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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018) Alice-Mary Higgins: I am talking education and part-time options and not simply the entitlement to same. I refer to things like quality part-time educational options. For example, the CE scheme is one of the few schemes that is part-time. Perhaps this is too micro in detail but that is not available to people on certain schemes. The question is about quality part-time options. Another key issue that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018) Alice-Mary Higgins: I have one tiny final point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018) Alice-Mary Higgins: What might be-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018) Alice-Mary Higgins: I was struck by what was said about technology in assisted learning. Perhaps the delegates might tell us more about the reasonable accommodation aspect that was mentioned, either now or in writing later. There were some strong recommendations for an overhaul in that area, particularly in the use of technology and in terms of how important it is. This applies not only to the provision of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018) Alice-Mary Higgins: The Deputy might be referring to the schemes Ms Carr mentioned that the HSE had funded in the absence of other schemes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018) Alice-Mary Higgins: I am following up on some of the issues which have been highlighted already, including the huge level of unpaid administrative work. It came across very strongly in the testimonies of the many individuals who have navigated the system. A huge level of unpaid administrative work is undertaken by individuals to access not just equality but their rights and entitlements and to navigate the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018) Alice-Mary Higgins: I will make a couple of points and then there can be general answers. Maybe the witnesses can give that date. Is there a date?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018) Alice-Mary Higgins: Is it expected before the summer recess or do we not know?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018) Alice-Mary Higgins: Perfect. That was a key question. I will give input regarding a couple of points that really struck me on that issue of transition points from the testimony of others. Special needs assistants were mentioned. People may have had special needs assistance in our higher education institutions or post-primary institutions and then find themselves wishing to transition into employment but the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018) Alice-Mary Higgins: Yes. I have one last set of questions which I will come to.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018) Alice-Mary Higgins: I am talking education and part-time options and not simply the entitlement to same. I refer to things like quality part-time educational options. For example, the CE scheme is one of the few schemes that is part-time. Perhaps this is too micro in detail but that is not available to people on certain schemes. The question is about quality part-time options. Another key issue that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018) Alice-Mary Higgins: I have one tiny final point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018) Alice-Mary Higgins: What might be-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018) Alice-Mary Higgins: I was struck by what was said about technology in assisted learning. Perhaps the delegates might tell us more about the reasonable accommodation aspect that was mentioned, either now or in writing later. There were some strong recommendations for an overhaul in that area, particularly in the use of technology and in terms of how important it is. This applies not only to the provision of...
- Seanad: Community Banking System: Statements (30 May 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Others have spoken about the challenge facing our post office network and the linked but separate challenges of the need for an alternative to commercial banks and the hugely disproportionate weight of commercial banks in Ireland, which is out of line with anything anywhere and dangerous for society. Senator Marie-Louise O'Donnell's excoriating and brilliant speech covered that, so I will...
- Seanad: Community Banking System: Statements (30 May 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: -----bad practice. We are handing over the territory on which we hope these new community banks and public banking will take place. There is a choice here. We need alternatives, not simply new agents of the existing commercial banks. We need to ensure we do not take that space away. My final point, which is very important-----
- Seanad: Community Banking System: Statements (30 May 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I will say this because it is a direct question to the Minister. Is it not the case that those commercial banks do not pay taxes because they are writing them off? If we have new banking models, they will not only be profitable, they will also feed back into stakeholders and communities rather than shareholders. They will also be paying tax properly. At present, the existing heavily...
- Seanad: Incorrect Birth Registrations: Statements (Resumed) (30 May 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I thank the Minister for coming to the House. Yet again we find ourselves in a discussion involving the deep, damaging culture of secrecy that has permeated in Ireland for so many years. There was, in some cases, a culture of criminal obfuscation. We know the damage done at the time by all these acts lingers because those who are affected are still with us. They have continued to face...
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 May 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Like others, I wish to speak briefly about the referendum and the huge majority of the Irish people who made a momentous decision on Friday to trust one another and trust women.Ireland also took a great step towards restoring the trust of women in our State. Women now trust more that they will be safe, that they will be equal and that they will be heard. It is for us as legislators to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2018) Alice-Mary Higgins: The presentations have been really wonderful and lots of issues have been raised. I will try to avoid some of the ones which have already been touched on, including the important point around the role of the embargo on public service recruitment. I was struck by the issue of invisibility which Mr. Kearney spoke about. He referred to invisible disability. I was also struck by that issue in...