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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: I thank the delegates for their answers. The next speaker on the list is Deputy Coppinger.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: On behalf of the committee, I thank you all for attending and engaging with us today. We will now suspend briefly to allow the witnesses for the second session to come in and take their seats.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: You are all very welcome. I ask anyone attending remotely to mute their microphones when not contributing, so that we do not pick up any background noise or feedback. As usual, I remind all those in attendance to ensure that their mobile phones are in silent mode or switched off. Members attending remotely are reminded of the constitutional requirement that in order to participate in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: Sorry, I have to interrupt because we are going over time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: Similar questions might be asked again or there might be time at the end to come back in. I ask members to be conscious of time. The four minutes is for questions and answers. I ask members to keep that in mind.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: I call Deputy Peter Roche.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: I have a few questions. I am aware of several schools looking for classes and reaching out because they recognise a need within the school population or among incoming junior infants or first years. Are schools with physical space getting priority over schools without such space, despite the fact the need might be greater in the school without the physical space? I know some building works...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: One primary school, knowing that three students were going to come in, sought a review in March and thought that it was getting 0.83 of an SNA to cover the junior infants class, only to be left with just the two. I do not know what the purpose of the process was if it was just going to be ignored.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: That is more work for the principal, going through another process when they have gone through a process already.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: I thank the Deputy. I thank Mr. Kearney and Ms Walsh for their attendance and engagement with the committee. I am conscious we have gone over time. I think we would have loved a much longer session, though the officials might not have. Anyway, I am sure we will be engaging with them again in future.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: I thank Mr. Kearney very much.

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: Am I permitted to read a letter to Members from survivors of Ireland's industrial and reformatory school system?

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: Can I be permitted to speak on the Bill at a later Stage or now?

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: I want to explain why Sinn Féin has opposed the Bill. There are supports in this Bill that are welcome for survivors. However, in good conscience, we could not support it when it excludes some survivors from different residential institutions. We feel there should be equal access to support for all, irrespective of whether they had received a settlement from Caranua or any other type...

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: If I may, I will read this open letter to all Members of the Seanad from the survivors of Ireland's industrial and reformatory schools system, dated 30 June 2025. To whom it may concern, We, the Survivors of Ireland's Industrial and Reformatory Schools System, write to you today with heavy hearts and unwavering determination. For decades we endured cruelty, neglect, abuse and the erasure...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Care of the Elderly (26 Jun 2025)

Pauline Tully: I wish to raise the issue of boarding-out regulations, that is, the service for older people. Not everyone is familiar with boarding-out services. This is a service for older people who are mobile and generally in good health and who do not require nursing home care but who cannot live on their own because they might not quite manage or they do not want to because of loneliness and so...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Care of the Elderly (26 Jun 2025)

Pauline Tully: The Minister of State, Deputy O'Donnell, told me that he was unable to be here because of questions to the Minister for rural affairs in the Dáil. What he is saying is really reassuring, but I have been hearing that for a number of years and nothing has been done. When I first raised this issue in 2021, 51 providers were involved. Now there are only eight. That tells you that people...

Seanad: Dental Services: Motion (25 Jun 2025)

Pauline Tully: Our public dental service is basically not functioning, or functioning to a very low standard. In 2006, there were 330 dentists working within the public dental service. Last year, there were 253. Considering that the population has increased by about 1 million, it tells the story that children are not getting the check-ups they should be getting throughout primary school. They should be...

Seanad: Disability (Personalised Budgets) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Pauline Tully: I speak in support of this Bill. I spent many engaging hours as part of the Committee on Disability Matters during the previous Government term, along with Senators Clonan and Flynn and a number of others. I engaged with the Acting Chair, Senator Rabbitte, as the then Minister of State many times on the issue of disability as well. I learned so much from the engagement with disabled people...

Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Minister of State at the Department of Education and Youth (25 Jun 2025)

Pauline Tully: The first issue I want to raise relates to SNA allocation. This is similar to what Deputy O'Rourke brought up. I was contacted by a local school last week. On Friday evening, the school got notification of its SNA allocation for the year. It had two SNAs and it has three students with significant needs enrolled in junior infants for this autumn. In order to allow the principal to accept...