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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (30 Jun 2022)

Pauline Tully: 92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to increase the National Educational Psychological Service in view of the fact that referrals to CAMHS and other mental health services have risen by 40% for primary school pupils as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34907/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (30 Jun 2022)

Pauline Tully: 123. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the expressway bus service from Donegal to Dublin, route 30/X30; if it is necessary to book this service in advance; the number of times the service has not turned up at Cavan bus station; the number of times the service has arrived late at Cavan bus station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35111/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Education: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Pauline Tully: The Minister is kept advised at all stages so there should not really be any need for emergency legislation. Action should have been taken before this. Mr. Kearney has said the NCSE has regular meetings with the Department. Really, it should never come to a position where we seek the passing of emergency legislation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Education: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Pauline Tully: Mr. Kearney might comment on whether a post on social media is true if he has the figures to hand. The post stated that in 2003 there were 72 SENOs and 15 other staff employed by the NCSE and in 2019 there were 65.6 SENOs and 150 other staff. That indicates there are fewer SENOs now than there were almost 20 years ago, although we know the number of children diagnosed as having additional...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Education: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Pauline Tully: Basically, the NCSE is under-resourced to deal with the level of need out there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Education: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Pauline Tully: There is a request for additional classrooms and space in schools. Many parents would make the point that accommodation is not the only issue and it is about the resourcing of that accommodation. I know a school but I will not mention its name or location. If a school or class opens but there is not properly trained staff or proper resources, the process will not work. We have ended up...

Back to School Costs: Motion [Private Members] (5 Jul 2022)

Pauline Tully: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion regarding cutting back-to-school costs. I commend my colleague Deputy Ó Laoghaire on his work in bringing it forward. Families across the State, and I have spoken with many in my constituency of Cavan-Monaghan, find back-to-school costs a huge burden every year. However, this year it is more severe, with a cost-of-living crisis and...

Cost of Disability: Motion [Private Members] (6 Jul 2022)

Pauline Tully: I also wish to acknowledge the people in the Gallery and pay tribute to the work they do in advocating for equality and inclusion. I thank the Social Democrats for tabling this motion and for providing the opportunity to speak on the challenges that disabled people face with additional cost of disability and the level of unmet need. The Indecon cost of disability report confirmed what...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (6 Jul 2022)

Pauline Tully: Last Tuesday, 28 June, marked world newborn screening day. I initially submitted this Topical Issue matter last week to coincide with that date after a parent who has two children with spinal muscular atrophy, SMA, contacted me and asked me to ask the Minister for Health a very simple question: why is there a continued delay in adding spinal muscular atrophy to the conditions tested for in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (6 Jul 2022)

Pauline Tully: I welcome the Minister of State's response and his statement that it is a priority for the Minister for Health. He also said the National Screening Advisory Committee is considering adding a tenth condition, but he did not say if it would be SMA specifically. I ask him to clarify that. Is the tenth condition to be added to the testing SMA? SMA Ireland represents children already diagnosed...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (5 Jul 2022)

Pauline Tully: 28. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the final report and implementation plan of the high-level task force on diversion have been completed and published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35909/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (5 Jul 2022)

Pauline Tully: 76. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason there has not been a publication of a general prison inspection report of an operational prison since 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35908/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Policies (5 Jul 2022)

Pauline Tully: 240. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if community crèches are exempt from the payment of rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35887/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (7 Jul 2022)

Pauline Tully: 8. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will request that personal assistant hours in further and higher education be provided based on the needs of the disabled person rather than an allocation of one personal assistant per student; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36730/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (7 Jul 2022)

Pauline Tully: Are personal assistants hours in further and higher education provided based on the needs of the disabled person or is there a rule in the Department that there is an allocation of one personal assistant per student?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (7 Jul 2022)

Pauline Tully: I thank the Minister. The case I am asking about is that of a young man with quite complex disability who has identified a course he is interested in doing. The college has been very accommodating in meeting him and making sure it is accessible. The Minister has mentioned part-time courses and I believe he will be allowed to take longer to do the course. This is something that should be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (7 Jul 2022)

Pauline Tully: I will get the permission of the student concerned and pass on the details of the case on to the Minister. I wish to raise another issue. Sometimes the contracts concluded between colleges or further education institutions, the provider of the PA service, and perhaps the insurance company, stipulate that the students are precluded from leaving campus during contracted hours. That is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (7 Jul 2022)

Pauline Tully: 71. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he will take to ensure that universal design for learning policies that are embedded within each further and higher education institution and universal design for learning principles are incorporated within all class preparations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36729/22]

Rent Reduction Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Jul 2022)

Pauline Tully: I thank People Before Profit for tabling this motion. Reducing rents in the private rental sector should be central to the Government's aims but it seems that a continuation of pro-developer subsidies is the main concern. The option of renting is impossible for more and more people. The latest report from daft.ie states that rents increased by 11.7% across the State in one year, from the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (12 Jul 2022)

Pauline Tully: 145. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent staffing posts that will be provided to Children’s Disability Services in 2022; the additional resources that will be provided to CDNTs to address the backlog of assessment of need and those assessment of need which were carried out incorrectly; the additional therapeutic supports that will be provided to CDNTs;...