Results 21-40 of 3,920 for speaker:Pauline Tully

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: A lot of students do not want to live at home when they are experiencing third level.

Seanad: Transport Policy: Statements (10 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: I come from County Cavan. We have no rail network and nor do Monaghan, Tyrone, Fermanagh and Donegal. The entire area has no railway. We did but the Government at that time, some 60 years ago, had no foresight and decided to end the rail service to Cavan. Not only did it do that but it allowed people to build over the rail line, take it up and sell the sleepers. I know Cavan is included...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: The witnesses are very welcome. As a former teacher in a school I very much appreciate the work that both secretaries and caretakers do in the school. They know everybody on the ground, every child in the school and they know what is going on. Often they are the ones you go to to find out what is actually going on. Am I right that with ETBs there is not only a discrepancy between the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: If pay and conditions can be granted to one sector, it makes absolutely no sense why they are not granted to all. We talk about how we are at full employment. Retention and recruitment has to be an issue when conditions are so poor. Is that the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: Going over and beyond.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: It is a month since the result of the ballot on strike action was made public. There was engagement in the Seanad on 18 June, during statements on education, and I raised this issue. I was told by the Minister that there would be engagement in the coming weeks. However, Fórsa is telling me there has been no engagement whatever which is very disappointing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: Yes. Thank you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: I thank the witnesses for coming here and I pledge my support for them. We will do anything we can to push this issue forward. I hope it is resolved before it leads to a strike. That is the last thing people want, but I understand why they would do it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Proposed Redesignation of Schools for Children with Mild General Learning Disabilities: Principals of Special Schools (10 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for attending. We all agree that every child has the right to an education in an appropriate setting. The requirement that it be appropriate to their needs is what is important. Preferably, it should be in the child's locality, alongside his or her siblings, but that is not always possible. Account must also be taken of student and parental choice....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Proposed Redesignation of Schools for Children with Mild General Learning Disabilities: Principals of Special Schools (10 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: Mr. Haran's school is seeing an increase in applications that are appropriate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Proposed Redesignation of Schools for Children with Mild General Learning Disabilities: Principals of Special Schools (10 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: There has been an increase in the number of appropriate applications. Is that because there are not enough special classes in schools?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Proposed Redesignation of Schools for Children with Mild General Learning Disabilities: Principals of Special Schools (10 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: It has been said there were 50 but it is now 49 and schools have been refused.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Proposed Redesignation of Schools for Children with Mild General Learning Disabilities: Principals of Special Schools (10 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: Concerns have been expressed about the circular. Did Ms Flanagan say the NCSE has not engaged in consultation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Proposed Redesignation of Schools for Children with Mild General Learning Disabilities: Principals of Special Schools (10 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: Was there none at all?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Proposed Redesignation of Schools for Children with Mild General Learning Disabilities: Principals of Special Schools (10 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: The Department has determined that Ms Flanagan's school is not an appropriate school setting for a child with more complex needs. We need to look at that. The witnesses' schools are special schools.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Proposed Redesignation of Schools for Children with Mild General Learning Disabilities: Principals of Special Schools (10 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: Will they qualify for the therapeutic supports the Department is rolling out, starting with special schools?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Proposed Redesignation of Schools for Children with Mild General Learning Disabilities: Principals of Special Schools (10 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: I presume that will make an immense difference.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Proposed Redesignation of Schools for Children with Mild General Learning Disabilities: Principals of Special Schools (10 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: As has been said, the CDNTs are practically non-existent on the ground.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Proposed Redesignation of Schools for Children with Mild General Learning Disabilities: Principals of Special Schools (10 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: Yes, I know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Proposed Redesignation of Schools for Children with Mild General Learning Disabilities: Principals of Special Schools (10 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: We are given to understand that is not the case and SIM will be expanded. I hope that is the case because children need that support and it is not being provided on the ground.