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Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2022)

Pauline Tully: One of my constituents, Andrew Brennan, from Mullagh, County Cavan, was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2015. He was strongly advised to build an extension for his future needs. An adaptation grant was approved in 2016, a builder was chosen, work was approved to proceed by Cavan County Council and the extension was built. During the winter of 2016, Andrew noticed the extension...

National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)

Pauline Tully: The delivery of high-speed broadband is crucial to our ability to grow the economy, particularly in the context of regional development. As a Deputy who represents a rural constituency, I know the lack of broadband connectivity is having negative impacts on the ability of rural communities to remain sustainable. The work of NBI is vital. It was reported recently that NBI is once again...

National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)

Pauline Tully: I hope there are not further delays because targets are missed. Most worrying are the areas in which there is no indication of planned activity. There are a number of small gaps in rural areas around Shercock and Virginia, to name but two. An extremely large part of west Cavan is not covered by the map. I was recently contacted by a man from Ballyconnell who told me he has two...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Integrated Education Fund (27 Jan 2022)

Pauline Tully: I welcome the witnesses. It has been a very interesting conversation. To get some perspective, it was said that there are 68 integrated schools. Are there both primary and post-primary or secondary schools included in this figure? How many schools are there in the North? Am I right to say that there are just fewer than 1,000? If that is the case, 68 integrated schools out of 1,000 is a...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: Does the Government have plans to revise the cross-border directive or the planned healthcare scheme when it is applied to the North? Recently a woman contacted me who requires two knee replacements. She has been advised that she will have to wait for at least two years in the public system here for an operation. When she inquired about having the operation in Derry, she was told she would...

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: The news about the treatment of children attending CAMHS in south Kerry was alarming but I firmly believe that the problems there are being replicated in many ways across the State, although hopefully not as seriously. The news of a nationwide audit is welcome but it needs to happen without delay. I hear from those involved with CAMHS there are issues around medication, poor management and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (1 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: 74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will amend the entry qualifications for SNAs from QQI level 3 qualification (details supplied) to a QQI level 5 or 6 to reflect the complexity of the work that SNAs undertake; if she will allow for a system of accredited, structured continuous professional development for SNAs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4842/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (1 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans regarding home schooled students who did not receive calculated grades in 2020 and who were not in a position to sit their leaving certificate exams that year; if these students will receive an acknowledgement from her Department that will suffice in place of the request for leaving certificate results; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (1 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: 280. To ask the Minister for Finance the person or body that is liable for the payment of carbon tax due on coal sold from north of the Border; the person or body that is liable for the payment of VAT on same; the way that the sale of coal being sold from north of the Border can be policed to ensure that it is the correct type of coal after new legislation banning the sale of smoky coal comes...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (1 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: 331. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on Croí Cónaithe Towns and Villages; the timeframe for this scheme to be initiated; if this scheme will apply to derelict houses in rural areas; if not, if it will apply only to houses in towns and villages; if the grant will be retrospective; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (1 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: 645. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the plans regarding the €3 million funding for the development of specialist palliative care inpatient units in the north east, that is, Drogheda and Cavan and Tullamore, County Offaly that was announced by his Department in December 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4343/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Registration of Births (1 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: 662. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is upwards of a two-month delay in registering a birth in the register of births, deaths and marriages in County Cavan; his plans to address this delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4392/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (3 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: 14. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to address the finding and conclusions of a report (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5399/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (3 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: Things went a bit faster than I anticipated. What are the plans of the Minister and the Department to address the findings and conclusions of the Indecon report on the cost of disability published a number of months ago?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (3 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: I thank the Minister and acknowledge that the report requires a whole-of-government perspective and support. I also acknowledge that it has been referred to the national disability inclusion steering group for further work. The report confirms what was widely suspected but perhaps not acknowledged, which is that the cost of disability is quite significant. The cost of disability amounts...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (3 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: I acknowledge there has been an increase in the weekly payment and weekly disregard but we can see how rapidly the cost of living has increased. The increases in the weekly payments and disregards do not even cover that cost of living increase. We have a very poor record of employment for disabled people in this country and more support must be provided for people to support themselves....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Domestic Violence (3 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: 115. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress made to date on securing a suitable location for a domestic violence refuge in Monaghan town; the efforts that have been made to identify a suitable location and secure funding for a domestic violence refuge in County Cavan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5320/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Domestic Violence (3 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: I ask the Minister to outline the progress made to date in securing a suitable location for a domestic violence refuge in Monaghan town; and the efforts that have been made to identify a suitable location and secure funding for a domestic violence refuge in County Cavan.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Domestic Violence (3 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: One of the main reasons many women do not leave an abusive relationship is the shortage of available and affordable accommodation that could rehouse a victim of domestic abuse at short notice. According to the Council of Europe, it is recommended that there be one refuge place per 100,000 people, which means there should be 446 places in Ireland. Currently, there are 137, which is ten less...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Domestic Violence (3 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: I welcome that the issue will be the responsibility of one Minister. We know that what is needed to tackle domestic violence and violence against women is a multipronged approach. It is very welcome that one Minister will be able to choreograph all of that. It is scary. We are all aware of the recent death of Ashling Murphy. Almost every week, the newspapers report that a woman has been...