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Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: ...of State with responsibility for specialist disability services, I am pleased to be here to address the issues raised in this Private Members' motion on supporting people with disabilities and carers. The motion touches on a wide range of issues which span the remit of several Departments including mine and the Departments of Health; Housing, Local Government and Heritage; Social...

Seanad: Family Carers: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: ...gone - and I will then be looking at the more densely populated areas to see what we need to do that. The motion further calls on the Government to provide for the financial relief for parents and family carers who have been forced to pay privately for assessments. Under a Labour Party motion earlier last year, I made a commitment on two counts. One is that I would put regional...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (14 Dec 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...dedication across government to the development of this new strategy. Additionally, the NDA is leading on a series of focus groups, with a focus on seldom heard groups. Focus group topics include carers, older persons, transport, cost of disability, employment and training, housing and independent living, disability health and social care services and supports, education, and women and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (5 Dec 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: 351. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for a review of a carer's allowance case (details supplied) in light of the recent changing financial situation for the family; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53271/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (30 Nov 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...at the start of the year and have intensified as the year went on.The National Disability Authority are leading on a series of focus groups, with a focus on seldom heard groups. Focus group topics include carers, older persons, transport, cost of disability, employment and training, housing and independent living, disability health and social care services and supports, education, and...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Supplementary)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: .... It is called the Living my Life project. It is aimed at younger people who want to live independently, with support, within their communities. It was set up by a group of parents, Proactive Carers Galway. Regardless of the day centres their young people attended, they came together to look at organising this Living my Life project. I will explain the project to the Deputy. Some 32...

Home Care Workers and Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...speak more generally about the extensive reforms occurring in social care. However, before I do so, I would like to take the opportunity to acknowledge the outstanding efforts of front-line carers and all those who work right across our health and social services. They have stepped up and demonstrated their commitment to meeting the needs of service users in our communities throughout...

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

Anne Rabbitte: ...of need. It would be wrong of me to say they need those assessments to access education but they certainly do for access to special classes. They need assessments for access to social protection and the carer's allowance. I operate in a siloed system where there is needs-based approach. There is not a needs-based approach, however, in education or social protection. I am trying to...

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

Anne Rabbitte: ...and school or at the transition to secondary school and day services or residential care. We do not need to do it. We only need to do it once. That would mean people's domiciliary care, and carers, would be sorted because the ability of our most loved would not have to be downtrodden. That is what we have to do here. We have to level down all the time to get recognised. That is what...

Funding for Persons with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...affordability of public transport from the Department of Transport. I acknowledge the work the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael McGrath, did in extending the incapacitated tax credit, as well as the increases made by the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Humphreys, to the disability and carer's allowances. The Minister also reduced the eligibility threshold for the wage subsidy...

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

Anne Rabbitte: ...to provide all services set out in the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act, as amended. I must also mention that we have seen the introduction of many measures across Government that will improve the lives of people with disabilities and their carers. I thank my colleagues for their strong commitment to providing mainstream supports. These include employment-related supports, a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Care Services (4 Jul 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...care to children and adults with disabilities. Respite can occur in a variety of settings for various lengths of time, depending on the needs of the individual service user and their family or carer, and according to available resources. There has been increased investment in Respite Services over the last number of years to provide for additional capacity, including new overnight...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (4 Jul 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: 394. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) can expect to have a decision on an application for carer’s allowance completed; the reason the working family payment was suspended on submission of a carer’s allowance application as this has placed the family in financial poverty as a result; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (4 Jul 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: 395. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) can expect to have a decision on their application for carer’s allowance completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32376/23]

Home Care and Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...the latest figures show there are a total of 3,310 new applicants who were approved for funding and waiting for supports. These are people who currently do not have a home support service and are awaiting a carer to be assigned. In addition, there are 2,884 people who are already receiving supports but are not yet receiving the maximum hours advised. That figure is down from a high of...

Transport Support Schemes for People with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...our communities. As a Government, we recognise the benefits that developing open, accessible and joined-up transport and mobility support structures can have in meeting the complex and varied needs of people with disabilities and their families, carers, friends, colleagues and loved ones alike. That is why the concept of universal design is so powerful, an issue I raise frequently in the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (25 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: 378. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) can expect a decision from the officer in relation to an appeal lodged for the carer's allowance; the reason for the delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19546/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (25 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: 379. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) can expect a decision from the officer in relation to an appeal lodged for a carer's allowance; the reason for the delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19547/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 Mar 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter. I, too, acknowledge the role of carers, who are predominantly women, on International Women's Day. As already stated, I have a plan with the HSE on how to address the backlog relating to assessments of need. This will ensure the CDNTs can focus predominantly on the delivery of interventions. The Deputy is quite right in what she is saying. We...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (16 Feb 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...and the Department of Education say two different things. If a person does not have that piece of paper, his or her child cannot access a special class, a special unit, domiciliary allowance or carer's allowance. That is a piece that needs to be sorted out. However, the HSE is correct in what it is saying to the Senator, but it is unjust not to acknowledge that, without a diagnosis, a...