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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.

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]