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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Welfare Services (7 Oct 2021)

Pauline Tully: 53. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the low morale that exists amongst community welfare officers due to the increased workload that Covid-19 has placed on them; her plans to increase the number of community welfare officers in counties Cavan and Monaghan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48293/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rural Schemes (7 Oct 2021)

Pauline Tully: 72. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider removing a rule in relation to the rural social scheme (details supplied); her views on the adequacy of the €20 top-up payment for rural social scheme participants; if she will consider the approval of an increase in the top-up to €50; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48294/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Direct Provision System (7 Oct 2021)

Pauline Tully: 153. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 253 of 3 December 2020, the reason the latest inspection report on the International Protection Accommodation Service website for this direct provision centre is for May 2019 when an inspection was supposed to have been carried out in September 2020; and if he will make a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Participation of People with Disabilities in Political, Cultural, Community and Public Life: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Oct 2021)

Pauline Tully: I thank all the witnesses for joining us today and sharing their experiences with us. Ireland has a disgraceful history of almost trying to hide disabled people or certainly treating them as a charitable model or a dependent model. We saw how quickly that could change when we referred to Catherine's law. Catherine Gallagher was able to keep her disability payment while receiving her PhD...

The National Youth Justice Strategy 2021-2027 and Supporting Community Safety: Statements (6 Oct 2021)

Pauline Tully: I welcome the Youth Justice Strategy 2021–2027. It is a very good document and I do not believe there is anything in it that I or anybody else could disagree with or argue against. None of this will work, however, unless adequate resources are put into the various organisations and clubs that are mentioned in the document, and that we ensure there is cross-departmental and agency...

Childcare Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2021)

Pauline Tully: First, I commend my colleague, Deputy Funchion, on bringing forward this important motion. She and Sinn Féin have consistently called for immediate investment in the childcare sector in Ireland in order to ensure its viability, reduce the burden on parents, acknowledge and properly pay professionals within the childcare sector and to keep facilities open, as many are finding it hard to...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Media Pluralism (5 Oct 2021)

Pauline Tully: 11. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the supports that she has put in place to secure the viability of the local print and radio media here; her plans to support the local print and radio media here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47953/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Services (5 Oct 2021)

Pauline Tully: 132. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the legislation currently in place that enables airlines to regard wheelchairs as luggage and which therefore limits compensation for loss or damage of a wheelchair (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47736/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (5 Oct 2021)

Pauline Tully: 240. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the recent relaxation of Covid-19 regulations now enables gyms and leisure centres to allow their members to avail of their changing rooms and shower facilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47815/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Welfare Services (5 Oct 2021)

Pauline Tully: 439. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of community welfare officers that work in County Cavan by office; the number of community welfare officers in the county that have been absent from work due to illness in the past six months by office; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47639/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Welfare Services (5 Oct 2021)

Pauline Tully: 441. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average time that community welfare officers have been absent due to illness in County Cavan over the past six months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47651/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (5 Oct 2021)

Pauline Tully: 596. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider extending the free HPV vaccine programme to girls in every age group who are still attending school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47674/21]

Afghanistan Crisis: Statements (29 Sep 2021)

Pauline Tully: Afghanistan has a long and turbulent history of domination by foreign nations. It won its full independence from Britain in the same period as the Twenty-six Counties of the Irish Free State gained independence from the same colonial power. Since that civil war, the occupation by the Soviet Union in 1979 and by the US in 2001 has seen that country in conflict for most of that time and...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (29 Sep 2021)

Pauline Tully: There are many issues that I could raise in regard to housing and housing needs, for example, the cost of rent, the cost of purchase, availability and so on. However, I wish to raise the issue of the lack of housing suitable for disabled people and the lack of will to meet the needs of disabled people who seek social housing. I have been contacted by many families where there are aged...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Sep 2021)

Pauline Tully: A constituent of mine, Eileen, is a 76-year-old woman with chronic rheumatoid arthritis. She requires two carers at a time to operate a hoist so that she can be cared for properly. There have been numerous occasions when she has been left with no care; once for a whole weekend. Carers on holidays or sick leave are not replaced or sometimes only one turns up when two are needed to operate...

Housing (Adaptation Grant for People with a Disability) Bill 2021: First Stage (28 Sep 2021)

Pauline Tully: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to make provision for ease of access to a housing adaptation grant for people with a disability for those applicants qualifying for same and to provide for related matters. The purpose of the Bill is to ensure local authorities administering the housing adaptation grant for people with a disability shall, as far as is...

Housing (Adaptation Grant for People with a Disability) Bill 2021: First Stage (28 Sep 2021)

Pauline Tully: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (28 Sep 2021)

Pauline Tully: 197. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason for extending eligibility for an employment permit to non-EEA healthcare assistants to work in hospital and nursing home settings but not in home care settings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46048/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (28 Sep 2021)

Pauline Tully: 587. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that an adequate number of healthcare assistants can be sourced here or within the EEA; if he is satisfied that pay, conditions and training here for home care staff are sufficient in order to ensure that an adequate number of healthcare assistants can be sourced here or within the EEA to meet the growing demand for home care; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (28 Sep 2021)

Pauline Tully: 809. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider extending the eligibility for breast screening and genetic testing to all women aged 25 and over considering the cost savings involved in the early detection of cancer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46714/21]