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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Assisted Decision-Making (5 Dec 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: On the 26th of April this year I commenced the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 (the 2015 Act), along with the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Act 2022. This allowed for the Decision Support Service to become operational, and to commence processing certain types of decision support applications under different Parts of the Act. The statistics below include all...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Special Educational Needs (5 Dec 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible. As the Deputy may be aware, the industrial action that commenced on Friday 6thOctober, by management and administrative grades in Fórsa Trade Union in the HSE, will impact on the response times to Parliamentary Questions and Representations.

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

Anne Rabbitte: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible. As the Deputy may be aware, the industrial action that commenced on Friday 6thOctober, by management and administrative grades in Fórsa Trade Union in the HSE, will impact on the response times to Parliamentary Questions and Representations.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of People with Disabilities (5 Dec 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: Ireland fully ratified the UNCRPD in 2018 and the Government remains committed to continuously advancing the rights of persons with disabilities that it sets out. Ratification of the Optional Protocol is not a precondition to the implementation of the UNCRPD. The Optional Protocol of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is an international treaty that...

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

Anne Rabbitte: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible. As the Deputy may be aware, the industrial action that commenced on Friday 6thOctober, by management and administrative grades in Fórsa Trade Union in the HSE, will impact on the response times to Parliamentary Questions and Representations.

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

Anne Rabbitte: My Department is leading discussions at a whole-of-government level for the development and delivery of a new National Disability Strategy in early 2024. As part of this work, and in line with obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, an extensive and robust stakeholder consultation process is underway, to ensure that the voices and...

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

Anne Rabbitte: This is a matter for my Cabinet colleague, the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage.

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

Anne Rabbitte: The successful recruitment and retention of staff across the Disability Services sector is integral to this sectors' continued growth and remains a key priority for me. Beginning in May 2023, the HSE implemented a recruitment pause for a number of grades across the HSE and Section 38 service providers, to ensure that it can sustainably provide services within its existing resources. The...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Diagnoses (29 Nov 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible. As the Deputy may be aware, the industrial action that commenced on Friday 6 October, by management and administrative grades in Fórsa Trade Union in the HSE, will impact on the response times to Parliamentary Questions and Representations.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (29 Nov 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible. As the Deputy may be aware, the industrial action that commenced on Friday 6 October, by management and administrative grades in Fórsa Trade Union in the HSE, will impact on the response times to Parliamentary Questions and Representations.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (28 Nov 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: 220. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the location of the published annual reports of the mediation officer pursuant to the Civil Service grievance procedure Circular 11/2001; the reason the latest available report dates from 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52382/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Reports (28 Nov 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: 221. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of reports from personnel officers and mediation officers received in 2022; the Departments the reports were from; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52383/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (28 Nov 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: 222. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current designated mediation officer in his Department's Civil and Public Service mediation service; the way in which the Civil and Public Service mediation service recruit external mediators; the date of last recruitment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52384/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (28 Nov 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: 223. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a panel of mediators is used for the civil and public service mediation service panel; the number of external mediators currently on the civil and public service mediation service panel; the length of time a panel lasts; how the Civil and Public Service Mediation Service decides when to use paid external mediators; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (28 Nov 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: 224. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there is an obligation on Civil and Public Service mediation service mediation officers to give reasons in writing directly to both parties if they do not make recommendation or do not proceed with mediation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52386/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (28 Nov 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible. As the Deputy may be aware, the industrial action that commenced on Friday 6th October, by management and administrative grades in Fórsa Trade Union in the HSE, will impact on the response times to Parliamentary Questions and Representations.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (28 Nov 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible. As the Deputy may be aware, the industrial action that commenced on Friday 6thOctober, by management and administrative grades in Fórsa Trade Union in the HSE, will impact on the response times to Parliamentary Questions and Representations.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Care Services (28 Nov 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: The Deputy will be aware that the functions vested in the Minister for Health with respect to the Commission of Investigation (certain matters relative to a disability service in the South East and related matters) (“The Farrelly Commission”) transferred to my Department on 1stMarch 2023 as part of the transfer of functions of specialist community based disability services. The...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Nursing Homes (28 Nov 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: A nursing home can be an appropriate care option where the person concerned has a clinically assessed complex medical and social care requirement that cannot be supported in the person’s home. The Government is providing funding to facilitate supports to people to live in their own homes with disabilities, and where inappropriately placed in nursing homes, assist young people to move...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (28 Nov 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible. As the Deputy may be aware, the industrial action that commenced on Friday 6th October, by management and administrative grades in Fórsa Trade Union in the HSE, will impact on the response times to Parliamentary Questions and Representations