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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Raising Awareness of the Lived Experience of Congregated Settings: Discussion (9 Feb 2023)

Michael Moynihan: Senator Seery Kearney is online but cannot participate in the meeting. She has been contacted by parents and people who are listening to the committee meeting this morning and are fearful of the journey. Is there any resistance in the advocacy the witnesses do with State organisations? Do they experience systemic resistance to advancing ideas? For example, the fair deal scheme funding is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Raising Awareness of the Lived Experience of Congregated Settings: Discussion (9 Feb 2023)

Michael Moynihan: We might look for the relevant documents from the HSE just to see what it is doing regarding the model. I thank all the witnesses for their thought-provoking evidence. This was one of the first meetings in a long time at which nearly every member contributed. That testifies to the evidence the witnesses gave us. Lived experience is what we want to hear about. We have abstract ideas at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Raising Awareness of the Lived Experience of Congregated Settings: Discussion (9 Feb 2023)

Michael Moynihan: I thank Ms O'Connell. I call on Dr. Emer Begley to give her presentation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Raising Awareness of the Lived Experience of Congregated Settings: Discussion (9 Feb 2023)

Michael Moynihan: Deputy Tully is under time pressure to get to the Dáil Chamber. I ask Dr. Foley to hold her comment and we will come back to it.

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

Michael Moynihan: I am not a member of the committee. I am due to attend the National Diversity and Inclusion Awards in Croke Park later this evening. It is due to start at 6.30 p.m. My one ask is that undergraduates completing third or fourth year of their qualification in occupational therapy, speech and language therapy or physiotherapy be included in the summer programme, which has replaced July...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Care Packages (2 Feb 2023)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the Minister of State. There are a number of issues. There are 109 people waiting for services. Is there a policy to reduce the amount of home help hours to existing people, referred to in the document as clients, so as to spread the service more thinly because of the shortage of home care assistants? Strategically, in the Minister of State's own Department of Further and Higher...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Care Packages (2 Feb 2023)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me the opportunity to raise this issue. The home care package is a service that has been a lifeline to many families throughout the length and breadth of the country. My family benefited enormously from it in times past. The work done by the care assistants who dedicate their lives to the care of others in their own home is invaluable, as is the...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (2 Feb 2023)

Michael Moynihan: 45. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when he expects to receive the final report of the independent review into dignity and equality issues in the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4740/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (2 Feb 2023)

Michael Moynihan: 75. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the plans that are in place for capital investment in defence capability in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4741/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (2 Feb 2023)

Michael Moynihan: 123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the School Building Programme; if she is satisfied with the progress to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4944/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (2 Feb 2023)

Michael Moynihan: 163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the allocation of resource hours and supports for schools under the National Council for Special Education that are for the 2023-2024 academic year; when these resources will be made known to schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4937/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Living with a Disability: Discussion (2 Feb 2023)

Michael Moynihan: Apologies have been received from Deputy Jennifer Murnane O'Connor. The purpose of today's meeting is to further public awareness of living with a disability. On behalf of the Joint Committee on Disability Matters, I welcome, from Family Carers Ireland, Ms Catherine Cox, head of communications and carer engagement, and Ms Jane Johnstone, caring employers promotions officer and family carer....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Living with a Disability: Discussion (2 Feb 2023)

Michael Moynihan: The means test or carers test is a hugely important issue right across the country. When somebody goes on carer's benefit, they get two years on it. The State considers that they are coming off paid employment or maybe part-paid employment. This brings me back to Deputy Tully's point on the retrospective payments. When people who have been carers for in excess of 20 years find that they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Living with a Disability: Discussion (2 Feb 2023)

Michael Moynihan: It is that cohort of people who need it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Living with a Disability: Discussion (2 Feb 2023)

Michael Moynihan: Correct.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Living with a Disability: Discussion (2 Feb 2023)

Michael Moynihan: I thank Ms Johnstone and Ms Cox and ask them to keep up the good work. I thank them for the personal information this morning. It is hugely important. The more information we have, the better we can do. We will follow up on a letter with the Minister to try to get that meeting with Family Carers Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Living with a Disability: Discussion (2 Feb 2023)

Michael Moynihan: I welcome Ms Catherine Gallagher. I remind witnesses of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not comment on or criticise any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him, her or it identifiable or otherwise engage in speech that would be regarded as damaging to the good name of a person or entity. If directed by the Chair to discontinue such remarks, it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Living with a Disability: Discussion (2 Feb 2023)

Michael Moynihan: There are 25 minutes left in the slot for Ms Gallagher. We have three members who would like to ask questions and who are anxious to tease them out. I am reluctant to intervene because witnesses give information here and we want the information from them. I might take the three members who are with us at the moment together and then give Ms Gallagher an opportunity to respond in the time...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Living with a Disability: Discussion (2 Feb 2023)

Michael Moynihan: I thank Ms Gallagher. She is truly an inspiration. There is so much that has been said and done. Much of this comes down to attitude. People's attitude is one of the big issues we are facing. I sincerely thank Ms Gallagher for her contribution. I thank members for their dedication through both sessions and their continued work on the committee. I thank the secretariat for all the work...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Living with a Disability: Discussion (2 Feb 2023)

Michael Moynihan: I thank Ms Johnstone for that powerful opening statement and her personal testimony. It is very difficult and brave to put your personal story out there in the public domain and it is greatly appreciated by the committee.