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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: ...anything other than a health need. That funding was got on the basis that it is not all about health needs. When I got that funding, the first piece of it started at about €2 million. A lot of work went in just to secure it. It was all about the awareness of the training piece because I felt a lot of that was missing. In the first round of that funding it was about giving it to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: In respect of the DSG 6, we are heading into the new disability strategy. When the last disability strategy was set up maybe there was not a huge awareness about DPOs, the person-centred approach and that lived experience. Maybe the definition of co-design actually recognises DPOs, DPROs and bringing everybody together, including the parents. There are parents of children who would like to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: It is also important to say that when we look at respite, it is a broad spectrum of approaches. Ms Andersson is right; the Saturday club can equally be as much of a relief to the family, but it is also important for young people to participate and have somewhere to go. If their sibling is going to whatever form of sport they participate in, that child would have his or her place to go to....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (9 Sep 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I am committed to enhancing the accessibility of our public spaces to ensure that disabled people are enabled to enjoy them on an equal basis with all others. Changing Places toilets are an important instrument for accessibility, ensuring greater accessibility of sanitary facilities to disabled people in ways that enhance individual privacy, safety and dignity. Potential users include...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Assisted Decision-Making (9 Sep 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I have personally, along with officials in my Department, met with and corresponded extensively with both the Decision Support Service (DSS) and the Law Society of Ireland in relation to Enduring Powers of Attorney (EPAs) and associated issues. From these engagements, it is clear that both organisations are committed to the optimal operation of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank Deputy Tully. She covered an awful lot. There is no doubt that the system with the CDNTs is not working. It is not, because they are not fully staffed. When you do not have a fully functioning model, it is hard to see what good looks like, because one is only guessing what good looks like. Could we incentivise therapists more to come into it? I think we have such a crisis in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Deputy for discussing that point. I will share openly with him that I chair our workforce planning and what he said is really important to me. We are trying to increase the number of places. To be fair to the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, and the previous Minister, Deputy Harris, they were really good at increasing places. The point is that if we do not capture them when they are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: Let me reassure the Deputy, who knows me quite well, that there are no games on the side of the House and none in the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. To be very fair to the team here, to Mr. Colm Ó Conaill, the assistant secretary, and to the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman. We want nothing more than a functioning system. To be very fair to Mr. Ó...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank Deputy Murnane O'Connor. She asked about action plan reporting and monitoring progress to date. The action plan will be monitored by an independent monitoring group, drawing on the membership of the disability stakeholder strategic advisory group and chaired by me. The group will meet twice a year to ensure that we are delivering what is set out in the action plan. The latter...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (18 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: ...policy document. Under the leadership of Bernard Gloster I have seen huge improvements in communication between primary healthcare, CAMHS, acute services and disability services. They are talking to one other and not working in silos. Granted, there are variances across the country. Some are working really well and others could do with improvement. That policy is being rolled out. It...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Transport Costs (18 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I was very fortunate to secure an additional €5 million in budget 2024 specifically for transport. Both the Department and I are banging our heads together at the moment. However, I am very clear that there are three elements within all of this, one of which would be to remove the inequality whereby people have to pay to attend a day service. The second element is with regard to...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Report on Assessments of Need for Children: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach and the committee members. I welcome the opportunity to meet with the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth on the progression of recommendations in the joint committee's Report on Assessments of Need for Children, and to provide members with an up-to-date picture of the situation as regards assessments of need for...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Report on Assessments of Need for Children: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: It has navigated this very poorly. It has not put enough thought into it. While it is fantastic to have the role of assistant therapist, which I agree will play a pivotal role in supporting a finite resource of clinicians, when the role was put in, I was of a firm belief that the assistant therapist needs to not just be a generic title but an assistant therapist in occupational therapy,...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Report on Assessments of Need for Children: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I do not think it was offered in the Deputy's area, to be quite honest. On the point raised, and this is where I need assistance - Ministers sometimes need assistance and I have no problem in asking for that - it is correct to say there is capacity. If I am able to procure 1,800 therapists or interventions and 2,500 interventions in the private market, it tells me we have therapists...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Report on Assessments of Need for Children: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: This gives me the leverage to acknowledge the new apprenticeship model that was launched in Cork in recent weeks with the Minister, Deputy O'Donovan, where there were 35 spaces, of which 24 were taken up by Tusla and 12 or 13 were taken up by the HSE. It is the apprenticeship model in social work. First and foremost, it is an opportunity to attract people who might not have been able to...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Report on Assessments of Need for Children: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Deputy for that contribution. He is right that while some things might work in one area, they might not work in another area. The most important thing any parent or teacher would want is that there is proper clinical governance. That is the most important piece. I totally understand why no principal, board or organisation would take on that risk as it is not their field. The...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Properties (11 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: This is a project that if the likes of it were in Dundalk or Drogheda, whereby a property was made available to the local authority, I have no doubt the Cathaoirleach Gníomhnach would stay hot on my heels until it was operationalised. It is one of those project that needs to be operationalised now. There is no point in having a building left vacant. It is now a building that will pass...

Seanad: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: That is great. I thank the Acting Chairperson. I also thank Senator Clonan for the opportunity to be here for Committee Stage of the Bill. If it was simple, it would have been done many years ago. Is that not the case? We would not be sitting here today. It is important to say that I will not be opposing the Bill by any manner of means. That is the first point. I want to talk to the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (30 Apr 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: As there was over €40 million worth of applications into the respite grant application form, which is absolutely massive, they had to spend a lot of time going through it and validating. In fact, the whole purpose of the respite grant is to provide a balance where we have a shortage in our CDNT teams, the local organisations that have the capacity to support through music, art or...