We need to find the best means to provide the best...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (18 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: When looking at the alternatives, the Deputy is right about the AAC devices. That is why we funded AsIAm this year to purchase more assistive technology devices. The HSE and the Department of Education are purchasing in whole. AsIAm will purchase the guts of 600 devices to be made available to children. Not only will they be made available to children, but they will also be enhanced with...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (18 Jun 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I hope he was not out canvassing on his trike.