Results 681-700 of 1,588 for speaker:Micheál Carrigy

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Services and Supports Provided by the State for Autistic People: Discussion (2 Mar 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: I wanted to bring back in Ms Ger Kenny. I cut her off. Apologies, she had something else to say.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Services and Supports Provided by the State for Autistic People: Discussion (2 Mar 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: It was remiss of me not to congratulate Mr. Harris on his recent engagement. Like every newly engaged person, he has been turning the ring around his finger. Ms Kenny made a point about the committee. We are committed as a group to ensuring this report will not rest on a shelf. We want it to be implemented. We have sought the authority for an all-party committee to be set up to review...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Services and Supports Provided by the State for Autistic People: Discussion (2 Mar 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: I thank Dr. Mathews and all the speakers. I will allow members to make comments or ask specific questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Services and Supports Provided by the State for Autistic People: Discussion (2 Mar 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: I am personally humbled to be here. I have nothing but admiration for everyone who came in and spoke so honestly here today. It is not easy to come into a setting like this and speak so honestly. I can give them a guarantee on behalf of the committee that their voice will be heard and will be contained in our recommendations. That is extremely important. Deputy Buckley mentioned that...

Seanad: Project Ireland 2040: Statements (1 Mar 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: The Minister of State, Deputy Ossian Smyth, is very welcome as was the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, who was here earlier. Back in 2018, I was down in Sligo when Project 2040, the national development plan, was launched. After a significant amount of pressure by local representatives in the midlands and up into the north west, the N4 project was put back onto the national development plan. It...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Registration of Short-Term Tourist Letting Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: I welcome our guests. I was in the Seanad up to now. I apologise for missing the beginning of the session. I am pretty much in agreement with many of my colleagues. I am a member of a Government party and I come from a rural area. I am involved with County Longford tourism and have been for a long number of years. We have been trying to build a product in a county that was miles away...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Registration of Short-Term Tourist Letting Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: I approached people in my county to try to sell the opportunity of the Royal Canal in particular. We started the project in Longford in 2012 and it has now morphed up to Dublin and from Dublin to Galway. There is a unique opportunity there. We held seminars with Fáilte Ireland and encouraged people to set up cafes, cycle shops, farmhouses and accommodation to make sure we benefit from...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Registration of Short-Term Tourist Letting Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: The just transition fund has been allocated €160 million. It has three strategic priorities and two of them are tourism based. I refer to trails and generated tourism for which accommodation is required. Mr. Nolan from Airbnb mentioned its research on activities in every county. Are there figures for County Longford? Mr. O'Mara Walsh said just transition is being led by the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: I acknowledge the support of the Leader and the Cathaoirleach with regard to the event on Thursday next in the Seanad, where we will have families and self-advocates of autistic persons coming into the Chamber to hear their views and the concerns they have with the lack of services and supports from the State. I acknowledge the support of both of them in allowing that to happen. I invite...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. They have been extremely beneficial to all the committee members who have been here. I know others are watching the proceedings online as well. There are no other issues on our agenda today. We will adjourn until next Thursday, 2 March, at 11 a.m., when we will meeting in the Seanad Chamber for a round-table discussion on public concerns...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: I agree.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: I have found music therapy exceptionally good for our son. What are the witnesses’ thoughts on that helping with speech?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: My own son’s verbal ability improved dramatically through a course of music therapy. I have seen that it works. On my behalf and on behalf of the committee, I thank the witnesses and everyone who works in the professions. They are under strain. We need to acknowledge that and acknowledge the work done throughout the country, privately, through CDNTs and through the HSE. There...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: Send it to the clerk and we will circulate it, and to Deputy Ó Murchú as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: Some section 39 agencies have and others have not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: That programme is very important and the reason we highlighted it as a committee is that we saw the figures from 2022 which were alarming. Last year 14% of students in the approximately 130 special schools had a school-based summer programme but 3.6% of the 6,500 children with higher needs only got two weeks of a school-based summer programme. I am using percentages but we are talking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: I wish to raise another few issues before allowing my colleagues to come back in, one of which is administrative support for CDNTs. I have had this conversation in relation to other areas too, about solicitors, doctors and so on, having to type up reports and the significant amount of time that takes up. Would additional administrative support be helpful? Another issue is the training...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: Mr. Allen mentioned experience. It was one of the recommendations from the committee that we put forward last November in the context of the summer programme, and the Department included it as part of the recommendations it made last week. That involved third level students in the various therapies working in the summer programme. From an experience point of view, this would involve them...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: Would Ms Lawlor not be in favour of the Department of Education funding that trial in a school, where we could look at the results in our own country?