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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (21 Sep 2023)

Pauline Tully: 90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase the allocation to the Fund for Students with Disabilities in Budget 2024. [40741/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Waterways Issues (21 Sep 2023)

Pauline Tully: 150. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to detail all funding available through his Department for the cleaning and dredging of rivers. [40854/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2023)

Pauline Tully: I thank the Chair. Apologies, I was late. I was caught up, both in traffic and in something else in the Dáil, but I have read their opening statements and I understand and appreciate the importance of ensuring workers rights are protected and that they are on a par, North and South, as they were when the EU had jurisdiction over the whole island. In relation to teaching, and I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2023)

Pauline Tully: In the South, we have two secondary school unions and sometimes there is talk about them amalgamating and that they would be stronger together. They do not always agree completely on issues, although most of the time they work well together.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2023)

Pauline Tully: There is the Teaching Council here in the South. Is there an equivalent body in the North?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2023)

Pauline Tully: Mr. Boyle is calling here for there to be an easy or a fast-track process here if teachers who qualify in the North or are teaching up there wish to transfer to the southern system. Mr. Boyle talked about some differences in the educational systems. Are there many differences in qualification? I know Irish is one for primary school, but otherwise would there be many differences in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Finance and Economics: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2023)

Pauline Tully: I taught in secondary school for years before I was elected here. I saw teachers coming into the school and maybe not having the qualifications to meet the Teaching Council criteria and having to take on courses, in the evening time or whatever, at their own expense. That can be quite a burden, especially when one takes into account housing, the cost-of-living crisis etc. I come from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: National Disability Inclusion Strategy: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Pauline Tully: To follow on, the NDIS was extended for one year and then when it was seen that a new strategy was not ready to go at the beginning of this year, it beggars belief why it was not extended for another year. Will the new strategy be in place by the end of this year? Ms Dempsey-Clifford said in her opening remarks that there is very slow progress on consultation and it is more about how the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: National Disability Inclusion Strategy: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Pauline Tully: No. I am referring to the different Departments and the DCCs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: National Disability Inclusion Strategy: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Pauline Tully: It was said some Departments are apparently working better than others. Can the witnesses give an example of Departments that are working well, or is that a no-go area?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: National Disability Inclusion Strategy: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Pauline Tully: If I may-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: National Disability Inclusion Strategy: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Pauline Tully: The NDA was requested by the Department to carry out an independent evaluation of the disability participation and consultation network, DPCN. When is that review due?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: National Disability Inclusion Strategy: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Pauline Tully: Do the witnesses feel that DPOs and disabled people are being consulted with regularly? We hear from different DPOs here that they feel the are not and sometimes it is a box-ticking exercise and the consultation is done to say “We have done it” but their recommendations are not taken on board by different organisations and Departments. Others feel that the wrong bodies are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 Sep 2023)

Pauline Tully: 349. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to increase school bus capacity levels to respond to the increased demand resulting from the lowering of school transport scheme fees for primary and post-primary. [40298/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (20 Sep 2023)

Pauline Tully: 635. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the workplace equipment adaptation grant can be obtained to hire an interpreter for a deaf employee; and if not, what supports, if any, are available. [40185/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (20 Sep 2023)

Pauline Tully: 642. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what campaigns are being undertaken to inform people of their ability to purchase voluntary social insurance contributions to help maintain their social insurance record and help them to qualify for social insurance payments in the future. [40297/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Family Reunification (20 Sep 2023)

Pauline Tully: 702. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeframe from application to issue of a long-stay (join family) visa under the International Protection Act 2015 for international protection beneficiaries. [40299/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (20 Sep 2023)

Pauline Tully: 837. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding that has been allocated to each CHO area for the supply of assistive technology in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; if the HSE in each CHO area carries out its own assessments of those applying for assistive technology or if applicants are referred to other organisations for...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (20 Sep 2023)

Pauline Tully: 838. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of applications in each CHO for assistive technology in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and the number of applications in each CHO in each of these years that were unsuccessful, in tabular form. [40109/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (20 Sep 2023)

Pauline Tully: 839. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if it is standard practice for the HSE to supply a person who is unsuccessful in their application for assistive technology with the reasons they were unsuccessful. [40110/23]