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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (30 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: As the Deputy spoke, he crossed a number of Departments. I am delighted to share with him that the Minister met with the Minister for Social Protection just before Christmas and is due to meet her again in the coming weeks. I chaired the transport group relating to disability. I hope to see some positive moves with regard to that. I am a firm believer in the mobility allowance, which was...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (30 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: A range of services and supports are available to support autistic individuals and their families. These fall within the remit of multiple Departments such as the Department of Health, the Department of Education and my own Department in the context of specialist community-based disability services and the access and inclusion model. Disability services are provided throughout the country...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disabilities Assessments (30 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I totally understand what the Deputy is saying. When the court judgment came in March 2022, PTAs were stood down completely. They stopped. That was a decision that we made at that stage within the Department of Health. We did not challenge it. We reverted back to the original assessment of need process. The PTAs no longer exist. They had been in operation from January 2020 to when they...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disabilities Assessments (30 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I completely agree. In actual fact, I said the first day I became a Minister of State that we do not need 100% of a workforce but 140%, in order to ensure people can go on maternity leave. I agree with the Deputy on that. The HSE is back-filling. Funding was provided to ensure managers of the CDNTs could be back-filled. It is also very important for the HSE to implement its own policy,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (30 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: The Cost of Disability in Ireland report was commissioned by the Minister for Social Protection and prepared by Indecon International Research Economists. It was published in December 2021. It provides important evidence of the additional costs that people with a disability face. The report has implications for many areas of public policy. A whole-of-government approach is required to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (30 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: While I would love to give the Deputy a kite-flying answer, I cannot do that here tonight.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (30 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I am not adding to it; I can tell the Deputy that much for nothing. However, I will say one thing. The most cost-effective way of supporting people with disabilities is to work with them to get people back into the workforce. That is one of the most important ways we can do it. One of the things the Minister did when dealing with the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Act...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disabilities Assessments (30 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: Children with complex special needs access therapy services through the children’s disability network teams, CDNTs. These services can be accessed through the assessment of needs, AON, process but children do not require an assessment of need under the Disability Act to access health services. The Government and the HSE both acknowledge the challenges in meeting the demand for these...

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: That is the answer for Stranorlar. There are four beds there.

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: Right.

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: Yes.

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Deputies for raising this important motion. I am happy to have the opportunity to discuss the issue of respite services with them this evening. As my colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, has already stated, the Government is not opposing this motion on the grounds that we share a desire to see increased respite services for people with disabilities and the loved ones...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. As part of the progressing disability services, PDS, roadmap process, I will be meeting with Mr. Bernard Gloster tomorrow and recruitment and retention will be addressed. I refer as well to increasing the attractiveness of recruitment into those various clinician posts, examining how we can put apprenticeship models in place and how we can attract...

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy. (25 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I acknowledge Noel's family who are here with us. We have Mary, Joan, Emer, Lisa and Rory, along with his most wonderful grandchildren and his sisters Marian and Nóirín. Like Deputy Canney, I am going to take a bit of a different tack. I am in politics because of Noel Treacy. He was the man who came into a house in Abbeyknockmoy and opened his book and said, "If you are really...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. As I clarified earlier, there are ten beds in CHO 4 in Cork that are not operational at this time. I have given a suggestion to the HSE that it would recruit agency staff to open the beds and, in addition, that two of those beds would be held for the special school in Carrigaline in order that the children who attend that school would be accommodated.

Access to Autism and Disability Assessments and Supports: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: For once and for all, we must put the parent and child first-----

Access to Autism and Disability Assessments and Supports: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: -----and that is what I will be doing. I will hand over to Deputy Moynihan.

Access to Autism and Disability Assessments and Supports: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Labour Party for tabling the motion. I acknowledge Deputies' support of me in my role as Minister of State with responsibility for disability, and the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, who has been present for the entire duration of this debate to support me. On reflection, I went over my diary to see how I spent the past month to colour and put in context what I am doing behind the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Deputy for raising the question. It is important to say that the PDS roadmap will be launched in the next couple of weeks and it addresses all the factors the Deputy raised.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (16 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: It is incumbent on me to ensure the independent expert review group that is put in place with an independent expert is not seen through a medical but rather a social care lens. The person, and his or her environment and family, should be seen in the round, and the person should be put at the centre. As we read in the Brandon report, it should not be about episodes and every outburst being...