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- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (4 Jul 2024)
Disability Services
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (4 Jul 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Minister of State, Deputy Ossian Smyth, is here to deal with Topical Issues. He is very welcome. Our first Topical Issue comes from Deputy Thomas Pringle, who wishes to discuss a foetal alcohol project to be undertaken with a multicare sector approach.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (4 Jul 2024)
Thomas Pringle: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. Is the Minister of State, Deputy Smyth, taking this Topical Issue as well? Is he taking them all?
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (4 Jul 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Is the Minister of State taking them all?
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (4 Jul 2024)
Ossian Smyth: I am taking two.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (4 Jul 2024)
Gerald Nash: The Minister, Deputy Peter Burke, is coming in as well.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (4 Jul 2024)
Thomas Pringle: No offence to the Minister of State, Deputy Smyth, but I understood that Topical Issues were supposed to be taken by the relevant Minister. As far as I understand it, he is a Minister of State at the Department of public expenditure, and this is the responsibility of the Department of Rural and Community Development. It is disappointing but I know that is the way Topical Issues have...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (4 Jul 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Let us be clear. I want to be helpful to the Deputy. What should be happening is where a Topical Issue is selected and the Department is notified, the Department should be notifying the Deputy as to whether the Minister to deal with it is the Minister from the relevant Department.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (4 Jul 2024)
Thomas Pringle: It did not do that.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (4 Jul 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: It is not happening a lot of the time.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (4 Jul 2024)
Thomas Pringle: It has never happened.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (4 Jul 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: When you raise the issue under a Standing Order - I am not sure of the exacting Standing Order but the Ceann Comhairle will know which one - the Deputy then has an option that a lot of Deputies do not seem to be aware of.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (4 Jul 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: To defer, or-----
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (4 Jul 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: They can either take it, or have it deferred one day and have it taken by a Minister from that Department. Of course, that does not work if you are not told beforehand.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (4 Jul 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I will have to call on the Government Chief Whip to examine the matter because procedurally, we not acting properly, nor ignoring-----
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (4 Jul 2024)
Ossian Smyth: Is Deputy Ó Cuív happy for me to answer his question?
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (4 Jul 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I think Deputy Pringle is.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (4 Jul 2024)
Thomas Pringle: I have prepared for this to be taken today. Had I been aware, I would have deferred, as I wanted the Minister to be here. Basically, we are talking to the ether anyway.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (4 Jul 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I came in here to chair this and I am not aware of what the situation is until somebody tells me. The Deputy is telling me now, and I am telling him what the procedure is. Deputy Ó Cuív has pointed it out.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (4 Jul 2024)
Thomas Pringle: How are we supposed to know when there was no communication? I assumed the Minister was going to be here to take the Topical Issue. We cannot be charged with going around-----