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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I am fully supportive of the Deputy. If he can get them to bring it across the line, the disabled community and disabled citizens would welcome that. In doing that, the criteria for it needs to be completely and utterly reviewed and expanded. Sometimes, when we talk about disabled drivers, we think of the physically disabled. The criteria are too short. I did not realise that, at the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: It is being done two ways. There is HSE national recruitment and a targeting campaign that goes on all of the time on LinkedIn, targeting the Australian market and people who have gone to Canada, for example. Regarding CHO 1, my compliments to Edel Quinn, who did a bespoke targeting campaign last Christmas targeted at people coming home for Christmas. She basically targeted in Donegal on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: Care assessed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Cathaoirleach. Absolutely, I will start there with the idea that respite should be championed. I will bring in Ms Andersson because she is a find within the Department. She understands respite and understands the alternative model. Sometimes you find people who can work with you, who get what you are doing and who know what you are talking about. For anybody who did not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: It is also important to say that when we look at respite, it is a broad spectrum of approaches. Ms Andersson is right; the Saturday club can equally be as much of a relief to the family, but it is also important for young people to participate and have somewhere to go. If their sibling is going to whatever form of sport they participate in, that child would have his or her place to go to....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: Absolutely. Some children love routine and crave it. If some of the campuses the Cathaoirleach spoke about, which have some wonderful facilities, were accessible and if we could build them into the routine of families, or build them into the opportunities available for personal assistants whereby they could bring an individual to them, this is what we need to be looking at. I compliment...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank Senator McGreehan. There is no doubt the dial is moving but the pace of it is another thing. It is wonderful to be getting funding from the taxpayer that ultimately, gives me the money to provide to the HSE which then provides it to the various stakeholders to operationalise it. I am privileged to be able to secure funding but getting it operationalised is a huge challenge, as is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I have not heard anything back but we had a meeting in the past two months with the Minister, Deputy O’Brien, and his housing team to advocate for that piece. When we talk about supporting somebody coming out of a nursing home or stepping somebody out of the NRH, regrettably, €30,000 or €38,000 will not sort out that problem for us. If a person is putting a bedroom...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (18 Sep 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: Since 2021 the Government has sought to reinstate the pre-existing on-site health and social care supports to special schools. Between 2021 and 2022 Government provided funding for the reinstatement of 223 posts that had been historically provided. While some services have been reinstated, it is acknowledged that progress has been affected by the shortage of health and social care...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Projects (18 Sep 2024)

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.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Functions (18 Sep 2024)

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. The Deputy will appreciate that education is a matter for the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, and as Minister, I have no role.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (18 Sep 2024)

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.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (18 Sep 2024)

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.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (18 Sep 2024)

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.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (18 Sep 2024)

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.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (18 Sep 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth do not plan to change the process to certify the level of vision for those applying to the Blind Welfare Allowance. To qualify for Blind Welfare Allowance, the clinical requirement is that an applicant’s best vision must be equal to or less than 6/60 in the better eye or, if the field of vision is limited, the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (18 Sep 2024)

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.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (18 Sep 2024)

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.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (18 Sep 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: The Government remains committed to the implementation of the Action Plan for Disability Services 2024–2026 as the first phase of the implementation of the Disability Capacity Review, as set out in the Programme for Government. €74m has been allocated in 2024 for new development measures which will provide greater investment across a range of disability services and contribute...