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Report of the Joint Committee on Autism: Motion (7 Mar 2024)

Pauline Tully: I move: That Dáil Éireann shall take note of the Report of the Joint Committee on Autism entitled "Final Report of the Joint Committee on Autism", copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 14th June, 2023. I will share my time with Senator Micheál Carrigy. I express my thanks to my fellow members of the former Joint Committee on Autism who worked...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Recycling Policy (7 Mar 2024)

Pauline Tully: 93. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures he has taken to rectify the deposit return scheme, which is inaccessible in its current format for disabled people, and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11127/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Recycling Policy (7 Mar 2024)

Pauline Tully: What measures is the Minister taking with the deposit return scheme, which is inaccessible in its current format for disabled people?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Recycling Policy (7 Mar 2024)

Pauline Tully: The machines are too high for wheelchair users. They cannot reach the place where you actually input the bottles or cans. There is no Braille or raised marking on the cans or bottles for people who are blind or visually impaired. People who order their shopping online have no mechanism to return their bottles or cans. That is something that could be easily resolved working with the...

Rare Diseases: Statements (6 Mar 2024)

Pauline Tully: I welcome the preparation of a rare disease plan, but this should have been commenced long before now. The current plan is six years out of date, because the time period for its implementation was between 2014 and 2018. More than one third of people with rare diseases in Ireland have had to wait more than five years for a diagnosis. Currently, in Ireland, only nine conditions are...

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Pauline Tully: First of all, I thank all of the Deputies who spoke this evening on this motion, and for the various issues they raised. A number of Deputies talked about the Government not opposing this motion but a lot of what it calls for is for the Government to implement its own programme for Government. A lot of the items identified are in the programme, and they have not been addressed as yet. ...

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Pauline Tully: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — the State signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) in 2007 and ratified the Convention in 2018, but has yet to ratify the Optional Protocol; — more than one in eight people over the age of 15 provide care, with approximately 500,000 family carers in the State, and that the...

International Women's Day: Statements (5 Mar 2024)

Pauline Tully: Guím Lá Idirnáisiúnta na mBan shona ar gach bean in Éirinn agus ar fud an domhain. Is mian liom aitheantas a thabhairt do mhná le róil ceannaireachta mar tá sé thar a bheith tábhachtach go mbeadh mná ina n-eiseamláirí do na glúnta níos óige. I wish all women in Ireland and around the world a very happy...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Feb 2024)

Pauline Tully: A WRC pay agreement was reached in late 2023 where an 8% pay award was given to employees of section 10, 39 and 56 agencies. I have been informed that the HSE plans to outsource the management of the dispersal of the funds to the section 39 organisations and that the contract will be given to KOSI, the same company that management the pandemic payment. That we are two years on and there are...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Feb 2024)

Pauline Tully: Yes, that would be right.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (29 Feb 2024)

Pauline Tully: The child was referred to CAMHS for an ADHD assessment but CAMHS said the child is autistic and would need the services of the CDNT. There was more to the story beforehand but I will not go back on it again. I have other parents waiting for services. Another parent who was waiting for services and who has not received any is trying to put together enough funding to get a private...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (29 Feb 2024)

Pauline Tully: 97. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth with anecdotal evidence of a 60% vacancy rate in Cavan children's disability network team, CDNT, if he will give a update on the vacancy rate within both Cavan and Monaghan CDNTs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9735/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (29 Feb 2024)

Pauline Tully: I ask the Minister of State about anecdotal evidence of a 60% vacancy rate in Cavan's CDNT. Will she give an update on the vacancy rate both within Cavan and Monaghan CDNTs? I did not make reference to this in the previous question because I did not expect to reach this question today.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (29 Feb 2024)

Pauline Tully: Just this week, I became aware that the manager in the Cavan CDNT is on maternity leave. Is she going to be replaced? The lady who is currently covering the position is based in Navan but that may just be temporary. We really need a full-time manager in the service. A parent was in contact with me yesterday - and she is not alone in this situation - who was equally angry and upset and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (29 Feb 2024)

Pauline Tully: We also need to avoid the situation that happens on occasion when an emergency case is going into the respite house and nobody else is actually allowed to use it, so they cancel at the last minute. I am also aware of certain cases, such as, for example, one woman who knows she has an operation coming up in March and who needs respite care for her son. However, because it is the children's...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (29 Feb 2024)

Pauline Tully: 83. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the capital plan for the respite centre in Cavan, which will cater for children, has been launched; the timeframe for the delivery of this service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9734/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (29 Feb 2024)

Pauline Tully: Has the capital plan for the respite centre in Cavan, which will cater for children, been launched and what is the timeframe for delivery of this service?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (29 Feb 2024)

Pauline Tully: As the Minister of State has said, there is currently one respite house between two counties catering for adults and children on alternative weeks only. That is entirely insufficient and has been for years. The respite people are getting is in most cases insufficient. There are many on waiting lists who are not getting any. I have even spoken to people who have not applied at all even...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Recycling Policy (27 Feb 2024)

Pauline Tully: There are two parts here. There are people who cannot, due to mobility or lack of transport or due to a disability or age, return what they have bought online, and there are the machines themselves. One suggestion is a scheme worked out with the shop that delivers to incorporate a collection where a receipt could be issued. When they come next time to deliver the shopping, they can collect...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Recycling Policy (27 Feb 2024)

Pauline Tully: They can use that as a coupon online on their next shop. Another suggestion was that a register of those who cannot return their bottles and cans could be drawn up, a regular collection organised, a receipt issued and the people would be able to submit that receipt to Revenue for reimbursement, similar to how receipts for petrol and diesel under the disabled driver and disabled passenger...