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

Danny Healy-Rae: There was one, and she knows the battle I had to do. Imagine one for all of Kerry. This is a vital place. It needs to be remodelled or added to. I am sorry. We need to build separate residential units on the campus. There are no respite places in Kerry for elderly parents who may have an elderly son or daughter. The only place I was offered for that very special person about whom I...

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

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Next are Deputies Canney and Verona Murphy, who are sharing time.

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

Seán Canney: I welcome the opportunity to contribute on this motion. I thank my colleague from the disability matters committee, Deputy Tully, for tabling it. The Dáil has discussed disability services a great deal over the past five years, but there are still a few elements we have not got right. For example, we have young children who are waiting for assessments to diagnose what is wrong with...

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

Verona Murphy: One of the simple facts that most people understand is that failure to plan is planning to fail. Deputy Canney spoke about how often we had stood on this floor to debate this issue. In my short political career, I have stood on this floor 60 times to discuss disability issues. It is terrible that I have to tell the Government that matters are getting worse, not better. Despite the fact...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: Will be ratified.

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

Holly Cairns: ----- might finally be ratified-----

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

Roderic O'Gorman: Yes, that is correct.

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

Holly Cairns: -----with days left? Over the years, we have heard from different experts, including the UN special rapporteur, who have clearly said the optional protocol could be ratified in the morning. Disabled people should not have had to wait this long. They should not have to wait any longer for the ability to vindicate their rights and hold the State accountable for its failures. The...

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

Paul Murphy: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this good motion. I have not been able to be present at this debate until now because I was at an online meeting with a range of campaigners on disability services of various sorts, including parents of children with additional needs, parents of children with scoliosis who are being badly failed by the State and disabled people themselves. What is brewing...

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

Holly Cairns: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward the motion. I want to touch on the budget because every year on budget day we go through the same farce again and again. The Government announces a high-level figure for investment in disability services. This year it claimed the figure was €336 million, only for us to find out days later that this money will largely pay for services...

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

Chris Andrews: I thank Deputy Tully for bringing forward this Private Members' motion. Enable Ireland Sandymount School provides education for children with very complex needs. Many of the students are wheelchair-bound and need movement breaks. They need these breaks in a specific class, which is out of action because of a serious leak in the roof over one of the rooms. This is having a negative impact...

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

Seán Sherlock: I support the Sinn Féin motion. Every week, we discuss important issues such as this one in debates on Private Members' motions. I have lost count of the number of motions of this nature I have spoken to at this stage. That is testament to the need to reform the way we order business in the House in the next Dáil, of which I will not be a part. It becomes a little tiresome when...

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

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We have five speakers in the next Sinn Féin slot.

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

Johnny Mythen: I thank Deputy Pauline Tully for her Trojan work in advocating for better services and conditions for people with disabilities and for bringing the Private Members' motion to the Dáil. One of the Government mantras is "Let's make the country a great place to do business in." However, on reflection it is not a great place to be disabled in. A recent workforce survey found 817 staff...

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...