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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...

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

Michael Moynihan: I believe Deputy Tully's point was about getting to the base of what the child needs and not tying it up in red tape. Am I correct in that, Deputy?

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

Michael Moynihan: From my experience down the years, this process is tied up in red tape. I apologise, as I was not present for the presentations in full, but there seem to be two issues. In every other area, people go to the private sector first and then want to go to the public sector for permanency of employment and so forth. For example, someone starting off as an agricultural adviser joins a private...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (24 Jan 2023)

Michael Moynihan: 115. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of primary medical certificate appeals currently outstanding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2824/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (24 Jan 2023)

Michael Moynihan: 132. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to review the current tax allowances for young farmers investing in farm facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2823/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: UNCRPD and the Optional Protocol (Resumed): Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (19 Jan 2023)

Michael Moynihan: We have received apologies from Senators Mary Seery Kearney and Erin McGreehan. The purpose of today's meeting is to discuss the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UNCRPD, and the optional protocol. We have the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy Roderic O'Gorman, Mr. Colm Ó Conaill, assistant secretary...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: UNCRPD and the Optional Protocol (Resumed): Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (19 Jan 2023)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the Minister and call Senator Clonan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: UNCRPD and the Optional Protocol (Resumed): Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (19 Jan 2023)

Michael Moynihan: I thank Deputy Hourigan. I call Deputy Murnane O'Connor.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: UNCRPD and the Optional Protocol (Resumed): Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (19 Jan 2023)

Michael Moynihan: I thank committee members, the Minister and the officials for their engagement this morning. We look forward to 1 March with great excitement. It has taken the long time of almost two and a half years to get this far. It is an important milestone for people with disabilities. The word "equality" appears in the title of the Department and it is very important that it is included. ...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (18 Jan 2023)

Michael Moynihan: 1231. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons aged under 65 years who are inappropriately living in nursing homes that have been successfully moved out of nursing homes and onto a rehabilitation pathway towards independent living during 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63492/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (18 Jan 2023)

Michael Moynihan: 1232. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new admissions of persons under 65 years to nursing homes in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63493/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (15 Dec 2022)

Michael Moynihan: 28. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the next round of applications for rural regeneration projects will be announced. [62469/22]