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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (22 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: 315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total funding drawn down by local authority for the housing adaptation grant scheme to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58014/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (22 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: 316. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the value and total number of grants awarded under the housing adaptation grant scheme in 2022 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58015/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (22 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: 317. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when annual waiting list data will be published for the housing adaptation grant scheme, a commitment contained in the Housing Options for Our Ageing Population policy statement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58016/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (22 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: 699. To ask the Minister for Health if plans and supports are in place to assist vulnerable persons living at home who are reliant on essential medical equipment in the event that there are electricity power outages; if not, the steps that he will take to put in place a plan and supports to assist persons in this situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57951/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: I welcome all our guests and thank them for their presentations. Everything that has been put forward is positive. It would be worth reaching out to other educational institutions to provide something similar, where that is not happening. A lot of institutions are now becoming more aware of their responsibility to be inclusive. To what extent is that happening? I ask the representatives...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: Are the witnesses aware of other educational institutions that are offering something similar at the moment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: On that, do the witnesses engage with second level institutions or schools on an ongoing basis? How do students know about the programme or apply to be part of it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: I have one last question on employers. Mr. MacNeill said the number has gone from four to 40, which is very impressive. Are most employers very receptive or are some reticent? If so, why?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: I have questions for others but the Chair might want me to wait.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: I would like to go to Ms Early. What she is doing is impressive. I welcome the guidance she has produced. Are other further education and training or universities doing what she is doing? Are they coming to her for guidance? Are they using the guidance that she has prepared? Are they reaching out for advice?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: It was interesting in recent weeks that the Minister of State with responsibility for disability said there was going to be much more engagement with students at second level in respect of what they want to do after they finish second level and that there is not going to be this assumption that they just go in to a day service. This is welcome, is way past time and needs to happen so that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: I welcome the Minister. In the first part of the meeting, we heard about many positive initiatives being taken. We heard from SOLAS, DCU and the Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities. Great work is being done and it must be replicated around the country, especially the model that is being offered in Trinity College. Specific funding supports must be provided to do that....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: At a recent meeting, the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Rabbitte, indicated that there would be a lot more work done with disabled students at second level about planning for their future, rather than just assuming they are going into a day service once they leave school. I hope the Minister will be part of that conversation and that preparation will be done at further...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (17 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: 122. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the additional supports that he has put in place to ensure that communities that have welcomed refugees and asylum seekers are not in a position of having to use funding and resources that were previously allocated before the current crisis in Ukraine; and the supports that he has ensured are delivered from...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (17 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: 129. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the additional supports that he has put in place to ensure that local communities in counties Cavan and Monaghan that have welcomed refugees and asylum seekers are not in a position of having to use funding and resources that were previously allocated before the current crisis in Ukraine; the supports that he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability, Mental Health and Ageing: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (17 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: I think they have not increased for 12 or 13 years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability, Mental Health and Ageing: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (17 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: There were two issues with it. The HSE pays a certain amount but each CHO area pays different amounts. When there is a boarding-out facility on the border of two CHO areas, as there is in my area between counties Cavan with Longford, the HSE pays different amounts as do the individuals. As the person said to me, there would be war if they found out they were being charged different...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability, Mental Health and Ageing: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (17 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: Is it done by a referral from a GP?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability, Mental Health and Ageing: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (17 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: I welcome Minister of State at the Department of Health with responsibility for mental health and older people, Deputy Mary Butler, and her staff. The first point I want to make as spokesperson on older people, and it is also a point that is made to me regularly, is that disability does not disappear when one turns 66. For example, one man told me his wife was disabled due to a stroke and...