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Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Paul Donnelly: Absolutely no aspects of supports for children with additional needs are working. There is absolutely no section of it working. I have with me a letter given to me by a constituent of mine just before the summer recess which confirms there was a 72-month waiting list for services in the CDNT in Dublin 15. That is a six-year waiting list. That is absolutely and utterly shocking and...

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: Yes, we do.

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Paul Donnelly: It is a failure of everyone who has been involved in this service through the years if a simple thing like getting children who need a school place into schools cannot be done. We are paying people extremely good wages to do their job. They should be doing it. It is incredible that we have to set up a task force to do that. Let us give them the time and energy, however. They do not have...

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Pat Buckley: I thank People Before Profit-Solidarity for bringing this motion forward. I listened to a lot of the speakers and the opening statement of the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton. Last year, in June 2023, the autism committee published a final report with 109 recommendations. The blueprint for success is there. There are 87 more of those recommendations to be implemented. They deal with...

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Martin Browne: I commend People Before Profit-Solidarity. I wish to speak about a young boy in my own county by the name of Josh. His local special school could not take him on the basis that his needs were outside its remit as his condition was termed moderate to severe. Incidentally, this is the school his brother also attends. Unfortunately, this contradicts the Department’s notion that a...

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Now we go to a Sinn Féin slot. Deputy Pauline Tully is sharing with six of her colleagues, I think.

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Pauline Tully: I commend the motion and thank People Before Profit and Solidarity for bringing it forward. It is a comprehensive motion and this is a matter that has been discussed time and again here by different groups bringing it forward, yet nothing seems to change and nothing seems to improve. The Government seems to have this approach of reacting to a crisis instead of proactive planning to address...

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

David Cullinane: I commend People Before Profit on tabling this motion and allowing us to have a debate on this important issue. I was first elected to the Seanad in 2011, and one of the earliest debates I took part in was on children's disability services. All the challenges that were outlined in that debate and all the asks that were made of the Government at the time are again contained in this motion...

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Given the importance of the matter being discussed, I considered it appropriate to allow the Minister of State to go over time in order to respond comprehensively.

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I appreciate that.

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The efforts and programmes the Minister of State spoke about might make some difference. I wish that, instead of me, the parents and teachers of the children in question were here responding to what she said. They are the ones who know how the system is failing their children, despite all the efforts, promises and programmes from the Government. Like Deputy Gino Kenny said, the debates on...

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Mick Barry: I would like to use my time to try to give voice to the rage and heartbreak felt by parents across the country about the situation that the Government has allowed to develop. I will quote people from Cork to whom I have spoken today. Jimmy Lordan, a parent who wants to send his son for an assessment of need, has been told that they will have to wait two to two and half years. He said as...

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank the Deputies for raising the issues in the motion. At the outset, enabling children with special educational needs to receive an appropriate education is a priority for this Government. Since I was appointed as Minister for special education and inclusion five months ago, I have met children, their parents, teachers, SNAs and special interest groups who have provided me with...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Question put and agreed to.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Referral to Select Committee (19 Sep 2024)

Mental Health Bill 2024: Referral to Select Committee (19 Sep 2024)

Mary Butler: I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Health pursuant to Standing Orders 95 and 181.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Referral to Select Committee (19 Sep 2024)

Question put and agreed to.

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Paul Murphy: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — over 10,000 children are waiting for an Assessment of Need (AON) and 110,000 are awaiting essential therapies; — over 120 children were without a school place at the beginning of September this year, while many more are forced to do a third year in the Early Childhood Care and Education Programme or are in Autism Spectrum...

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Gino Kenny: We have had this debate continuously during my time in the House, and I have been a Deputy for eight and a half years. Unfortunately, we will continue to have this debate until the issue is resolved. It has not been resolved by any means. The brutal truth is that more than 120 children had no school place in September. A state providing a child with a school place seems elementary. I...