Results 121-140 of 3,224 for speaker:Pauline Tully

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (30 Sep 2020)

Pauline Tully: Therapists, such as occupational therapists, physiotherapists and speech and language therapists, were redeployed to testing and tracing at the beginning. I hear that some are still doing that and are not back providing the services people with disabilities need. Will they be allowed to go back to their day positions, which are so important? People are missing out so much on that.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (1 Oct 2020)

Pauline Tully: 89. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the issue of the inability of small tourism companies such as a company (details supplied) to attain insurance; if the reasons for same will be investigated; the actions that will be taken with insurance companies here to rectify same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27785/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (1 Oct 2020)

Pauline Tully: 159. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated funding that will be needed to bring all vacant local authority housing up to a liveable standard in counties Cavan and Monaghan by local electoral area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27790/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Costs (1 Oct 2020)

Pauline Tully: 232. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding available in the childminding development grant; the number of applications received to date in 2020; the amount of funding approved by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27786/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Rights of People with Disabilities (1 Oct 2020)

Pauline Tully: 246. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeframe for the first report to the United Nations on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27787/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Rights of People with Disabilities (1 Oct 2020)

Pauline Tully: 247. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the legislative barriers that remain in place arising from the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; the progress that has been made to bring forward the necessary legislation since June 2020; when she plans to ratify the optional protocol to the United Nations Convention on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Data (1 Oct 2020)

Pauline Tully: 271. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with disabilities who were entitled to day services in 2019; the number of persons who availed of day services in 2019; the number of persons with disabilities who were entitled to day services since they reopened in September 2020; the number of persons who availed of day services since they reopened in September 2020; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (1 Oct 2020)

Pauline Tully: 272. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who were entitled to respite services in 2019; the number of persons who availed of respite services in 2019; the number of persons who were entitled to respite services since they reopened in September 2020; the number of persons who availed of respite services since they reopened in September 2020; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Oct 2020)

Pauline Tully: 273. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe in which he plans to lift Covid-19 restrictions for trade fairs and exhibitors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27793/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (1 Oct 2020)

Pauline Tully: 274. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with a disability who have been provided with respite care by county and by month to date in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27794/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tenant Purchase Scheme (6 Oct 2020)

Pauline Tully: 67. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the criteria for the tenant purchase scheme will be reviewed to permit pensioners to purchase their local authority house in cases in which they can show the means to be able to do so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27757/20]

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2020)

Pauline Tully: I move: "That Dáil Éireann: acknowledges that: — families, carers and service providers have been stretched to incredible lengths, many to breaking point throughout the course of this pandemic; — the personal toll and long-term impact of the withdrawal of care and supports for people with disabilities, their families and their carers is deeply worrying;...

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2020)

Pauline Tully: I thank all Members for their contributions to this very important debate but I am disappointed by the response of the Government parties to the motion. The Ministers of State, Deputies Rabbitte and Butler, and Deputy Moynihan are just as aware as any of the rest of us are of the circumstances that people with disabilities or dementia and their families are in. They have been informed of...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Oct 2020)

Pauline Tully: I was contacted by a parent of an 18-year-old young man who had an acute mental illness. He suffered from it for approximately a year. She told me he had regular appointments when he was under the adolescent services and that the support he got was very good, but since he turned 18 in February he has only had two appointments. He was supposed to have an appointment on 30 September but it...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (13 Oct 2020)

Pauline Tully: 346. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason qualified and experienced childcare providers that run their businesses from home are prohibited from registering with Tusla preventing them from accessing the national childcare scheme; his plans to change the rule; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30164/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (13 Oct 2020)

Pauline Tully: 514. To ask the Minister for Health the funding allocation for respite services in the budgets in each of the years 2015 to 2018, inclusive; the expenditure on respite services in the years 2016 to 2019, inclusive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30089/20]

Other Questions: State Examinations (14 Oct 2020)

Pauline Tully: 9. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the State Examination Commission will stand over the leaving certificate results of students that sit these exams in November 2020; her views on whether the leaving certificate examination in November 2020 will be comparable to previous years considering students having been out of school for several months, many were unable to finish...

Other Questions: State Examinations (14 Oct 2020)

Pauline Tully: Will the SEC stand over the leaving certificate results of students who choose to sit the exams in November of this year? Can those exams be comparable to those of previous years, considering the students have been out of school for months, unable to undertake practical exams in several subjects and oral examinations and course work have not been finished?

Other Questions: State Examinations (14 Oct 2020)

Pauline Tully: I thank the Minister. Was the main reason not to proceed with the exams in July and August that the SEC would not stand over the exams? What is different now? It would not matter whether the exams were held in July and August or are held in November and December because the same issues apply. Students have been out of school for months and have had little or no teaching. Their course...

Other Questions: State Examinations (14 Oct 2020)

Pauline Tully: The Minister did not answer the question about the SEC. I thought that one of the reasons the exams did not proceed in July and August was that the SEC would not stand over them. It has been a tough year for the leaving certificate class of 2020. Those students have been out of school since March and did not get to sit their exams. When they got their results, there was a mixed reaction,...