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

Question put and agreed to.

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: At the outset, I thank my colleague, Deputy Pauline Tully, for bringing forward this motion. We certainly need a more humane approach for people with disabilities and carers. We need to work to make a real and lasting difference in people's lives. I know there will be lots of carers and people with disabilities looking in tonight, and as often happens, the picture that is painted is so...

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

Louise O'Reilly: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Teachta Tully ar an rún seo anocht. I had intended to reference the hurtful, tone deaf and quite frankly disgraceful comments made by An Taoiseach recently in the media but I will not dignify those comments by repeating them. What I will say is this. We, in Sinn Féin, see the importance of the State and the role the State must play in supporting...

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

Paul Donnelly: Táim buíoch as an seans labhairt ar an rún seo agus gabhaim buíochas leis an Teachta Tully as ucht é a chur faoi bhráid na Dála. I have the privilege to have Praxis Care and the Blanchardstown Centre for Independent Living, two wonderful services, in the same building as my constituency office in Mulhuddart. There is also the Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus...

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

Pauline Tully: First of all, I thank all of the Deputies who spoke this evening on this motion, and for the various issues they raised. A number of Deputies talked about the Government not opposing this motion but a lot of what it calls for is for the Government to implement its own programme for Government. A lot of the items identified are in the programme, and they have not been addressed as yet. ...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank all the Deputies for their contributions on the large-scale reforms we all recognise are needed in the areas of disability and care. I also thank them for speaking to the individual constituents and the extremely difficult individual cases that all of us as constituency TDs face daily, and our knowledge that the entire system needs to do so much more for people with a disability. ...

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

Catherine Connolly: I always start by thanking Sinn Féin for bringing forward a motion and I do so again tonight. I am also grateful for the opportunity to speak. However, my gratitude stops there because the elephant in the room is being ignored. Many TDs and the Ministers have spoken about the upcoming referendum, which is taking out two parts of Article 41 and replacing it with an entirely new article...

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

Violet-Anne Wynne: First, I welcome today’s news on the establishment of the interdepartmental group on the optional protocol and I hope this will speed up the ratification as it is now long overdue. We remember the delays in the ratification of the UNCRPD in the first instance and the 11 miserable years that went by there. Last year, there were 5,500 family carers who did not receive the...

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

Richard O'Donoghue: It goes without saying that the axis of support for persons with disabilities is failing due to a lack of funding and prolonged periods of waiting for appointments. The lack of funding in the budget was one thing, but this proposed amendment causes further insult and takes responsibility away from the Government and its commitment to provide for, protect and care for the most vulnerable...

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

Michael Collins: As we stand on the precipice of this Friday's vote, Ireland's fate hangs in the balance with a pivotal referendum that could redefine the very fabric of our society. It centres around replacing Article 41.2 of the Constitution with Article 42B. This proposed article recognises that care provided by family members to one another forms a bedrock upon which our common good rests. It...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: I, too, thank Deputy Tully and Sinn Féin for bringing forward this timely debate. If the Government really wanted to help carers and people with disabilities, it could have clearly done so in the budget. The disability capacity review tells us that between €80 million and €90 million was needed yet the Government only provided €64 million. The €20 million...

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

Mattie McGrath: Go raibh maith agat.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: We are asking the people to vote "Yes" for something that is going to hurt them. The people will not do that. I am asking the people out there tonight-----

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

Mattie McGrath: Go raibh maith agat, a Theachta.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: -----to vote "No" to both proposals - "No, No".

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

Richard O'Donoghue: Hear, hear.

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

Marian Harkin: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion, which takes an overarching view on the absolute need to provide greater supports to people with disabilities and carers. It is also very interesting and timely to see that today, IBEC issued a detailed report entitled Better Care Better Business. Many of the recommendations in the IBEC report are very similar to those in the Sinn...

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

Seán Canney: I commend Deputy Tully and Sinn Féin on bringing forward this motion. As a member of the Joint Committee on Disability Matters it is important that I focus in on a few things. We have looked for the ratification of the UN protocol. We issued a report on that. I was disappointed this week to see an announcement that some other report will now be prepared by Government. That will be...

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

Carol Nolan: In the referendum we will vote on this Friday, there are absolutely no new rights for carers or disabled people. The fact that legislation is being rushed and guillotined is also of serious concern. It is an insult to the intelligence of people and the electorate. A total of €20 million of taxpayers' money is being lashed out on this referendum. That €20 million could have...

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

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank Deputy Tully and Sinn Féin for bringing forward this important motion tonight. Relaxing the carer's allowance means test and increasing the disability allowance, invalidity pension, illness benefit, carer's allowance and benefit, and the annual carer's support grant is of paramount importance. I believe that taking care of people in their own home is the best place you can have...