Results 841-860 of 9,432 for speaker:Hildegarde Naughton
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (20 Feb 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (20 Feb 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (20 Feb 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: The Deputy has clarified that this question relates to Primary Care services which are a matter for the Department of Health.
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (20 Feb 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (20 Feb 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (20 Feb 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (20 Feb 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (20 Feb 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (20 Feb 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: The Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015, along with the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Act 2022, commenced on the 26th of April 2023. The Acts provide a modern statutory framework to support decision-making by adults with capacity difficulties, and represent a crucial shift away from a ‘best interests’ approach to a rights-based approach to capacity,...
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Employment Support Services (20 Feb 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: Government acknowledges that considerable barriers to employment exist for people with disabilities and that the rate of unemployment among disabled people is unacceptably high. Government policy is to continually increase the number of people with disabilities in employment and while there is more to be done, progress has been made to ensure that disabled people are supported to pursue...
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Assisted Decision-Making (19 Feb 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: The Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015, along with the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Act 2022, commenced on the 26th of April 2023. Part 7 of the 2015 Act provides for a new "enduring powers of attorney" system which enables an individual to plan ahead by appointing someone they trust to act as their attorney and to make certain decisions on their behalf if...
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (19 Feb 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (19 Feb 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services Waiting Lists (19 Feb 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (19 Feb 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (19 Feb 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Diagnoses (19 Feb 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: I thank the Deputy for this question and note that while eligibility criteria for different schemes and supports offered by the state can differ, in broad terms we do not define disability by way of reference to individualised impairments or medicalised diagnoses. For instance the Disability Act 2005 interprets disability as meaning a “substantial restriction in the capacity of the...
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (18 Feb 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (18 Feb 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: The European Commission published a proposal for a Directive establishing the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities on 6th September 2023. The proposal is one of the flagship initiatives of the EU Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-30. A provisional agreement was reached on the proposed Directive between the Council and...
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (18 Feb 2025)
Hildegarde Naughton: As this question refers to the service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.