Results 1-20 of 40 for cavan speaker:Anne Rabbitte

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (30 Apr 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: ...impact on service delivery. Notwithstanding these challenges, staffing numbers across the four CDNTs now sits at 70.3 whole-time equivalents, up 9% year on year, and over 10% since 2021. Compared with Cavan, which we discussed earlier, it is a completely different story. While I acknowledge that vacancies exist across the CDNTs, it is also important to note that three of the four CDNTs...

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

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Deputy. The Government acknowledges the challenges faced by children and young people with disabilities and their families in accessing essential therapy services in Cavan and Monaghan. It is important to say that along with the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, and Deputies Brendan Smith and Niamh Smyth, I visited Monaghan in the past month and met the families concerned. Lead...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (30 Apr 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: ...payment already issued to IWA earlier this year, as part of this process. I have also been informed that the IWA has recently undertaken a recruitment campaign to fill its vacant positions, in Cavan especially. In addition to this, under the leadership of Minister Anne Rabbitte, an Interdepartmental Workforce Steering Group has been established focused on identifying solutions and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Mar 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank Deputy Smith for raising this important issue here today. The local HSE has made a proposal for a stand-alone respite centre for Cavan-Monaghan, for Cavan. It will support 50 families and it will be open 52 weeks of the year. Along with the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, I am currently finalising the national respite plan within which Cavan-Monaghan is a priority. Funding has been...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (29 Feb 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: It is important for me to recognise the staffing deficits in Cavan and Monaghan. Not only do I recognise it but so does the HSE. Hence, when the children's disability service grant is launched, I hope the Deputy will see an uplift in support for the families and the children. The recruitment is taking place as we speak. When I met the leads and the heads of the HSE only last Tuesday I...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (29 Feb 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: The Government acknowledges challenges faced by children and young people with disabilities and their families accessing essential therapy services in Cavan and Monaghan. The staff vacancy rate for Cavan, which is an Enable Ireland team, is currently 58% with a total of 11.96 whole-time equivalent staff in situ. The staff vacancy rate for Monaghan HSE is at 39%, with a total of 17.81...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (29 Feb 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: Absolutely. Of course, we want to be that ambitious to ensure that every county would, at a very minimum, have a respite house for children, that is, a house in both Cavan and Monaghan. At this moment, however, the proposal that has been submitted by Edel Quinn is for a respite house for both countries that is operational full-time. That will add capacity. My understanding is that it...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (29 Feb 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: A capital funding proposal has been submitted to the national HSE office for a bespoke stand-alone respite service facility in Cavan-Monaghan for children up to the age of 18 with an intellectual disability and high-support medical and complex needs. It is important to say the capital plan has not been published yet but the application has been submitted. At the moment I cannot confirm it...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disability Services (7 Feb 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: ...over the country. To be quite honest, the lack of respite services when I came into this portfolio was one of the reasons I made it a priority. The Senator identified an issue in his county of Cavan. There is no doubt that the current arrangement cannot stay as is. The status quo cannot stay in place when two counties are sharing children's respite on alternative weekends. It is no...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (23 Jan 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: ...adults or the younger adults. One house will be left for adult respite services and we will have a children's respite facility. The capital plan is being launched in the next two or three weeks. Cavan is in the capital plan because of the advocacy that has gone on. We will await its publication to see that through. On special schools, the Deputy knows as well as I do that I do not...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (23 Jan 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: ...opportunity to discuss it on the floor of the Dáil. He quite rightly outlined that he has raised this specific case with me over the last 12 months. Not only that but he and his colleagues in Cavan-Monaghan have continuously raised the issue of the lack of respite services in County Monaghan and the fact that children have to leave the county and share the service on a week on, week...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (30 Nov 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...undertaken identified 12 locations nationwide where the delivery of 78 family refuge spaces would have the most impact if prioritised. The initial areas identified in the Tusla review include Cavan-Monaghan, where eight family places are suggested as a starting point for prioritisation. An interagency group has been established to further this development and several meetings have taken...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (30 Nov 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I am informed by Tusla that a number of interagency meetings have been held since 2022 to explore how to progress the development of a refuge in Cavan-Monaghan. Some steps have been taken through engagement with two county councils to identify a suitable site. A site at Cootehill in the ownership of Cavan County Council has initially been proposed for consideration. The Tearmann Domestic...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disability Services (11 Jul 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...issuing at the next funding release date. I think that was something that the Senator and I agreed on that day, that it needed a few bob. On accommodation, the occupational guidance service of HSE's Cavan-Monaghan disability services has alerted Drumlin House management to the fact that the numbers and needs are projected to increase in 2023 and 2024, and will continue year on year...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disability Services (11 Jul 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Senator. It is also important to note that Ms Edel Quinn in CHO 1 is working closely with Ms Breege O'Reilly, and working locally with the Cavan-Monaghan disability service leads in the HSE to ensure that we have a building that is fit-for-purpose for the people in the area. They are working to ensure that we can build up the hubs and the satellites but also to make sure that we...

Seanad: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (11 Jul 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...assistant therapy posts in occupational therapy, physiotherapy and speech and language. Only six of our ETBs at the moment are providing therapy supports or developing FETAC level 5 or FETAC level 6. The Cavan-Monaghan area has been a leader in this. Last year, between level 5 and level 6, in physiotherapy we produced 75 assistant grade therapist posts. We provided 18 in occupational...

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

Anne Rabbitte: ...the context of the assistant grades, and some ETBs are incredibly proactive in that regard. In respect of physiotherapists, 73 assistant grade therapists qualified at levels 5 and 6 at the ETBs in Cavan-Monaghan, Dublin city, Dún Laoghaire, Kerry and Limerick. That amounts to 85 in total who have qualified as assistants. They are a great support to physiotherapists at a senior...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (15 Jun 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...persons are discharged to their home and pointing out that the approach to the right to end-of-life care provided to them in their home is very different from how it is done in Laois and Offaly or Cavan and Monaghan. It is not in keeping with the practice in the rest of the CHO. There seems to be a higher level of administrative inconvenience in Louth and Meath than in the other regions,...

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...where we are with the delivery of services and what services are under pressure. Deputy Tully is quite right. CHO 1 is quite complex because it is divided into the areas of Donegal, Sligo, Leitrim and west Cavan, and Cavan and Monaghan. The Deputy is right in what she is saying. We cannot operate children's respite services in counties Cavan and Monaghan if they are only available...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (16 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...and quality of life are promoted and protected. HIQA published 33 inspection reports from January to March 2023 on disability services designated centres in the community healthcare system in counties Cavan, Donegal, Leitrim, Monaghan and Sligo. The findings of HIQA’s regulatory programme and the mechanisms put in place by the HSE may inform wider safeguarding practice, governance...