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- Report of the Joint Committee on Autism: Motion (7 Mar 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...down off the shelf for this evening and I am glad that the Business Committee selected this report and has given it an outing. However, we want it to be a practical document. We want it to be dog-eared. We want it to be scribbled all over, just like the copy in front of me. The second recommendation to which I want to draw attention is recommendation 6, to ratify the optional...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...plan? Is somebody on this all day every day and who measures their success within their role in what they deliver on the energy poverty action plan? I believe it needs somebody who is like a dog with a bone in order to ensure we have that cross-departmental buy-in and that those separate bits come together. What forum meets on a cross-departmental basis to implement the action plan?...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...recently met Amanda Fox of Cara autism support services. I met her in the company of another young woman, who I will call "Sarah", even though that is not her real name. Sarah has a self-trained dog. It has added hugely to her independence; she was diagnosed with autism in her 20s, but she has now found an avenue where she can manage her stress and anxiety. She has another comorbidity,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I have to admit I was not aware of this until I met Cara and Sarah and they opened my eyes to it completely. My young fellow is mad about dogs and I would have been one of the people telling their children to go over and pet the dog. I will not do that now. It is certainly not in people's minds in the same way as it is for guide dogs for visually impaired people. Huge work needs be done...