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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: World Health Organization World Report on Hearing: Irish Deaf Society (29 Jun 2023)

Pauline Tully: I welcome the witnesses. I wish to go back to early intervention. The witness said that compared to other countries, we were "middling". Does that mean some children get early intervention and others do not? What does "middling" mean? It is that everybody gets something but it is not great? Will he expand on that? It is estimated that there are about 5,000 deaf people in Ireland....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Impact of Brexit on the Divergence of Rights and Best Practice on the Island of Ireland: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)

Pauline Tully: I thank the witnesses for their contributions on an issue that is very important, if very alarming. The Good Friday Agreement indicated that there should be no divergence of rights on the island of Ireland. I think that was reiterated by the UK Government after Brexit. However, the witnesses have indicated that there was some significant divergence prior to Brexit and that possibly more...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (27 Jun 2023)

Pauline Tully: 525. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the capital allocations that have been made by his Department to the Disability Capital Programme in 2020, 2021 and 2022; the portion of this allocation in each of these years that went to provide community-based supported housing for people with disabilities being transferred from congregated settings; the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (27 Jun 2023)

Pauline Tully: 526. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding his Department plans to allocate to progress the recommendations in the Disability Capacity Review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31255/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Jun 2023)

Pauline Tully: There was an announcement yesterday about a significant expansion in third level places, which will lead to more doctors, nurses, dentists, pharmacists and vets being trained. That is welcome, but how many additional places will be created in occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, psychiatry, psychology and physiotherapy? There is a chronic shortage in these professions,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (22 Jun 2023)

Pauline Tully: I welcome the fact that the NRH is willing to discuss coming back on board with the scheme and that the board is almost in place. There have been ongoing problems with the scheme, however. It is 18 months since the board resigned. They resigned because the criteria for admittance to the scheme are far too stringent. A review of the scheme had been promised by the Minister's predecessor,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (22 Jun 2023)

Pauline Tully: The Minister referred to the Ombudsman's report. The one published last week is only the latest of many which have been critical of the various transport schemes for disabled people. The mobility allowance and motorised transport grant were found to be inequitable by an Ombudsman's report back in 2013, ten years ago. Instead of addressing the inequities at the time, the Government...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (22 Jun 2023)

Pauline Tully: 87. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on the recommencement of the work of the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal; if alternative facilities and secretarial services have been established since the National Rehabilitation Hospital indicated that it wishes to cease its involvement with the scheme; the reasons given by the NRH to cease its involvement with the scheme; and if...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (22 Jun 2023)

Pauline Tully: I ask the Minister for an update on the recommencement of the work of the DDMBA, if alternative facilities and secretarial services have been established since the NRH indicated it wishes to cease its involvement with the scheme, the reasons given by the NRH to cease its involvement with the scheme and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Antisocial Behaviour (22 Jun 2023)

Pauline Tully: 29. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to detail the measures in place to deal with antisocial behaviour on buses and trains; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30175/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Consultations (22 Jun 2023)

Pauline Tully: 38. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of the consultation that was undertaken with disabled persons' organisations with regard to the tendering and purchase of new buses and trains; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30176/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Travel (22 Jun 2023)

Pauline Tully: 158. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he plans to visit the United States before the end of 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30282/23]

Youth Justice Strategy: Statements (21 Jun 2023)

Pauline Tully: I broadly welcome and support the national youth justice strategy. However, if adequate resources are not put into the various organisations and clubs that are mentioned in the document and there is not meaningful cross-departmental and agency co-operation, it simply will not work. We are talking about crime. There is an imbalance between what is invested in prevention and early...

Home Care and Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2023)

Pauline Tully: I thank the Minister of State. We will now go to the Regional Group to conclude, with Deputies Cathal Berry and Denis Naughten sharing five minutes each.

Home Care and Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2023)

Pauline Tully: Home care support plays a very important role in supporting older people, as well as disabled people, to live as independently as possible. While not all disabled people need or want home care support, many do require the service, including many children as well as older people. There has been a growing crisis in home care support over the past number of years. The demand for home care has...

Education Costs: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jun 2023)

Pauline Tully: I welcome the opportunity to speak to the motion, which focuses on the need for the Government to cut back-to-school costs. I commend my party colleagues, Deputies Clarke and Mairéad Farrell, on their work in bringing this forward. The letters, emails and texts requesting the purchase of books and uniforms have already been sent by schools, in addition to schools seeking voluntary...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (20 Jun 2023)

Pauline Tully: 114. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he has plans to review the decision to withdraw Irish troops from the UNDOF Mission to the Golan Heights in Syria to allow participation in an EU Battlegroup, as this undermines our neutrality and our sterling role and record as a peacekeeping force; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29574/23]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Data (20 Jun 2023)

Pauline Tully: 122. To ask the Taoiseach the number of people with disabilities in Ireland who were deemed to be self-employed in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022; the number who had employees; and the number who had no employees, in tabular form. [28942/23]

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

Pauline Tully: 406. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the criteria for the additional needs payment to ensure that money saved to pay for items such as funeral and headstone costs are exempt from inclusion as income or savings in the application process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29210/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (20 Jun 2023)

Pauline Tully: 720. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to meet with an organisation (details supplied) before the review of the nature of community pharmacies services, which is due to take place before the end of June; if he plans to review the current dispensing fee model for community pharmacies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29704/23]