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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: I would like to go to Ms Early. What she is doing is impressive. I welcome the guidance she has produced. Are other further education and training or universities doing what she is doing? Are they coming to her for guidance? Are they using the guidance that she has prepared? Are they reaching out for advice?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: It was interesting in recent weeks that the Minister of State with responsibility for disability said there was going to be much more engagement with students at second level in respect of what they want to do after they finish second level and that there is not going to be this assumption that they just go in to a day service. This is welcome, is way past time and needs to happen so that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: I welcome the Minister. In the first part of the meeting, we heard about many positive initiatives being taken. We heard from SOLAS, DCU and the Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities. Great work is being done and it must be replicated around the country, especially the model that is being offered in Trinity College. Specific funding supports must be provided to do that....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: At a recent meeting, the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Rabbitte, indicated that there would be a lot more work done with disabled students at second level about planning for their future, rather than just assuming they are going into a day service once they leave school. I hope the Minister will be part of that conversation and that preparation will be done at further...

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 Disability Matters: Disability, Mental Health and Ageing: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (17 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: I think they have not increased for 12 or 13 years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability, Mental Health and Ageing: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (17 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: There were two issues with it. The HSE pays a certain amount but each CHO area pays different amounts. When there is a boarding-out facility on the border of two CHO areas, as there is in my area between counties Cavan with Longford, the HSE pays different amounts as do the individuals. As the person said to me, there would be war if they found out they were being charged different...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability, Mental Health and Ageing: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (17 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: Is it done by a referral from a GP?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability, Mental Health and Ageing: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (17 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: I welcome Minister of State at the Department of Health with responsibility for mental health and older people, Deputy Mary Butler, and her staff. The first point I want to make as spokesperson on older people, and it is also a point that is made to me regularly, is that disability does not disappear when one turns 66. For example, one man told me his wife was disabled due to a stroke and...

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]

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...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (15 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: 269. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the ready to build scheme, serviced sites for new homes will be extended to rural areas as part of the croí cónaithe towns fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56287/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (15 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: 447. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if one-off payments in budget 2023 will be counted as income in the means test when applying for the SUSI grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55723/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (15 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: 454. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if postgraduate conversion courses exist to allow a person holding an undergraduate degree to acquire a qualification in physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy and psychology; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56526/22]

Report of the Joint Committee on Disability Matters on the UNCRPD: Motion [Private Members] (10 Nov 2022)

Pauline Tully: I welcome the motion on the report. I commend all the disabled people and the DPO representatives who appeared before us as witnesses and shared their lived or living experiences, because without that we would not have been able to compile the report. I also commend the Chair, Deputy Michael Moynihan, all the members of the committee and the secretariat because, again, without them, the...