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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (4 Jul 2018)

Jack Chambers: 77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of efforts to achieve pay equality within the teaching profession; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28856/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (4 Jul 2018)

Jack Chambers: 78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the location for a new secondary school for the Castleknock-Carpenterstown area of Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28855/18]

Implementing the National Drugs Strategy: Statements (28 Jun 2018)

Jack Chambers: I am sharing time with Deputy John Curran. We intend to take five minutes each. I am pleased to be able to speak on this issue. I am pleased that the new national drugs strategy was published last year. I was previously the spokesperson on drugs for the party. That role has been taken over by Deputy Stephen Donnelly, but I am glad to speak on the issue. I am glad the Minister of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Occupational Therapy Waiting Lists (28 Jun 2018)

Jack Chambers: 53. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he plans to address the long waiting times in the Dublin north west LHO area for children and adolescents needing an assessment for occupational therapy. [28321/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (28 Jun 2018)

Jack Chambers: 84. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for home care packages in the Dublin north west LHO area. [28322/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (28 Jun 2018)

Jack Chambers: 151. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to considerable delays processing visa applications at the New Delhi visa office; the reason for these delays; the number of personnel employed in the office in each of the past five years; the number currently employed; the measures underway to tackle the backlog of visa applications and to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (28 Jun 2018)

Jack Chambers: 178. To ask the Minister for Health if dementia will be added to the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28412/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Update on Disability Issues: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (27 Jun 2018)

Jack Chambers: I welcome the Minister of State and his officials. I thank the Minister of State for all the work he has done in the context of Ireland ratifying the CRPD. I know it was one of his main targets in the past couple of years and, despite the delay, he went and did it. He is to be commended on that. It is now in the implementation phase. I want to ask about the A Vision for Change document...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Update on Disability Issues: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (27 Jun 2018)

Jack Chambers: There is a clinical lead on intellectual disability whose name is Dr. Philip Dodd. Has the Minister of State met him?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Update on Disability Issues: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (27 Jun 2018)

Jack Chambers: Has the Minister of State met the HSE's clinical lead in area of intellectual disability?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Update on Disability Issues: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (27 Jun 2018)

Jack Chambers: I have a concern about the area of intellectual disability. No area has matched the outcomes called for in the A Vision for Change strategy but my understanding is that, despite all mental health services being under-resourced, services for people with intellectual disabilities lag far behind the norm or the median target range of all the other areas. If there is a clinical lead on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Update on Disability Issues: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (27 Jun 2018)

Jack Chambers: I am not saying that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Update on Disability Issues: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (27 Jun 2018)

Jack Chambers: Who is responsible for intellectual disabilities, the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, or his colleague?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Update on Disability Issues: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (27 Jun 2018)

Jack Chambers: The Minister of State is responsible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Update on Disability Issues: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (27 Jun 2018)

Jack Chambers: I never said that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Update on Disability Issues: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (27 Jun 2018)

Jack Chambers: It is not about funding.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Update on Disability Issues: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (27 Jun 2018)

Jack Chambers: It is about focusing on how we are matching the targets in A Vision for Change.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Update on Disability Issues: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (27 Jun 2018)

Jack Chambers: There is funding, there are resources, the Minister of State is meeting people and he is genuine in his interest, but we need to know how we are matching the targets. We know more resources are being allocated and more people are being hired. However we still have a crisis affecting many families. If we are not matching the targets that are set out in the strategic document which underpins...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Update on Disability Issues: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (27 Jun 2018)

Jack Chambers: I know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Update on Disability Issues: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (27 Jun 2018)

Jack Chambers: It would be good if the Minister of State updated this committee or the Joint Committee on Health on where his Department is, in terms of the document entitled A Vision for Change-----