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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (Resumed) (22 May 2024)

Michael Moynihan: We have received apologies from Deputy Feighan and Senator O'Loughlin. The purpose of today's meeting is a discussion about applying evidence to the aspiration for equality in children's disability services. On behalf of the committee, I warmly welcome Dr. Noreen O'Leary, lecturer, school of population health, Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland; and Ms Geraldine Moran, assistant...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Planning for Inclusive Communities: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Moynihan: ...to provide accommodation for their family member, they were encouraged by the service providers to get on the social housing list first and then they would be able to access funding. However, when they applied to the social housing body, the local authority, to get on the social housing list, they were refused social housing because they had been paying no rent in the previous 12 months....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Planning for Inclusive Communities: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Moynihan: We applied to the local authority before Christmas and-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Planning for Inclusive Communities: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Moynihan: For the adult themselves. The person with a disability applied in December 2023 and they were turned down.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Planning for Inclusive Communities: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Moynihan: ..., when somebody comes to us with information and we find out it relates to a local authority house, we gasp because it is more difficult. The Minister of State said that the local authority should apply to the Department for funding-----

Science Week: Statements (16 Nov 2023)

Michael Moynihan: ...still working on of two pupils with the exact same background. One of them got a college grant to go on to a PhD and the other did not. The fees were to be paid by the sponsoring company. When applying, one person mistakenly put in the stipend and the fees as income and another just put in the fees. This meant that the first person was considered to be above threshold for a grant. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Michael Moynihan: ...have to be inspections, checks and balances and proper accountability. No matter how well-meaning the system or the individual is, unless it is measured and checked, it simply will not work. That applies across society. Whatever the role, the checks and balances have to be there. In HIQA's engagement with registered bodies, when they arrive do the staff find a barrier to getting the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (26 Oct 2023)

Michael Moynihan: Briefly, on tranche 1, is it the intention of the Department that those funds would be paid in 2023 for those who applied? How far along the road is the Department with regard to that process?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2023)

Michael Moynihan: Several issues arise. The Taoiseach mentioned respite and residential places. Service providers, predominately section 39 organisations, used to apply to what is now the Department responsible for the environment, and now apply to the Department responsible for housing, under the capital assistance scheme, CAS, for funding. Many find it cumbersome and difficult to access funding where...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Business Supports (5 Oct 2023)

Michael Moynihan: 114. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on a county basis of the number of businesses in Cork and Kerry that successfully applied for inclusion under the temporary business energy support scheme, in tabular form; the estimated value or worth of the support in each county; if he has plans for any other similar scheme in the near future; and if he will make a statement...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: National Disability Inclusion Strategy: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Michael Moynihan: ...were better able to access funding in this regard. We spoke about residential units and the witnesses mentioned the housing units with fewer than four participants. Many of those were applying under the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications capital assistance, CAS, programme and building their own houses. This is going back 20 years ago. That has been stopped by and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Approach and Disability Legislation: Discussion (27 Apr 2023)

Michael Moynihan: ...up for families that have opted to get the grant at some stage and then switched because it simply does not work out and they are trying to get transport. I have one particular family that has applied for it since last September and has not got confirmation of it yet as we face 1 May and we are into the last few weeks of the school year. That is simply unacceptable and I have been trying...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (28 Mar 2023)

Michael Moynihan: 83. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of employers that applied for the disability awareness support scheme in 2022; the number of employers who were successful and received this funding; if there are plans to promote the scheme among the business community in 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14923/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (28 Mar 2023)

Michael Moynihan: How many employers applied for the disability awareness support scheme in 2022, how many were successful and received this funding, are there plans to promote the scheme among the business community, and will the Minister make a statement on the matter?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Inadequate Personal Assistance Supports: Discussion (23 Mar 2023)

Michael Moynihan: ...by name or in such a way as to make him or her identifiable. Members are reminded that when they are in the precincts of Leinster House, they have constitutional privilege, but this does not apply if they are not on campus. Members should not participate in this meeting if they are not on the Leinster House campus and must confirm their presence on campus before making a contribution. ...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Nov 2022)

Michael Moynihan: I welcome the opportunity to ask the Minister whether she has plans to review the two-year, or 104-week, limit that applies to the carer's benefit and whether she will make a statement on the matter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Education and the UNCRPD: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Michael Moynihan: ...given that the title of it is Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science which gives the impression that we are dealing with research and development. However you could apply innovation to every single level. Senator O'Loughlin just spoke about day services. They have been so good for so many but it is time to really look at how we can develop that further. On the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Help Service (2 Jun 2022)

Michael Moynihan: ...Minister indicated that the working group will bring forward recommendations by September, but that is some three months away and we will be facing into winter by then. There should be an urgency applied to this matter. The problems in the service have been ticking along for some time. As I said, in the case of the family to which I referred, the provision of three nights was approved...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (19 May 2022)

Michael Moynihan: 187. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of companies in each of counties Cork and Kerry that have applied for funding under the Irish Innovation Seed Fund Programme in tabular form; the number that have been successful in each county; and the total funding awarded in each county to date. [24975/22]