Results 1-20 of 149 for cork speaker:Anne Rabbitte

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

Anne Rabbitte: ...needs. My Department is also engaging with the HSE, following the receipt of a recent proposal, on a number of measures to support Special Schools. Of particular note is the provision of grant funding to special schools in Cork, which I am actively engaging on with the HSE. Such a proposal would see schools receiving funding to secure therapists through the private sector, who in turn...

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

Anne Rabbitte: ...partnering in occupational therapy telehealth services, POTTS, programme for dyspraxia, and ChildVision. Funding for Debra Ireland will for the first time ever be included in the plan, as well as provision for the Crann Centre in Cork. There is provision for the work by the National Rehabilitation Hospital clinical lead on a White Paper for the care of children with neurological...

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

Anne Rabbitte: ...This process has been significantly delayed by the recently lifted FORSA industrial action. When this data is available I will be able to provide more specific information in relation to children’s services in Cork. Across HSE and S38 Disability Services overall there was an increase of 662 WTE from December 2022 to December 2023. For 2024 my Department has provided funding for the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (14 Feb 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: ...in 2023. Allocations for 2024 will be announced in the very near future. Since 2020, approximately €320 million in Exchequer capital funding has been allocated for the national road network in Cork county and city. That is €320 million in recent years. This has included funding for a number of new national roads projects in the Cork North-Central and Cork East areas. The...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (14 Feb 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: ...Midleton to Youghal scheme that will include bypassing the villages of Castlemartyr and Killeagh. This would reduce congestion and greatly improve quality of life for residents in these villages. Cork County Council has advertised vacancies for technical advisers to advance the project through the route options selection phase. I do not know whether that answers the Deputy's question,...

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: ...out in the first place. There was an inequality in that there was the postcode lottery and it was not standardised. There were not X number of therapists to whom children could have access. In Cork, there could have been OT and speech and language, but from a multidisciplinary point of view, there might not have been psychology, whereas, in Galway, there might be four speech and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (16 Nov 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: .... The four Dublin local authorities have arrangements allowing social housing applicants to apply for housing in up to two of the other Dublin authorities simultaneously, and similar arrangements apply in Cork and Galway. This matter will continue to be given consideration by the Department. I will certainly bring it back to the Minister. While it is good news that the lady and her...

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

Anne Rabbitte: ...local authorities in 2023. These allocations were announced by the Department of Transport and TII on 16 February 2023. Among the new national roads projects listed in the NDP is the proposed N20-M20 Cork to Limerick scheme, which would bypass Charleville. Some €5 million was allocated for this project in 2023. As with all national roads projects in the NDP, the delivery...

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

Anne Rabbitte: ...When he meets with TII next week, that is one of the points the Deputy would need to make. In my opinion, it also answers that piece. It is a market town and a major point of connectivity between Cork and Limerick. I am glad the Deputy included Galway. It is that part of the critical infrastructure of the western seaboard that needs to be developed. People's safety is paramount.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Insurance Coverage (25 Oct 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...emergency business flooding schemes for small businesses, sports clubs and community and voluntary organisations unable to secure flood insurance in areas affected by recent flooding in Counties Cork, Waterford, Limerick, Kilkenny and Louth. The schemes provide humanitarian support contributions towards the costs of returning small businesses and voluntary and community premises to their...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Childcare Services (25 Oct 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: I absolutely will ask the Minister. Knowing him and how he likes the coastline and everything else, I would say he will be snapping at the Deputy's heels to visit west Cork. I will take up the issue with the Minister on that basis. The Deputy mentioned St. Mary's and the wonderful work it does, along with the 4,200 other childcare providers throughout the country. They are phenomenal...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Insurance Coverage (25 Oct 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...two emergency business flooding schemes for small businesses, sports clubs, and community and voluntary organisations unable to secure flood insurance and affected by recent flooding in counties Cork, Waterford, Limerick, Kilkenny and Louth. These provide humanitarian support towards the cost of returning their premises to their pre-flood condition. This support will have two stages....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Enhanced Transport and Mobility Support Options for People with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...everything else, but one can only map that if one has the whole picture as to what the current need is and the need going forward. One cannot do that on an ad hocbasis. It might be good in Galway but bad in Cork and one cannot have it like that; it has to be a proper standard. That is universal design in the environment. We are talking about where the Departments of Transport and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Enhanced Transport and Mobility Support Options for People with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...and there is no denying whatsoever; it has gone on for far too long. Deputy Ellis asked about the North-South coverage. At the moment, the service is provided in Dublin and it has been extended to Cork and Limerick. It is to be rolled out nationally. Free travel also applies North and South. I assume that this will operate on the same basis. The next question was about...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (4 Jul 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...outside the beautiful M50 commuter belt, as the Senator and I do, and have to go to Temple Street or Crumlin children's hospitals are supported. We need to ensure those children are supported in Galway, Cork, Clare and everywhere else in the country. As I am developing a paediatric neurology strategy in budget 2024, people can relax in that regard.

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

Anne Rabbitte: I am aware that Children’s Disability Services in Cork covers a wide area of service provision encompassing Children’s Disability Network Teams (CDNTs), Special Schools and Assessment of Need, Children’s Respite Services, Home Supports, Outreach Services, and Children’s Residential Placements, delivered through a range of service providers including lead agencies...

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

Anne Rabbitte: ...access public transport or plan public transport journeys in the Greater Dublin Area. In September 2022, the National Transport Authority and Bus Éireann began piloting the rollout of the Travel Assist Scheme in Cork.  The Health Service Executive (HSE) has been working with the National Transport Authority regarding transport to day services, through the ‘Open...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (15 Jun 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...chronic disease management programme and have provided more than 28,000 patient contacts already this year, with almost 168,000 patients having been reviewed by their GP as part of the CDM programme. The north Cork CDM hub will be located in Mallow, as the Deputy said, and will deliver services to the catchment area serviced by the CHN, namely, north-east Cork, east central Cork,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (15 Jun 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...with acute hospital services, on one hand, and delivering more care closer to home, on the other. Recruitment of the required consultants and health and social care professionals to the north Cork CDM hub is in progress, and the HSE aims to have the hub operational as soon as possible.

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

Anne Rabbitte: ...be able to use that service. One of the issues here, then, is this pipeline of building in the requisite capacity in respect of residential places and addressing the unmet need in this regard. Regarding Cork and the issue raised by Deputies Pádraig O'Sullivan and Sherlock, which will undoubtedly also be referred to by the two remaining Deputies here from that county, it is...