Results 1-20 of 166 for long speaker:Pauline Tully

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 May 2024)

Pauline Tully: ...dental services. Dentists are not taking on medical card holders and people cannot afford to pay for dental treatment privately. If people cannot have their teeth taken care of, there are long-term consequences for their general health and appearance. A review of the scheme was promised two years ago by the Minister for Health. Additional funding is not the only problem here. The...

Extension of Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2021: Motion (29 May 2024)

Pauline Tully: ...or received their money. Nationally, only 17% of businesses have had their applications approved to date and only 10.7% have had grant money paid to them. I also note the hospitality sector, along with retail, made up 40% of the total number of insolvencies in quarter 1 of 2024. Jobs are disappearing, especially in rural areas such as Cavan and Monaghan. This badly affects workers...

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Pauline Tully: ...to officially recognise the State of Palestine. It is truly an historic development that Ireland is finally recognising Palestinian statehood. It is gravely unfortunate, however, that it has taken so long and that it has taken such savagery, especially in the past seven months, for the Government to finally act. The cruelty and barbarity over the past seven months in Gaza have resulted,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (28 May 2024)

Pauline Tully: 318. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports her Department has in place for people who are unable to work due to long-Covid. [23727/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (28 May 2024)

Pauline Tully: 319. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if healthcare staff who are unable to work due to contracting long-Covid are eligible to the occupational injuries scheme; and if not, if she has plans to extend eligibility of the occupational injuries scheme to healthcare staff who have contracted long-Covid. [23729/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (28 May 2024)

Pauline Tully: 457. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that inappropriate language in regard to disability is still contained on HSE application forms, such as the long-term illness scheme form, which refers to ‘mental handicap’; and if a review of HSE application forms will take place to ensure the use of appropriate language. [23782/24]

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (14 May 2024)

Pauline Tully: .... HIQA published three comprehensive proposals on improving its governing legislation and enforcement powers, the first in 2013, another in 2017 and the third in 2021. It has taken far too long to act on these proposals. In them, HIQA sought improved compliance notices, which I welcome and are included in the Bill. However, it also sought a more flexible enforcement system, which...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 May 2024)

Pauline Tully: 36. To ask the Minister for Health to detail the specific health supports that are available to people with long-Covid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19867/24]

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: ...bad weather has created huge problems for farmers this spring, with fields too wet for planting or taking livestock. Many farmers face fodder shortages because animals have been in sheds for too long. They cannot access grass in the fields because of wet ground conditions. Tillage farmers cannot get onto their land to plant their crops. My neighbours' fields are still empty. They...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: I thank the Regional Group for bringing forward the motion and affording us the opportunity to address the House on the need to review and reform support for carers. Family carers have long been held up as a crucial pillar of parent support in Ireland. Various departmental strategies and documents refer to the important role that family carers play in our society, viewing them as the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services Staff (24 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: ...Tuesday, 17 October 2023, unions reached an agreement on pay parity for section 39, section 56 and section 10 workers who are employed in community services. The agreement came about on foot of a long-running dispute relating to the pay they were receiving and the pay their counterparts directly employed by the State were receiving. A proposal was agreed acknowledging that the workers in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (18 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: ...and Skills if he will consider changing the eligibility criteria for the student grant scheme to enable students whose family was granted legal residency in Ireland through the regularisation of long-term undocumented migrants scheme to apply using the total number of years they lived in Ireland, including when they were undocumented. [17239/24]

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: ...to scrap the Green Paper on Disability Reform. My colleagues in Sinn Féin and I had grave reservations about it and had called for it to be binned. As Sinn Féin spokesperson on disability, along with its spokesperson on social protection, Deputy Ó Laoghaire, I met a wide range of disabled people and representatives of disability organisations to discuss the Green Paper....

Report of the Joint Committee on Autism: Motion (7 Mar 2024)

Pauline Tully: ...alternative services are accessible to autistic children. It is essential the HSE provides a single point of entry for autistic children where they may access disability services and mental health services in tandem. Along with making disability and mental health services more accessible, we must also build capacity in these services to provide assessment and therapies to autistic young...

Rare Diseases: Statements (6 Mar 2024)

Pauline Tully: I welcome the preparation of a rare disease plan, but this should have been commenced long before now. The current plan is six years out of date, because the time period for its implementation was between 2014 and 2018. More than one third of people with rare diseases in Ireland have had to wait more than five years for a diagnosis. Currently, in Ireland, only nine conditions are...

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Pauline Tully: ...an acquired brain injury or mobility issues. They return home after discharge from hospital, sometimes the National Rehabilitation Hospital which does excellent work although its waiting list is long. If there is nowhere for them to go, they end up in nursing homes, which are not the right places for them. That practice continues and these men have no access to proper services and...

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Pauline Tully: ...Disability Service 2024-2026; and — the publication of the Roadmap for Service Improvement 2023-2026: Disability Services for Children and Young People; considers that: — waiting lists for disability services are far too long, where they are maintained, and that personal assistance services are far too limited; — the €55.6 million in additional new...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (29 Feb 2024)

Pauline Tully: ...even spoken to people who have not applied at all even though they need it or know they will need it in the future but they feel it is pointless because they hear of others who have been waiting so long. Then there are some who are unsure how to even apply. That just points to a deficit of information being provided to people around disability services in general and what supports are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for People with Epidermolysis Bullosa: Discussion (28 Feb 2024)

Pauline Tully: EB is not included in the long-term illness scheme.