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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)

Mairead Farrell: The public business before us is as follows: minutes, accounts and statements, correspondence, consideration of a draft committee work programme, and any other business. The first item of business is the minutes of our meetings of 17 and 22 October, which have been circulated to members. Do members wish to raise any matters in relation to the minutes? No. Are the minutes agreed? Agreed....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)

Mairead Farrell: Is it agreed to note the listing of accounts and financial statements? Agreed. As usual, the listing of accounts and financial statements will be published as part of our minutes. I will move to correspondence. As previously agreed, items that were not flagged for discussion for this meeting will be dealt with in accordance with the proposed actions that have been circulated, and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)

Mairead Farrell: Absolutely. That can be done. Is that everything on that item of correspondence?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)

Mairead Farrell: No. R2855, received from Mr. John Hogan, Secretary General of the Department of Finance, is correspondence providing information requested by the committee regarding the Greystones media campus. I propose to note and publish this item. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)

Mairead Farrell: I will come in on that. I totally agree. It is not good enough. I understand that as a result of it being a commercial entity, the Department is able to claim that some of the information cannot be given, but we need to see if we can get any more information. That is agreed. We will do that. It is to be hoped we will get some kind of response before we meet again. Updated actions are...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)

Mairead Farrell: I think we probably still will be here on 7 November. There is the issue of invitations being sent ten days in advance and that would allow for 7 November. Otherwise I am happy to meet next week if it comes back and says it cannot do 7 November but can do next week. Would Deputy Murphy be in agreement with this?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)

Mairead Farrell: We will write to it and extend the invitation. As we know, this was flagged with it at the beginning of October. If it says it cannot do 7 November, which is after ten days, we can state we are more than happy to meet it next week. It is in the public domain that the Dáil will not continue for much longer after 7 November. In the short period of time we have available to us, this...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)

Mairead Farrell: For clarity, has the Comptroller and Auditor General dealt with the 2022 accounts previously?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)

Mairead Farrell: It will depend, then.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2024)

Mairead Farrell: At election time so many different things are up in the air. It is an issue of great concern for us with regard to the spending of public money. It is also an issue of great public concern. It is very important that the committee can hold people to account and hear what exactly is going on and get to the bottom of it. We will issue the invitation and say there is no problem and that we...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (24 Oct 2024)

Disability Services

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (24 Oct 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 5. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on children’s disability network teams in Mayo, including staff vacancies, recruitment and waiting lists for assessment and therapy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43583/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (24 Oct 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Too many children are waiting for therapies and assessment in County Mayo. I am trying to get a grasp on the staff vacancies in the children's disability network teams, CDNTs, and the waiting lists for assessment and therapy in County Mayo.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (24 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank Deputy Conway-Walsh for raising this question. I acknowledge the challenges faced by children and young people in terms of accessing services, particularly essential therapy services, in Mayo. The lead agencies there are experiencing ongoing challenges in recruiting across a range of disciplines and grades to fully staff the CDNTs. Recruitment is ongoing for administrative and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (24 Oct 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister. The reality is that there are still too many vacancies. I take what the Minister is saying in terms of trying to attract staff. However, continually having vacant posts puts pressure on the workers who are there already. Last week, I was at a wonderful initiative with Mayo Autism Camp and Manulla FC. There were many parents and children there. Although the day was...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (24 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I fully agree with the Deputy on the challenges of recruitment. It is the big challenge in disabilities services right now. The core solution to that is to train more health and social care professionals, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, physiotherapists and psychiatrists. We need more of them because the level of demand and need has increased, both because of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (24 Oct 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is part of the problem. Fine Gael has been in Government for the past 13 or 14 years and now we are looking to address these situations. The workforce planning should have been in place well before now. It is not a big surprise that there is such a high number of children with disabilities in need of support. I would say that this Government has failed children with disabilities and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (24 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank Deputy Conway-Walsh for her passionate advocacy on behalf of that child and his family. What I have done as Minister is to recognise that for so long disability was the poor relation within the Department of Health. We have taken it out of the Department of Health and brought it into my Department. That applied from March 2023, more than 18 months ago. There is so much more...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (24 Oct 2024)

Early Childhood Care and Education

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (24 Oct 2024)

Claire Kerrane: 7. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the publication of the early childhood care and education review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43559/24]