Results 481-500 of 3,806 for speaker:Pauline Tully

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Interconnector (27 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: I accept the importance of this project but I am concerned about how it is going to proceed if there is such opposition on the ground. Is there a contingency plan to deal with that? Have EirGrid, the Government or the Oireachtas committee referenced by the Minister that has oversight of this issue any other plans in place to deal with this? All I can see is strong opposition on the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Recycling Policy (27 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: It is all right to talk about public consultation processes but if those processes are not accessible to everybody then they are not much use. We have to ensure that everybody is included, that they are easy to read and that there are accessible forms of consultation to ensure that everyone’s voices are heard. The scheme in Demark, for example, has been operating for 20 years. It...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Recycling Policy (27 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: 67. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the actions he has taken to ensure that the deposit return scheme is accessible to disabled people since the launch of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27566/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Recycling Policy (27 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: I ask the Minister what actions he has taken to ensure that the deposit return scheme, DRS, is accessible to disabled people, since the launch of the scheme.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Recycling Policy (27 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: I find this a bit unbelievable. Planning for this scheme has taken many months, maybe even years. The scheme was launched at the beginning of the year and the first meeting to properly discuss and have consultation around accessiblity took place on 6 June. Now an advisory panel is going to be put in place. The machines are already in place. They are welcome and are working well....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: I thank Ms Crickard and Ms Crory. While I appreciate their honesty, they have painted a very dismal picture. However, if it needs to be said, it needs to be said and if that is the harsh reality, we all need to hear it. We all welcome the Good Friday Agreement and what it achieved, which is relative peace. As was pointed out, there is an awful lot of work that needs to be done to truly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: Some sort of mechanism needs to happen to ensure that the voices of marginalised people are heard, such as women, disabled people, immigrants and people who have come from other countries, people from a Traveller background and so on. They are the people who are not confident or involved in mainstream politics where all the shouting is done. I am talking about my own situation. It is very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: Education is key and the fact that there is still segregated education is a big miss. When children are put in a room, they do not care about the colour of skin or what religion another person has. The best way to have a more integrated education system is to leave people alone to do their own thing. We need to build from the bottom up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: Absolutely.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (27 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: 19. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on the response from the European Commission to the joint request from Ireland and Spain for an ‘urgent review’ of the EU-Israel Association Agreement; if the EU-Israel Association Council has recently been convened or if there is a date for it to be convened to review Israel’s compliance with the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Child Abduction (27 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: 53. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on a case (details supplied), whose two sons are being held in Egypt by their father without her consent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27576/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (26 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: As none of the Deputies who have tabled a question is here, we will move on to the next item of business.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: Friday next, 28 June is International Neonatal Screening Day. Can the Minister please provide an update on the roll-out of spinal muscular atrophy, SMA, in the national newborn blood spot screening programme, or the heel-prick test as we refer to it? Will she indicate when she expects the first baby to be tested in Ireland with this potentially devastating disease? The Minister for Health,...

Primary School Funding: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: The long-term effects of inadequate funding in primary schools have led to a crisis which, if not properly addressed, will continue to have negative knock-on effects on our children's education and well-being. This is especially the case for children with additional needs, who also face many barriers to inclusivity, such as short school days, reduced timetables and permanent exclusion from...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Children's Hospital (26 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: The need for this hospital has long been debated. There were delays in the initial stages about the location and it was decided that it should be in the middle of the city. I still question whether that was wise, but is too late to go back on that. If there had been delays at the beginning to ensure the design was right everybody could have understood that. However, it seems that there...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Children's Hospital (26 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: I was stunned to read this week that the long-awaited and long-overdue national children’s hospital was set to be delayed further and that this supposedly state-of-the-art hospital may not even be accessible to wheelchair users. The Dáil was told in February that the project’s completion date would be this October and that the first patients could be expected to be treated...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Department of Education (25 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: I welcome the Minister of State and the Department officials. I welcome that there will be an increase in the staffing level of the NCSE. It is badly needed. At the time representatives of the NCSE appeared before the autism committee, there had been a significant increase in the number of administrative staff but not in the number of SENOs. Like Senator Seery Kearney, I have heard from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Department of Education (25 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: The Minister of State talked about the number of schools taking up the summer provision, indicated it is not as many as we want and said she wants to concentrate on special schools. Some principals are very precious about their school, almost as though they own the school, but the Department of Education owns the school. Summer provision has been opened to other organisations. If a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Department of Education (25 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: What about the top-up payments?