Results 441-460 of 3,863 for speaker:Pauline Tully

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Grant Payments (15 Jun 2021)

Pauline Tully: 625. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated additional cost of increasing the funding to the housing adaptation grant for people with a disability by 5%, 10% and 25% respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31530/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Grant Payments (15 Jun 2021)

Pauline Tully: 626. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated additional cost of increasing the funding to the mobility aids grant scheme by 5%, 10% and 25% respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31531/21]

Common Agricultural Policy: Statements (16 Jun 2021)

Pauline Tully: The CAP budget is starting from a lower base than in previous years. CAP currently makes up only 30% of the overall EU budget as opposed to the 37% it made up in previous years. We know the emphasis, going forward, must be on making farming sustainable and delivering environmental benefits. However, if the CAP budget continues to decrease, it will mean farmers are being asked to do more...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (15 Jun 2021)

Pauline Tully: 793. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will allow for reasonable accommodation in cases in which students who experience a medical emergency immediately before or during an examination and are unable to complete their examination to give them the opportunity to sit the examination anew within the same examination cycle or before such time as the CAO offers issue; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (15 Jun 2021)

Pauline Tully: 794. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated additional cost of increasing funding for the school-based summer July provision programme of education for children with complex needs by 5%, 10% and 25% respectively; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31536/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (15 Jun 2021)

Pauline Tully: 805. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an issue raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) who cannot find a place in a special school for their child will receive a response; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31716/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (15 Jun 2021)

Pauline Tully: 855. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider automatically extending the free travel scheme to persons who lose their driving licence due to a diagnosis of epilepsy or breakthrough seizures; if she will consider making the scheme a stand-alone scheme in order that persons who are diagnosed with epilepsy or breakthrough seizures but who do not meet...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (15 Jun 2021)

Pauline Tully: 894. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount spent on the wage subsidy scheme for persons with disabilities in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021; the amount spent on the grants for employers to retain employees with disabilities in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31434/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (15 Jun 2021)

Pauline Tully: 895. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated additional cost of extending current supports which encourage and incentivise employers to hire and retain a person with a disability such as the wage subsidy scheme for persons with disabilities and the grants for employers to retain employees with disabilities to allow self-employed persons with a disability...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (15 Jun 2021)

Pauline Tully: 896. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated additional cost of permitting self-employed persons with a disability to apply for and the grants for employers to retain employees with disabilities and the wage subsidy scheme for persons with disabilities for themselves as if they were an employee; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31436/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (15 Jun 2021)

Pauline Tully: 897. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated additional cost of permitting self-employed persons with a disability to be considered as an employee for the purpose of accessing the grants for employers to retain employees with disabilities and the wage subsidy scheme for persons with disabilities to hire and retain themselves as if they were employees;...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (15 Jun 2021)

Pauline Tully: 899. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated additional cost of increasing the funding to the EmployAbility Service by 5%, 10% and 25% respectively; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31525/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Funding (15 Jun 2021)

Pauline Tully: 900. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated additional cost of increasing the funding to the walk peer programme to extend the service to each county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31526/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (15 Jun 2021)

Pauline Tully: 901. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the disregard which now applies to disability allowance recipients who have been granted bursaries, stipends or scholarships towards completing a PhD will be extended to students who have been granted bursaries, stipends or scholarships towards completing a PhD who are on other means tested disability payments such as...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (15 Jun 2021)

Pauline Tully: 902. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated additional cost of extending the disregard which applies to disability allowance recipients who have been granted bursaries, stipends or scholarships towards completing a PhD to students in receipt of the blind pension who have been granted bursaries, stipends or scholarships towards completing a PhD; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (15 Jun 2021)

Pauline Tully: 1064. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who accessed the fund for students with disabilities over the past three years by educational institution; the average amount provided to each student; the estimated cost of increasing the fund by 5%, 10% and 25% respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31534/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (15 Jun 2021)

Pauline Tully: 1065. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of extending the fund for students with disabilities to part-time students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31535/21]

Impact of Covid-19 on People with Disabilities within the Education and Health Sectors: Statements (17 Jun 2021)

Pauline Tully: I am sharing time with Deputy Ward. AsIAm has published a report, entitled Every Child Counts. It was only sent to me yesterday and I do not know if the Minister of State has had chance to see it. It contains the results of a survey, which it is keen to indicate is just a snapshot of autism services and supports. It surveyed the parents of children with autism. The key findings were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Ratification of Optional Protocol: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Pauline Tully: Like previous contributors, I wish to welcome our guests today and thank them for their statements. I confirm that I am in Leinster House. Many points have been raised in the meeting. I agree with those made on the optional protocol. It should have been ratified at the same time as the convention. However, I welcome a timeline for its ratification next year. That is most important....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (22 Jun 2021)

Pauline Tully: 470. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when phase 2, 4 and 6 off-the-job apprentice training will resume at full capacity in view of the fact that it is expected that third-level classes will resume on campus from September 2021 and second-level schooling has already resumed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33207/21]