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Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Michael Ring: The next speaking slot is for Sinn Féin, with a number of speakers offering. I ask Deputies to be fair to their colleagues in sticking to their individual time allocations. Deputy Ó Laoghaire is up first. He has five minutes.

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The announcement last week that the Green Paper on disability payments is being scrapped was received with relief by many people with disabilities. However, it does, of course, raise further questions as to what happens next. In several respects, the consultation on the Green Paper was badly handled. My party's disability spokesperson, Deputy Tully, and I have met well over a dozen groups...

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The failure of successive Governments to vindicate the rights of people with disabilities is testified to by many failures. However, one that sums it up is that for 11 years, there was a campaign by people with disabilities and disability activists just to get governments to honour their commitment to ratify the UNCRPD. It took 11 years of campaigning from the first commitment to ratify the...

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: We consulted extensively. The Deputy is wrong.

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not according to them.

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Deputy is wrong. I will give him a list of-----

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not interrupt the Minister. The Government got a kicking in the recent referendum precisely for that reason. People with disabilities felt insulted, treated with contempt and ignored. They expected to be given rights in that referendum. My God, I certainly am not a fan, as I do not think anybody could be, of the previous constitutional wording, which did nothing for people with...

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: I want to start by thanking all the disabled people's organisations that have participated in preparing this motion. Their demands are front and centre, which is exactly as it should be. So far, there is no sign of a Government countermotion, so I presume that means the Government is not going to oppose our motion and will allow it to pass. Before there is uproar and celebration in the...

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I welcome the opportunity to discuss the important issue of supports for disabled people. I launched the consultation process on the Green Paper last September. It is very important to say that this is all Green Paper ever was - a consultation document - and I want to be very clear about that. Based on the feedback we have received to date, it is clear to me that there are significant...

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: Disability justice is social justice and social justice is disability justice. The Green Paper that was scrapped earlier this week was straight out of the Tory handbook. If we look at what the disability payment scandal did to people in Britain, it shows that pushing people to the margins compounds a terrible issue. Disabled people disproportionately suffer from poverty, alienation and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Diagnoses (17 Apr 2024)

Cuireadh an Dáil ar fionraí ar 9.50 a.m. agus cuireadh tús leis arís ar 9.58 a.m. Sitting suspended at 9.50 a.m. and resumed at 9.58 a.m.

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that the Department of Social Protection's Green Paper on Disability Reform: — proposes to introduce three "tiers" of payments depending on a person's supposed ability to work; — was published with no consultation with disabled people, and is opposed by a wide range of disabled people and their organisations; - will do nothing to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Diagnoses (17 Apr 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Deputy for raising this important issue for discussion and the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for its having been selected. As Minister of State with responsibility for disabilities, I am fully committed to the continued development and enhancement of our disability services, through the implementation of my Department’s Action Plan for Disability Services 2024-2026. As the Deputy...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Diagnoses (17 Apr 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I thank the Minister of State for her detailed response and for specifically mentioning prevention. That is really important and I may come back to it. It is also very positive that there is commitment to fund FASD Ireland to continue the important work it is doing. I know the Minister of State has taken it under her wing because the organisation has fallen between the cracks, so to speak....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Diagnoses (17 Apr 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I will continue, with the Department of Health and the HSE, to advance progress on the provision of services for those living with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder. I am also conscious, listening to the Deputy's contribution, that a lot of other agencies lean on the hub in Clare for support, including Tusla in Clare and a lot of other counties. I completely agree with the Deputy that the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Garda Síochána (17 Apr 2024)

Ossian Smyth: On behalf of the Minister for Justice, I thank Deputy Harkin for raising this issue in the House today. I am aware that the Deputy has also written to the Minister about this previously. The Minister, Deputy McEntee, is committed, as is the entire Government, to building stronger, safer communities and a strengthened, well-resourced Garda Síochána across the country is central...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Garda Síochána (17 Apr 2024)

Marian Harkin: Obviously, certain things are happening because we now have the divisional change and the Garda Commissioner and the Minister are supportive of a new Garda station in Sligo. I am sorry that the Minister is not here today but to be fair, she did send me her apologies that she could not make it. One always likes, if and when possible, to hear the Minister responsible speaking on these issues....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Garda Síochána (17 Apr 2024)

Ossian Smyth: The Deputy asked about the status of the strategic assessment. I will ask the Minister to update her on that. It is the Minister's understanding that Garda estates management met colleagues from the OPW to discuss short-term works to accommodate the operating model within the existing station. The Minister also understands that Garda estates management is considering the accommodation...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Diagnoses (17 Apr 2024)

Disability Diagnoses