Results 2,901-2,920 of 3,863 for speaker:Pauline Tully

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (23 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: 249. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the introduction of personal budgets for older persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10366/22]

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: On the reference to people with experience of advocacy, is that to state that people with lived experience can be on the board?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: The Minister of State is probably aware of the ongoing difference of opinion regarding what a disabled persons organisation, DPO, is. It would be important to have a register of DPOs and that the DPOs be the ones consulted, rather than the service providers.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: It does.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: On that last question and on primary care services, at the moment under the progressing disability services, PDS, model, some children are being deemed less complex and as having less complex needs than others and are being referred to primary care. How is the division within primary care made? Obviously, it deals with a wide range of different health related issues as well as-----

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: -----in the primary care sector-----

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: Would the budget clear cut-----

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: I agree with the Minister of State that universal design is very important. Part M of the building regulations needs to be reviewed. All houses should be designed so they are suitable for anyone because as people get older, their mobility-----

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: That is right. We are spending a lot of money on adaptation grants and moving people from one property to another. It is not just our houses; our whole environment needs to be universally designed, including transport links. The biggest obstacle to housing for disabled people is the lack of consultation with the health authorities to provide whatever those people need to support them to...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: I absolutely agree.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: Are there measures to carry out unannounced and on-the-spot inspections of residential properties where people with disabilities reside or will the authorities only react to a report of a concern? Does this apply to public and private facilities?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: They can do on-the-spot and unannounced visits for both private and public facilities.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (22 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: 80. To ask the Minister for Finance if a new disabled drivers medical scheme appeals board has been appointed; if not, the timeframe for when a new board will be appointed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9703/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (22 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: 49. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason that a review of the disabled drivers and passengers scheme which he committed to have completed in 2021 was not completed in this timeframe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9704/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (22 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: 199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the 20% cut in public transport fares announced recently will apply to public service obligation routes which are operated under direct contract between a private operator and the National Transport Authority, rather than via the Rural Transport Programme and LocalLink such as Route 975 Cavan-Longford; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (22 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: 200. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if public transport services are obliged to offer reduced rates for return, weekly and monthly journeys to all fare-paying passengers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9911/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (22 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: 201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to enable the use of Leap card payments on public transport services given the massive reduction in cash usage over the past two years given that this function is not available on LocalLink services and most private operators with contracts with the National Transport Authority in counties Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (22 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: 553. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to recognise fibromyalgia as a condition under which sufferers are entitled to disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9908/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (22 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: 652. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a crime can be reported to An Garda Síochána through its disability access officer; if not, the reason therefor; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9909/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (22 Feb 2022)

Pauline Tully: 847. To ask the Minister for Health the number of neurology nurse specialists currently working in Sligo University Hospital; if he has plans to increase the number of neurology nurse specialists in the hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9906/22]