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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (24 Oct 2023)

Pauline Tully: I tabled this question because we have a poor rate of employment for disabled people. Of those of working age, disabled people are only half as likely to be employed as those without a disability. The average employment rate among disabled people in Europe is 51%, but in Ireland it is only 32.6%. With Greece, we are the joint worst, but that country has a very low rate of employment...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (24 Oct 2023)

Pauline Tully: The whole focus here is to get away from the situation where disabled people sometimes look at returning to employment but realise they would be better off staying on the disability payment because of the additional benefits they get. I ask that as many changes as possible be made in this regard to encourage as many people as possible to get back into the workforce. The Minister mentioned...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (24 Oct 2023)

Pauline Tully: 111. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered introducing a permanent cost-of-living payment for disabled people; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46447/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (24 Oct 2023)

Pauline Tully: 220. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide this Deputy with a reply regarding issues presented by a person (details supplied) in relation to regulations that exist pertaining to the recruitment of workers from outside of Ireland. [46137/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Oct 2023)

Pauline Tully: Applicants for adaptation grants for homes of people with a disability or a disability acquired as a result of an accident or progressive condition are waiting five or six months for Cavan County Council to even acknowledge the application. They are not even assessed at that stage for priority. There is then limited availability of funding, so only a small number of grants are dealt with....

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (19 Oct 2023)

Pauline Tully: 38. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there are any specific funding streams available for sports clubs to construct disabled facilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45682/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Budget 2024 (19 Oct 2023)

Pauline Tully: 55. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht what percentage of the overall Budget 2024 has been allocated to the promotion of Irish language and the Gaeltacht; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45681/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (19 Oct 2023)

Pauline Tully: 107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will agree to ensuring that a threshold of core funding is put in place to enable supported training organisations to continue to carry out their critical role in providing education and training for the most vulnerable students across our education system; if he will ensure that immediate funding pressures for 2023 are addressed as a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (19 Oct 2023)

Pauline Tully: 134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans he has to resolve the funding crisis facing the provision of supported training; if he and his Department will meet with providers such as (details supplied) as a matter of urgency to agree sustainable funding levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45684/23]

Driving Test Waiting Times: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2023)

Pauline Tully: I thank the Rural Independent Group for tabling this important motion. It is a huge issue in Cavan, as it is elsewhere. I am contacted weekly by people who inquire about driving tests and wonder whether their applications could be fast-tracked. Many of them are young and about to take up an apprenticeship or new job or college place and require a driving licence to get to their places...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Implementation of Inclusive Education in Schools: Department of Education (18 Oct 2023)

Pauline Tully: Good evening. Will the Department paint a picture of inclusive education from its point of view? The opening statement mentioned that the National Council for Special Education, NCSE, produced a document some months ago that is being considered by the Minister. I would like to know what it looks like because the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UNCRPD,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Implementation of Inclusive Education in Schools: Department of Education (18 Oct 2023)

Pauline Tully: Are those children all in special schools?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Implementation of Inclusive Education in Schools: Department of Education (18 Oct 2023)

Pauline Tully: I appreciate the witnesses are here a long time at this stage. Deputy Canney mentioned the Irish language and I was going to raise that issue as well. Some 11% of post-primary pupils in 2021-22 were exempt from studying Irish. I recognise some of those students came to the country after the age of 11, but there would be some who are exempt because of additional learning needs. Deputy...

Funding for Persons with Disabilities: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Oct 2023)

Pauline Tully: Okay. I just wanted clarification on that. I will raise again the issue of hundreds of children impacted by sodium valproate. My colleague Deputy Conway-Walsh engages regularly with people in this sector. They still do not have a full disability pathway in place to deliver the supports and services promised to them. That is the barest minimum owed to these children while we await an...

Funding for Persons with Disabilities: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Oct 2023)

Pauline Tully: I will start by thanking colleagues from my party and other parties and groups across the Chamber who spoke in support of this motion this evening. I am disappointed the Government has tabled an amendment to this motion because if the Minister of State and the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, were totally honest, they know there is not sufficient funding in budget 2024 for disabilities. It is not...

Funding for Persons with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2023)

Pauline Tully: I could talk for hours about it, but anyway. I move: That Dáil Éireann: condemns the Government's Budget for 2024 which, like previous Budgets, falls far short of what is required for disability services, meaning that children will continue to wait too long for, and go without, the assessments and therapies they need, while young people with disabilities will remain...

Final Report of the Independent Scoping Exercise into the Circumstances surrounding the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell: Statements (17 Oct 2023)

Pauline Tully: I pay tribute to the O'Farrell family and commend their dignity in their quest for truth and justice for Shane. Shane O'Farrell's family deserve the truth. They deserve to know why and how the man who killed him, Zigimantas Gridziuska, was out on bail at the time he killed Shane in a hit-and-run incident on 2 August 2011. At the time, Mr. Gridziuska had 34 previous convictions across three...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Oct 2023)

Pauline Tully: 85. To ask the Taoiseach the bilateral meetings he had during his recent visit to the United States. [45281/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (17 Oct 2023)

Pauline Tully: 149. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to have a regular Local Link bus serving the Belturbet area of Cavan. [45292/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Park-and-Ride Facilities (17 Oct 2023)

Pauline Tully: 150. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the locations and capacity of each park-and-ride facility funded by the National Transport Authority, in tabular form. [45293/23]