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Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Report on Assessments of Need for Children: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: Going back to the school issue that Deputy Coveney raised, there is a situation in Cavan where there is a special school that accepts students from Cavan and Monaghan. There was an OT coming in from one of the CDNTs and that OT was only allowed to deal with the students from that particular county. The school talked about the benefits of hiring an OT itself, which the board did a few years...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Report on Assessments of Need for Children: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: Just a quick question on the family forum, to which the Minister of State referred. In my own area they are not working well because the meetings are called at a time that does not suit the majority of parents. For example, one meeting was called during the midterm break, when children were at home from school, at 10.30 a.m.. Even though parents made clear that this is an issue, the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (18 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: 302. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the procurement of private assessments for families long waiting an assessment of need, announced on 21 May 2024, has commenced; the process by which children are chosen to be assessed; and if parents can book a private assessment directly and have the cost reimbursed. [26194/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (12 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the effective erosion of the tax reliefs available under the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme where a disabled person wants to purchase a fully electric vehicle, as VRT is already discounted on the purchase of these vehicles effectively reducing the amount a disabled person can reclaim under the disabled...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Citizens Information Services (11 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: 2.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends to put adequate funding in place to ensure that the business case submitted to the Citizens' Information Board by the National Advocacy Service in relation to pay, grades and other conditions, on foot of a Labour Court recommendation, is undertaken; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25425/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (11 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: 309.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that the schoolbooks grant was greatly reduced this year compared to last year. [25137/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Court (11 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: 466.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to detail the action she is taking to avert strike action by workers in the National Advocacy Service who have not received a pay rise that was recommended by the Labour Court. [25138/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Correspondence (11 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: 554.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department has received the correspondence attached from (details supplied); and if so, the timeframe within which she will receive a reply. [25255/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Reviews (11 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: 790.To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider reviewing the Health Act 1970 with a view to replacing the outdated terminology of mental handicap with more appropriate language. [25136/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (11 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: 886.To ask the Minister for Health why 24 paediatric patients of Cavan and Monaghan hospital are still having to travel to Our lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, after a new pathway of care for children and young people with type 1 diabetes was implemented in Cavan and Monaghan Hospital for the provision of insulin pump therapy in Q4 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25615/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (11 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: 887.To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the situation with the Irish Wheelchair Association services in Cavan which, due to a lack of staff, was reduced to an outreach-only model; the actions he has taken to ensure full services are returned to IWA Cavan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25616/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 May 2024)

Pauline Tully: There is a huge problem with medical card holders accessing dental services. Dentists are not taking on medical card holders and people cannot afford to pay for dental treatment privately. If people cannot have their teeth taken care of, there are long-term consequences for their general health and appearance. A review of the scheme was promised two years ago by the Minister for Health....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Broadcasting Sector (30 May 2024)

Pauline Tully: I thank the Deputy.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Broadcasting Sector (30 May 2024)

Pauline Tully: I thank the Minister.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cúrsaí Tithíochta (30 May 2024)

Pauline Tully: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Teachta.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: HERe NI (30 May 2024)

Pauline Tully: I thank Ms Nelson for her presentation, which I read with interest. She made some extremely important and valid points about constitutional change, looking at the future, the inclusion of everybody and making the extra effort to ensure the inclusion of marginalised groups. She talked about a discussion that was held in Dundalk. Could she elaborate on the approach that was taken there? Was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: HERe NI (30 May 2024)

Pauline Tully: That is very much a pity. That discussion Ms Nelson has talked about having, which is talking about problems and their solutions, is happening in other sectors as well, where people, particularly women, rather than concentrating on the political situation are concentrating on the issues that affect them in everyday life. It does not matter what part of the island they are from as these...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: HERe NI (30 May 2024)

Pauline Tully: There needs to be a proper mechanism for that to happen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: HERe NI (30 May 2024)

Pauline Tully: There are huge barriers to women accessing these spaces and the disability commissioner is here all the time about disabled women in particular and the barriers they face. They often are the experts in the room but are the only ones not being paid when talking to local authorities or Departments. Ms Nelson talked about Chile and I wonder whether there are lessons we can learn from what was...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (30 May 2024)

Pauline Tully: 98. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to detail his plans to deliver housing in counties Cavan and Monaghan at the scale indicated as needed in the report recently prepared by the Housing Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24411/24]