Results 1,061-1,080 of 3,920 for speaker:Pauline Tully

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (18 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions he has taken to develop more part-time curriculums across higher and further education; if he has increased funding for these courses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2090/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (18 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions he has taken to increase funding and resources for disability supports including mental health supports in third level institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2091/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Work Permits (18 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 238. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider issuing a temporary travel document to Sudanese citizens here on a work permit who are currently unable to renew their passports due to the ongoing conflict in Sudan. [2104/24]

Investment Funds Trading in the Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: The cost of purchasing a home has been pushed up further and further in recent years and has made it impossible for many workers and families, who have saved every euro they could, to buy their first home. A major contributor is the fact that investment funds have been allowed to come in and bulk-purchase homes from developers. Most recently, an investment fund bulk-purchased 85% of homes...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: I want to raise an issue that was highlighted in news reports last week resulting from a report by the Child Law Project and Dr. Niall Muldoon, who is Ombudsman for Children. It highlighted the case of a teenage girl with a disability who was held in a hospital room off the emergency department for two months in 2021 because Tusla - the Child and Family Agency and HSE disability services...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Planning for Inclusive Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: It is good to have both agencies in the room because we regularly hear the local authority blaming the HSE and the HSE blaming the local authority for accessible housing and support packages not being in place and for not working in tandem. I acknowledge the situation has improved with the new steering committees and I hear of good working relationships on the ground between a local...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Planning for Inclusive Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: They build the houses but they do not take into account the additional supports at that stage. A more co-ordinated approach is needed. That is the point they were trying to make.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 43. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade with regard to the increasingly urgent conflict situation in Sudan what supports his Department can provide or if he plans to introduce supports that will assist Sudanese/Irish citizens who are at risk. [1223/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 207. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consultation has taken place with disabled persons representative organisations in relation to the Active Travel Programme. [57013/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 218. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action he has taken to progress the funding for the N2 Ardee to Castleblaney road scheme. [57155/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to detail the additional funding that was announced in Budget 2024 to maintain and improve the county, regional and local road network. [57156/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Policies (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 229. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to detail the proposed new driver education plan for transition year students; to seek clarification on the reason approved driving instructors were not consulted on these new proposals. [57388/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 302. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to a request from the N2/A5/Ten-T Cross Border Committee (details supplied), if he will meet with the committee to discuss the delivery of improvements and upgrades to the N2/A5/TEN-T route from Dublin to the northwest and serving the Border region and Northern Ireland. [1972/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 335. To ask the Minister for Finance if, in line with Action 74 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report, she has plans to adopt a needs-based approach to the disabled drivers and passengers scheme; and the estimated first- and full-year cost, respectively, of implementing this proposal. [57321/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 353. To ask the Minister for Finance if there has been any change to the eligibility criteria for the primary medical certificate, or if he plans to introduce changes to the eligibility criteria. [1216/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Equal Opportunities Employment (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 391. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, in line with Action 75 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report, he has plans to undertake a review of public sector recruitment and employment practices to ensure that they are autism-friendly; and the estimated first- and full-year cost, respectively, of implementing this proposal. [57264/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Equal Opportunities Employment (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 392. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, in line with Action 77 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report, he has plans to ensure that all environments where public employment processes are undertaken (interview offices, examination rooms, waiting rooms, and so on) are autism-friendly; and the estimated first- and full-year cost, respectively, of implementing this...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Equal Opportunities Employment (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 426. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, in line with Action 76 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report, he has plans to provide autism training to all public sector interviewers to address any biases against autistic people and ensure equality of opportunity for employment; and the estimated first- and full-year cost, respectively, of implementing this...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Equal Opportunities Employment (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 427. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, in line with Action 78 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report, he has plans to provide the option of remote job interviews by video call and other reasonable accommodations to prospective employees in the public sector; and the estimated first- and full-year cost, respectively, of implementing this proposal. [57267/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Equal Opportunities Employment (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 428. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, in line with Action 79 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report, he has plans to develop a long-term plan for the State to provide a high-quality public employment service directly to autistic people and disabled people to ensure equal availability of employment services to disabled people across the State; and the...