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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.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: There is a section of the population who just cannot afford to buy a home in Ireland today. This cohort, often called the squeezed middle, would say they pay for everything and are entitled to nothing, but house prices continue to spiral upwards. The CSO residential property price index report for February 2022 shows that house prices across the State have risen by 13.5% and the median...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 485. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if guidelines have been issued to schools with regard to the summer (July) provision scheme 2023; if not, the reason therefor; the timeframe for issuing guidelines to schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22813/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 492. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe for the payment of teachers participating in the school-based summer (July) provision scheme 2023; the timeframe for the payment of teachers participating in the home-based summer (July) provision scheme 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22820/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 493. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding that has been allocated for the summer (July) provision scheme 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22821/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 494. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if enhanced measures have been put in place to encourage schools to offer the summer (July) provision scheme in 2023; the details of these enhanced measures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22822/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 486. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special schools here in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, in tabular form; the names and locations of these schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22814/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: 487. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of mainstream schools with an ASD unit here in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, in tabular form; the names and locations of these schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22815/22]