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- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Deputy. The time is up.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Mattie McGrath: He is not listening to anything.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The time is up.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Mattie McGrath: The State has a duty of care to Cara, her two brothers, and children like them.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Deputy should please stop. The time is up.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Micheál Martin: As I said, on the education side, very significant investment and progress have been made in special education.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Mattie McGrath: The Tánaiste should answer the question about Cara.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Micheál Martin: That is the first thing. I acknowledge that is not so much the case on the therapies side. I am not happy with that situation.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Mattie McGrath: What about the law-breaking?
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Micheál Martin: In terms of what has to happen, first, the CDNT teams and the HSE are endeavouring to recruit, but they are not getting sufficient numbers applying to put the full teams in place. There is a fundamental issue there in terms of recruitment and retention of therapists on the paediatric side and within children's areas more generally. That is a very practical challenge that the HSE has not...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Mattie McGrath: The HSE is breaking the law.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Micheál Martin: The bottom line is that we need more therapists and children need more access to them as fast as we can possibly provide it.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Tánaiste.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Joan Collins: I also support Cara and her call for the optional protocol of the UNCRPD to be ratified. I ask the Tánaiste to do that before the end of this Dáil's term. I want to follow up on an email I received from a constituent about the fact that the fuel allowance has not increased since 2020. Between 2020 and 2022, household energy bills more than doubled, totally eroding the...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Micheál Martin: First, the Minister for children will bring a memorandum to the Government in the next while to get a positive decision on the ratification of the optional protocol. The Government has significantly expanded the number of people entitled to the fuel allowance.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Joan Collins: It has not increased the actual amount.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Micheál Martin: In the past two years in particular, we dramatically provided additional supports for those on the free fuel allowance-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Joan Collins: I refer to targeted supports.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----in respect of the energy crisis and the increased costs. We have gone over and above what would have been the norm in respect of the amounts of money allocated in the past two years.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Joan Collins: They were once-off payments that do not deal with the issue.