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Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: People with Disabilities (17 Jul 2020)

Pauline Tully: Do I have some time left?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: People with Disabilities (17 Jul 2020)

Pauline Tully: I come from an educational background. I was previously a teacher and a special educational needs co-ordinator for a number of years. I know the importance of therapies for students with disabilities or educational needs and I know those students are also suffering as a result of school being closed and the services and therapies not being provided.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Jul 2020)

Pauline Tully: This is on the disabilities sector in the programme for Government, which we were talking about and is on page 90. I will speak on the somewhat connected issue of suspension of day care and respite services for people with intellectual disabilities due to Covid-19. I have been contacted, as have many of my colleagues, by many parents who are left dealing with children and sometimes adults...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Institutions (15 Jul 2020)

Pauline Tully: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if clarity will be provided to third level students regarding the return to third level institutions in autumn 2020; if courses will to be based on campus, online or blended learning; and if it is the latter, the advice that will be issued regarding student accommodation. [16223/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Respite Care Services (15 Jul 2020)

Pauline Tully: 123. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of persons that availed of respite care by county by month in 2019 and to date in 2020; the number of facilities providing respite that remained open during Covid-19 restrictions from mid-March to date; and his plans to reopen all facilities in tabular form. [16226/20]

Maternity Leave Benefit Extension: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jul 2020)

Pauline Tully: I wish to speak in favour of this motion to extend maternity leave benefit and to represent the views of the many mothers throughout the country who have contacted me on this issue. The Covid restrictions were difficult on everyone but mothers who gave birth just before or during the pandemic were particularly badly affected. Gone were the normal support networks such as help from extended...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (7 Jul 2020)

Pauline Tully: 400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the decision to cancel the tender competition for school transport services that issued on 26 February 2020 will mean a new and open application process will follow; if so, when it will be advertised; if previous tender applicants and holders of contracts will be notified directly; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13945/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (7 Jul 2020)

Pauline Tully: 715. To ask the Minister for Health the full facts regarding the Be on Call for Ireland campaign launched by the HSE; the number of trained healthcare professionals who responded across each discipline; the number that actually returned home; the locations they were deployed to; the number across each of those disciplines that remain in service; the number in each discipline that have been...

Covid-19 (Measures to Protect Victims of Domestic Violence): Statements (24 Jun 2020)

Pauline Tully: As Teachta Dála for Cavan-Monaghan I pay tribute to a past pupil of mine, Ms Sonia Lee, and her family, for the strength they have shown not just in recent weeks but in the past two years since Sonia endured an horrific attack by her former partner that left her with life-changing injuries. I wish her well in future. The unprecedented levels of gender-based violence is a global...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Pauline Tully: I was deeply concerned to learn at the weekend of plans to merge the midwifery-led unit in Cavan General Hospital with the consultancy led services there. I have been reliably informed that the unit has been closed to anyone who wished to book this facility from 1 June 2020. While women who were booked prior to that date will be facilitated, anybody attempting to make a booking after that...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (9 Jun 2020)

Pauline Tully: 221. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of drug searches that have taken place in County Cavan since the beginning of 2019; and the number of arrests and convictions for the possession and supply of illegal drugs in County Cavan since January 2019, in tabular form. [9941/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (9 Jun 2020)

Pauline Tully: 351. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of increasing funding for the National Cancer Control Programme by 5%, 7.5% and 10%, respectively. [9902/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Contracts (9 Jun 2020)

Pauline Tully: 356. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant ENT surgeons in each of the RCSI hospitals in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020; and the number of consultant ENT surgeon hours provided in each hospital under current contracts. [9909/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Jun 2020)

Pauline Tully: 361. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to enhance schemes such as a programme (details supplied). [9949/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (9 Jun 2020)

Pauline Tully: 560. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the budgeted spend in each of the next three years to make public transport wheelchair accessible including vehicles, stations and so on. [9897/20]

Covid-19 (Rural and Community Development): Statements (3 Jun 2020)

Pauline Tully: One of the biggest problems facing rural Ireland has been the lack of investment in our towns and villages that over decades has resulted in the depopulation of once vibrant communities. My county, Cavan, has, like most of the Border region, endured an unprecedented level of decline, not least in those towns and villages where several empty, and sometimes derelict, buildings blight the main...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (3 Jun 2020)

Pauline Tully: 230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the alternative to calculated grades for leaving certificate being made available to students who are home-schooled or take a subject outside of school without a recognised tutor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8924/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (3 Jun 2020)

Pauline Tully: 227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students who choose to sit the leaving certificate examination later in 2020 will have an opportunity to make up the time they have lost with their teachers before they sit the exams. [8919/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (3 Jun 2020)

Pauline Tully: 811. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress being made with regard to the planned €75 annual support for waste collection to those with lifelong and long-term medical incontinence; and the date for the roll-out of same. [8757/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Vehicle Registration Tax (27 May 2020)

Pauline Tully: 69. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider allowing a company (details supplied) to reopen immediately. [7678/20]