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- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (9 Dec 2021)
Michael Moynihan: 152. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the South-West Regional Enterprise Plan. [60662/21]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning disability services with the UNCRPD and considering the future system and innovation: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Dec 2021)
Michael Moynihan: I thank Ms Loughlin and invite Ms O'Toole to make her opening statement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning disability services with the UNCRPD and considering the future system and innovation: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Dec 2021)
Michael Moynihan: I thank all the witnesses for a very thoughtful presentation. We will now go to the members for questions and answers and comments.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning disability services with the UNCRPD and considering the future system and innovation: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Dec 2021)
Michael Moynihan: Apologies have been received from Senators O'Loughlin and Seery Kearney. The purpose of today's meeting is to discuss aligning disability services with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UNCRPD, future systems and innovation, and service providers. On behalf of the committee, I welcome the following: Mr. Peter Broadhead of the Australian National...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning disability services with the UNCRPD and considering the future system and innovation: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Dec 2021)
Michael Moynihan: We will come back to Mr. Broadhead at a later stage.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning disability services with the UNCRPD and considering the future system and innovation: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Dec 2021)
Michael Moynihan: We can come back to it. The next speaker is Deputy Canney.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning disability services with the UNCRPD and considering the future system and innovation: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Dec 2021)
Michael Moynihan: I thank Ms O'Toole. I call Deputy Tully to ask her questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning disability services with the UNCRPD and considering the future system and innovation: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Dec 2021)
Michael Moynihan: Now we will go to Dr. Simon Walsh and Ms Fiona Walsh to take those questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning disability services with the UNCRPD and considering the future system and innovation: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Dec 2021)
Michael Moynihan: I thank the witnesses for their powerful presentations. I call Deputy Murnane O'Connor.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning disability services with the UNCRPD and considering the future system and innovation: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Dec 2021)
Michael Moynihan: Does Mr. Broadhead wish to comment on Deputy Murnane O'Connor's point on where we start from here?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning disability services with the UNCRPD and considering the future system and innovation: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Dec 2021)
Michael Moynihan: Does Mr. Broadhead want to start? Then we will go to Dr. and Ms Walsh.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning disability services with the UNCRPD and considering the future system and innovation: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Dec 2021)
Michael Moynihan: Do Dr. and Ms Walsh want to come in?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning disability services with the UNCRPD and considering the future system and innovation: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Dec 2021)
Michael Moynihan: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning disability services with the UNCRPD and considering the future system and innovation: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Dec 2021)
Michael Moynihan: Thank you. I thank the witnesses for their honesty. We are intercontinental this morning in more ways than one, with witnesses contributing remotely from abroad and describing their lived experiences in Australia as well. Throughout our committee work we have spoken about the lived experience of people with disabilities and their families. It has been very powerful to hear Dr. Walsh and Ms...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning disability services with the UNCRPD and considering the future system and innovation: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Dec 2021)
Michael Moynihan: Ms Loughlin is anxious to come back in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning disability services with the UNCRPD and considering the future system and innovation: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Dec 2021)
Michael Moynihan: The two things coming out of this meeting are funding and attitude. I thank all our witnesses sincerely for a very informative discussion, our members for their commitment to the Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters every week and our team in the background that keeps it going. If there is any information or evidence the witnesses would like to share with the committee either now or...