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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (14 Dec 2023)

Pauline Tully: 100. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he is taking to ensure that an organisation (details supplied) is adequately funded and prevent it from having to initiate closure procedures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55759/23]

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

Pauline Tully: 140. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the adequacy of engagements that occurred with disability organisations and disabled persons' representative organisations in relation to the national disability strategy and the Green Paper on Disability Reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55758/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Consultations (14 Dec 2023)

Pauline Tully: 358. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 121 of 7 December 2023, the names of the disability stakeholders and disabled persons organisations that her Department engaged with prior to the launch of the green paper. [55956/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Pauline Tully: I thank all the witnesses for their contributions. I found it quite refreshing that there is a lot of positivity from them all about the growth in their sector and the potential for further growth, and they have talked about some of the barriers. They have talked about infrastructure, availability of labour, the energy and the institutions not being up and running and, by extension, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Planning for Inclusive Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: It is good to have both agencies in the room because we regularly hear the local authority blaming the HSE and the HSE blaming the local authority for accessible housing and support packages not being in place and for not working in tandem. I acknowledge the situation has improved with the new steering committees and I hear of good working relationships on the ground between a local...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Planning for Inclusive Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: They build the houses but they do not take into account the additional supports at that stage. A more co-ordinated approach is needed. That is the point they were trying to make.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: I want to raise an issue that was highlighted in news reports last week resulting from a report by the Child Law Project and Dr. Niall Muldoon, who is Ombudsman for Children. It highlighted the case of a teenage girl with a disability who was held in a hospital room off the emergency department for two months in 2021 because Tusla - the Child and Family Agency and HSE disability services...

Investment Funds Trading in the Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: The cost of purchasing a home has been pushed up further and further in recent years and has made it impossible for many workers and families, who have saved every euro they could, to buy their first home. A major contributor is the fact that investment funds have been allowed to come in and bulk-purchase homes from developers. Most recently, an investment fund bulk-purchased 85% of homes...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (18 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 6. To ask the Minister for Health the level of additional core expenditure for new developments, excluding funding for carryover and otherwise maintaining existing levels of service, which has been allocated to Cavan General Hospital for 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2071/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (18 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: I ask the Minister to outline the level of additional core expenditure for new developments, excluding funding for carry over and otherwise maintaining existing levels of service, that has been allocated to Cavan General Hospital in 2024.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (18 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: It goes without saying that the staff in Cavan General Hospital are excellent but they are under pressure. The Minister has said that there has been an increase in the number of staff and I appreciate that but there has also been an increase in the number of people using the hospital. There are insufficient numbers of front-line staff, particularly therapists. I was talking to a therapist...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (18 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: I know from meeting with hospital management that they are very proactive and are trying at all times to alleviate pressures. Sometimes, constituents contact me to say they have an appointment in maybe six months for a hernia or something. When I talk to them further, it turns out the appointment is only an initial one to see the consultant. It does not take into account the time they will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: PEACEPLUS Programme: Special EU Programmes Body (18 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: I welcome the witnesses to the meeting. PEACE funding is something that I am familiar with over the years because I come from the Border County of Cavan and have been involved with community groups in the past that have accessed such funding. As Deputy Smith referred to, Cavan County Council had quite a number of applications. Its biggest problem was it had too many applications. While...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: PEACEPLUS Programme: Special EU Programmes Body (18 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: Does Ms McIntyre know the total allocation for the PEACEPLUS funding? Has a total amount been allocated? Is it only open for applications in the coming year, or will it be extended into 2025, 2026 and beyond?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: PEACEPLUS Programme: Special EU Programmes Body (18 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: PEACEPLUS Programme: Special EU Programmes Body (18 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: PEACEPLUS Programme: Special EU Programmes Body (18 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: Okay. That was my next question. Can they come back for-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: PEACEPLUS Programme: Special EU Programmes Body (18 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: Okay. Ms McIntyre talked about the hard-to-reach groups and that it is important to reach out to them. I agree with her How does she envisage that will happen? If they are hard to reach, they are hard to reach. What mechanisms will be used to try to reach groups? We have heard in this committee about different groups that have not had their voices heard throughout the conflict and since.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (18 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 32. To ask the Minister for Health what actions he is taking to reverse the current trend in long-term residential care (LTRC) where there has been a consolidation of LTRC homes under larger operator groups in Dublin and the commuter belt at the expense of smaller independently owned and operated LTRC homes which are not part of operator groups in rural areas such as in Cavan (details...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (18 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions he has taken to develop more part-time curriculums across higher and further education; if he has increased funding for these courses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2090/24]