Results 1-20 of 63 for rural transport speaker:Anne Rabbitte

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

Anne Rabbitte: ...five years thereafter to build in capacity. When I cross other Departments, I see the issues they have in aligning themselves through the UNCRPD and the challenges that poses. I talk about the Department of Transport, for example. We all know that our day services depend on the number of buses that are in this country at the moment. At the same time, we have so many organisations that...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (10 Oct 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...who require such services, and people with intellectual disabilities would form the majority of service users who are supported by these services. While day service funding does not include transport, some transport supports are provided by the HSE or funded agencies on a discretionary basis, and a variety of transport solutions are pursued in different CHO areas. These include travel...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services (5 Oct 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...who require such services, and people with intellectual disabilities would form the majority of service users who are supported by these services. While day service funding does not include transport, some transport supports are provided by the HSE or funded agencies on a discretionary basis, and a variety of transport solutions are pursued in different CHO areas. These include travel...

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: I welcome the opportunity to meet with the Joint Committee on Disability Matters today. There is a complexity to the transport issues that I hear about because the transport needs of people with disabilities are as diverse as our disabled citizens themselves. From the results of Census 2022, we know that approximately one in five persons in Ireland reported living with some form of...

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: .... It is something I am trying to get over the line and it is a funding issue needless to say, but we should ensure that every one of the 1.700 young people who come on board have access to the transport piece as part of their package. It should not be ad hocor at the gift of whoever campaigns, makes the loudest noise, is the most rural, or whatever. It should be just standardised so...

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: ...to it yet at that time. They gave a presentation to the former Department of Children, Disability, Equality and Integration. I did not have any money in that budget so I asked the Minister for Transport, Deputy Éamon Ryan, for a few pounds and he partnered with me. We also did research on it with the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland, RSCI, to find the outcomes for people. This...

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: All memos going to the Government from Departments should be disability-proofed. We should start there and lead by example. There is no point in us going out to ask local authorities or transport groups if we do not do it ourselves in the Departments. All memos going to the Government should be disability-proofed. It is a simple step but it would mean there has been a thought process at...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: School Transport (13 Jul 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...who require such services, and people with intellectual disabilities would form the majority of service users who are supported by these services. While day service funding does not include transport, some transport supports are provided by the HSE or funded agencies on a discretionary basis, and a variety of transport solutions are pursued in different CHO areas. These include travel...

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

Anne Rabbitte: ...the Deputy to the most recent reply which I gave on 30 May 2023 in response to previous questions by the Deputy. There is no change in the position outlined in that reply regarding the provision of transport for young adults with intellectual disabilities to attend training centres and workshops in a post-second level setting. The HSE provides specialist disability services, including...

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

Anne Rabbitte: ...who require such services, and people with intellectual disabilities would form the majority of service users who are supported by these services. While day service funding does not include transport, some transport supports are provided by the HSE or funded agencies on a discretionary basis, and a variety of transport solutions are pursued in different CHO areas. These include travel...

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

Anne Rabbitte: The Government decided to close the Motorised Transport Grant and Mobility Allowance administrative Schemes in 2013, on foot of the Ombudsman reports in 2011 and 2012 regarding the legal status of both Schemes in the context of the Equal Status Acts. Both schemes remain closed.  Under the National Disability Inclusion Strategy 2017-2022, the Action 104 Transport Working Group was...

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

Anne Rabbitte: ...who require such services, and people with intellectual disabilities would form the majority of service users who are supported by these services. While day service funding does not include transport, some transport supports are provided by the HSE or funded agencies on a discretionary basis, and a variety of transport solutions are pursued in different CHO areas. These include travel...

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

Anne Rabbitte: ..., and I took up the chairmanship since. Out of that, the reason I took up the chairmanship was I listened to the Regional Group on that occasion. I heard exactly what they all were saying. As a rural Deputy as well, I think we are all on the one page. Whether it is urban or rural, we believe that people with disabilities have the right to access employment, have the right to access...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (3 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...Stanton for raising this important matter. I acknowledge that this is an area in which the Deputy has particular interest. The Deputy is no different to me in that, as someone who represents a rural constituency, he understands completely the challenges parents of this young lady and others have come to him about. The Deputy previously asked about difficulties young people may have in...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disability Services (8 Mar 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...the Department of Health I pulled together the working group and decided to chair it myself, much to the surprise of the group, because I was told the Department of Health is not responsible for transport. Regardless of my title as Minister of State with responsibility for disabilities, this is one of the biggest issues that comes across my desk as an elected representative for a rural...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disability Services (8 Mar 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...official sent to participate on the group I reconfigured. I was not left short one Department. Every Department was represented at the table. To be fair, the Departments of Health, Finance and Transport, as well as the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform and everybody else, were there. That is why it is a good and comprehensive report. As...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (31 Jan 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...HSE provide specialist disability services, including Day Services and Rehabilitative Training, to people with disabilities who require such services. The HSE has no statutory obligation to provide transport services and no funding is allocated for this. Transport is not considered a core health service and as such Day Service funding does not include transport. Some transport supports...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (16 Nov 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: ...and Local Link for these service users living in this area to be collected in the morning, brought to their service and brought home in the evening. This is because the geographic location is rural and there was no existing transport service in place via the National Transport Authority, NTA, at the time. Unfortunately, the HSE has said it is not aware of any difficulties with this...

Report of the Joint Committee on Disability Matters on the UNCRPD: Motion [Private Members] (10 Nov 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: ...a person could get involved. It is important that people can have a choice in their lives, regardless of whether they are above or below 65. Regarding the report's recommendations on housing, transport and social protection, I highlight that responsibility for these lies chiefly with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy O'Brien, the Minister for Transport,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (5 Oct 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: ...HSE provide specialist disability services, including Day Services and Rehabilitative Training, to people with disabilities who require such services. The HSE has no statutory obligation to provide transport services and no funding is allocated for this. Transport is not considered a core health service and as such Day Service funding does not include transport. Some transport supports...