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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Planning for Inclusive Communities: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Pauline Tully: Perhaps the witnesses would expand a bit more on the following. They talked about housing with the capital assistance funding scheme. It was said there are issues with the schemes there. Will the witnesses outline in more detail what the issues are and how they could be addressed in making sure there is a disability focus for approved housing bodies? I ask for more detail on the following...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Scéimeanna Tacaíochta Gaeilge (5 Dec 2023)

Pauline Tully: I thank the Minister of State. I agree with him. I went to school for 13 years and have lots of Irish in my head but actually having the confidence to speak it is different. That is why we need to support community organisations to actually reach out to people so that people can join these organisations and use whatever Irish they have, because if you do not use it, you lose it. In the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Scéimeanna Tacaíochta Gaeilge (5 Dec 2023)

Pauline Tully: 58. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the actions she has taken to enable Foras na Gaeilge to reopen the scéim forbartha líonraí Gaeilge; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53614/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Scéimeanna Tacaíochta Gaeilge (5 Dec 2023)

Pauline Tully: I ask the Minister the actions she has taken to enable Foras na Gaeilge to reopen the scéim forbartha líonraí Gaeilge.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Scéimeanna Tacaíochta Gaeilge (5 Dec 2023)

Pauline Tully: Irish language community organisations are doing great work with limited resources and they are serving an ever-growing demand. They need to be adequately funded and properly supported. A number of these groups exist in my constituency of Cavan-Monaghan. It is a constituency that tells a very different tale when one compares the two counties. In Cavan, we need a lot more Gaelscoileanna....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (5 Dec 2023)

Pauline Tully: 194. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason VAT is charged on medicines for family pets; and if he has plans or will consider reducing or removing VAT on medicines for family pets. [53672/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (5 Dec 2023)

Pauline Tully: 246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 294 of 28 November 2023, to detail the amount of funding provided to each individual national school in County Cavan in each of the years referenced. [53436/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disabilities Assessments (5 Dec 2023)

Pauline Tully: 256. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions she has taken, or if she has plans to initiate a review of the practice of principals and teachers filling in the educational section of the assessment of need form, taking into account the views of stakeholders and ensuring that the practice complies with the spirit of the Disability Act 2005. [53738/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (5 Dec 2023)

Pauline Tully: 544. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 25 of 1 June 2023, if he will provide an update on the review of the functioning of the existing managed services in respect of the supply and maintenance of wheelchairs; and if a new tender process has been put in place for managed services for medical equipment. [53442/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (5 Dec 2023)

Pauline Tully: 599. To ask the Minister for Health the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to incentivise working within the public health sector to ensure that fewer professionals leave Ireland and that staff do not feel compelled to supplement their income by working in the private sector; and the estimated cost of undertaking this measure. [53751/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (5 Dec 2023)

Pauline Tully: 600. To ask the Minister for Health the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to ensure that public sector health workers are satisfied to work exclusively within the public health sector; and the estimated cost of undertaking this measure. [53752/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (5 Dec 2023)

Pauline Tully: 601. To ask the Minister for Health the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to incentivise working within the public health sector to ensure that fewer professionals leave Ireland and that staff do not feel compelled to supplement their income by working in the private sector; and the estimated cost of undertaking this measure. [53753/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (5 Dec 2023)

Pauline Tully: 602. To ask the Minister for Health the actions he has taken, or if he has plans to ensure that public sector health workers are satisfied to work exclusively within the public health sector; and the estimated cost of undertaking this measure. [53754/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: Deputy Neasa Hourigan will take this question.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Amalgamation (30 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: I thank the Minister.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Driver Test (30 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: I am approached on a regular basis, especially by young people who cannot get affordable accommodation near their place of study. There are no reliable public transport systems in place in many areas. These young people rely on driving and are looking for tests. Previously, the average waiting time was 30 weeks. It has come down in Cavan. It is down to probably 18 or 19 weeks now, which...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Driver Test (30 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I know that testing is actually scheduled now for 27 and 28 December in Cavan. This has been brought to my attention. It has not happened before. The testers were not made aware of this and some of them had plans made for the Christmas period. They are just asking if communication from the RSA to the testers could be improved. It makes...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Driver Test (30 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 18. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions he has taken to speed up driver testing in counties Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52805/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rights of People with Disabilities (30 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 33. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what guidance was given to him from either the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth or the Minister of State with responsibility for disability regarding the implementation of the UNCRPD and consultation with DPRO's; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52806/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Nov 2023)

Pauline Tully: 89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has plans for the establishment of a special national school for pupils aged four to 18 years in County Monaghan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52846/23]