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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 507. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of children attending the school-based summer July provision scheme in each of the years 2017 to 2021 who had a disability and did not have a disability, respectively; the percentage of children attending the home-based summer July provision scheme in the same period who had a disability and did not have a disability,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 505. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of pupils attending a special school in 2022 that participated in the school-based summer July provision scheme for 1, 2, 3 and 4 weeks, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22986/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 506. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total amount of funding spent on the summer July provision scheme 2022 which was initially allocated €40 million; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22991/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (10 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 538. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that a person who is working and paying PRSI and who is also in receipt of the widow’s, widower’s or surviving partner’s pension is not entitled to illness benefit when they are unable to work due to being sick or ill; her views on whether it is fair for a person to have to pay PRSI but not...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (10 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 539. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the School Meals Programme will be extended to the summer (July) provision scheme 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22811/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (10 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 594. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase the student grant scheme to offset the rise in living costs that are being experienced by students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22812/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (10 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 595. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the discontinuation of a loan facility for graduate entry level medical students by a bank (details supplied) from 31 July 2022; his views on the socioeconomic barriers the discontinuation of this loan facility will place on students who wanted to apply to study medicine; his plans to financially assist...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (10 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 750. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the transport supports or funding that are available for disabled adults attending disability day services or rehabilitation training; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22865/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (10 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 751. To ask the Minister for Health the disability day service centres that received funding in the past three years to provide, upgrade or improve their transport provision to and from their centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22866/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied with the number of special schools that have participated in the July Provision scheme over the past five years; if she has brought forward enhanced measures to attract special schools to participate in the July provision scheme 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23829/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the situation in which special schools do not receive the same hours that are available to mainstream schools for children whose first language is not English; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23828/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (12 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 184. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of implementing the fuel grant for those who qualified for the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme over the past four years in tabular form; the estimated additional cost of raising the fuel grant by 10, 20 and 50 cent per litre for all fuel types given the current uptake of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (12 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 291. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has plans to alter the income limit range with regard to the number of dependent children in the means test for the maintenance grant, the full fee grant and the partial fee grant in order that it increases with each additional child attending a third-level institution on either a full-time or part-time basis; and if he will make a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme: Former Members of the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal (11 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: I am a member of the Joint Committee on Disability Matters. We are tasked with overseeing the implementation of the UNCRPD and this issue concerning transport comes up continually. There is a lack of accessible transport, especially in rural areas, and that means people cannot take up employment or educational opportunities. Sometimes it means that people cannot live independently. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme: Former Members of the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal (11 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: The fact that there is no other scheme in place means people have no option but to apply under this one, especially if they are in rural areas. I recently attended an assessment for a primary medical certificate with a constituent on being asked to do so. The community doctor who did the assessment was very thorough. I discussed the matter with the doctor afterwards and we both knew the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme: Former Members of the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal (11 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: There was no application by 29 April but it is now being said there are some applications in. However, I do not know whether the applicants are suitable or whether there will be progress. I am concerned about the number who have appealed a decision and see no end in sight in having their appeals heard. As was asked, do they even know what is happening? There is a considerable lack of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme: Former Members of the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal (11 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: The applicant I accompanied actually tried to make his disability seem worse than it was.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme: Former Members of the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal (11 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: It is totally wrong.

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: I am very disappointed the Cabinet agreed earlier today to sign off on the national maternity hospital going ahead on non-publicly owned land. The question as to why the land could not be gifted to the State has never been answered. We have been told the 299-year lease at nominal rent is ownership in everything but name but why can it not just be signed off and given at a nominal fee in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (17 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 154. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase funding for an employment support programme (details supplied) to allow for expansion of same on a countrywide basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25338/22]