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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 788. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in line with Action 105 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report (details supplied) if he has plans to liaise with professional bodies within architecture and planning to promote education in universal design and the implementation of Universal Design practices. [57344/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 789. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in line with Action 106 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report (details supplied) if he has plans to engage with the Office of Public Works (OPW) to implement guidelines on making facilities and sites under their auspices more autism-friendly; and the estimated cost of implementing this proposal. [57345/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 790. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in line with Action 107 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report (details supplied) if he has plans to provide autism training to tour guides and other public-facing OPW staff at heritage sites and cultural institutions; and the estimated cost of implementing this proposal. [57346/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 791. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in line with Action 108 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report (details supplied) if he has plans to provide more opportunities for career development in public sector planning to retain planners; and the estimated cost of implementing this proposal. [57347/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 792. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in line with Action 109 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report (details supplied) if he has plans to recruit a designated Disability Officer in every local authority to advise autistic people and their families on accessing supports and assist them to complete the application process, where needed; and the estimated...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 865. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 544 of 14 July 2022, the number of persons currently in receipt of a disability-related social protection payment, by the type of payment, in tabular form. [56599/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 874. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people on disability allowance and invalidity pension who to date in 2023 have lost their entitlement to these payments entirely or have had them reduced following a change in circumstance where they now reside with a partner initiating a review of their income, in tabular form. [56668/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 914. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in line with Action 80 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report, if she has plans to establish a State-run public employment service that builds on the good practice in the field of disability employment and which links autistic people to employers and offers support, guidance and information as well as tailored...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 915. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in line with Action 81 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report, she has plans to engage with stakeholders including the autistic community and employers and review the wage subsidy scheme and reasonable accommodation fund with a view to promoting uptake of the schemes; and the estimated first- and full-year cost,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 916. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in line with Action 82 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report, she has plans to promote the availability and potential benefits of schemes such as the wage subsidy scheme and reasonable accommodation fund to employers; and the estimated first- and full-year cost, respectively, of implementing this proposal. [57271/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 917. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in line with Action 83 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report, she has plans to amalgamate and streamline workplace support grants and the reasonable accommodation fund under one fund which employers may draw down for the purposes of accommodating an autistic or disabled employee or prospective employee; and the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 918. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in line with Action 84 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report, she has plans to initiate a review of the wage subsidy scheme through a rights-based, social lens and identify how best to update or replace the scheme; and the estimated first- and full-year cost, respectively, of implementing this proposal. [57273/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 919. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in line with Action 85 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report, she has plans to remove the minimum work hours to access the wage subsidy scheme to allow for people with disabilities to access part-time employment; and the estimated first- and full-year cost, respectively, of implementing this proposal. [57274/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 920. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in line with Action 62 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report, she has plans to introduce a non-means tested, targeted cost-of-disability payment for autistic people and disabled people with high levels of expenditure due to their autism diagnosis or disability; and the estimated first- and full-year cost,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 922. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in line with Action 64 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report, she has plans to introduce specific targeted supports for those with the highest additional costs due to disability, including autism; and the estimated first- and full-year cost, respectively, of implementing this proposal. [57311/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 921. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in line with Action 63 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report, she has plans to introduce a non-means tested, targeted cost-of-disability payment for the carers to autistic people and disabled people with high levels of expenditure due to their autism diagnosis or disability; and the estimated first- and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 923. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in line with Action 65 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report, she has plans to increase the income disregard for disability allowance and carer’s allowance to account for the high costs of disability; and the estimated first- and full-year cost, respectively, of implementing this proposal. [57312/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 924. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in line with Action 66 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report, she has plans to recognise the work of carers and the services they provide the State by establishing a pilot scheme for a basic income entitlement or a participation income to replace the carer’s allowance, in line with the recommendations of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 925. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in line with Action 67 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report, she has plans to establish a grant to assist autistic people and disabled people in paying for larger, one-off expenses; and the estimated first- and full-year cost, respectively, of implementing this proposal. [57314/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 926. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in line with Action 68 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report, she has plans to benchmark the rate of disability allowance and other social protection payments to ensure that autistic recipients can achieve a minimum essential standard of living; and the estimated first- and full-year cost, respectively, of...