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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: I welcome everyone and thank them for their opening statements. Like everyone else, I welcome the positive work they have outlined that their organisations are undertaking. I will also refer to the Disability Act. Section 26 provides that public bodies are required to ensure their services are accessible to people with disabilities by providing integrated access to mainstream services....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: I am sorry, but-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: -----we had a lot of disabled people in here last Monday week for a full day and that issue came up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: Everybody has a right to use the road space.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: I understand we need cycle lanes that are safe for cyclists and we need spaces for buses and other traffic, but we also need people to be able to get on and off buses safely. They cannot do so at present in many locations. I am not saying they are all bad but there are some locations that they feel are really dangerous. I referred to the person who told me about getting off a bus and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: There must be stops or something. There has to be some sort of a safe way to cross.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: Is "Yield" written on the cycle lane? How does a cyclist know he or she is supposed to yield?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: I have noticed any lights at bus stops.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: I welcome that because we need something.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: I do not accept that there was good and proper consultation done on this beforehand.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: I was told about a meeting attended by representatives of cyclists and people with disabilities. When they could not agree, the NTA decided to do its own thing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: One meeting is hardly consultation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: People who have a visual impairment are telling me these things; it is not that I am making them up. Those people are not happy with the change.

National Cancer Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (16 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: I pay tribute to the cancer support groups in my constituency, including Ballyjamesduff Cancer Support Fund, CUAN cancer support in Cavan, and Crocus cancer support in Monaghan, and also the Moylagh JFK 50 Mile Challenge committee, which has raised over €1.2 million for cancer services and research over the past 11 years. These groups provide vital services and support for cancer...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of autism unit places in mainstream primary schools in County Cavan; the number of autism unit places in mainstream post-primary schools in County Cavan; her plans to expand the number of autism unit places for children in mainstream primary and post-primary schools in County Cavan; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions she is taking to resolve the issue of the delays in school capital projects in County Cavan which has led to a number of secondary schools becoming oversubscribed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16466/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (16 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 603. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of residential places for disabled people that were delivered as of December 2023. [16567/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (16 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 606. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of disabled adults with a residential placement in CHO7 that are attending a day service; the number that are attending a day service in the same catchment area they reside in; and the number that attend a day service in a different catchment area to the one they reside in. [16705/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (16 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 726. To ask the Minister for Health the number of endocrinologists employed in Cavan General Hospital in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024. [16504/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (16 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 727. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children from counties Cavan and Monaghan with type 1 diabetes that are currently being referred to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda and Temple Street Hospital for the provision of insulin pump therapy; the reason these children require onward referral to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda or Temple Street Hospital as insulin pump...