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Planning and Rural Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2023)

Pauline Tully: As someone who grew up in a rural area, built a house on the farm I grew up on and lived there with my children who attended the same school I did, I certainly support people being allowed to live in a rural area. This is not to say that planning should not be sustainable - it must be and the environment must be protected - but we have to be fair to people who wish to live in a rural...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (9 May 2023)

Pauline Tully: 265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has introduced flexibility to the teacher allocation process to enable schools to deliver the full curriculum without lowering the standard of teaching, given the large number of Ukrainian children seeking refuge in the State who are entering the school system at different dates throughout the school year; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (9 May 2023)

Pauline Tully: 521. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of people receiving Specialist Community-Based Disability Services from organisations funded under Section 39 of the Health Act 2004 and as a percentage of the total number of people receiving Specialist Community-Based Disability Services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21048/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (9 May 2023)

Pauline Tully: 522. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of whole-time equivalent staff working in Specialist Community-Based Disability Services funded under Section 39 of the Health Act 2004 and as a percentage of the total number of whole-time equivalent staff working in Specialist Community-Based Disability Services; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 May 2023)

Pauline Tully: 712. To ask the Minister for Health if a person who was employed throughout the period of the Covid-19 pandemic in the cleaning of ambulances is entitled to the pandemic special recognition payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21846/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability Inclusive Social Protection: Discussion (11 May 2023)

Pauline Tully: Good morning. I thank everyone for coming in and sharing their experience with us. I would like to ask Mr. Meere the first question. I was recently talking to a young man who had a stroke about a year ago. He received wonderful supports when in hospital, especially in the National Rehabilitation Hospital, but when he was discharged and went home, the support system disappeared. From the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability Inclusive Social Protection: Discussion (11 May 2023)

Pauline Tully: That would be really important because it would help people to recover and get back into the workforce or education or whatever it is. Ms Bird spoke about a disability passport. That would be a very good idea. We hear from students in primary schools who say the supports they get there follow them into secondary school but after that, they do not. Third level colleges and institutions are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Pauline Tully: I wish Mr. Harris a good morning and thank him for his presentation. As always, he focuses us on what we should be doing, on what the issues are and on what is important as we come to preparing our report. I hope the committee, in its meetings over the year, has helped to create awareness, and more than that I hope it has given autistic people a chance to air their concerns and talk about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Pauline Tully: Both, okay, and there are none here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Pauline Tully: I presume what they do in the UK could be easily and simply applied here as well, as well as the assessment they use there. It seems very strange that is not being done. A number of people have talked about the children's disability network teams, CDNTs, and the failures. Mr. Harris has referenced some of the workplace planning and the issues around keeping staff. Is it the best model, in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Pauline Tully: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. Even though I have dealt with planners for years in the local authorities, I am not completely sure what qualifications planners have. Has there been a change of focus in the qualification to take into account issues of accessibility for disabled and autistic people? I am sure there are many planners who are also autistic. It brings to mind...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Pauline Tully: Are we losing them to other countries like we are in so many professions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Pauline Tully: The National Disability Authority indicated that it provides independent and evidence-informed advice to Government. Is this advice accepted, or is there an improved acceptance from Departments? I ask that because I often find, with some Departments, that they almost say disability is an issue for the Minister and Department it falls under whereas it is not. It is across the board. Every...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Pauline Tully: I know Dr. Craddock said his organisation monitors the percentage of disabled people employed in the public sector. Does that include autistic people or is there any kind of indication? I think 85% of autistic people are either underemployed or unemployed. Does Dr. Craddock have figures on that?

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Unions (11 May 2023)

Pauline Tully: 110. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he plans to hold a meeting with a union (details supplied) to discuss the unacceptable treatment of employees of an organisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22171/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Care Services (10 May 2023)

Pauline Tully: 129. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 868 of 18 April 2023, if she will provide the specific developmental milestones which a deciding officer uses to compare and contrast an applicant for domiciliary care allowance against a child of the same age without their disability; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (10 May 2023)

Pauline Tully: 155. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will report on HSE funding for adult transition supports for young adolescents transitioning from post-primary or special schools into disability day services; the funding allocated for this to each CHO area in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, in tabular form; the number of young adolescents in each CHO...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Policy (17 May 2023)

Pauline Tully: The consultation that led to the new National Housing Strategy for Disabled People 2022-2027 was inclusive and was welcomed positively across the board by disabled people and their representative organisations. It raised hopes and expectations for civil society organisations and their members. More than a year later, however, the housing strategy implementation plan initially expected in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Policy (17 May 2023)

Pauline Tully: I welcome the fact that it is going to be published in a few weeks, and I sincerely hope that timeline is adhered to because we are a year past the expected date of publication. I hope the plan will see the lack of co-ordination which has existed between housing and other supports being addressed as well. Providing housing is one thing but unless one provides the personal assistance...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 May 2023)

Pauline Tully: I have been informed by parents in Cavan in recent days that the only speech and language therapist employed in the children's disability network team is leaving within a few weeks, which means there will be no speech and language therapist there. The management is actively trying to recruit a therapist but it is having serious issues and problems. I know it is a countrywide problem and is...