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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (11 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I propose to take Questions Nos. 330 and 331 together. The HSE provides a range of assisted living services including Personal Assistant (PA) and Home Support Services (HSS) to support individuals to maximise their capacity to live full and independent lives. PA and Home Support Services are provided either directly by the HSE or indirectly through a range of voluntary and private service...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Care Services (11 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I propose to take Questions Nos. 332 and 333 together. As these questions refer 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: Care Services (11 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: 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.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I am pleased to be able to address today’s session to discuss the general provisions and implementation of the UNCRPD. I acknowledge the cross-party work of this committee and its clear efforts in seeking to drive progress for disabled people in line with its remit to monitor the implementation of the convention. This is an exciting time in the evolution of the disability landscape...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank Deputy Tully. She covered an awful lot. There is no doubt that the system with the CDNTs is not working. It is not, because they are not fully staffed. When you do not have a fully functioning model, it is hard to see what good looks like, because one is only guessing what good looks like. Could we incentivise therapists more to come into it? I think we have such a crisis in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Senator. On the EPSEN Act, the review, which was instigated by the Minister, Deputy Foley, is ongoing by the Department of Education. We have been informed that it will be done by the end of the year. We are looking at having it by the end of the year. I hope to launch the respite action plan in the coming weeks. We will see the full allocation. I secured €15...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: That is my understanding of what is required in the Senator's area, where an action plan is being put in place. In fairness to the disability manager Margaret O'Neill, who is in charge and who is only new into post in the area, she is awaiting some posts to be signed off as we speak so as that she can enable the works to be done in her area.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I recommend that the family take the conversation up with the disability manager in their area.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: On the UN process, to be fair to the HSE it tries to do both an intervention and an assessment. Clearly, the capacity requirement means that when there is not enough staff, it is very hard to do both. That is why the funding that has been sought is for the long-waiters. There are also resources to access private capacity. That is there to do it. As I said to Senator O'Loughlin, a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I am formulating my answer based on the Senator's questions because the questions are very well-founded. Sometimes as Minister of State, I am often found guilty of jumping into answer a question without thinking it through completely, and on this one I am thinking it through. PDS was formulated ten or 12 years ago but it finally became operational on my watch. The lead referred to by the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: She is an occupational therapist. That is her background with academia from UL.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: We will provide the Senator, through the secretary, with the answers about both appointments. It is important for me to read into the record as well-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I was about to address that piece. I have a note in front of me regarding it. Witnesses appeared before this committee a number of weeks ago who spoke about this. The HSE knows that the evidence base for the PDS includes the lived experience of health services of children with disabilities and their families, gathered through family representation, surveys, observations, assessments,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I will get the Senator that answer. I am talking about 12 years ago but we will get that piece for the Senator. It is not a problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: Ought to happen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: The HSE would say they are happening and that every assessment is an intervention. It would say that every child who is seen is an intervention space.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Senator. I will skip straight on to schools and will let the team answer some of the other questions. First, on why the HSE has failed to deliver on putting therapies back in to the schools, in 2021, PDS was being rolled out and therapists were coming out of the schools in Dublin. There was also the school of the deaf in Cork. The exact time was May. At that stage there was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: The conversation here today is almost making me a little nervous because I am terrified that someone will go and challenge that and that if it ends up being challenged then everything ends up having to be 36 hours. That would slow down delivery again because I have no other mechanism of it. However, at the same time the HSE and the Department of Education accept them as long as they are...