David Cullinane (Sinn Fein)

I move amendment No. 2:

To delete all words after ''Seanad Éireann'' and substitute the following:

''— recognises the need to protect those with a disability in our society, ensuring that people with a disability can continue to lead a fruitful and active life;

— calls for the immediate publication of the Value for Money and Policy Review of Disability Services;

— acknowledges the need for best practice in the manner in which funding for disability services is deployed;

— expresses our regret that the labour activation measure announced by the Department of Social Protection to date prevent people in receipt of Disability Allowance availing of the programmes, despite research showing that two thirds of people with disabilities were willing to work with the correct supports [ERSI and OSI (2011)];

— calls for the Government to immediately commit to bringing a Legal Capacity Bill before the Oireachtas to repeal and replace the Lunacy (Regulations) Act 1871, which takes away decision-making rights from people with an intellectual disability and results in Ireland being decades behind Europe and North America in the area of capacity legislation;

— calls on the Government to outline its plans to put the National Standards for Residential Services for People with Disabilities on a statutory footing and ensure that services are inspected by the Health Information and Quality Authority [Programme for Government 2011-2016] given that there are over 8,000 adults and over 400 children with an intellectual disability in full-time residential care paid for by the State, but which are not inspected by any Government agency [National Intellectual Database HRB (2011)];

— proposes that the Government under the stewardship of the Minister for Social Protection acts to develop effective and appropriate legislative and policy responses, across all relevant Departments and agencies, to create a structure, including a welfare system, which recognises the individual needs and circumstances of people with disabilities.''.