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Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward the motion. I want to touch on the budget because every year on budget day we go through the same farce again and again. The Government announces a high-level figure for investment in disability services. This year it claimed the figure was €336 million, only for us to find out days later that this money will largely pay for services...

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)

Chris Andrews: I thank Deputy Tully for bringing forward this Private Members' motion. Enable Ireland Sandymount School provides education for children with very complex needs. Many of the students are wheelchair-bound and need movement breaks. They need these breaks in a specific class, which is out of action because of a serious leak in the roof over one of the rooms. This is having a negative impact...

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I support the Sinn Féin motion. Every week, we discuss important issues such as this one in debates on Private Members' motions. I have lost count of the number of motions of this nature I have spoken to at this stage. That is testament to the need to reform the way we order business in the House in the next Dáil, of which I will not be a part. It becomes a little tiresome when...

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We have five speakers in the next Sinn Féin slot.

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)

Johnny Mythen: I thank Deputy Pauline Tully for her Trojan work in advocating for better services and conditions for people with disabilities and for bringing the Private Members' motion to the Dáil. One of the Government mantras is "Let's make the country a great place to do business in." However, on reflection it is not a great place to be disabled in. A recent workforce survey found 817 staff...

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)

Seán Crowe: Over 4,000 children are waiting on a stage 1 assessment for services in the CH 07 area of Tallaght, west Wicklow and north Kildare alone. Those 4,000 children waiting to be seen represents a 33% increase in the last two years in my area. The Taoiseach said today that tackling child disabilities is one of his priorities but parents and their vulnerable children in my area have seen little...

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: It is essential for the optional protocol to the UN CRPD to be ratified. As the Minister indicated in his response, the Government agreed to do so on 8 October. While that is welcome, October is in the dying days of this Dáil. Nobody expects it to last until after Christmas. I do not have to tell people here that those who live their lives with a disability need further support,...

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)

Martin Browne: I also commend Deputy Tully on bringing this motion before the House. The need to deliver rights-based services and supports for people has never been more pressing due to the Government announcing €336 million in additional funding for disability services. As €290 million of that was for existing levels of service, this left just €46 million for new development...

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I am pleased to address the issues raised in the motion tabled by Deputy Tully. The Government will not oppose the motion but we will use our time to demonstrate what we have delivered in the sphere of disability over the past four years. The motion touches on a wide range of issues, spanning the remit of several different Departments, including my own. I will provide some details of...

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I want to take the Minister and Minister of State through the serious crisis in services for children with disabilities in Donegal. I think they are fully aware of them. More than a year ago, Special Needs Parents Network Donegal, which represents more than 900 parents of children with disabilities, published a survey about the real impact of the longest waiting lists in the entire State...

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank my colleague Deputy Pauline Tully for bringing this important motion to the House. It is a real shame that she was compelled to do so but this is what happens when we have a Government that turns its face away from citizens who need support. I acknowledge all the section 39 workers who gathered outside Mayo County Council yesterday. One after the other, Fianna Fáil and Fine...

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)

Paul Donnelly: In the past few months, I received a message that the Blakestown CDNT in Dublin 15 had informed a parent that her child would not receive services for 72 months. I was so stunned at the date that I asked her if it was in writing, which she confirmed. She dropped the letter up to me. I know the Minister has that latter. Before the CDNT service, we used to have early intervention teams and...

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)

Mairead Farrell: Tá sé iontach go bhfuil sé seo curtha os comhair na Dála ag mo chomhghleacaí, an Teachta Pauline Tully, anocht. Ar ndóigh, tá sé iontach go bhfuil daoine anseo atá in ann a gcuid tuairimí a roinnt linn mar go bhfuil sé fíorthábhachtach go gcloisfear tuairimí na ndaoine seo. Ón athbhreithniú a rinneadh maidir le...

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 Oct 2024)

Question put and declared carried.

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)

Pauline Tully: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — the Disability Capacity Review to 2032 - A Review of Social Care Demand and Capacity Requirements to 2032, which was published in July 2021, to establish the level of additional funding that would be required to address unmet need and demographic change in disability services found that additional funding of between €750...

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)

David Cullinane: This is one of dozens of debates on disabilities we have had in this Dáil term. My party, Sinn Féin, has brought forward five separate motions on the issue of disabilities. On the Government's record, this is a government that put in place a capacity review. It was a ten-year review that set out how much funding was needed, what capacity was needed in terms of, for example, staff...

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I thank all the Deputies who have contributed to the debate. It is fair to say that whether one is a pensioner, a carer, a person with a disability or a working family, the measures in this budget were designed to reach the people who need it most. This year's budget represents the largest social welfare package in the history of the State. Many of the social protection measures announced...

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 Oct 2024)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Ceann-Comhairle for the opportunity to speak on the Social Welfare Bill 2024. I agree with everything the previous speaker has said in relation to the energy credits and so on. It is shocking when one sees that the Government has, again, given an energy credit to us in this House and to many millionaires in this country who can well afford it. If I owned five houses and was...

Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 Oct 2024)

Heather Humphreys: There is. The Deputy took that out of last year's speech.