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Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (26 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: I welcome the that the disability remit has finally, after this length of time, transferred over to the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. I echo what Deputy Costello has said regarding the PDS plan. Parents have lost faith. They feel it is a failed system and they are very discouraged. I am hearing that parents are getting service statements but with...

Re-introduction of Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: We are calling for the introduction of time-limited mortgage interest relief for homeowners hit by interest rate increases. It is a sensible, affordable and necessary measure aimed at supporting homeowners facing significant increases in their mortgage costs, and they are significant. One of my constituents is a young self-employed woman whose husband was working up to a year ago, suffered...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy (Resumed): Discussion. (25 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: I do not have any specific questions for Ms Dada; I have a lot of general questions that would apply to everyone. Ms Dada identified as being the daughter of immigrants and being first generation black Irish, and said she experienced a lot of racism because of her colour but being autistic also made things more complicated. How was she identified as autistic? What pathway did she use? We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy (Resumed): Discussion. (25 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: I commend Ms Dada on that. Are there supports or is it very difficult to access them, even after being identified as autistic?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy (Resumed): Discussion. (25 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: I thank the witnesses for attending, and for their presentations. Some of the information is quite concerning, especially that covered by Nem in their opening statement. I did not get the opportunity to read the statement before they delivered it. I will certainly be going back over the details because there is a lot of information in there. We have to recognise that things are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy (Resumed): Discussion. (25 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: When a person gets the diagnosis, what supports are available? Again, does he or she have to pay privately for a support they wish to access?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy (Resumed): Discussion. (25 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: Regarding Government funding, does Thriving Autistic get Government funding at all towards anything that it-----?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: A Rights-Based Approach and Disability Legislation: National Disability Authority (20 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: Apologies have been received from the Cathaoirleach, Deputy Moynihan, though he is here for a short part of the meeting. Apologies have also been received from Deputies Dessie Ellis and Jennifer Murnane O'Connor. The purpose of today's meeting is a discussion about the rights-based approach and disability legislation. I would like to extend, on behalf of the committee, a warm welcome to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: A Rights-Based Approach and Disability Legislation: National Disability Authority (20 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: Deputy Higgins is joining the meeting remotely. Is the Deputy within the precincts of Leinster House?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: A Rights-Based Approach and Disability Legislation: National Disability Authority (20 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: I invite the Deputy to ask her questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: A Rights-Based Approach and Disability Legislation: National Disability Authority (20 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: I can hear you perfectly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: A Rights-Based Approach and Disability Legislation: National Disability Authority (20 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: Has the Deputy any other questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: A Rights-Based Approach and Disability Legislation: National Disability Authority (20 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: I thank the Senator. I give apologies on behalf of Deputy Canney as I neglected to do so at the beginning of the meeting. I have a few comments and questions of my own. I thank the NDA officials for the opening statement. It encompassed an awful lot of what we discuss at this committee regularly. We hear from people with lived experience. There is nothing in there we could disagree...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: A Rights-Based Approach and Disability Legislation: National Disability Authority (20 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth was chastised, for want of a better word, by the UN in the context of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the lack of progress on inclusive education. It is, therefore, something that needs to be progressed. The NCSE has prepared a document and it was submitted to the Department, but I do not think we have got...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: A Rights-Based Approach and Disability Legislation: National Disability Authority (20 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: The sectoral plans under the Disability Act were talked about. Were they produced for a number or years or was it just once?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: A Rights-Based Approach and Disability Legislation: National Disability Authority (20 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: It is something worth looking at.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: A Rights-Based Approach and Disability Legislation: National Disability Authority (20 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: Absolutely. I thank our guests for their insightful contributions. As I said, a number of Departments have been invited to meetings in the coming weeks on the back of this one, so we will be putting the questions and points the guests made today to them. The meeting is now adjourned. The next meeting of the joint committee will be in private on Wednesday, 26 April 2023 at 3.15 p.m.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: A Rights-Based Approach and Disability Legislation: National Disability Authority (20 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: Senator O’Loughlin and others mentioned employment. We are a laggard in relation to Europe in the number of people who are employed. Dr. Hartney talked about different surveys that have been carried out around people declaring a disability. In my previous job, there was a confidential survey and one declared whether one had a disability. However, many people who had disabilities,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Pensions and Social Security: Discussion (20 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: Good afternoon. I echo my colleague's welcome to the witnesses and thank them both for the papers they have presented. This has been a really interesting discussion which shows real foresight and forward planning, which is really necessary. Unfortunately, I have had to represent constituents who have been subject to sanctions from the Department of Social Protection for something very...