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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Quality (7 Apr 2022)

Pauline Tully: 142. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of the additional funding and resources that he has allocated to enable local authorities to increase the enforcement and inspections of cross-Border fuel movements in respect of the implementation of the provisions of the new enhanced solid fuel regulations within their functional areas; and if he will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (7 Apr 2022)

Pauline Tully: I thank all the witnesses for their presentations and for attending the meeting. In its recent report, Ensuring Independent Living and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the committee recommended that additional consultation should take place with DPOs. Like everybody else, we are also learning the difference between a properly constituted DPO and some...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (6 Apr 2022)

Pauline Tully: 151. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason that a company (details supplied) has been refused tender to accept young persons into their care by Tusla; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18578/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (5 Apr 2022)

Pauline Tully: I thank the Minister of State. He referred to the 49 LDCs. I am conscious that they assist 15,000 community groups and up to 170,000 individuals annually, which represents a tremendous outreach and a large amount of work. My two LDCs are Cavan County Local Development and Monaghan Integrated Development, which deliver a range of integration and resettlement programmes and supports to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (5 Apr 2022)

Pauline Tully: The supports being offered to refugees and new communities are invaluable, but they are usually for a limited time. I have met some refugees. Although they received invaluable support, they were expected to cope on their own after a certain while. They had made connections with staff and were still putting questions to them and looking for their support even after the programmes they had...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (5 Apr 2022)

Pauline Tully: 78. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her plans to increase funding and resources to local development companies that administer schemes such as the Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme which will have an increased role in the provision of advice and services for Ukrainian refugees; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18038/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (5 Apr 2022)

Pauline Tully: Will the Minister outline if she has plans to increase funding and resources to local development companies that administer schemes such as the social inclusion and community activation programme, SICAP, which will have an increased role in the provision of advice and services for Ukrainian refugees.

Childcare Fees: Motion [Private Members] (5 Apr 2022)

Pauline Tully: First, I would like to commend my colleague, Deputy Funchion, on bringing this motion forward and, indeed, on all the work she does on raising awareness around the issue of the exorbitant childcare costs. Childcare fees are far too high. They average at €200 a week per child. That is €800 a month, or even up to about €1,300 a month in some areas. It is like a second...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (5 Apr 2022)

Pauline Tully: 140. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the provisions that are in place within the outdoor recreation infrastructure scheme to ensure that funding is allocated to groups that provide infrastructure which is accessible for disabled persons; if her Department consulted with disabled persons organisations in the formation of this scheme; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (5 Apr 2022)

Pauline Tully: 851. To ask the Minister for Health the format of the nationwide compliance and proscribing audit of CAMHS teams; the timeframe for completion of the audit; if this audit will include the inspection of case files; if staff and parents will be consulted as part of the audit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18151/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (5 Apr 2022)

Pauline Tully: 852. To ask the Minister for Health if HSE homecare staff and staff working for companies providing homecare that are contracted by the HSE are fully equipped with personal protective equipment which will enable them to continue providing a service in cases in which a person with complex care needs or their family carer have tested positive for Covid-19; his views on whether such a service...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (5 Apr 2022)

Pauline Tully: 885. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the publication of the action plan on the Disability Capacity Review which was due in December 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18395/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (5 Apr 2022)

Pauline Tully: 886. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to expand the existing level of respite in County Cavan; if it is intended to provide separate centres for children and adults; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18396/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (5 Apr 2022)

Pauline Tully: 887. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to expand the existing level of respite in County Monaghan; if it is intended to provide separate centres for children and adults; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18397/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (31 Mar 2022)

Pauline Tully: 5. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure access to services for children with disabilities; his plans to fully staff children’s disability network teams and to fully establish family forums; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16794/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (31 Mar 2022)

Pauline Tully: Will the Minister outline his plans to ensure access to services for children with disabilities, in addition to his plans to fully staff children's disability network teams and establish the family forums associated with those teams?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (31 Mar 2022)

Pauline Tully: I was contacted yesterday by a parent who said that numerous parents had contacted her to say their AON appointments had been cancelled due to the High Court ruling. They are being told by CDNT staff that they are not reverting to the previous AON model covered by the Disability Act 2005. Staff have also told these parents that they have received no guidance from the HSE on how to proceed...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (31 Mar 2022)

Pauline Tully: As I said, the biggest problem is with HSE recruitment practices. They are cumbersome and archaic. Just before I came to the Chamber, this issue was discussed at a private meeting of the Joint Committee on Disability Matters. Several of its members said they know highly qualified people who were not refused and were put on panels. They were placed third, fourth or fifth on a panel a year...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (31 Mar 2022)

Pauline Tully: 78. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 448 to 450, inclusive, of 24 February 2022, of the more than 475 staff development posts allocated since 2019 to children's disability services, the number of these that were clinical specialists; the number of clinical specialists working within children's disability services as of March 2022; the number of clinical...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (31 Mar 2022)

Pauline Tully: 94. To ask the Minister for Health the number of therapy posts needed to have children's disability network teams at 100% staffing level; the current therapy staffing level in such teams in both numerical and percentage terms; the number of therapy staffing posts currently being advertised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16985/22]