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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Jun 2024)

Michael Moynihan: The home help service is a hugely valuable service throughout the country that is enabling people to stay longer in their homes. Families and people who avail of the service build up a rapport with the home help staff they have been working with for two, three, four or maybe ten years. Now, the HSE has, in its wisdom, said that it will rotate the home care assistants and that they will...

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

Michael Moynihan: I congratulate you, Ms Moran and Dr. O'Leary, on the paper you have done and thank you for the very challenging remarks and the contribution you have made to the questions and comments of members. It has been a very engaging meeting, and you certainly have a depth of knowledge on the subject matter. Each and every one of the meetings we have further challenges our committee as regards the...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Michael Moynihan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill. I will speak on the various aspects of the Bill. It is important that the Bill is passed to ensure that the provisions within it are brought into law in order that survivors of institutional abuse are looked after. It is very difficult. Like all public representatives, over the years I have met individuals who have suffered. I do not want...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Michael Moynihan: It is quite sickening to listen to people who talk in an ill-informed manner about the agriculture industry. Rarely, if ever, have I commented on any contributions by any other Member of the House in my time here, but I must take a deep intake of breath after the previous speaker's comments. I am a small farmer. I was a dairy farmer, and I come from a farming heartland. We would like...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Role of Disabled Persons Organisations and Self Advocacy in Providing Equal Opportunities under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Implementation: Discussion (8 Apr 2024)

Michael Moynihan: To conclude, I want to pay particular tribute to our team. They put this together not just over the last six or seven weeks since we started on this but they also worked tirelessly over the weekend, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, to bring this meeting together today. We are starting another module with public bodies like Bord Bia and the ESB in relation to the implementation of the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Dec 2023)

Michael Moynihan: Major work is ongoing to refurbish and extend three important pieces of health infrastructure. It was hoped the units at Millstreet Community Hospital and Kanturk Community Hospital would be completed by the end of the year but it is now hoped to have them completed, opened and occupied by early next year. I would like a date for that. The work on an extension to Mallow General Hospital is...

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

Michael Moynihan: ...come up at the meetings. I will address the representatives of the office of the Ombudsman first, on the various of reports, commentary and discussions that it has had over the years. I am trying to put it in the most diplomatic language. What sense do they from the relevant Departments and sections that are dealing with children, people with disabilities and those with mental health...

Joint Committee on Disability Matters Report: Motion (26 Oct 2023)

Michael Moynihan: ...Disability Services with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities", copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 23rd February, 2023. I welcome the opportunity to speak to this report. The report was laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas back in March of this year. We are delighted to have an opportunity to speak on it. In the first...

Road Safety: Statements (26 Oct 2023)

Michael Moynihan: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate. Over recent weeks and months, people have quite rightly been concerned about road deaths. As I stand, I think of the many great friends of mine who passed away through road traffic accidents over the last number of years, and of their families. I think of the everlasting impact a road death can have on a family and on a community....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (24 Oct 2023)

Michael Moynihan: At a meeting of the Joint Committee on Disability Matters last week, we got a briefing from the Minister's officials, for which we are very grateful, on the concept of the disability Green Paper. Like everything, there are anomalies in the system, some of which relate to household income being taken into account where a person with a disability lives in the house. There is a disregard, and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: UNCRPD and 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Michael Moynihan: I thank Mr. Roughneen. I listened with great interest, and too many meetings were mentioned. I know the reverend sister is in the audience but I remember as a young fella having an uncle who worked through the Redemptorists in the north east of Brazil - I could nearly give the exact date. In 1979 he took over more than $10,000 strapped to himself that had been donated from different...

Construction Safety Licensing Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 May 2023)

Michael Moynihan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Construction Safety Licensing Bill 2023. I know a huge amount of work has been done on this at departmental level. In the first instance, it examines the licensing authority and looks at the various challenges with health and safety within the construction industry. There are a huge number of aspects to the Bill, which include looking at the...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (26 Apr 2023)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the Chair for allowing me to contribute. I welcome the Minister and the Minister of State. It is great to see them in their new Department. It has been talked about for a long time over the past two and half years. It is there now and we need to move forward on it. There are a number of issues which I want to raise. I took a phone call this afternoon from a mother whose...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Development (8 Mar 2023)

Michael Moynihan: I wish all women a happy International Women's Day and thank them for everything they do for us and for society in general. The question I have this morning relates to land for industrial development in Charleville, County Cork. Over the past 20 or so years, the Railway Road industrial park in Charleville, which was designated as an industrial site, saw a number of initiatives such as the...

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. ...

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Second Stage (22 Nov 2022)

Michael Moynihan: I welcome the opportunity, however brief, to speak on this legislation. I compliment the Minister on the work she is doing and the co-operation in all the work she is doing in the Department. I and many others greatly appreciate it. I wish to raise several issues. One is the disregard of the half-rate carer's allowance. This is an important aspect. It must be acknowledged that this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability, Mental Health and Ageing: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (17 Nov 2022)

Michael Moynihan: ...members, the Minister and the team. There are two issues. Years ago, there was not enough money in the allocation for home care. Now there is money but no staff. I know efforts have been put in to try to do that. That is crucial. It is showing up the challenges that are there, in both urban and rural Ireland. This will not be of any surprise, but in my region young people and kids...

Report of the Joint Committee on Disability Matters on the UNCRPD: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (10 Nov 2022)

Michael Moynihan: It is great to have our American friends with us and I would like to be associated with the Acting Chairman's remarks. I thank the Members for their contribution to the debate. Deputy Martin Browne spoke about the overlooked or "passed over". It is a very good way to look at it, a very simple phrase that people are being overlooked or passed over. The Deputy put it very well. Deputy...

Report of the Joint Committee on Disability Matters on the UNCRPD: Motion [Private Members] (10 Nov 2022)

Michael Moynihan: ...independent living and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities", on 10th March, 2022. I thank the members of the Joint Committee on Disability Matters for the major work and effort put into the report and into our deliberations over the past two years. Our members are extremely dedicated and committed to the challenges we face. Our committee is about...

Water Policy: Statements (9 Nov 2022)

Michael Moynihan: I welcome the opportunity to contribute the debate. It is important that we have a discussion on water services and wastewater treatment throughout the country. It is fundamental. In the few minutes available to me I will raise the issue of the wastewater treatment plants that are inadequate, and in some places non-existent, in some of the smaller villages. If they were to be prioritised...