Results 1,941-1,960 of 3,814 for speaker:Pauline Tully

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability Proofing and Data: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: I welcome our guests. A census is carried out every five years. Significant resources go into the census. The purpose is to plan for the future. The CSO has a great deal of comprehensive information and breaks it down. More needs to be done in respect of disability and disaggregating the information in that regard, but I do not feel as though the information is used as it should be. If...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Ms Liz O'Donnell (16 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: I thank Ms O'Donnell for her presentation. What Ms O'Donnell has managed to do is almost let us feel what it was like at that time, including the pressure in the days leading up to 10 April 1998. It reminded me of having a phone call with our former Deputy, Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin, who was there at that time. I spoke with him on the Holy Thursday evening. He was very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: The Department does not have a breakdown of how many of those people are autistic, does it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: I thank Mr. Hession for his presentation. I want to raise a number of issues. He referred to the disability allowance. The Disability Federation of Ireland produced figures roughly a year ago, which indicated that more applications were refused than were passed. The figures were 13,989 applications refused and 13,298 applications granted. Of those appealed, approximately half were...

Housing and Evictions: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: The homeless figures released in December put the figure at 11,632, including 3,442 children. As my colleagues have said, the actual numbers are much higher because those figures did not take account of rough sleepers, those sofa surfing or those in the box rooms of their parents' homes. The temporary eviction ban was introduced to avoid people being evicted over the winter period. The...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (21 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: 299. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of people awaiting a HAP review in Q1 of 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8325/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (21 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: 396. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria used when deciding to cover the fees for teachers to upskill to maths, physics and Spanish; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8321/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (21 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: 397. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason home economics is not considered on the programme to upskill post-primary teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8322/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (21 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: 398. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the current vacancies in home economic teaching posts in post-primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8323/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (21 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: 399. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, considering the 2015 Teaching Council study on teacher supply which found a shortage of home economics teachers, and also that a survey (details supplied) found that home economics is the second most difficult subject to find a teacher to employ in Irish schools; if she will consider increasing the financial supports in place for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (21 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: 472. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will clarify where an application for an emergency additional needs’ payment to cover a deposit and or rent should be submitted; if this payment can be made to cover the first month’s rent as well as the deposit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8337/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (21 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: 473. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how a person applying for an emergency additional needs’ payment for a deposit for rental accommodation can comply with the application process, which states that they must provide a copy of the HAP agreement from the local authority and a copy of the lease agreement for their new accommodation, as a landlord is not...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (21 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: 503. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has plans for the State to recognise and adopt the European Union disability card once this has been introduced by the European Union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8316/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (21 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: 633. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the process for eligibility for the reimbursement of cariban under the drugs payment scheme is different from that for all other medications covered under the scheme, whereby only a consultant can prescribe it for it to be eligible; if he will review the current eligibility requirements with a view to bringing them into line with all other...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: I am being contacted regularly by people who worked in front-line jobs throughout the Covid pandemic but who have not been allocated, or told whether they will be allocated, the pandemic special recognition payment. Some are unsure whether their employer has applied for the payment. One person, who worked in a nursing home but no longer works there, suspects her former employer has received...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Offices (23 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: 175. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to reports that the National Driver Licence Service office in Cavan town is to close; the actions he is taking to ensure that this office remains open; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9317/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (23 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: 234. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 352 of 6 December 2022, if those people already receiving a pension on a reduced rate due to extended caring responsibilities of over twenty years will have their pension reviewed and increased once the new enhanced State pension is implemented in 2024; and if she will make a statement...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: Good afternoon to our guests, who are all speaking a lot of sense. This is an issue I encounter in my constituency on a weekly, almost a daily, basis. Families tell me their children are on the waiting list for an assessment or if they have had the assessment, they are waiting for services. I am from Cavan and the team there are not giving dates to parents for children to get services,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: Are educational psychologists under the remit of the Psychological Society of Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: There are not enough NEPS psychologists, and that is an obvious statement. Some schools do not have access and they use the scheme for the commissioning of psychological assessments, SCPA. They seem to think they are limited to perhaps one assessment a year, which is not sufficient if there are a number of children in a school who require assessment, whether it is moving on to secondary...