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Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (24 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: 442. To ask the Minister for Health the staff turnover of nurses specialising in intellectual disability within children’s disability services in each of the years 2017 to 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10806/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (24 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: 443. To ask the Minister for Health the staff turnover of psychiatrists within Children’s Disability Services in each of the years 2017 to 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10807/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (24 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: 444. To ask the Minister for Health the staff turnover of orthotists and prosthetists within Children’s Disability Services in each of the years 2017 to 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10808/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (24 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: 445. To ask the Minister for Health the staff turnover of clinical nutritionists within children’s disability services in each of the years 2017 to 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10809/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (24 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: 446. To ask the Minister for Health the staff turnover of public health nurses within children’s disability services in each of the years 2017 to 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10810/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (24 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: 447. To ask the Minister for Health the staff turnover of community resource workers within children’s disability services in each of the years 2017 to 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10811/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (24 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: 448. To ask the Minister for Health the staff turnover of audiologists within children’s disability services in each of the years 2017 to 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10812/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (24 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: 449. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE employees working within children’s disability network teams in each of the years 2017 to 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10813/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (24 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: 450. To ask the Minister for Health if staff working within children’s disability network teams are currently given the opportunity to work additional hours for additional pay on a voluntary basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10814/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (24 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: I welcome both witnesses and thank them for coming here to present to us. The presentation was excellent. In recent weeks and months we have had different witnesses coming to present to us, and a couple of common themes are emerging, especially in terms of education and employment. The lack of training for personnel is one theme. Do the witnesses believe more staff need training in how to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (24 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: We can take up the need to update them with the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. The national access target plan is 8%. Is that high enough? According to Ahead figures, it has been higher than that. What could be done to encourage more disabled students to take up positions in third level? I am aware of many students with disabilities,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (24 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: A regular review of assessments of need is required.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (24 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: That needs to happen in the school and college.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (24 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: The point about part-time learning was raised last week by a student who has various illnesses and experiences chronic pain and could not do a full-time course because there was no option to do it part-time over a longer period.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (24 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: Parents tell us they have to continually fight for supports for their children, beginning when they are small and right through. As Mr. Brennan said, those supports should be available to encourage more people with disabilities to pursue further education. The supports have to be made easily available so that people do not have to fight for something they need. Going to third level is...

Legacy Issues in Northern Ireland and Reports of Police Ombudsman of Northern Ireland: Statements (23 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: Two recent reports by the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland into loyalist murders and attempted murders in the north west between 1989 and 1994 and south Belfast between 1990 and 1998 shed light on the activities of British state agents and their involvement in and connection to numerous murders and attempted murders. These are just the latest reports setting out the nature of the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Undocumented Irish in the USA (23 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: 138. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions he has taken to raise the situation of the undocumented Irish with the new administration in the United States of America since it came to power; if he will consider appointing an Irish Government representative focussed on dealing with this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10290/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (23 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: 150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will commit to the immediate establishment of an expert review group prior to forthcoming review of the SNA contract to examine the minimum essential qualification for a special needs assistant and issue recommendations; if she will subsequently commit to implementing the expert group recommendations; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (23 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: 164. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated additional cost to the State if the stipend for artists and culture workers recently introduced under the basic income programme for artists and culture workers was disregarded from the means test for disability allowance and carer’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10262/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (23 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: 165. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider disregarding the stipend for artists and culture workers recently introduced under the basic income programme for artists and culture workers from the means test for disability allowance and carer’s allowance given the additional cost of disability highlighted in a report (details supplied); and...