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Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: I want to explain why Sinn Féin has opposed the Bill. There are supports in this Bill that are welcome for survivors. However, in good conscience, we could not support it when it excludes some survivors from different residential institutions. We feel there should be equal access to support for all, irrespective of whether they had received a settlement from Caranua or any other type...

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: If I may, I will read this open letter to all Members of the Seanad from the survivors of Ireland's industrial and reformatory schools system, dated 30 June 2025. To whom it may concern, We, the Survivors of Ireland's Industrial and Reformatory Schools System, write to you today with heavy hearts and unwavering determination. For decades we endured cruelty, neglect, abuse and the erasure...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: I raise the issue of home care hours for older and disabled people. I am regularly contacted by families of older and disabled people regarding home care hours. Where hours are sanctioned, carers are possibly not turning up for their shifts, or when two carers are required, only one turns up. This happens regularly at weekends. Where needs have changed and a person requires more care, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: I thank all our guests for their attendance and their presentations. There was a lot in common in all the presentations regarding the issues facing the sector. I want to talk about SNA allocation. It was stated that it was very late compared to the set allocation. A school contacted me to say it had three students with significant needs hoping to enrol for September. It stated that, to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: I know. I have been told by the NCSE that it will carry out another review or appeals process in August. That is so late. How can schools plan?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: I thank the delegates for their answers. The next speaker on the list is Deputy Coppinger.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: On behalf of the committee, I thank you all for attending and engaging with us today. We will now suspend briefly to allow the witnesses for the second session to come in and take their seats.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: You are all very welcome. I ask anyone attending remotely to mute their microphones when not contributing, so that we do not pick up any background noise or feedback. As usual, I remind all those in attendance to ensure that their mobile phones are in silent mode or switched off. Members attending remotely are reminded of the constitutional requirement that in order to participate in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: Sorry, I have to interrupt because we are going over time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: Similar questions might be asked again or there might be time at the end to come back in. I ask members to be conscious of time. The four minutes is for questions and answers. I ask members to keep that in mind.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: I call Deputy Peter Roche.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: I have a few questions. I am aware of several schools looking for classes and reaching out because they recognise a need within the school population or among incoming junior infants or first years. Are schools with physical space getting priority over schools without such space, despite the fact the need might be greater in the school without the physical space? I know some building works...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: One primary school, knowing that three students were going to come in, sought a review in March and thought that it was getting 0.83 of an SNA to cover the junior infants class, only to be left with just the two. I do not know what the purpose of the process was if it was just going to be ignored.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: That is more work for the principal, going through another process when they have gone through a process already.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: I thank the Deputy. I thank Mr. Kearney and Ms Walsh for their attendance and engagement with the committee. I am conscious we have gone over time. I think we would have loved a much longer session, though the officials might not have. Anyway, I am sure we will be engaging with them again in future.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: I thank Mr. Kearney very much.

Seanad: National Drugs Strategy: Statements (8 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: The national drugs strategy is coming to an end, so one would imagine that preparation should be ongoing to review the current strategy in order to learn from it and inform the next strategy or where we go from here, but stakeholders have expressed concern that there has been a lack of consultation on the ground. There are many organisations that work in our communities. They know what is...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: Last week, I received an email about student accommodation from a third level student who was from County Cavan and studying in Dublin. In the email, he stated he had a savings fund that was supposed to cover his housing for the four years he would be studying. He had entered into a year-long rental contract at €1,000 a month. The place was in shambles with broken furniture, and he...

Seanad: Pregnancy Loss (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Second Stage (9 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: The Pregnancy Loss (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025 is vital and well-drafted legislation. I commend my colleague, Senator Ryan, on all her work on the Bill and for sharing her personal story. I also commend other Members who have done so. That is not easy. I come from a family of ten. I am the second youngest and I was an adult before my mother admitted she had a miscarriage on...

Seanad: Post Office Network: Statements (9 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: I live in a rural area of County Cavan, about 3 miles from the village of Kilnaleck. Some 12 or 13 years ago, there was a branch of Ulster Bank with an ATM that was open all hours, a branch of Cavan Credit Union and a post office in the town.Now, there are none of those. There was an ATM service provided through one of the shops when the ownership changed, so at least that is there during...