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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Living with a Disability: Discussion (2 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: I cannot disagree with anything that has been said. We have heard many of these issues in the committee before, but the more we hear and discuss them and tease them out, the better, to continually raise them and raise awareness. They do not get the proper recognition or pay and conditions, and that has to change. There is a major shortage of home care workers and assistants. Until the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Living with a Disability: Discussion (2 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: This is something that occurred to me. I am aware of a carer who looked after her daughter for 40 years. Her daughter has a profound disability and she has been placed in a supported living home in the community after many years of campaigning for this. When this lady applied for a pension, however, she was distraught to find that she was not entitled to any pension because she did not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Living with a Disability: Discussion (2 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: -----or an adult's pension. She told me that for some reason she is not entitled to a non-contributory pension either. She just feels it is not fair. I know there is a new pension coming in next year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Living with a Disability: Discussion (2 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: Is that retrospective?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Living with a Disability: Discussion (2 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: Her daughter just got her home last June and she received the carer's allowance for a number of weeks after that. It would just be from the summer to next January. We are talking about a year and a half where she should have been entitled to a pension but was not. Even if she knew she would receive the payment, it would be something.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Living with a Disability: Discussion (2 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Living with a Disability: Discussion (2 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: January was mentioned in a reply I received to a parliamentary question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Living with a Disability: Discussion (2 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: I will be brief because I realise we are close to the end of the meeting. Ms Gallagher addressed many issues in her reply to Deputy Ellis, as well as many of the issues that are raised in this committee on a continual basis. I congratulate her on the work she did in getting the law changed so that PhD students could keep their stipend with their disability allowance and medical card. Many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Living with a Disability: Discussion (2 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: That is coming in January 2024.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Payments (8 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: We need full disclosure and openness from the Government and those who were in positions of power in regard to the Government’s heartless political strategy to withhold and deny disability payments to those in residential care who were entitled to it. This must involve the full co-operation of and transparency on the part of the Government, including the acceptance of any requests...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Payments (8 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: The Taoiseach stated that while the Government has a responsibility to do what is right, it also has a responsibility to protect the taxpayer. The Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy O'Gorman, when speaking on "Morning Ireland" stated that the need to protect State resources had obscured the need to protect the vulnerable. He is reported as saying,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Offices (9 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: 6. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will detail the usage of the mobile unit to visit the homes of those who cannot attend the Intreo office, by county from 2016 to 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; the action she has taken to make persons aware of the mobile unit and home service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5945/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Offices (9 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: Will the Minister detail the usage of the mobile unit to visit the homes of those who cannot attend the Intreo office? I was looking for the information by county from 2016 to date. I do not necessarily need the Minister to read it out. I can get it in writing. I am more interested in the action the Minister is taking to make people aware of the mobile unit and the home visit service.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Offices (9 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: I raise this because, prior to Christmas, I was contacted by a man whose wife was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2016. She is unable to leave the house and is barely able to speak. She had her disability payment being paid directly into her Ulster Bank account, but as Ulster Bank is closing, she was transferring it to the post office so that her husband could pick it up for her....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Offices (9 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: Most people do not need the home service. Maybe if it was made available, too many people would access it. Is it possible to get a PSC through the portal or does a person have to present to the Intreo office or somebody call to his or her home?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Offices (9 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: The office in Sligo said that it did not need the public services card but the post office said it did and would not give the payment to the woman's husband without her having a PSC. The Intreo office did give him a temporary card and, eventually, when he was able to get access to staff, someone visited her home afterwards, but it caused a lot of trouble. She also got a letter to say she...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (9 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: 8. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports she has put in place to deal with the consistent delays in processing applications for additional needs payments; the actions she has taken to ensure persons who require the payment to pay for a deposit or first month’s rent are not missing out on possible house rentals; and if she will make a statement on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (9 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: What supports has the Minister for Social Protection put in place to deal with the consistent delays in processing applications for additional needs payments and what actions has she taken to ensure persons who require the payment to pay for a deposit or first month's rent are not missing out on possible house rentals?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (9 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: Additional needs payment applications for assistance with deposits and rents are now being dealt with in the centralised office in Dublin. I am hearing the applications are taking weeks, if not months, to be processed. I have been contacted by a tenancy sustainment and support officer who works with people who are homeless or in danger of becoming homeless. They are referred by the local...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (9 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: The fact is that two weeks is too long. Two weeks for some payments might be sufficient but for this case, where it is for a deposit or rent, an immediate payment is needed. Otherwise, the tenancy will be gone because there is such a demand. I do not know why the system was changed because there is an old saying that goes, if it is not broken, do not fix it. Before this, somebody in...