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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I thank Mr. Dunne, Dr. McDaid and Mr. Dolan. This is the first time the committee has engaged in this process. We will evaluate the merits later. It should not be a case of reading the pre-submission. Members have the responsibility to have read the submissions There are two issues. There is an examination that must take place in the disability sector with regard to advocacy and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I welcome Ms Catherine Joyce, head of advocacy at Barnardos; Professor Sean Tierney, former president of the Irish Medical Organisation; Mr. Maurice O'Connell of the Alzheimer Society of Ireland; and Mr. John-Mark McCafferty from the Society of St.Vincent de Paul. I thank the delegates for accepting the invitation to come before the joint committee this morning. The witnesses may have got...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: Is it proposed that the Society of St. Vincent de Paul would host such programmes or that it would identify locations for those programmes to be run?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I will direct my next question to the Irish Medical Organisation. Given events in recent weeks, one of the proposals in the IMO submission relates to the level of suicide in our society and it proposes suicide intervention teams should be provided in hospitals on a 24 hours a day, seven days a week basis. I am from Cork city. Is it proposed that the Mercy Hospital and Cork University...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: Without sounding facetious, would it be better to have suicide intervention teams based in the community?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: We can generalise the commentary and I understand the Deputy's sentiment but members should move towards the submissions. I am asking him to be a bit more focused.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: We had to struggle for a quorum because the Deputy was not here this morning. I will now ask for brief summaries and I will then conclude. I call on Mr. Dunne to make his concluding comments.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: No, you got off on the wrong foot, sir.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: We are evaluated.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: Please, Mr. Dolan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: Let me be very clear, Mr. Dolan. You are brought before the committee within specific parameters to talk about your agency. This is the first time the committee is doing this and we are interested to hear what you say. Can you give us a broad picture of the Disability Federation of Ireland? To begin with, how many disability groups are there in the country, and what percentage of them are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I call Dr. McDaid.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: To clarify, whatever changes are being made to the home help hours, it is not a result of the Croke Park agreement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I must ask Mr. Dolan to conclude.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I welcome Mr. Pat the Cope Gallagher, MEP. He has a strong interest in this area and will probably discuss some of this morning's deliberations with his colleagues in the European Parliament.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I am sorry, but I will not engage in a broader rhetoric on budgetary proposals this morning. I would like us to focus on the Disability Federation of Ireland's views on its specific sector. What decisions could be made? Should there be a balancing between advocacy and service delivery? Are we spending too much money on advocacy or could we increase efficiencies for the end user of services?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: The document is broad.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I want to push our guests this morning. That is why they are in attendance. We could drift off to the bar later and have a general discussion on the disability sector, but I want to hear from the agency about where efficiencies and better performances can be found and, if money is required, where do the priorities lie. Is the Disability Federation of Ireland a service provider or an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: It is an advocacy agency.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: How many disability organisations are there?