Results 1-20 of 56 for going forward speaker:Pauline Tully

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: I appreciate that and I am delighted to hear there will be further talks and negotiations. If this issue is not dealt with, we will not see an end to this problem. There is a shortage of workers within the sector, so they will go to the agencies and organisations that can pay them more. They will do exactly the same work but be paid better. Several organisations have expressed concern....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Role of Disabled Persons Organisations and Self Advocacy in Providing Equal Opportunities under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Implementation: Discussion (8 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: ...has been drawn up - quickly but properly - it will be vital because it will signpost and make clear to all Government agencies, public bodies and so on who they need to engage with on every policy going forward. No one will be able to say he, she or they did not know who to engage with or that they thought the other organisation was the right one to engage with. That is important and...

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

Pauline Tully: .... It is not really a debate; it is a discussion. I thank the Minister of State not just for being here and participating in this but for all the work she does in this area. I am really looking forward to the launch of the autism innovation strategy. It is great to hear it is just a few weeks away. She said it was initiated before the committee's final report but the two dovetail, and...

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

Pauline Tully: ...I move on, I also acknowledge the committee clerk and all the staff of the committee for their work and diligence. The committee's final report features 109 recommendations, all of which must be implemented by the Government as soon as possible. I will focus on some key recommendations from the report. The first recommendation in the report is one of the most important. It calls on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Department of the Taoiseach (7 Mar 2024)

Pauline Tully: ...is informing Ministers in their work. One would not like to see research being done for the sake of it and just sitting on a shelf somewhere. I really welcome the fact that it is informing policy going forward.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Recycling Policy (27 Feb 2024)

Pauline Tully: ...has been operating successfully for 20 years, and it operates something like the Revenue return, where you submit your receipt and get your money back. The machines being inaccessible is going to be more difficult to address, because the machines obviously cost a lot of money and are already in place. I do not know how many have been rolled out. I think it is approximately 2,000, but...

Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Feb 2024)

Pauline Tully: I commend my party colleague Deputy Ward on bringing forward the Bill and welcome all the families and parents in the Gallery for the debate. I come from County Cavan which, unfortunately, has a very high suicide rate. Cavan is among three counties that have double the national average of suicides and many of them, unfortunately, are adolescents who had engaged with CAMHS. According to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Pauline Tully: ...planning was not done. The service was not ready to be rolled out when it was and it is in chaos at the moment. We need a proper implementation plan that includes a full plan for the workforce, going forward. I thank the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: PEACEPLUS Programme: Special EU Programmes Body (18 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: ...to come in as well as with the big projects, there is no point in giving them a certain allocation and hoping they get the funding otherwise. It must be ensured they get the full amount of funding going forward. I wish to ask Ms McIntyre a number of questions. At the beginning of her statement, she referred to a number of projects that were not completed from the last round of PEACE...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Planning for Inclusive Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: It is good to have both agencies in the room because we regularly hear the local authority blaming the HSE and the HSE blaming the local authority for accessible housing and support packages not being in place and for not working in tandem. I acknowledge the situation has improved with the new steering committees and I hear of good working relationships on the ground between a local...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Ensuring Inclusive Local and EU Elections: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Pauline Tully: ...get a voter registration form and fill it out. When we had that exercise done, I used to keep the forms, keep an eye on their dates of birth and then submit those forms. The students knew I was going to submit those forms, so they were delighted they were registered to vote prior to their 18th birthday. I thought it was very important that they learned this in school. Students taking...

Sustainability of Stability of Services Provided by Section 39 and Section 56 Organisations on behalf of the HSE and Tusla: Statements (12 Oct 2023)

Pauline Tully: ...care services. We have examples such as Enable Ireland, Rehab Group and the Irish Wheelchair Association, IWA. This dispute over the disparity in terms and conditions is not recent. It has been ongoing for more than 13 years, dating back to a decision to reduce pay for those workers during the recession. While pay for the HSE and their section 38 counterparts has been restored, that...

Education Costs: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jun 2023)

Pauline Tully: I welcome the opportunity to speak to the motion, which focuses on the need for the Government to cut back-to-school costs. I commend my party colleagues, Deputies Clarke and Mairéad Farrell, on their work in bringing this forward. The letters, emails and texts requesting the purchase of books and uniforms have already been sent by schools, in addition to schools seeking voluntary...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Pensions and Social Security: Discussion (20 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: Good afternoon. I echo my colleague's welcome to the witnesses and thank them both for the papers they have presented. This has been a really interesting discussion which shows real foresight and forward planning, which is really necessary. Unfortunately, I have had to represent constituents who have been subject to sanctions from the Department of Social Protection for something very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: ...am always learning. I am learning a lot on this committee and I am learning a lot from engagement with autistic people on a regular basis. Society is learning as well, but there is a long way to go. I recently had a meeting with EmployAbility in my local town. They help disabled people, autistic people and people with mental health issues to try to get into the workforce. They help...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (30 Mar 2023)

Pauline Tully: ...Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason for the delay in payments to those providing accommodation for asylum seekers; his plans to ensure that these payments going forward are made in a prompt manner to ensure that these providers do not decide to remove the provision of their accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15774/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Climate Crisis and Disability: Discussion (30 Mar 2023)

Pauline Tully: ...account because Covid, the Ukrainian war and wars in other places impact on disabled people much more than able-bodied people and we need to ensure we are prepared on how to respond to emergencies going forward.

Education (Inspection of Individual Education Plans for Children with Special Needs) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Mar 2023)

Pauline Tully: ...the EPSEN Act. I do not really see an issue with allowing this Bill to proceed in order to allow children who are currently in school to receive the support they need. I know the review of the EPSEN Act is ongoing. I hope IEP is going to be part of that legislation anyway. It would then be in place for children who currently need that support. I taught in a school prior to being...