Results 21-40 of 3,202 for speaker:Pauline Tully

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (9 Jun 2020)

Pauline Tully: 560. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the budgeted spend in each of the next three years to make public transport wheelchair accessible including vehicles, stations and so on. [9897/20]

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Pauline Tully: I was deeply concerned to learn at the weekend of plans to merge the midwifery-led unit in Cavan General Hospital with the consultancy led services there. I have been reliably informed that the unit has been closed to anyone who wished to book this facility from 1 June 2020. While women who were booked prior to that date will be facilitated, anybody attempting to make a booking after that...

Covid-19 (Measures to Protect Victims of Domestic Violence): Statements (24 Jun 2020)

Pauline Tully: As Teachta Dála for Cavan-Monaghan I pay tribute to a past pupil of mine, Ms Sonia Lee, and her family, for the strength they have shown not just in recent weeks but in the past two years since Sonia endured an horrific attack by her former partner that left her with life-changing injuries. I wish her well in future. The unprecedented levels of gender-based violence is a global...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (7 Jul 2020)

Pauline Tully: 400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the decision to cancel the tender competition for school transport services that issued on 26 February 2020 will mean a new and open application process will follow; if so, when it will be advertised; if previous tender applicants and holders of contracts will be notified directly; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13945/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (7 Jul 2020)

Pauline Tully: 715. To ask the Minister for Health the full facts regarding the Be on Call for Ireland campaign launched by the HSE; the number of trained healthcare professionals who responded across each discipline; the number that actually returned home; the locations they were deployed to; the number across each of those disciplines that remain in service; the number in each discipline that have been...

Maternity Leave Benefit Extension: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jul 2020)

Pauline Tully: I wish to speak in favour of this motion to extend maternity leave benefit and to represent the views of the many mothers throughout the country who have contacted me on this issue. The Covid restrictions were difficult on everyone but mothers who gave birth just before or during the pandemic were particularly badly affected. Gone were the normal support networks such as help from extended...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Institutions (15 Jul 2020)

Pauline Tully: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if clarity will be provided to third level students regarding the return to third level institutions in autumn 2020; if courses will to be based on campus, online or blended learning; and if it is the latter, the advice that will be issued regarding student accommodation. [16223/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Respite Care Services (15 Jul 2020)

Pauline Tully: 123. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of persons that availed of respite care by county by month in 2019 and to date in 2020; the number of facilities providing respite that remained open during Covid-19 restrictions from mid-March to date; and his plans to reopen all facilities in tabular form. [16226/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Jul 2020)

Pauline Tully: This is on the disabilities sector in the programme for Government, which we were talking about and is on page 90. I will speak on the somewhat connected issue of suspension of day care and respite services for people with intellectual disabilities due to Covid-19. I have been contacted, as have many of my colleagues, by many parents who are left dealing with children and sometimes adults...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: People with Disabilities (17 Jul 2020)

Pauline Tully: I thank the witnesses for coming and outlining their reports to us, which I have read in detail. Like many of my colleagues in Sinn Féin and Teachtaí Dála across the other political parties, I have been contacted by parents of children with intellectual disabilities. Some of these are adult children and day care services for them have been suspended since March. Many of them...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: People with Disabilities (17 Jul 2020)

Pauline Tully: I find it quite disturbing that September is the date and it is being pushed out further. Many restrictions were lifted and services returned on 29 June. Our most vulnerable citizens deserve better than this. This is something I will raise with the Minister. Congregated settings were also mentioned. According to Inclusion Ireland’s report, 1,500 people are living in nursing...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: People with Disabilities (17 Jul 2020)

Pauline Tully: Do I have some time left?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: People with Disabilities (17 Jul 2020)

Pauline Tully: I come from an educational background. I was previously a teacher and a special educational needs co-ordinator for a number of years. I know the importance of therapies for students with disabilities or educational needs and I know those students are also suffering as a result of school being closed and the services and therapies not being provided.

Early Years Childcare: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jul 2020)

Pauline Tully: I wish to support the motion. I commend Deputy Funchion on tabling it. Childcare in Ireland is at crisis point and has been so since long before Covid. It has been edging towards disaster for years, but little or nothing has been done to address the situation. It is now urgent. The cost of childcare was astronomical even before Covid. Prices are now being forced upwards again as a...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (21 Jul 2020)

Pauline Tully: 61. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the reason businesses that do not operate from commercially rateable premises such as tradesmen, service providers and so on are not eligible for the restart grant for small and microbusinesses affected by Covid-19; the grounds this decision is based on; the financial supports which will be provided to these business; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (21 Jul 2020)

Pauline Tully: 76. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the number of applications received to date by county for the restart grant, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17322/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (21 Jul 2020)

Pauline Tully: 77. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the amount of funding issued to individual businesses for the restart grant by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17325/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (21 Jul 2020)

Pauline Tully: 414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the boarding schools by county that will see an end to or a significant reduction in the number of boarders they will be allowed to take in when the new school term commences in September 2020 due to the ongoing social distancing protocols; and the details of the supports she plans to provide for boarding schools to assist them to make up the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (21 Jul 2020)

Pauline Tully: 419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if boarding for students in a school (details supplied) is ending; the possible financial implications for the school; and if the decision will result in the subsequent redundancies of catering and household staff due to the lack of protocols for the operation of boarding schools when the new term commences in September 2020. [17178/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme (21 Jul 2020)

Pauline Tully: 539. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) has not received single farm payment entitlements since 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17348/20]