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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Ensuring Inclusive Local and EU Elections: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Pauline Tully: I am reminded of a witness who appeared previously. He felt that disability issues were not important for politicians because disabled people lacked a strong voice. I disagreed with him on this point. According to the census, 22% of the population identifies as having a disability. If we add those people's families, there is huge potential within such a large group. It is just a matter...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (7 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 35. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to detail the effect the HSE recruitment freeze will have on delivering disability services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48528/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (7 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: I ask the Minister to detail the effect the HSE recruitment freeze will have on delivering disability services and to make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (7 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: I thank the Minister of State for that reply because it is very welcome. Only today I was talking to someone from a section 38 organisation that provides residential, respite and day services. They have already met their board to curtail their services in the coming weeks. The services will still be curtailed because the organisation was in the middle of a recruitment process a number of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (7 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: It is a month. People are not going to hang around for a job they do not know is going to materialise, or did not know would until today. It was paused on 13 October, so services are going to be affected. Fortunately, this will be and can be addressed, but can agency staff be taken on in the meantime?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (7 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: I thank the Minister of State. The organisations will do so, but what they were saying was they had people in the process of being recruited and they do not think those people are still going to be there. They hope they will, and if they are then the organisations will take them on, but they said people will leave, because they have to. Given the demands of paying for the cost of living...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (7 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 54. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he is taking to establish a national DPRO register to ensure all consultations on matters regarding disability are carried out in accordance with general comment 7 of the UNCRPD; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48529/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (7 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: I ask the Minister of State to set out the actions being taken to establish a register of national disabled persons representative organisations, DPROs, to ensure all consultations on matters regarding disability are carried out in accordance with general comment 7 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UNCRPD; and to make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (7 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: General comment 7 of the UNCRPD is clear. DPROs must be consulted by public bodies, local authorities, etc., on issues relating to disability. Many of them consult with disability organisations, but these are not necessarily DPROs. We need a register of DPOs, with a criterion indicating what a DPO is and an outline of the different categories of disability, namely, whether it is physical...

Home Care Workers and Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: The Government seems to have thrown in the towel on the commitment it gave in the programme for Government to implement a statutory home support scheme over its term in government. It appears very unlikely at this stage. The failure to do that is pushing older and disabled people into hospitals and nursing homes, or into early admission to long-term residential care, when they should be...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (7 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 142. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment what additional funding was allocated to the warmer homes scheme in Budget 2024; and the estimated time this additional funding will shorten the current waiting list for the scheme. [47371/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (7 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 412. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the person appointed by his Department to conduct the strategic review of the labour needs of the meat processing industry; the timeframe for the completion of this review; if work permits will be made available to the meat processing industry while this review is underway; and the timeframe within which these work permits will be...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 701. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people currently in receipt of a disability payment, by disability category in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47283/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Equal Opportunities Employment (7 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 702. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has undertaken research on the barriers people on disability payments face with finding and entering employment and the supports they need to overcome these barriers. [47284/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (7 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 703. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how much weight is given to the person's own account of the impact of their condition on their capacity to work in the medical assessment for disability payments. [47285/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Equal Opportunities Employment (7 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 704. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures she and her Department are taking to improve the employment supports available to people with disabilities. [47286/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Primary Medical Certificates (7 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 746. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in regard to the announced expansion of the free travel pass to support people medically certified as unable to drive, if only people in receipt of a primary medical certificate will qualify as medically certified as unable to drive. [48156/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (7 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 984. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No.1346 of 11 September 2023, if the HSE have procured diagnostic ASD assessments from the private sector; and if not, the timeframe within which this will be in place. [47465/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (7 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 1050. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the current HSE recruitment pause in regard to management and administration staff, as well as agency staff, will apply to children’s disability network teams. [48231/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Nursing Homes (7 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 1087. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of disabled people under the age of 65 years that have been placed in a nursing home in each of the years 2019 to 2022 and to date in 2023; and the average length of stay for a disabled person under the age of 65 years that has been placed in a nursing home. [48815/23]