13. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on justice, migration and social affairs will next meet. [58229/25]

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In recent weeks, some of the responses from the Government to the challenges in the international protection system include: offering families €10,000 to withdraw their asylum applications, thereby implying that they are a nuisance to be got rid of with cash; announcing plans to charge asylum seekers for what, in many cases, is substandard accommodation directly after an attack on an IPAS centre in Drogheda, a measure which is estimated to cost more to implement than any revenue it will generate; congratulating Independent Ireland on drawing unfounded links between increased knife crime and inward migration following the horrific crime that occurred at an IPAS centre in Saggart; and cynically stating that migrant numbers are too high after the drubbing it received in the presidential election. All of this political reaction is designed to show the Government is tough on migration and to win back votes. It is leading our country down a dark path of scapegoating refugees and asylum seekers. What is the Government's actual long-term plan with regard to international protection? Is the Catherine Day report of 2020 going to gather dust indefinitely or will it be implemented?

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The Taoiseach praised Michael Fitzmaurice for the manner in which he-----

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Okay, but the Taoiseach praised him.

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Mick Clifford wrote an article about it.

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Does the Taoiseach think it was right to praise Michael Fitzmaurice?

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31. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on disability will next meet. [58230/25]

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The plight of ageing parents of adult children with intellectual disabilities is an area of abject neglect on the part of the Government. Many of these parents are being deprived of peace of mind in their later years because they remain the primary carers of their children. They are less physically able to carry out this role as time goes on. They are living with a constant background worry of not knowing where their children will live after they die and how their need for belonging and community will be met. The Government’s privatisation of services means that both young people and adults who require 24-hour staffed residential support are increasingly living far from home, in some cases hundreds of kilometres away, not connected to wrap-around services, detached from their communities and families. What is the Taoiseach’s plan to address this particular crisis in residential services for people with intellectual disabilities? Why are these services being privatised and fragmented to such an extent when the outcomes in many cases are so poor for our disabled citizens and when the cost to the State is so enormous?

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