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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Increased Employment Participation, Self-employment and Entrepreneurship for People with Disabilities: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Pauline Tully: Basically, Mr. Hennessy would need to be able to maintain his full payment until he is really established.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Increased Employment Participation, Self-employment and Entrepreneurship for People with Disabilities: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Pauline Tully: There is a lack of flexibility there around the grants.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Increased Employment Participation, Self-employment and Entrepreneurship for People with Disabilities: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Pauline Tully: The point has been made here by disabled people that self-employment would suit many of them because it allows them the flexibility to work around. With Mr. McCann's capability, he does not have to work to what an employer wants but then he is coming up against different barriers. Professor Cooney said that there are over 50,000 disabled self-employed people. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Increased Employment Participation, Self-employment and Entrepreneurship for People with Disabilities: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Pauline Tully: Is it similar to our employment rate?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Increased Employment Participation, Self-employment and Entrepreneurship for People with Disabilities: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Pauline Tully: Greater understanding is needed among staff in the Department of Social Protection, Enterprise Ireland and other organisations dealing with these issues.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2023)

Pauline Tully: I thank the Chair. Apologies, I was late. I was caught up, both in traffic and in something else in the Dáil, but I have read their opening statements and I understand and appreciate the importance of ensuring workers rights are protected and that they are on a par, North and South, as they were when the EU had jurisdiction over the whole island. In relation to teaching, and I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2023)

Pauline Tully: In the South, we have two secondary school unions and sometimes there is talk about them amalgamating and that they would be stronger together. They do not always agree completely on issues, although most of the time they work well together.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2023)

Pauline Tully: There is the Teaching Council here in the South. Is there an equivalent body in the North?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2023)

Pauline Tully: Mr. Boyle is calling here for there to be an easy or a fast-track process here if teachers who qualify in the North or are teaching up there wish to transfer to the southern system. Mr. Boyle talked about some differences in the educational systems. Are there many differences in qualification? I know Irish is one for primary school, but otherwise would there be many differences in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2023)

Pauline Tully: I taught in secondary school for years before I was elected here. I saw teachers coming into the school and maybe not having the qualifications to meet the Teaching Council criteria and having to take on courses, in the evening time or whatever, at their own expense. That can be quite a burden, especially when one takes into account housing, the cost-of-living crisis etc. I come from...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Issues Facing the Early Childhood Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: I thank the Department for its presentation. Can the witnesses confirm when the Minister will publish the access and inclusion model, AIM, report? It is important that report be published to highlight the areas needing improvement and to give a clearer picture of how the model is working in practice. Budget 2024 highlighted some changes to how AIM is applied. Could we get more information...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Issues Facing the Early Childhood Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: I have heard that from providers who said that was the case. They said they do not deal with the parent but lose out themselves.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Issues Facing the Early Childhood Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: The indication they gave is that the period was not that long.

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Strategies (14 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 35. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development what considerations she gave to the recommendations contained in the National Disability Authority submission on her Department's Statement of Strategy 2023-2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49694/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (14 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 355 of 16 May 2023, if her Department has met with the teacher union to discuss the report proposing the introduction of a teacher relocation scheme; and the actions she has taken to progress this important issue. [49342/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (14 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 462. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in relation to the response from a Topical Issue on disability on 17 October 2023 (details supplied), if the €56 million unspent referenced within the disability budget has been repurposed; if so, to what has this funding been repurposed; and if any of this funding has been repurposed to the Children's...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (14 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 507. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a team (details supplied) has been excluded from the Building Momentum pay increases, cost-of-living pay increases, and the reduction in the working week for nurses to 37.5 hours; the action he is taking to ensure Caredoc nurses receive equal terms and conditions to that of HSE and Section 38 staff; and the reason these workers were also not...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disease Management (15 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this Topical Issue. Epidermolysis bullosa, EB, is an extremely painful and rare skin disease, unknown to many people. People living with EB are missing proteins that bind the layers of their skin together so any minor friction causes it to break and blister. It is a debilitating and excruciating disease, with no known cure. There are four forms of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disease Management (15 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: I thank the Minister of State. Debra Ireland is an excellent charity. It provides brilliant support to people with EB and their families. As the Minister of State has responsibility for mental health, I want to focus for on mental health issues, a subject I mentioned in my opening remarks. In a survey conducted by Debra Ireland in 2019, people living with or caring for someone with EB...

Imposing Sanctions on Israel: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: I commend the Social Democrats on tabling this motion which I fully support. Israel's ongoing aggression against Gaza and the West Bank has so far resulted in the killing of over 11,000 Palestinians in Gaza and, up to last night, 177 Palestinians in the West Bank, including east Jerusalem. The Taoiseach had said that Israel is engaging in collective punishment against the people of Gaza,...