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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disability Services (19 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: 168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there was an underspend in the fund for students with disabilities in each of the years 2017 to 2021; the extent of any such underspend; if and to where any underspend in funding was reassigned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52083/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disability Services (19 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: 169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students with disabilities from here studying in Northern Ireland have access to the fund for students with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52084/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disability Services (19 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: 170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider extending the fund for students with disabilities to part-time students studying in further education institutions as recommended in the 2017 review of the Fund for Students with Disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52064/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disability Services (19 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: 171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his actions to increase the number of disabled people in the apprenticeship system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52065/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disability Services (19 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: 172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his actions to increase the number of disability support staff in further and higher education institutions to reflect the increase in the number of disabled students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52066/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disability Services (19 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the ratio of disability support staff to disabled students in further and higher education institutions from 2016/2017 academic year to the 2020/2021 academic year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52067/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disability Services (19 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views that the disability support staff should be aware of the different types of disability and the supports required for each of these disabilities; if he has plans to introduce training for disability support staff to ensure they have knowledge of a broad range of disabilities and the supports required for each of these disabilities;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (19 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: 273. To ask the Minister for Health if he is considering introducing medical cards on a mandatory basis for amputees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50601/22]

Domestic Electricity and Gas Disconnections: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: I commend my colleague, Deputy O'Rourke, on introducing this motion. We have had 712 domestic electricity and 309 domestic gas disconnections in the first half of this year. Something needs to be done immediately. The Government's rejection of the Sinn Féin proposal to reduce and cap electricity prices at pre-crisis levels was a big mistake. It leaves hard-pressed households...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: 444. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans she has in place to introduce a personal assistant service (personalised budget) for children with disabilities in schools, which could greatly assist in getting the specific help they need while in a mainstream setting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51525/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: 445. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider prohibiting the use of seclusion and restraint in schools; if she will consider prohibiting the use of reduced timetables for children with disabilities who have behavioural issues; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51526/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: 446. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions she will take to ensure that all children who need access to the in-school July provision programme in 2023 can access it; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51527/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: 447. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions she has taken to ensure that all children with additional learning needs can request and receive an individualised education plan as is contained within the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51528/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: 448. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will detail the training that has been undertaken by newly-recruited special needs assistants prior to the start of the school year in order to better support students with a disability; if she will provide details of the ongoing training for SNAs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51529/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: 449. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will detail the initiatives that are in place to develop cross-departmental links between education, special education and disability; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51530/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: 450. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which the policies of schools are monitored to ensure that primary and secondary schools cannot refuse to enrol a child with a disability; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51531/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: 451. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the review of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004, including the way in which it intends to enable a right to educational supports for children with special educational needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51532/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: 521. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the €500 lump sum payment for those in receipt of disability allowance includes disabled persons who have been transferred from disability allowance to a pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51523/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: 522. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a family carer caring for more than one person is entitled to a family carers’ €500 lump sum payment for each person who they are caring for; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51524/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (18 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: 631. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase the number of places in further and higher education facilities in the 2023/2024 academic year to study speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, psychology and physiotherapy courses; the level that each of these additional courses will be delivered in tabular form;; and if he will make a statement on the matter....