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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: It is stated on page 49 of the programme for Government that the Government will extend the remit of the National Treatment Purchase Fund in order to secure timely assessment for child and adult psychological services. Has this happened? If not, why? There is a huge issue with recruitment and retention of staff in children's disability services under the progressing disability model and in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (19 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way that the National Access Plan for Further and Higher Education will alleviate the socio-economic disadvantage that continues to be a barrier to accessing higher education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25337/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (19 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe for the publication of the new National Access Plan for Further and Higher Education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25336/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Employment and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: I thank the witnesses for presenting to the committee. As we know, the employment rate for people with disabilities in Ireland is extremely low. It is only about half that of the general population. From listening to people who contact my office or talking to people in the disabled persons' organisations, one of the biggest problems is the attitude of employers. They tend to see the...

Just Transition: Statements (18 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: I live in the heart of rural Ireland, in the constituency of Cavan-Monaghan. The vast majority of people generally agree that we need to change the way we live in order to tackle the climate crisis but this needs to be done in an equitable way. The price of home heating oil, for example, increased by 50% in the 12 months to January 2022. This was prior to the recent decision by the...

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: I am very disappointed the Cabinet agreed earlier today to sign off on the national maternity hospital going ahead on non-publicly owned land. The question as to why the land could not be gifted to the State has never been answered. We have been told the 299-year lease at nominal rent is ownership in everything but name but why can it not just be signed off and given at a nominal fee in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (17 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 154. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase funding for an employment support programme (details supplied) to allow for expansion of same on a countrywide basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25338/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (17 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 171. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a person who lives above their place of business but does not have a separate domestic electricity meter will be eligible for, and receive, the €200 electricity credit payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24120/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (17 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 174. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will enact the private members' motion previously passed in Dáil Éireann 16 November 2016 regarding the future of the Post Office network as a matter of urgency to ensure the sustainability of the existing community Post Office network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24136/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (17 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 513. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the timeframe for her decision on whether to accept the recommendations in the report of the Commission on Pensions; if she will accept in full the recommendations made concerning long-term carers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24696/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (17 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 514. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will commit to a review of the income disregard in the means test for both the carer's allowance and the disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24697/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied with the number of special schools that have participated in the July Provision scheme over the past five years; if she has brought forward enhanced measures to attract special schools to participate in the July provision scheme 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23829/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the situation in which special schools do not receive the same hours that are available to mainstream schools for children whose first language is not English; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23828/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (12 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 184. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of implementing the fuel grant for those who qualified for the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme over the past four years in tabular form; the estimated additional cost of raising the fuel grant by 10, 20 and 50 cent per litre for all fuel types given the current uptake of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (12 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 291. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has plans to alter the income limit range with regard to the number of dependent children in the means test for the maintenance grant, the full fee grant and the partial fee grant in order that it increases with each additional child attending a third-level institution on either a full-time or part-time basis; and if he will make a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme: Former Members of the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal (11 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: I am a member of the Joint Committee on Disability Matters. We are tasked with overseeing the implementation of the UNCRPD and this issue concerning transport comes up continually. There is a lack of accessible transport, especially in rural areas, and that means people cannot take up employment or educational opportunities. Sometimes it means that people cannot live independently. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme: Former Members of the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal (11 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: The fact that there is no other scheme in place means people have no option but to apply under this one, especially if they are in rural areas. I recently attended an assessment for a primary medical certificate with a constituent on being asked to do so. The community doctor who did the assessment was very thorough. I discussed the matter with the doctor afterwards and we both knew the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme: Former Members of the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal (11 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: There was no application by 29 April but it is now being said there are some applications in. However, I do not know whether the applicants are suitable or whether there will be progress. I am concerned about the number who have appealed a decision and see no end in sight in having their appeals heard. As was asked, do they even know what is happening? There is a considerable lack of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme: Former Members of the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal (11 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: The applicant I accompanied actually tried to make his disability seem worse than it was.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme: Former Members of the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal (11 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: It is totally wrong.