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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legal Aid (20 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: A whole section of the UNCRPD is dedicated to access to justice. While approximately 643,000 people identify as disabled in this country, there were only 73 complaints in 2019 to the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, in relation to the Equal Status Act. Maybe there is a lack of awareness as to how this is dealt with or there is confusion about the role of the WRC. People may assume it...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legal Aid (20 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: Extra resources are vital and I welcome that they will be provided. Legal aid should be made available to people who want to take a case for discrimination to the WRC. Perhaps there could be a stand-alone body or a separate division within the WRC under a new name, which would be accessible and clear about what it has to deal with in order that people will know exactly where to go with...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legal Aid (20 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: 9. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to increase the financial and human resources available to the Legal Aid Board to enable persons with disabilities to vindicate their rights in court, in view of the fact that the Assisted Decision Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022 is close to completing all stages of the legislative process and the decision...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legal Aid (20 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: What are the Minister's plans to increase the financial and human resources available to the Legal Aid Board? I ask this in particular to enable persons with disabilities to vindicate their rights in court in view of the fact that the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill will be commenced in November 2022, and for the Minister to realise her obligations under the UN Convention on the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service (20 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: 21. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce compulsory disability training for those involved in the administration of justice, in view of the fact that the Assisted Decision Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022 is close to completing all stages of the legislative process and the decision support service will open thereafter; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (20 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: 151. To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail the engagements that his Department has had with the Department of Further and Higher Education, Innovation and Science, the HSE and the Higher Education Authority since July 2020 to identify skills shortages in health and social care and the need for additional further and higher education courses in this area; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (20 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: 174. To ask the Minister for Health if the workforce planning process that his Department commenced, in conjunction with the clinical programme for persons with disabilities, has been finalised; and if he will detail the findings of the workforce planning process. [52464/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (20 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: 270. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that the wage subsidy scheme is not available to disabled people who are self-employed; if she will consider extending the wage subsidy scheme to disabled people who are self-employed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52546/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (20 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: 271. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of disabled people who availed of the wage subsidy scheme in each year from 2017 to 2021; the expenditure on the wage subsidy scheme for people with disabilities in each year from 2017 to 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52547/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Child Protection (20 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: 313. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if private bus drivers who are engaged in the transportation of children are subject to Garda vetting. [52679/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (20 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: 322. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the pro-active measures that he and his Department are now taking to attract physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists and orthoptists since these roles were added to the critical skills list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45184/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (20 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: 323. To ask the Minister for Health the number of physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists and orthoptists that have been recruited since these roles were added to the critical skills list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45187/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Supporting People with Disabilities to Live in Communities: Discussion (20 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: I am sorry I had to pop out but I had to speak in the Dáil for a few minutes. I read through the opening statements last night and I have a couple of questions. Moving people from congregated settings is very important work and it is obviously time to move on from congregated settings as the targets were not reached there. The witnesses talked about the staff in institutions and how...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Supporting People with Disabilities to Live in Communities: Discussion (20 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: Crann supports the whole family as a unit, but how does it identify what families to support or how do families access its services? It covers the Munster area at the moment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Supporting People with Disabilities to Live in Communities: Discussion (20 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: Is there a waiting list for services?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Supporting People with Disabilities to Live in Communities: Discussion (20 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: It is very important. Do other organisations carry out similar projects in other CHOs? I have not heard of it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Bertie Ahern (20 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: I thank the former Taoiseach for coming in to the committee to share his insights on the negotiations leading up to the Good Friday Agreement. He paid tribute to the political parties in the North that took risks to ensure that an agreement was reached, and to the international parties who played a huge role as well. There is one point that the former Taoiseach mentioned that I want to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Bertie Ahern (20 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: What about the legacy legislation the British Government is discussing introducing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Bertie Ahern (20 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: Yes.