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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Agreements (18 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 163. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on reported recent talks between the EU and the Mercosur group on a trade deal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8380/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (18 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 317. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider changing the eligibility criteria for the student grant scheme to enable students whose family was granted legal residency in Ireland through the regularisation of long-term undocumented migrants scheme to apply using the total number of years they lived in Ireland, including when they were undocumented. [17239/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: Cuirim fáilte roimh Dr. Mitchell. I thank her for coming in today. I have listened to her in the audiovisual room before this as well. What she has done is really enlightening. Anything we can do to broaden the conversation around constitutional change and the future of this country is really important. It is really important to include as many different voices and perspectives as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: Is there something more than that, which the Government, political parties or even this committee could be doing to encourage conversations and to try to allay the fears? As Dr. Mitchell says, it could be with some people that they have lost their identity or they feel they are losing it because of Brexit, so there might be something we could do to assure them they have not and that their...

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: The Deputy’s time is up.

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: That concludes statements of acknowledgement and apology to the families and victims of the Stardust tragedy. I thank you for being here today and commend your fortitude, determination and resilience over the past 43 years in doing something you should not have had to do and for seeing it through. I am just in awe. Thank you very much.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services Staff (24 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: In the early hours of Tuesday, 17 October 2023, unions reached an agreement on pay parity for section 39, section 56 and section 10 workers who are employed in community services. The agreement came about on foot of a long-running dispute relating to the pay they were receiving and the pay their counterparts directly employed by the State were receiving. A proposal was agreed acknowledging...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services Staff (24 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: I appreciate that and I am delighted to hear there will be further talks and negotiations. If this issue is not dealt with, we will not see an end to this problem. There is a shortage of workers within the sector, so they will go to the agencies and organisations that can pay them more. They will do exactly the same work but be paid better. Several organisations have expressed concern....

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: I thank the Regional Group for bringing forward the motion and affording us the opportunity to address the House on the need to review and reform support for carers. Family carers have long been held up as a crucial pillar of parent support in Ireland. Various departmental strategies and documents refer to the important role that family carers play in our society, viewing them as the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: My colleague Deputy Carthy and I have consistently raised the issue of the very limited provision of respite in our constituency of Cavan-Monaghan. The Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, has committed to looking at an additional house for children in Monaghan and I hope she will proceed with that very soon. It has been brought to my attention by a parent that Steadfast House in...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: Ongoing bad weather has created huge problems for farmers this spring, with fields too wet for planting or taking livestock. Many farmers face fodder shortages because animals have been in sheds for too long. They cannot access grass in the fields because of wet ground conditions. Tillage farmers cannot get onto their land to plant their crops. My neighbours' fields are still empty....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Law Cases (23 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 36. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider reviewing the penalties that can be issued by a judge for non-compliance with a court order (details supplied) in family law cases; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17814/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Budgets (23 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 86. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage has made an application to his Department for increased funding in budget 2025 for the repair and maintenance of local and regional roads; if he will increase the funding for allocation to the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage in budget 2025 for the repair...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (23 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 512. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the proportion of disabled people in residential care in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024 who were categorised as having low to medium support needs; and the proportion of disabled people in residential care in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024 who were categorised as having high to intensive...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (23 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 513. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the capital costs of providing a four-bedroom residential centre for disabled people; the first-year current costs of providing a four-bedroom residential centre for disabled people; and the full year current cost of providing a four-bedroom residential centre for disabled people, in tabular form. [17452/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (23 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 514. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the capital costs of providing a four-bedroom respite centre for disabled people; the first-year current costs of providing a four-bedroom respite centre for disabled people; and the full-year current cost of providing a four-bedroom respite centre for disabled people, in tabular form. [17453/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (23 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 515. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the Department's target for the provision of respite places for disabled people over the next three, six and nine years, in tabular form. [17454/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (23 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 516. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount of funding allocated for the provision of home respite support packages that is within the Department's pre-committed current expenditure baseline. [17455/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (23 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 517. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the current allocation for delivering existing levels of home respite supports for emergency cases, including funding for the 420 packages put in place in 2022 and maintained in 2023, as well as the additional 27 packages delivered in 2023, is within the Department's pre-committed current expenditure...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (23 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 518. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the first-year costs of providing 100,000, 200,000 and 500,000 additional personal assistance hours; and the full-year costs of providing 100,000, 200,000 and 500,000 additional personal assistance hours, in tabular form. [17457/24]