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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.

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

Michael Moynihan: I thank the witnesses and members very much. On Senator Flynn's suggestion, we will write to the Minister and try to have that agreed for next week. It might be helpful for the letter that Family Carers Ireland wrote to the Minister to be circulated to the team so that the members would have it and we would understand the questions and issues. That would be helpful from our point of view...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Implementation Bodies (31 Jan 2023)

Michael Moynihan: 74. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an overview on the shared island civic society fund he announced on 12 January 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4216/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2023)

Michael Moynihan: 135. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his assessment of the current situation with the Northern Ireland protocol; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4215/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (26 Jan 2023)

Michael Moynihan: 39. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the review of the sports grant will be complete; and when the next round of applications will be opened for same. [3550/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Policy (26 Jan 2023)

Michael Moynihan: 70. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of artists in Cork north-west who are in receipt of the basic income for the arts scheme. [3549/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (26 Jan 2023)

Michael Moynihan: 89. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are any plans to change the housing adaptation grant for people with a disability so as to take sensory disabilities into account; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3421/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Family-Centred Practice and Parent Training Interventions: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Michael Moynihan: Apologies have been received from Senators Clonan and O’Loughlin. The purpose of today’s meeting is the consideration of family-centred practice and family training interventions. On behalf of the Joint Committee on Disability Matters, I would like to welcome Mr. Matt Buttery, chief executive, Triple P; Ms Cherie Tyner, chief executive, and Ms Ciara Ní Raghallaigh,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Family-Centred Practice and Parent Training Interventions: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Michael Moynihan: I thank Ms Tyner for her contribution.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Family-Centred Practice and Parent Training Interventions: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the witness. Any documentation he can share with us would be greatly appreciated. The more information we have the more we can do.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Family-Centred Practice and Parent Training Interventions: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Michael Moynihan: You do not need to apologise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Family-Centred Practice and Parent Training Interventions: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Michael Moynihan: Well done.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Family-Centred Practice and Parent Training Interventions: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Michael Moynihan: I thank Mr. McSweeney.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Family-Centred Practice and Parent Training Interventions: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Michael Moynihan: The questions and evidence we have heard this morning have been powerful. It is the lived experience to which we refer at all times. As with our meetings, we are under time constraints but it is really powerful to hear from the witnesses. Sometimes the evidence that is put before the committee does not get picked up by mainstream media, but a large number of people tune in looking for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Family-Centred Practice and Parent Training Interventions: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Michael Moynihan: The point is well made.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Family-Centred Practice and Parent Training Interventions: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Michael Moynihan: I must leave the meeting for ten minutes because I have a question in the Dáil. I have looked at the question of carers. It comes up nearly every week in respect of secondary benefits and people not being able to move on to the next level. I believe the only solution is that where many people who go on to carer's benefit, they come from stamps-paid employment, after two years of which...