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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: Mr. Darmody stated that Neil was diagnosed in 2016 and that a reassessment was being discussed in 2020. Did he receive any service or support in that four-year period?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: My niece is an occupational therapist who worked in England in the NHS for a number of years. She is back in Ireland now. She is not working directly for the HSE, but for another organisation. She says that one of the main issues is the lack of accountability within the HSE, which is what Mr. Darmody is saying. There is no accountability. There is no head of progressing disability...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: I know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: I have heard the same from many parents about the services in question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: No, I understand.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: UNCRPD and the Optional Protocol: Discussion (10 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: First I have a question for the International Disability Alliance. Mr. Clyne said that Ireland is one of three EU countries that have not ratified the optional protocol. Have the other states ratified the convention but not the protocol, as I am presuming most countries ratified both together? On that point, I cannot understand why there is an optional protocol at all and why the whole lot...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: UNCRPD and the Optional Protocol: Discussion (10 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: How long will that take? Ms Flynn said there are 2,200 currently in wardship. Our legal system is not robust; it is very slow. How long is envisaged, if all of them apply?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: UNCRPD and the Optional Protocol: Discussion (10 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: I asked about legal aid because if someone is taking a case under the Equality Act and taking it to the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, they cannot use free legal aid. I wanted to know if it was different for-----

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (9 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: 82. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the one-off payments in budget 2023 will be counted as income when applying for a means-tested social protection payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55722/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (10 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: 231. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if each local authority is required to have in place a housing and disability steering group; if the names and contact details of the members of local authority housing and disability steering groups are required to be in the public domain; if the agenda and minutes of housing and disability steering group meetings should be...

Retained Firefighters: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: I welcome the motion and commend my colleague, Deputy Brady, on the work he has undertaken in tabling it. Retained firefighters are first responders and are often first on the scene of awful tragedies that we can only imagine. It is a dangerous job with enormous pressure, and firefighters face real risks to their personal safety. Firefighters go into burning buildings to make sure that...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: Last week it was brought to my attention that persons in receipt of disability payment from the Department of Social Protection who had taken up training and been transferred to a training allowance for the duration would not be entitled to the €500 lump sum. I raised it with the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte. She was to raise it the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, and I think it is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (16 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: 132. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rationale behind excluding persons from receiving the €500 disability support grant payment who were on disability allowance but transferred to a training allowance when taking up a training course; if her attention has been drawn to reports that this is having a knock-on effect of lowering uptake on courses and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (16 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: 134. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if disabled persons were given assurances by the Government that they would not be made less financially well-off as a result of taking up a training programme and that their payments and secondary benefits would be retained; if not, if this decision can be justified at a time of escalating costs of living for persons with...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (16 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: 133. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who were in receipt of disability allowance and are currently on training courses and who are now going to be excluded from the €500 disability support grant payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56915/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (17 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: 122. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the additional supports that he has put in place to ensure that communities that have welcomed refugees and asylum seekers are not in a position of having to use funding and resources that were previously allocated before the current crisis in Ukraine; and the supports that he has ensured are delivered from...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (17 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: 129. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the additional supports that he has put in place to ensure that local communities in counties Cavan and Monaghan that have welcomed refugees and asylum seekers are not in a position of having to use funding and resources that were previously allocated before the current crisis in Ukraine; the supports that he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill and the UK Government's Plans around the Human Rights Act: Amnesty International UK (10 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: Deputy Conway-Walsh made a proposal.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Northern Ireland (22 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: 109. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will give a commitment to take an inter-state challenge directly to the European Court of Human Rights if the British Government enacts the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill, as called for by an organisation (details supplied); if preparations have begun to take an inter-state challenge given that this needs...