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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Pauline Tully: I raise the issue of boarding-out services. These are services that support older people to live in their own community, people who do not require nursing home care but cannot live on their own or do not want to live on their own. They live in their community and are supported where they need to be they but live practically independent lives. At one time there were eight houses providing...

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2025)

Pauline Tully: I support Senator Stephenson's amendment. The Department of education should liaise with the UK's Department for Work and Pensions on this issue. My understanding is that approximately one third of the people deemed eligible for the payment live in the UK. We need clarification as to whether the payment will be disregarded for the purpose of means testing applicants for benefits given in...

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2025)

Pauline Tully: I move amendment No. 28: In page 15, after line 11, to insert the following: “Commensurate compensation from Religious Orders 22. Within 6 months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall prepare a comprehensive plan to deliver commensurate compensation from Religious Orders, this to include a consideration of every avenue of recourse and a timeline of engagements and...

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2025)

Pauline Tully: I thank the Minister for acknowledging that. Could there be a way, under a different Department or in a different scenario, to set out a plan?The amendment calls for a plan that looks for that money, so that it is not left at the discretion of the organisations. If they signed up for this, they should be made to acknowledge that and properly pay for the damage they have caused. This is not...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Housing Schemes (18 Jun 2025)

Pauline Tully: I have been recently notified by Cavan County Council that it is pausing the private housing grant applications for the moment due to high demand. This refers to the housing adaptation grant, the mobility aids grant and the housing aid for older people grant. These grants are vital to make changes or improvements to homes to accommodate changing needs which may occur due to ageing and...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Housing Schemes (18 Jun 2025)

Pauline Tully: I thank the Minister of State. As he noted, that tallies with what the council has been informed of and I know additional funding was provided last year. I am really asking whether there is a possibility that can happen again this year. I know the council has made an application for additional funding to the Department. The council is willing to try to come up with the matching funding of...

Seanad: Report of the Farrelly Commission: Statements (18 Jun 2025)

Pauline Tully: I wish to share time with Senator McCormack.

Seanad: Report of the Farrelly Commission: Statements (18 Jun 2025)

Pauline Tully: What happened to Grace is forever unforgivable. It is unconscionable to know what she went through. She was a young girl of ten or 11 years of age with an intellectual disability and non-verbal who was put into a place - I would not even call it a home - that was not properly assessed before she went into it. She was left there for a period of six years during which there was not one visit...

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Pauline Tully: I welcome the Minister this afternoon. She has indicated that she wants to see an increase in capitation. Some schools have made the point that capitation is based on the students enrolled in the school at the end of September so if a student comes to the school after that date, the school does not receive any capitation fee. Is there any way that can be addressed? It also affects the...

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Pauline Tully: If the Minister has an opportunity, will she answer the question on youth I asked in the last session? Schools received their SNA allocation on Friday. One school was in touch with me in shock. It has two SNAs currently. A review was held in March. It was recommended by the SENOs who carried out the review that there would be an increase of 0.83 - an infant SNA - because of projected...

Seanad: Balanced Regional Development: Statements (17 Jun 2025)

Pauline Tully: We are talking about balanced regional development, but it is anything but balanced. I come from Cavan, a Border county that is a part of the northern and western region of Ireland, which is ranked No. 218 out of 234 EU regions in terms of transport infrastructure. Cavan, Monaghan and Donegal have no rail service. They did 65 years ago but all was stopped by a Government that had...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jun 2025)

Pauline Tully: The trade union Fórsa represents over 2,300 school secretaries and approximately 500 caretakers. It recently held a ballot, which closed at 12 noon yesterday, on whether to take indefinite strike action. Some 81% of the members took part in that ballot, 98% of whom voted in favour of indefinite strike action. It was practically unanimous. That is due to start on 28 August to coincide...

Seanad: Delivering a World-Class Education System: Statements (12 Jun 2025)

Pauline Tully: I was not expecting to be next. As a former teacher, I am delighted to speak on this issue. I was a teacher for nearly 30 years and most of that time was spent in Breifne College in Cavan town. I am proud of my teaching career, our education system and the good work teachers, SNAs and the whole school staff, including secretaries and caretakers, put into making our schools not only good...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2025)

Pauline Tully: I received correspondence from Cavan County Council the week before last indicating its intention to temporarily pause private housing grant schemes. I refer to the housing adaptation grants for older people and disabled people, the mobility aid grants and housing aid for older people. The reason the council needs to pause the grants with immediate effect is that it has run out of funding....

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Pauline Tully: I will be sharing time with Senator Nicole Ryan. I join in acknowledging Sheila O'Byrne and Catherine Coffey O'Brien in the Gallery. I acknowledge the profound detrimental impact residential institutional abuse had on survivors, not only at the time but right up to the modern day. I also join Senator Curley in acknowledging Senator Boyhan on his passionate speech today and for all his...

Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)

Pauline Tully: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. I have questions on a number of issues. First is the contract for adult education tutors. There is a lot of concern about this across the country. I spoke to tutors last September in Cavan-Monaghan and a number of other ETBs who did not get any hours, though that was not across the country. There seemed to be a funding issue. I think it was somehow...

Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)

Pauline Tully: I want to come back to a point about the adult education contract, which I raised previously with the Minister. I do not believe the Minister took on board the point I was making. This contract is not working. It is causing a lot of stress and unhappiness among tutors across the country and many of them are considering leaving the adult education sector. This is a really important sector...

Seanad: Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill 2025: Second Stage (28 May 2025)

Pauline Tully: I am happy to speak in support of the Dereliction and Building Regeneration Bill. We are living through a housing crisis at the moment so every opportunity must be used to ensure we bring buildings of all sorts back into use for housing. I noticed the levels of vacancy in our towns and villages when I was canvassing in 2020. We saw many vacant buildings, some of them derelict, on the main...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 May 2025)

Pauline Tully: Tesco is taking over the lease of a SuperValu store in Virginia, County Cavan. I have been informed that all local suppliers have been told they must be prepared to give a 40% margin immediately on their goods. This is just going to hammer local suppliers. They were supplying SuperValu and, if they want to continue to supply Tesco, they have to slash their prices. They cannot afford to do...

Seanad: Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Second Stage (21 May 2025)

Pauline Tully: Senator Collins is delayed at the moment but Senator Ryan wants to use the time.