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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (24 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: That needs to happen in the school and college.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (24 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: The point about part-time learning was raised last week by a student who has various illnesses and experiences chronic pain and could not do a full-time course because there was no option to do it part-time over a longer period.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: Would the budget clear cut-----

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: I agree with the Minister of State that universal design is very important. Part M of the building regulations needs to be reviewed. All houses should be designed so they are suitable for anyone because as people get older, their mobility-----

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: That is right. We are spending a lot of money on adaptation grants and moving people from one property to another. It is not just our houses; our whole environment needs to be universally designed, including transport links. The biggest obstacle to housing for disabled people is the lack of consultation with the health authorities to provide whatever those people need to support them to...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: I absolutely agree.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: Are there measures to carry out unannounced and on-the-spot inspections of residential properties where people with disabilities reside or will the authorities only react to a report of a concern? Does this apply to public and private facilities?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: They can do on-the-spot and unannounced visits for both private and public facilities.

Health Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2022)

Pauline Tully: I commend my colleague, Deputy Cullinane, on the work he is doing to highlight the dreadful situation whereby more than 1.3 million people are on waiting lists for some sort of health service. These people are waiting not for months but for years. I am inundated with queries from parents of children with disabilities or additional needs who are looking for assessment of needs or early...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Data (1 Mar 2022)

Pauline Tully: 128. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 64 of 10 February 2022, if he will detail the 246 IDA investments that were won in 2020 by each county in tabular form; if he will detail the 249 IDA investments that were won in 2021 in each county in tabular form; if he will list the current recognised industry clusters in county in tabular...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Priorities (1 Mar 2022)

Pauline Tully: 143. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider introducing mandatory identification checking and recording in the scrap industry in view of the spate of cable thefts here in the past six months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10944/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (1 Mar 2022)

Pauline Tully: 151. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will reconsider the removal of the exemption for burning green waste and open a consultation with farmers and their representative organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10947/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (1 Mar 2022)

Pauline Tully: 197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of motorcycle driving tests that were applied for in 2020 and 2021, respectively; the number of motorcycle driving tests that were undertaken in 2020 and 2021, respectively; the number of outstanding motorcycle driving tests currently; his plans to remove the backlog in motorcycle driving tests; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disability Services (1 Mar 2022)

Pauline Tully: 559. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagements his Department is having with the Department of Health on its health workforce planning needs specifically in relation to children’s disability network teams; the plans he has to ensure an adequate level of third level courses are available to fill future staffing needs within children’s disability network teams;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disability Services (1 Mar 2022)

Pauline Tully: 560. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of third-level places currently available that cover the different therapy posts involved in children’s disability network teams, by qualification in tabular form; his plans to increase the third-level places available to cover the different therapy costs involved in children’s disability network teams, by...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disability Services (1 Mar 2022)

Pauline Tully: 561. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated number of students who will graduate in 2022 with the third-level therapy qualification needed to work within a children’s disability network team, by qualification in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11006/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (1 Mar 2022)

Pauline Tully: 634. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends introducing personalised budgets for older people; the timeframe for this to be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10913/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (1 Mar 2022)

Pauline Tully: 651. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a workforce plan in place for children’s disability network teams that identifies future staffing needs within children’s disability network teams; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11003/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (1 Mar 2022)

Pauline Tully: 782. To ask the Minister for Health the details of each staffing role within children’s disability network teams; the number working within each role in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11673/22]