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Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (26 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: 171. To ask the Minister for Health if the new interim clinical guidance has issued to children's disability network teams; if CDNTs are currently conducting assessments of need and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53640/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (26 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: 172. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff who have retired or resigned from children's disability network teams since all 91 teams became operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53641/22]

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: Many people from rural communities such as my own constituency of Cavan-Monaghan who, through necessity, commute to the large urban centres such as Dublin, are heavily reliant on private cars due to the lack of public transport options in rural Ireland. Where they do exist, they can often be very unreliable, leaving commuters stranded in the rain and cold waiting for the next bus, hoping it...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (25 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: 134. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports that are available within his Department to encourage the adoption of on-farm solar energy generation; and if he will outline the targets within his Department to encourage such; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53118/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (25 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: 199. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason that persons who are in receipt of the blind pension and invalidity pension are not automatically eligible for a Sustainable Energy Authority Ireland fully-funded energy upgrade given the findings of a report (details supplied) commissioned by the Department of Social Protection; if he will consider a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (25 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: 368. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider increasing funding for those studying trainee educational and child psychology courses to bring them level to their trainee clinical psychology counterparts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52728/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: 599. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 557 of 27 September 2022, the timeline for non-HSE and non-Section 39 organisations to receive their pandemic special recognition payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52834/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (25 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: 620. To ask the Minister for Health if it is intended that the National Gender Service Ireland will expand its service to treat Irish children and young persons who have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria in Ireland, given that a British healthcare setting (details supplied), which takes referrals from Irish children and young persons who have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria, is to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: I thank the witnesses for coming in and sharing their stories. I commend the witnesses and the organisations they represent. I also commend the many other parents organisations that exist around the country on the work they do. As the witnesses have pointed out, they should not have to do that work. The parents' organisations are only there because the services and supports that should be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: I thank Ms McSherry and Dr. Crawford for their contributions to the committee. I know they were listening to some of the earlier session, at least. One thing common to all of those who have presented here is the amount of knowledge they have acquired out of necessity because the services and supports to support their children were not there. I commend them on the work they have done. The...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Oct 2022)

Pauline Tully: I was contacted by the father of an eight-year-old girl who had been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the end of last year. She is under the care of an excellent team in Cavan General Hospital but she is finding the insulin injections quite stressful. When her parents inquired about an insulin pump, they were told that due to staffing and funding issues, that was not possible in Cavan...

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]