Results 61-80 of 359 for long speaker:Anne Rabbitte

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Equal Opportunities Employment (11 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...in ensuring that disability measures are coherent and integrated, with specific actions continuing to be the responsibility of the relevant Departments and agencies. This is keeping with Ireland’s long-standing ‘mainstream-first’ approach to disability policy. In terms of specific employment supports and grants provided by Government to promote and facilitate the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of People with Disabilities (9 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...involved. My Department is continuing to scope out the requirements for earlier ratification. This scoping work is required in order to fully assess the implications of ratification and due to the long-standing position of the state in relation to honouring international agreements. As a matter of foreign policy, Ireland does not enter into binding international treaties until we are...

Transport Support Schemes for People with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...the right - the same as everybody else - to get on the bus, the train or whatever. Even when we were talking about the mobility allowance and the motorised transport grant that at that stage was no longer in existence, there was an inequality in how they were operated. I will not come against that and, therefore, I put together the working group. From that, as anybody who knows me...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (26 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...policy to respond to increasing need through the programme of decongregation and the provision of emergency placements and care. I continue to provide supports to keep people in their homes for as long as possible and out of residential care. The funding provided will deliver an additional 70,370 personal assistant hours to expand and enhance supports for people to live self-directed...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (26 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...I have a lot of money for the recruitment of staff. What I need are the measures to ensure that I am actually able to attract staff. Part of the PDS roadmap is putting in the various steps along the way. Looking at supporting quite a number of clinical psychology placements per annum from 2023 will be one of the pieces I am looking to put in. I also hope that the HSE will consider...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (26 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...we would have somebody from the CDNTs present to liaise from an educational perspective. In that way, the children can go back into their proper CDNT team and be supported there. That is the plan. It is a long time in the making but now we need to see delivery on it. The Minister, Mr. Gloster and I are in agreement on this. To be fair to Mr. Gloster, I feel he has been very positive...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (30 Mar 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...target for the employment of people with disabilities from 3% to 6%. It should be highlighted that implementation of the UNCRPD requires a whole-of-government approach. This aligns with Ireland's long-standing mainstream-first approach to disability policy. All Government departments and agencies are responsible for implementing the UNCRPD, and action, where it relates to employment,...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Human Rights (22 Mar 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...indicated that I am open to the earlier ratification of the Optional Protocol. My Department is continuing to scope out the requirements for earlier ratification. This scoping work is required due to the long-standing position of the state in relation to honouring international agreements. As a matter of foreign policy, Ireland does not enter into binding international treaties until...

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...' Assembly on Gender Equality and the Joint Committee on Gender Equality. We can all agree that the Constitution's reference to "a woman's place in the home" is, at best, outdated and is long overdue for amendment. The decision to hold one or more referendums on this issue is in line with the programme for Government's commitment to respond to each recommendation of the Citizens'...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of People with Disabilities (7 Mar 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...that we are open to the earlier ratification of the Optional Protocol. My Department is continuing to scope out the requirements for earlier ratification. This scoping work is required due to the long-standing position of the state in relation to honouring international agreements. As a matter of foreign policy, Ireland does not enter into binding international treaties until we are...

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...;intecare reforms means that community-based care options will continue to expand and the NAS will be centrally involved in delivering these patient care options as conveyance to hospital increasingly is no longer considered the most clinically appropriate default solution. I emphasise to the House, therefore, the scale of reform and modernisation that has already been achieved within the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (16 Feb 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...for older persons residential centres was developed in response to the introduction of HIQA's national residential care standards for older people and the requirement that all facilities providing long-stay beds be registered with HIQA. This is a programme to replace, upgrade and refurbish, as appropriate, care facilities at 90 locations. The vast majority of the projects relate to...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Staff (16 Feb 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...a particular challenge to the HSE. Hospitals like Bantry General Hospital are particularly affected by this trend. I have been advised that the hospital is currently relying on short-term and long-term locum non-consultant hospital doctors, NCHD, with differing levels of experience to maintain the very busy twenty-four hour, seven-day per week rota at the hospital. The cost of funding...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (8 Feb 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...that Clifden District Hospital faces. I advise Deputy Connolly that the HSE has assured the Department that it is committed to providing services to older people to meet the demands for short- and long-term services for people in Galway. The Minister of State, Deputy Butler, was delighted to hear the integrated care programme for older persons was launched at Clifden District Hospital...

Report on the Summer Programme 2023: Motion [Private Members] (2 Feb 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...the committee and shared with it. While it is a child-centred approach, Deputy Ó Cathasaigh is correct in saying there are families there, including other brothers and sisters, throughout that long period of summer. I have a vision that we can all work together and that we can achieve the goal the committee's report has set out. There is a role here for the Department of Health,...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services Provision (25 Jan 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Senator. He is right. As long as I have been a Deputy, I have heard about the crisis in ophthalmology in the Cork-Kerry area. It is testament to the Senator and other public representatives who have continued to advocate for the key capital infrastructure that was needed. Now that we have it, not just on one train but we have it at community level, we are able to deal with...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of People with Disabilities (18 Jan 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...that we are open to the earlier ratification of the Optional Protocol. My Department is currently working to scope out the requirements for earlier ratification. This scoping work is required due to the long-standing position of the state in relation to honouring international agreements. As a matter of foreign policy, Ireland does not enter into binding international treaties until we...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of People with Disabilities (18 Jan 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...that we are open to the earlier ratification of the Optional Protocol. My Department is continuing to scope out the requirements for earlier ratification. This scoping work is required due to the long-standing position of the state in relation to honouring international agreements. As a matter of foreign policy, Ireland does not enter into binding international treaties until we are...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Dec 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: ...greatest and most wide-ranging public health challenges internationally in recent history. International evidence shows that the virus disproportionately impacts older people, and people living in long-term residential care facilities have been identified as particularly vulnerable to Covid-19 by the World Health Organization. Recognising the particular vulnerability of nursing home...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of People with Disabilities (15 Dec 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: ...that we are open to the earlier ratification of the Optional Protocol. My Department is currently working to scope out the requirements for earlier ratification. This scoping work is required due to the long standing position of the state in relation to honouring international agreements. As a matter of foreign policy, Ireland does not enter into binding international treaties until we...