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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Jun 2022)

Pauline Tully: 1924. To ask the Minister for Health if a woman attending a midwifery led unit can be discharged from the unit’s care due to having a positive test for group b streptococcus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30867/22]

Higher Education Investment and Costs: Statements (2 Jun 2022)

Pauline Tully: I am hugely concerned about the worrying shortage of staff within disability services, particularly services for children. The progressing disability services model saw the establishment of 91 children's disability network teams. However, there is a vacancy rate of 28%, on average, across all teams. This amounts to more than 700 vacancies, with some teams having a vacancy rate of 33%....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of People with Disabilities (2 Jun 2022)

Pauline Tully: 14. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the review of the disabled drivers and disabled passengers' scheme [28538/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of People with Disabilities (2 Jun 2022)

Pauline Tully: 51. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if any meetings of the National Disability Inclusion Strategy Steering Group have taken place since January 2022 to progress the review of the disabled drivers and disabled passengers' scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28537/22]

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022)

Pauline Tully: I welcome the witnesses. In her speech the Minister of State said the buck stops with her regarding the failure in the delivery of disability services. The buck also stops with the HSE because it is tasked with the delivery of these services. The Joint Committee on Disability Matters is tasked with overseeing the implementation of the UNCRPD. I state here that the HSE is in violation of...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022)

Pauline Tully: I have heard from staff who are leaving the CDNTs because of the pressure they are under. They are not allowed to do the job they are contracted to do. They are dealing with understandably frustrated parents. That is not fair on staff.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022)

Pauline Tully: I welcome the witnesses. In her speech the Minister of State said the buck stops with her regarding the failure in the delivery of disability services. The buck also stops with the HSE because it is tasked with the delivery of these services. The Joint Committee on Disability Matters is tasked with overseeing the implementation of the UNCRPD. I state here that the HSE is in violation of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022)

Pauline Tully: I have heard from staff who are leaving the CDNTs because of the pressure they are under. They are not allowed to do the job they are contracted to do. They are dealing with understandably frustrated parents. That is not fair on staff.

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Jun 2022)

Pauline Tully: This is important legislation that aims to abolish the wards of court system for adults with reduced decision-making capacity and introduce a graduated supported decision-making framework that is intended to support a range of people who may have capacity issues. This is critical legislation for disabled people, their families and carers, as well as many others. While I am generally...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Costs (1 Jun 2022)

Pauline Tully: 241. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his proposals to allocate funds from the European Crisis Reserve to assist farmers in the face of increasing input costs. [28539/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (31 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 50. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if grant schemes run by her Department have a quota on the number of successful applications that must incorporate measures to increase accessibility for disabled people; if not, if she will consider such quotas for future applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27823/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (31 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 334. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of staff working in the Passport Office in the past three years in tabular form; if Covid-19 restrictions have led to a backlog of passport applications; if so, the extent of the backlog; if additional staff were recruited to deal with the backlog since Covid-19 restrictions have been lifted; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Communications (31 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 551. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the contact details for persons (details supplied) to include their direct Ministerial email address and telephone number. [28013/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (31 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 723. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who received a preliminary team assessment as part of the standard operating procedure that was in place for children’s disability network teams until the Supreme Court ruling in March 2022; the number of these children who were referred for further assessment; the number of these children who have subsequently requested a full...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (26 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 17. To ask the Minister for Health if he has held discussions or plans to hold discussions with an organisation (details supplied) to discuss the way that time, administrative and financial efficiency measures can be introduced to the current system in which therapists who qualified in Northern Ireland can register to practice here given that the current process is lengthy, financially and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (26 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 113. To ask the Minister for Health if specific funding has been allocated for the community service and support needs of those affected by foetal valproate syndrome as recommended in 2019 by the HSE; if a national co-ordinator has been appointed to oversee the diagnostic, assessment and care planning for those affected by foetal valproate syndrome; if not, the reasons therefor; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (26 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 360. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated timeframe for the introduction of a free HPV-vaccination programme for women and a catch-up programme for girls and boys in secondary schools; if the catch-up programme will include boys and girls who chose not to receive the vaccine but have since reconsidered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27086/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (26 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: I thank the witnesses for their extremely powerful presentations as they represent their own children and other children with additional needs who need services now. I have so many questions that they would take up the entire meeting. First, I shall ask about regression during Covid. Ms Whitmarsh mentioned that there was an unbelievable amount of regression and I wonder would she be...

Recent Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (25 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: The British Government recently stated that it will introduce legislation in Westminster in the coming weeks that will alter what it agreed in the protocol. The protocol is part of an international agreement that it signed with the EU in an effort, they both stated, to protect the Good Friday Agreement. Unilaterally altering the protocol will have the opposite effect. It will undermine the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Government Communications (24 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 76. To ask the Taoiseach the Ministerial contact details for persons (details supplied). [26103/22]