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- Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)
Thomas Pringle: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion regarding disability services. I thank the Sinn Féin party for tabling it. According to the most recent census, 22% of our population are living with a disability. Despite this, disabled people are too often left behind and not given adequate access to the services they need. I support this motion, particularly its call on the...
- Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Here we go again. Since I was elected in 2016 I do not know how many times I have talked on these budgets and on these motions. Tonight we say we have been talking for a few years. Actually we have been talking for a very long time. The disability capacity review is a good place to start. The Minister of State did one of the introductions on that, along with the senior Minister and the...
- Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: I sincerely thank Deputy Tully and Sinn Féin for bringing this important motion tonight. I thank the Minister of State for being here, but I put on the record that I think it disrespectful to the party and the Deputy who has worked diligently to bring this forward. I mean no disrespect to the Minister of State, and I know there are probably other pressing matters for a senior Minister,...
- Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)
Anne Rabbitte: I disagree.
- Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: We are. People might deny it, but from 2011, policymakers decided to decongregate settings like that.
- Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)
Anne Rabbitte: That was two years ago.
- Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: We have always said that one shoe does not fit all sizes. I believe there are cases of those who I call special people, whether they have intellectual or physical disabilities. Special people are located there. They take them out of there or put people who should be going in there into what in many instances are what I call small prisons. By that I mean a house is bought, rented or leased...
- Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: I thank Sinn Féin for this important motion. I want to add a bit to what Michael has said about St. Mary of the Angels. I was amazed to see the Minister of State shake her head when we said this place is being closed down. It is being closed down by stealth. I will ask her one question. If someone applies today to go in there for long-term care, is there a bed for them? There is not.
- Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: You are correct.
- Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: There is not one extra new person being taken in there for the past eight or nine years.
- Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)
Anne Rabbitte: That is not true, there was one-----
- 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...