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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability Proofing and Data: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Michael Moynihan: Ms Murphy or Ms Hassett might answer that. I know that Ms Browne had to leave.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability Proofing and Data: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Michael Moynihan: Thank you. We might leave it at that. I thank all the witnesses for their incredible insight into the collation of data and what we need to do in future. I thank the members as well. As with every meeting, we look at what we should now do on all the issues that were thrown up. First, we should make a submission to the CSO on the evidence we have got over the years on data collection and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (15 Feb 2023)

Michael Moynihan: On public service reform, has the Taoiseach's attention been drawn to the retention of people in the public service, particularly in care? Those working as occupational therapists through to speech and language therapists, for example, are different from those working in other sectors of the public service. They work in the public service first and then go into private practice. There is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (15 Feb 2023)

Michael Moynihan: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the public service, justice and police reform division of his Department [6900/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Feb 2023)

Michael Moynihan: 612. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cariban prescriptions that have been processed through the drugs payment scheme to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6641/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Feb 2023)

Michael Moynihan: 610. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the process for women to obtain the medication cariban through the drugs payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6639/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Feb 2023)

Michael Moynihan: 611. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons that a GP cannot prescribe cariban to their patients through the drugs payment scheme, given that many women do not see a consultant until after 12 weeks into pregnancy and suffer from extreme nausea and vomiting in this time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6640/23]

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

Michael Moynihan: The purpose of this meeting is to discuss awareness raising in the context of the lived experience of congregated settings. On behalf of the committee, I welcome Ms Derval McDonagh, chief executive, and Mr. Paul Alford, advocacy project worker, Inclusion Ireland; Ms Emer Begley, director of advocacy, and Ms Ríona Morris, policy and research officer, Disability Federation of Ireland,...

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

Michael Moynihan: Thank you, Mr. Alford.

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

Michael Moynihan: I thank Dr. Begley. I call Senator McGreehan first and then Deputy Tully and Senator Clonan.

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

Michael Moynihan: Who would like to take that question first? I call on Ms O'Connell.

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

Michael Moynihan: I thank Ms Condon and call on Mr. Alford.

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

Michael Moynihan: I thank Mr. Alford very much. I call our next speaker, Senator Clonan.

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

Michael Moynihan: If the same amount of money being spent on the fair deal scheme was being spent on others, it would have far greater impact.

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...