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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (19 Jun 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.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: International Protection (18 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: It is not.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Care Services (18 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter. The Government and the HSE are very much aware of the importance of respite service provision for the families of both children and adults with disabilities and the positive impact it can have on people’s lives. Respite is a key priority area for the HSE for people with disabilities and their families, and there has been significant...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (18 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: Regarding the right front door, it is called the national access policy, NAP. This is a HSE policy document. Under the leadership of Bernard Gloster I have seen huge improvements in communication between primary healthcare, CAMHS, acute services and disability services. They are talking to one other and not working in silos. Granted, there are variances across the country. Some are...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (18 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank Deputy Tully for raising this question. It will be the second time today I address her, after being in committee earlier. The CDNT recruitment campaign, Be part of our team, Be part of their lives, has closed across CHOs. To date, 190 job offers have been made and 55 individuals are currently in the final stages of recruitment. Funding has been provided in recent years for...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (18 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: The date for the publication of the 2023 staff census will be in the next two weeks. While I do not have a specific figure for Cavan and Monaghan, I know that for CHO 1, which covers the Cavan and Monaghan areas, there were 88 people who expressed interest. As to what measures are being taken, the national team development of the programme is holding lunchtime webinars. There are...

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: Is the Deputy referring to respite beds for older persons?

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: Can I correct something there, if the Ceann Comhairle does not mind?

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: That is not correct. If your clinician deems that you are medically in need, there is a one-page medical application form that is sent from the consultant directly to the HSE where it is approved within 24 hours.

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: No.

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: No.

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: Sound bite. Well done.

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I am very happy to be here to address some of the issues raised in the Private Members' motion on carers. Support for carers is a topic that is always on the agenda and it is, of course, an enormously important one that comprises so many different cross-departmental issues. It covers not just health and social care supports but also income supports and housing, as the Deputies clearly...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Transport Costs (18 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank Senator Gallagher for raising this important matter. Towards the end of this debate, we might go on a journey of my work in the area of transport to date. The HSE provides specialist disability services, including day services and rehabilitative training, to people with disabilities who require such services. Transport is not considered a core specialist disability service. As...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Transport Costs (18 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I was very fortunate to secure an additional €5 million in budget 2024 specifically for transport. Both the Department and I are banging our heads together at the moment. However, I am very clear that there are three elements within all of this, one of which would be to remove the inequality whereby people have to pay to attend a day service. The second element is with regard to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (18 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: In relation to special schools, this has now been going on for in excess of two years. It was in May 2021 that we placed a pause on the removal of therapists from special schools. We then sourced our secure funding for 86 therapists to be replaced into schools. Overall, we secured funding for 221 therapists, and only 126 have been returned. When I say “returned”, I mean that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (18 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: As I said to the Deputy, of the 221 whole-time equivalent posts, 126 have been filled. Wherever they are in the country, at this stage there is a shortfall of more than 700 whole-time equivalent staff on our CDNT teams, which have a role in supporting our special schools. The Wexford model has been phenomenal in the sense that there has been real collaboration there. I have no doubt the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Service Executive (18 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Deputy for raising this question. It is a little bit like Cinderella at this hour, 12 midnight, and Deputy O'Sullivan appears. To be honest, we normally never get to deal with this number of questions. It is the first time we have done it, so I am answering this one totally unscripted. Luckily, I was at the committee today and I do remember what was said to his question. ...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Service Executive (18 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: Deputy O'Sullivan is right. We managed to clear the backlog with the funding that was sourced in 2020 when we had 6,500 children waiting for an assessment of need. It took us approximately 14 months to clear the entire backlog. Why have we found ourselves here again? We have found ourselves here again because of the soft model, which is the standard operational procedure, SOP, which meant...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Service Executive (18 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: This is a new concept I was not completely aware of, namely, that we have 63 specific speech and language disorder, SSLD, classes in the country, which are speech and language classes for children with very set criteria who have verbal dyspraxia. There are seven in a class with the lead teacher and a speech and language therapist. They know that with regular daily intervention over a...