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Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)

Seán Crowe: Over 4,000 children are waiting on a stage 1 assessment for services in the CH 07 area of Tallaght, west Wicklow and north Kildare alone. Those 4,000 children waiting to be seen represents a 33% increase in the last two years in my area. The Taoiseach said today that tackling child disabilities is one of his priorities but parents and their vulnerable children in my area have seen little...

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: It is essential for the optional protocol to the UN CRPD to be ratified. As the Minister indicated in his response, the Government agreed to do so on 8 October. While that is welcome, October is in the dying days of this Dáil. Nobody expects it to last until after Christmas. I do not have to tell people here that those who live their lives with a disability need further support,...

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)

Martin Browne: I also commend Deputy Tully on bringing this motion before the House. The need to deliver rights-based services and supports for people has never been more pressing due to the Government announcing €336 million in additional funding for disability services. As €290 million of that was for existing levels of service, this left just €46 million for new development...

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I am pleased to address the issues raised in the motion tabled by Deputy Tully. The Government will not oppose the motion but we will use our time to demonstrate what we have delivered in the sphere of disability over the past four years. The motion touches on a wide range of issues, spanning the remit of several different Departments, including my own. I will provide some details of...

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I want to take the Minister and Minister of State through the serious crisis in services for children with disabilities in Donegal. I think they are fully aware of them. More than a year ago, Special Needs Parents Network Donegal, which represents more than 900 parents of children with disabilities, published a survey about the real impact of the longest waiting lists in the entire State...

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank my colleague Deputy Pauline Tully for bringing this important motion to the House. It is a real shame that she was compelled to do so but this is what happens when we have a Government that turns its face away from citizens who need support. I acknowledge all the section 39 workers who gathered outside Mayo County Council yesterday. One after the other, Fianna Fáil and Fine...

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)

Paul Donnelly: In the past few months, I received a message that the Blakestown CDNT in Dublin 15 had informed a parent that her child would not receive services for 72 months. I was so stunned at the date that I asked her if it was in writing, which she confirmed. She dropped the letter up to me. I know the Minister has that latter. Before the CDNT service, we used to have early intervention teams and...

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)

Mairead Farrell: Tá sé iontach go bhfuil sé seo curtha os comhair na Dála ag mo chomhghleacaí, an Teachta Pauline Tully, anocht. Ar ndóigh, tá sé iontach go bhfuil daoine anseo atá in ann a gcuid tuairimí a roinnt linn mar go bhfuil sé fíorthábhachtach go gcloisfear tuairimí na ndaoine seo. Ón athbhreithniú a rinneadh maidir le...

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 Oct 2024)

Question put and declared carried.

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)

Pauline Tully: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — the Disability Capacity Review to 2032 - A Review of Social Care Demand and Capacity Requirements to 2032, which was published in July 2021, to establish the level of additional funding that would be required to address unmet need and demographic change in disability services found that additional funding of between €750...

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)

David Cullinane: This is one of dozens of debates on disabilities we have had in this Dáil term. My party, Sinn Féin, has brought forward five separate motions on the issue of disabilities. On the Government's record, this is a government that put in place a capacity review. It was a ten-year review that set out how much funding was needed, what capacity was needed in terms of, for example, staff...

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I thank all the Deputies who have contributed to the debate. It is fair to say that whether one is a pensioner, a carer, a person with a disability or a working family, the measures in this budget were designed to reach the people who need it most. This year's budget represents the largest social welfare package in the history of the State. Many of the social protection measures announced...

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 Oct 2024)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Ceann-Comhairle for the opportunity to speak on the Social Welfare Bill 2024. I agree with everything the previous speaker has said in relation to the energy credits and so on. It is shocking when one sees that the Government has, again, given an energy credit to us in this House and to many millionaires in this country who can well afford it. If I owned five houses and was...

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: There is. The Deputy took that out of last year's speech.

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 Oct 2024)

Thomas Pringle: One-off payments will not do anything to benefit people in the long run. That is the reality of the situation.

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 Oct 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: As I do frequently in the House I want to use this opportunity to raise the need to abolish the means test for carers. I also acknowledge frequently that the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, is the first Minister in so many years to make progressive changes to the means test for carers. On the most recent occasion I raised this with the Minister there was a discussion around the massive...

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: It is ironic that we are talking about the Social Welfare Bill on a day when the hospitality sector, as well as hairdressers, shopkeepers and childcare workers, all marched across Dublin and arrived at Leinster House today. Many speakers raised the issues with the VAT rate and spoke about how many closures we will have in the hospitality sector. Many people who spoke about it showed how...

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 Oct 2024)

Michael Collins: On carers, and it already has been mentioned to the Minister numerous times, there is no point in getting up to say the budget was all bad. That is wrong. The problem is that while there is a lot of money out there, it is pegged everywhere and there is no accountability as to where it ends up. The real bonanza is in the Minister's Department with all of the social welfare payments out...

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 Oct 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: I am glad to see the Minister is present because as she knows, she is one of the few people in government in whom I have faith in. I am disappointed with the issue concerning carers and the continuation of the means testing. I am upset on behalf of the people who give such great service to this country because they deserve better. Also, today, as the Minister may be aware, thousands of...