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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services Provision (28 Jul 2020)

Pauline Tully: I am calling for the immediate resumption of day car services for people with intellectual disabilities. It is imperative at this stage. People with intellectual disabilities and their carers are at their wits' end and feel they have been forgotten. The totality of care for adults with intellectual disabilities has been left with parents, who are often aged. They have received little or...

Future of School Education: Motion [Private Members] (28 Jul 2020)

Pauline Tully: I welcome the roadmap for returning to school. I doubt there is anybody who does not wish to see a full return to school at the end of August or the beginning of September. However, it is very late considering that the schools have been closed for more than four months. It has put unfair pressure on everybody affected, such as those responsible for preparing the timetable. Most...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Jul 2020)

Pauline Tully: I raise the matter of the drug Spinraza, which was approved in June 2019 for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy. The roll-out has been very slow as only 12 of 29 children with this condition have so far received treatment. Spinal muscular atrophy is a degenerative disease and these continued delays have a real and psychological impact on children with the condition, who lose a little...

Early Years Childcare: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jul 2020)

Pauline Tully: I wish to support the motion. I commend Deputy Funchion on tabling it. Childcare in Ireland is at crisis point and has been so since long before Covid. It has been edging towards disaster for years, but little or nothing has been done to address the situation. It is now urgent. The cost of childcare was astronomical even before Covid. Prices are now being forced upwards again as a...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (21 Jul 2020)

Pauline Tully: 61. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the reason businesses that do not operate from commercially rateable premises such as tradesmen, service providers and so on are not eligible for the restart grant for small and microbusinesses affected by Covid-19; the grounds this decision is based on; the financial supports which will be provided to these business; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (21 Jul 2020)

Pauline Tully: 76. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the number of applications received to date by county for the restart grant, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17322/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (21 Jul 2020)

Pauline Tully: 77. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the amount of funding issued to individual businesses for the restart grant by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17325/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (21 Jul 2020)

Pauline Tully: 414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the boarding schools by county that will see an end to or a significant reduction in the number of boarders they will be allowed to take in when the new school term commences in September 2020 due to the ongoing social distancing protocols; and the details of the supports she plans to provide for boarding schools to assist them to make up the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (21 Jul 2020)

Pauline Tully: 419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if boarding for students in a school (details supplied) is ending; the possible financial implications for the school; and if the decision will result in the subsequent redundancies of catering and household staff due to the lack of protocols for the operation of boarding schools when the new term commences in September 2020. [17178/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme (21 Jul 2020)

Pauline Tully: 539. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) has not received single farm payment entitlements since 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17348/20]

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

Pauline Tully: I thank the witnesses for coming and outlining their reports to us, which I have read in detail. Like many of my colleagues in Sinn Féin and Teachtaí Dála across the other political parties, I have been contacted by parents of children with intellectual disabilities. Some of these are adult children and day care services for them have been suspended since March. Many of them...

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

Pauline Tully: I find it quite disturbing that September is the date and it is being pushed out further. Many restrictions were lifted and services returned on 29 June. Our most vulnerable citizens deserve better than this. This is something I will raise with the Minister. Congregated settings were also mentioned. According to Inclusion Ireland’s report, 1,500 people are living in nursing...

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...