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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: All I can say is that when I go to do something within the Department of Children, Equality, Disability and Youth, I have 150% support from the Minister, Deputy O’Gorman. I will go to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform tomorrow and the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, will be sitting in front of me. While he is a tough negotiator, his is very supportive of people with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Michael Moynihan: We are very tight on time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: In respect of the optional protocol, they are meeting again in September. Advice was received and is being considered. A pathway to ratification will follow as soon as possible. We are on course.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: That is thanks to the support of the Minister, Deputy O’Gorman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: On disabled drivers, we had the national disability inclusion strategy transport working group. That was done and it was comprehensive. We saw exactly where the money for transport is being spent across all the Departments. Regarding disabled drivers, the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, put back in place the people who were based in the NRH in Dublin. They were the board that makes the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I am fully supportive of the Deputy. If he can get them to bring it across the line, the disabled community and disabled citizens would welcome that. In doing that, the criteria for it needs to be completely and utterly reviewed and expanded. Sometimes, when we talk about disabled drivers, we think of the physically disabled. The criteria are too short. I did not realise that, at the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: It is being done two ways. There is HSE national recruitment and a targeting campaign that goes on all of the time on LinkedIn, targeting the Australian market and people who have gone to Canada, for example. Regarding CHO 1, my compliments to Edel Quinn, who did a bespoke targeting campaign last Christmas targeted at people coming home for Christmas. She basically targeted in Donegal on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Michael Moynihan: To follow up on that, further to a letter from the committee about those grants that are under review, the Minister wrote a letter I will share with the committee over the next day or so. There is no need for the Minister of State to look at me so. There are a number of things. She said the section 39 organisations were paused in respect of the two sides coming together on it. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: Care assessed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Michael Moynihan: -----care tested. The Minister of State might reflect on those issues, but alternative respite is something that should be championed in a major way.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Cathaoirleach. Absolutely, I will start there with the idea that respite should be championed. I will bring in Ms Andersson because she is a find within the Department. She understands respite and understands the alternative model. Sometimes you find people who can work with you, who get what you are doing and who know what you are talking about. For anybody who did not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: It is also important to say that when we look at respite, it is a broad spectrum of approaches. Ms Andersson is right; the Saturday club can equally be as much of a relief to the family, but it is also important for young people to participate and have somewhere to go. If their sibling is going to whatever form of sport they participate in, that child would have his or her place to go to....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Michael Moynihan: I take the point with regard to equine services and other services. Some of the service providers were able to access facilities heretofore whereby they were able to take families away for weekends or for two or three nights and build equine and other services around people. One of the service providers is developing a project whereby it has acquired extra land and wants to develop some of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: Absolutely. Some children love routine and crave it. If some of the campuses the Cathaoirleach spoke about, which have some wonderful facilities, were accessible and if we could build them into the routine of families, or build them into the opportunities available for personal assistants whereby they could bring an individual to them, this is what we need to be looking at. I compliment...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the Minister of State and the officials for their contributions. I thank them sincerely for being here with us today. The battle is ongoing and we wish the Minister of State the very best of luck when she takes on the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform and the Department of Finance in the coming while. If she needs us to make any public...

CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome young Reese Ward, a primary school pupil from Letterkenny who is here interested in this debate because this is about all of our futures. I am sure that if Reese was looking at a parliament anywhere else in the world, he would be waiting a long time for a finance minister to get to his feet and tell the parliament that he is disappointed that the state is to receive €14.1...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank Senator McGreehan. There is no doubt the dial is moving but the pace of it is another thing. It is wonderful to be getting funding from the taxpayer that ultimately, gives me the money to provide to the HSE which then provides it to the various stakeholders to operationalise it. I am privileged to be able to secure funding but getting it operationalised is a huge challenge, as is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: I have not heard anything back but we had a meeting in the past two months with the Minister, Deputy O’Brien, and his housing team to advocate for that piece. When we talk about supporting somebody coming out of a nursing home or stepping somebody out of the NRH, regrettably, €30,000 or €38,000 will not sort out that problem for us. If a person is putting a bedroom...

CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: That is crazy.