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

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

Pauline Tully: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — the State signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) in 2007 and ratified the Convention in 2018, but has yet to ratify the Optional Protocol; — more than one in eight people over the age of 15 provide care, with approximately 500,000 family carers in the State, and that the...

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

David Cullinane: I have a grá for carers - I imagine everybody in this House does - because of the work they do. A number of weeks ago I was asked to visit the home of a person who was being cared for and there was an issue that they were asking me to assist with. The carer was present in the house. What struck me was that the carer was an older lady who was looking after her husband, and she had...

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

Patricia Ryan: I thank Deputy Tully for her work on this Private Members' motion. I welcome Shane Scanlan of the nursing homes alliance to the Gallery this evening. People with disabilities and their carers deserve so much better than the raw deal the Government is currently giving them. These people already deal with so many difficulties in their daily lives. They need access to supports and services,...

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

Réada Cronin: Our motion this evening addresses how supports for people with disabilities and their carers must be rights based. Táim sásta labhairt ar ár rún tráthnóna agus gabhaim buíochas leis an Teachta Tully as ucht an rúin seo. Tá sé an-tábhachtach gach cúram agus cúnamh a thabhairt do dhaoine faoi mhíchumas agus dá gclanna...

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

Pearse Doherty: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Leas-Cheann Comhairle agus leis an Teachta Tully faoi choinne na hoibre atá sí ag déanamh sa rún seo ach fosta don obair atá á dhéanamh aici ar son daoine faoi mhíchumas agus cúramóirí amuigh ansin. Bíonn an cheist seo á hardú aici arís agus arís eile. People with disabilities and...

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

Sorca Clarke: People with disabilities and carers in my constituency of Longford-Westmeath and across the State deserve much better than feeling abandoned and constantly let down by the Government. They need to see the delivery of substantial supports like assessments of need, therapy supports, personal assistants, home care assistants, assistive technology and respite. They need the Government to ratify...

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

Anne Rabbitte: As Minister of State with responsibility for specialist disability services, I am pleased to be here to address the issues raised in this Private Members' motion on supporting people with disabilities and carers. The motion touches on a wide range of issues which span the remit of several Departments including mine and the Departments of Health; Housing, Local Government and Heritage; Social...

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

Johnny Guirke: It is often the case that the elderly and people with a disability feel they have been forgotten about. Many fear they will have to move out of their home because they cannot continue to live independently due to a lack of support. Many carers I have spoken to have told me they go into a client's home on their days off to assist them. That is scandalous. If not for the compassion shown by...

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

Maurice Quinlivan: This motion is about providing for those with disabilities and their carers. They deserve so much better than they are getting at the moment. They deserve the quick delivery of the services and support they need. There are more than 500,000 family carers across the State. They are tremendous people who have made great sacrifices in their own lives to care for a family member. They are...

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

Johnny Mythen: I thank my colleagues for bringing this important motion to the floor, particularly Deputy Tully for the personal work she has contributed towards it. The Action Plan for Disability Services 2024-2026 is welcome. However, there is not a mention in the plan of ratifying the most important element of the UNCRPD, which is the protocol on the right for the individual to make a complaint to the...

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

Seán Crowe: The biggest concern expressed to me by older carers, but not exclusively, relates to who will look after their loved ones when they are gone. They go to bed worrying about what will happen if something happens to them, and they probably wake up in the morning with the same nagging question. Things may have improved but most of us accept we have a long road to go. A constitutional...

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

Dessie Ellis: Tá áthas orm go bhfuilim ag labhairt mar gheall ar an tairiscint seo. Tá timpeall 23% den daonra faoi mhíchumas de sórt éigin agus a lán acu ag fáil cuidiú ó chúramóirí. One of the great failings of this Government and those that preceded it has been the disparity between what they say and what they do. Disability services in...

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

Duncan Smith: I thank Sinn Féin for introducing this important motion. Every time we debate disabilities and carers in the Dáil, a structural issue arises. We have an issue like we had in UHL today, for example. The matter is the responsibility of the Minister for Health. If we are talking about taxation reform, the Minister for Finance is responsible, and so on, but responsibility for...

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

Holly Cairns: I thank Deputy Tully for bringing forward this motion. It is welcome that the Government has finally made a commitment to ratifying the optional protocol within the next 12 months. Ireland ratified the convention in 2018. We were the last country in the EU to do that and six years on, we have not ratified the optional protocol. The optional protocol is poorly named. Far from being an...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to share time with Deputy Barry.

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

Catherine Connolly: Is that agreed? Agreed.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will have seven minutes and he will have three minutes. I just got off the phone from a call with a friend of mine who is a wheelchair user and disability rights campaigner. I asked him what I should say in this debate. He asked me to express his absolute outrage at the way the Government has handled the referendum. At this point, he is going to vote no on the referendum on care. He...

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

Mick Barry: I have decided to change my vote in the care referendum from a yes to a no and I want to explain why. I called for a yes vote originally because I wanted to remove sexist language from the Constitution. I saw the religious right and the far right mobilising for a no and I did not want to give any class of a boost to those forces. I criticised the wording for merely striving to support care...

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

Peter Fitzpatrick: While the upcoming referendum on care in the home aims to provide constitutional recognition for Ireland's family carers, the Governments needs to provide much more substantial supports to both carers and those with disabilities. Financial supports for people with disabilities and family carers are inadequate and fail minimum essential standards of living tests. The Department’s own...