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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Education and Training Provision (20 Mar 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: ...of key improvements including: Providing €3m of funding to support universal design in higher educations with projects currently ongoing. Increasing the Fund for Students with a disability by 5% for 2024 bringing funding available to over €8million. Recently provided funding to 10 Higher Education Institutions who will provide courses for students with an intellectual...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (29 Feb 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: ...disabilities to intellectual disabilities and autism. The home support service for children with disabilities assists the child with various activities and supports the parent/family. Over 3 million home support hours are delivered to almost 7,200 people annually. PA services provides one-to-one support to people with physical disabilities in their homes and communities by trained,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (16 Nov 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...policy and Exchequer funding in relation to the national roads programme. Once funding arrangements have been put in place with Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, under the Roads Acts 1993-2015, and in line with the national development plan, NDP, the planning, design, improvement and upgrading of individual national roads is a matter for TII, in conjunction with the local authorities...

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

Anne Rabbitte: ...were, where they would like to attend school, what they would like to do at another level and what sort of training they would like to receive. This year in the community healthcare organisation, CHO, 5 area, 116 children did not have to attend day services. They were given the opportunities with either the national learning network and education and training board, ETB, to actually...

Sustainability of Stability of Services Provided by Section 39 and Section 56 Organisations on behalf of the HSE and Tusla: Statements (12 Oct 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I welcome this opportunity to address the House on the hugely important role that section 39 and section 56 organisations and their staff play in our health and social care services. I welcome everyone in this Gallery to hear this debate. Next week, a number of section 39 and section 56 organisations may begin a strike. This matter is highly important to me and to the Minister, Deputy...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I am glad to have the opportunity to provide details of the additional €195 million that will be invested in services for 2024, bringing the total investment to €2.8 billion. Since my appointment to this role, my overarching ambition has always been to provide and improve a range of disability services available to both adults and children. This year's financial allocation for...

Childcare Fees: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...indicators that show together for better is bringing enormous benefit to children, their families, educators, practitioners and providers. Among the achievements in year one was: a fee freeze among 95% of the services, which meant an increase to the national childcare scheme, NCS, subsidy that was fully felt by parents; a 15% increase in the number of services offering the NCS; and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disabilities Assessments (30 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...a diagnostic assessment. In the last month, the new clinical guidance has been submitted to the Department for consideration by me and the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman. The HSE has been allocated €11 million in budget 2023 to facilitate additional assessments through a suite of measures, including the establishment of dedicated AON assessment teams; private procurement and...

Access to Autism and Disability Assessments and Supports: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...therapy in Kanturk, Sensational Kids in County Kildare, Neurodiversity Ireland in Sandymount and Rainbow Club Cork. They are already supporting kids. Rainbow Club Cork is already supporting 1,150 kids through giving interventions on a weekly basis. It needs more support. I need the HSE to move away from its model of what it believes is working to a more inclusive model of participation...

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...the current widely agreed policy, Sharing the Vision. There is a record €1.2 billion allocation in 2023. This means the Government has provided a significant increase in investment of some €220 million since June 2020. Importantly, dedicated funding for CAMHS is administered as part of the overall HSE mental health allocation each year. In addition, funding has been...

Seanad: Childcare Services: Motion [Private Members] (7 Dec 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: ...up to 5,000 disadvantaged children; and the universal subsidy was extended to all children under 15 years old who were using registered early learning and childcare. Additional funding of €121 million for the NCS was secured in budget 2023 to increase the universal subsidy from 2 January and to further reduce out of pocket costs of early learning and childcare to families. In...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: General Practitioner Services (23 Nov 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: ...of GP services. The HSE provides substantial funding to GP out-of-hours co-operatives to help enable them to fulfil their service commitments and care for their patients. This year, almost €5 million in funding has been allocated to Shannondoc through a service level agreement with the HSE's mid-west community healthcare organisation. The HSE has confirmed that Shannondoc has...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: General Practitioner Services (23 Nov 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: ...for the provision of services to medical card and GP visit card holders are required under their contract to make suitable arrangements for emergencies outside normal practice hours. More than 2,500 GPs currently hold a GMS contract, and while they are not obliged to practise in GP out-of-hours co-operatives to meet their outside-of-practice hours service requirements, most do so. A...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (20 Oct 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: In respect of the assessments of need, which the Deputy has raised, I was fortunate, with the help of my good colleague, the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, to secure €11.5 million to address the backlog for assessments of need. The last time I got such funding, we managed to clear that backlog. However, it is no good clearing the backlog unless we have a proper process for the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Crime Prevention (12 Oct 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: ...been allocated a record €2.14 billion for 2023. This funding includes provision for the recruitment of up to 1,000 new Garda trainees and more than 400 civilian staff in 2023. Budget 2023 also includes a €5 million increase in the overtime budget for An Garda Síochána to over €100 million. These budgetary measures will support high visibility policing to...

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (11 Oct 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: ...in the investment in the sector and is testament to the Government's commitment to boosting and sustaining funding to disability services. I will now share details of a combined package of €177 million in additional funding to specialist disability services for 2023. A total of €109 million is being provided to support existing levels of service, ELS, which takes into...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (12 Jul 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: ..., the HSE plans to provide a range of residential supports creating 106 additional places and packages in response to current and demographic need. Specifically, the planned breakdown of investment is: 50 places responding to priority needs, 36 planned residential places, 10 supported living places and 10 intensive home support packages to support transitions and discharges from acute...

Easing of Covid-19 Restrictions: Statements (2 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: .... Another issue often raised with me is respite. While some centres remained open, others operated at a reduced capacity and some were temporarily repurposed as isolation facilities. I made €5 million available in the 2021 budget to open nine additional respite houses in 2021 to provide an additional 10,400 respite nights in a full year. Work continues to progress on the nine...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disability Services (2 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: .... I was working with the good Senator and other elected representatives in the mid-west and we were able to identify and source the funding to the respite piece of it. On first allocation, it was €5 million over seven years, and now we have gone to €7 million over seven years. That €7 million over seven years will come, hopefully, when the NSP is published....

National Maternity Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jan 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: ...'s health services to ensure improvements are made and outcomes for people using the services are enhanced. This commitment is reflected in budget 2022, for example, in the allocation of €31 million for new development funding to specifically support women's health. This includes significant investment to further progress the implementation of the national maternity strategy and...