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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (4 Jul 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: 95. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the status of the provision of community neurorehabilitation teams in community healthcare organisation, CHO, area 4; what funding, if any, has been allocated to increase these services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32324/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (4 Jul 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: Will the Minister give an outline of the funding that will be available,for community neurorehabilitation teams across counties Cork and Kerry, including any increases and supports that can be given to those organisations to be able to provide those vital services to people in those counties?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (4 Jul 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: One of the issues that has been raised with me by a number of different people is that they feel there is almost a redefinition of what might be considered a person with disabilities. It has almost been broadened out to some extent, so that people who are possibly currently in employment might help to improve the figures, as it were. Unfortunately, others who are not currently in employment...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (4 Jul 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: 67. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the programme for Government’s commitment to double the target for employment of people with disabilities in the public service to 6%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32325/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (4 Jul 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: There is dignity and opportunity in having a job. Yet for many people with disabilities this is denied them. The programme for Government has a target of doubling the numbers of people with disabilities employed in the State services. Can the Minister of State give an outline of the efforts to bring that about?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (4 Jul 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: The minimum statutory employment target is set at 3%, as the Minister of State said, with a view to doubling that to 6% in 2025. That was enacted recently as part of the assisted decision making Act. As the Minister of State outlined, the NDA has a role in reporting and monitoring. She referred to its most recent report from 2021 showing the percentage at 3.6% across all sectors....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (4 Jul 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: Enable Ireland provides services to 13,000 children and adults in 40 locations across the country. As the Minister said, Enable Ireland is part funded by the HSE and it must raise an additional €2 million from its own services to deliver vital services to clients. Last year, 70 people in Cork were out on strike demanding pay at the same rate as those in the other sectors doing the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (4 Jul 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: I understand the process is under way and that the Minister cannot interfere or give a blow-by-blow account on it but I really want to highlight the pressure on the service users and on the staff due to that widening pay gap between the section 38 and section 39 organisations. It is more difficult to recruit and retain staff. This has a direct knock-on effect to the services being delivered...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (4 Jul 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: One of the biggest challenges in the disability healthcare sector relates to having people available to deliver the much-needed services to clients. A great deal is involved in training people and preparing them to deliver a service. Has the Minister of State engaged with the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to increase the number of training...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (4 Jul 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: About 150 students graduate in speech and language therapy from five colleges each year, along with a further 150 graduates in occupational therapy. The figure for psychologist posts vary, given people have to go on and get a PhD. It is a longer, more difficult and more expensive route of qualification and that, too, needs to be examined in order that people can reach it. Likewise, about...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (4 Jul 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: I thank the Minister of State for focusing on colleges. It is going to take a number of years for people to qualify through those courses. I understand that, in the very short term, efforts are being made to increase the availability of critical skills employment permits to allow people from other areas in the world to be brought in to fill some of the posts. Are those posts and permits...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (4 Jul 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: My question concerns Enable Ireland occupational therapist posts and the capacity to fill them and ensure people will be adequately paid. Enable Ireland is a section 39 body in respect of which there is major pressure and inequality regarding pay. What efforts can be made to support the organisation?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Jul 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will meet next. [32450/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Jul 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: Does the Cabinet subcommittee on health have a focus on recruitment? It is a very significant issue that impacts community services right across the country. In my area of CHO 4, which is the area of Cork and Kerry, up to 20% of posts for home care assistants were left vacant. These are people who deliver services to people in their homes. This keeps them out of the hospital and allows...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Jul 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: Over 40,000 retired HSE staff have found themselves without increases in their pensions. Those staff include retired nurses, porters, social workers and many others. Pension increases have been approved since 2017 but problems updating payroll systems within the HSE have meant people are not getting their moneys. This is at a time when the cost of living is becoming more and more difficult...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (29 Jun 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: 22. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment what measures are being taken to improve on Ireland's current position in innovation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31663/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Climate Change Policy (29 Jun 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: 43. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment what measures are being taken to identify key sectors that will require additional State supports to successfully transition to low-carbon production; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31664/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Jun 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: 137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the up-to-date position on delivering new school buildings for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31666/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (29 Jun 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: 149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has considered the roll-out of a nationwide partnership with tech companies to enable students at primary education level to develop their technological skills including coding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31665/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Exports Growth (29 Jun 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: 208. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the expected level of exports by Enterprise Ireland-backed companies this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22027/23]