Results 1-5 of 5 for indecon speaker:Violet-Anne Wynne

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

Violet-Anne Wynne: ...is a significant step for recognition, and dropped €100 from the payment. What happened there? We waited long enough for a report to quantify the cost of disability, which was acknowledged in the Indecon report and the recent Green Paper, which stated that it can cost more than €12,500 per year, and yet there are no such cost of disability measures in budget 2024. It is...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Reports (15 Dec 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: ...and appliances, transport, medicines and assistive services. The Minister of State has alluded to this. My main question is how this is report going to inform future disability service policy after the Indecon specialists have reported it to the NDIS steering group. Which Department will assume responsibility for ensuring the publication of this report was not just an exercise?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning disability services with the UNCRPD and considering the future system and innovation: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Dec 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. It has been interesting. This has been a big week in Ireland with the publication of the Indecon report, which is long overdue but is a comprehensive document of 200 pages looking at the nitty-gritty of the extra costs incurred by disabled people. Most of the speakers referred to the cost of disability and it is something the committee is...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jun 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: The Indecon report on the cost of disability was commissioned in 2019 with the aim of better informing relevant budgetary allocations for 2020. Two years later, it is unacceptable that the report is still not published in time for the 2022 budget. The Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, stated in the Chamber last November that the disability capacity review was completed and would be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Ratification of Optional Protocol: Discussion (27 May 2021)

Violet-Anne Wynne: .... The most recent excuse was that Government is awaiting a response from the UN on its report. I am concerned about that and about the protracted publication of several vital reports, such as the Indecon report on the cost of disability and the disability capacity review. Coupled with this, the disability portfolio has been transferred from the Department of Health to the new Department...