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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: That is my understanding of what is required in the Senator's area, where an action plan is being put in place. In fairness to the disability manager Margaret O'Neill, who is in charge and who is only new into post in the area, she is awaiting some posts to be signed off as we speak so as that she can enable the works to be done in her area.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I recommend that the family take the conversation up with the disability manager in their area.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: On the UN process, to be fair to the HSE it tries to do both an intervention and an assessment. Clearly, the capacity requirement means that when there is not enough staff, it is very hard to do both. That is why the funding that has been sought is for the long-waiters. There are also resources to access private capacity. That is there to do it. As I said to Senator O'Loughlin, a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I am formulating my answer based on the Senator's questions because the questions are very well-founded. Sometimes as Minister of State, I am often found guilty of jumping into answer a question without thinking it through completely, and on this one I am thinking it through. PDS was formulated ten or 12 years ago but it finally became operational on my watch. The lead referred to by the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: She is an occupational therapist. That is her background with academia from UL.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: We will provide the Senator, through the secretary, with the answers about both appointments. It is important for me to read into the record as well-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I was about to address that piece. I have a note in front of me regarding it. Witnesses appeared before this committee a number of weeks ago who spoke about this. The HSE knows that the evidence base for the PDS includes the lived experience of health services of children with disabilities and their families, gathered through family representation, surveys, observations, assessments,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I will get the Senator that answer. I am talking about 12 years ago but we will get that piece for the Senator. It is not a problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: Ought to happen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: The HSE would say they are happening and that every assessment is an intervention. It would say that every child who is seen is an intervention space.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Senator. I will skip straight on to schools and will let the team answer some of the other questions. First, on why the HSE has failed to deliver on putting therapies back in to the schools, in 2021, PDS was being rolled out and therapists were coming out of the schools in Dublin. There was also the school of the deaf in Cork. The exact time was May. At that stage there was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: The conversation here today is almost making me a little nervous because I am terrified that someone will go and challenge that and that if it ends up being challenged then everything ends up having to be 36 hours. That would slow down delivery again because I have no other mechanism of it. However, at the same time the HSE and the Department of Education accept them as long as they are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: However, everything has to come back to the HSE because it holds the legislative requirement to ensure that we sign off on everything. We can do it one way and not the other. I think there was a question about the Departments playing their role.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: Squeezing money, I hope, from them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Deputy for discussing that point. I will share openly with him that I chair our workforce planning and what he said is really important to me. We are trying to increase the number of places. To be fair to the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, and the previous Minister, Deputy Harris, they were really good at increasing places. The point is that if we do not capture them when they are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: Let me reassure the Deputy, who knows me quite well, that there are no games on the side of the House and none in the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. To be very fair to the team here, to Mr. Colm Ó Conaill, the assistant secretary, and to the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman. We want nothing more than a functioning system. To be very fair to Mr. Ó...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: No.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank Deputy Murnane O'Connor. She asked about action plan reporting and monitoring progress to date. The action plan will be monitored by an independent monitoring group, drawing on the membership of the disability stakeholder strategic advisory group and chaired by me. The group will meet twice a year to ensure that we are delivering what is set out in the action plan. The latter...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: It has.