Results 101-120 of 4,009 for speaker:Pauline Tully

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: I am quite shocked to learn that only 5% of the school transport is provided by Bus Éireann's own fleet and 95% of the buses are contracted in. Is there going to be an increase in investment in Bus Éireann's school bus fleet? I remember the day when the vast majority of school buses were owned and run by Bus Éireann but maybe I was wrong about that. When the bus driver that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: I would like to get an answer to the question I asked previously about investment in the fleet, if this might be possible. Mention was made of the recommendations from the review not being implemented or the start of them not being implemented. I come from Cavan. There was a situation in my area last year, in Rahoran, where 18 students were told about two weeks before secondary school...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: This is why I think investment in the fleet would make absolutely sense in the context of this reliance on private operators all the time. I know there is going to have to be a reliance on private operators, but should we not be building up the fleet?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: I thank the witnesses for the presentations. I refer to the 2015 Higher Education Authority report that was referenced in the opening statement. It was said that there was an unmet demand of 25,000 bed spaces at that time. What is the unmet demand now? Have there been other reports? Mr. Lemass seemed to suggest this was a one-off report. I note a strategy came from that in 2017, I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: Did Mr. Lemass say it was 10,000 by 2020? That is still not meeting the need, and I presume the need continued to rise as well as we see increased numbers going to further and higher education.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: What is the demand now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: I presume it is significantly greater than the 25,000.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: Mr. Lemass is not answering what he thinks it is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: Some of my colleagues referenced the No Room for Learning report from the students’ union at the Technological University of the Shannon, titled such because there are many demands around accommodation. I am sure their findings are reflected across the country in all the different colleges. Many students are commuting and not by choice. Many are working part time and up to 30 hours a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Student Accommodation: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: A lot of students do not want to live at home when they are experiencing third level.

Seanad: Transport Policy: Statements (10 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: I come from County Cavan. We have no rail network and nor do Monaghan, Tyrone, Fermanagh and Donegal. The entire area has no railway. We did but the Government at that time, some 60 years ago, had no foresight and decided to end the rail service to Cavan. Not only did it do that but it allowed people to build over the rail line, take it up and sell the sleepers. I know Cavan is included...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: The witnesses are very welcome. As a former teacher in a school I very much appreciate the work that both secretaries and caretakers do in the school. They know everybody on the ground, every child in the school and they know what is going on. Often they are the ones you go to to find out what is actually going on. Am I right that with ETBs there is not only a discrepancy between the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: If pay and conditions can be granted to one sector, it makes absolutely no sense why they are not granted to all. We talk about how we are at full employment. Retention and recruitment has to be an issue when conditions are so poor. Is that the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: Going over and beyond.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: It is a month since the result of the ballot on strike action was made public. There was engagement in the Seanad on 18 June, during statements on education, and I raised this issue. I was told by the Minister that there would be engagement in the coming weeks. However, Fórsa is telling me there has been no engagement whatever which is very disappointing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: Yes. Thank you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: I thank the witnesses for coming here and I pledge my support for them. We will do anything we can to push this issue forward. I hope it is resolved before it leads to a strike. That is the last thing people want, but I understand why they would do it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Proposed Redesignation of Schools for Children with Mild General Learning Disabilities: Principals of Special Schools (10 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for attending. We all agree that every child has the right to an education in an appropriate setting. The requirement that it be appropriate to their needs is what is important. Preferably, it should be in the child's locality, alongside his or her siblings, but that is not always possible. Account must also be taken of student and parental choice....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Proposed Redesignation of Schools for Children with Mild General Learning Disabilities: Principals of Special Schools (10 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: Mr. Haran's school is seeing an increase in applications that are appropriate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Proposed Redesignation of Schools for Children with Mild General Learning Disabilities: Principals of Special Schools (10 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: There has been an increase in the number of appropriate applications. Is that because there are not enough special classes in schools?