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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: A Rights-Based Approach and Disability Legislation: National Disability Authority (20 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: Deputy Higgins is joining the meeting remotely. Is the Deputy within the precincts of Leinster House?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: A Rights-Based Approach and Disability Legislation: National Disability Authority (20 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: I invite the Deputy to ask her questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: A Rights-Based Approach and Disability Legislation: National Disability Authority (20 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: I can hear you perfectly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: A Rights-Based Approach and Disability Legislation: National Disability Authority (20 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: Has the Deputy any other questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: A Rights-Based Approach and Disability Legislation: National Disability Authority (20 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: I thank the Senator. I give apologies on behalf of Deputy Canney as I neglected to do so at the beginning of the meeting. I have a few comments and questions of my own. I thank the NDA officials for the opening statement. It encompassed an awful lot of what we discuss at this committee regularly. We hear from people with lived experience. There is nothing in there we could disagree...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: A Rights-Based Approach and Disability Legislation: National Disability Authority (20 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth was chastised, for want of a better word, by the UN in the context of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the lack of progress on inclusive education. It is, therefore, something that needs to be progressed. The NCSE has prepared a document and it was submitted to the Department, but I do not think we have got...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: A Rights-Based Approach and Disability Legislation: National Disability Authority (20 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: The sectoral plans under the Disability Act were talked about. Were they produced for a number or years or was it just once?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: A Rights-Based Approach and Disability Legislation: National Disability Authority (20 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: It is something worth looking at.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: A Rights-Based Approach and Disability Legislation: National Disability Authority (20 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: Absolutely. I thank our guests for their insightful contributions. As I said, a number of Departments have been invited to meetings in the coming weeks on the back of this one, so we will be putting the questions and points the guests made today to them. The meeting is now adjourned. The next meeting of the joint committee will be in private on Wednesday, 26 April 2023 at 3.15 p.m.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: A Rights-Based Approach and Disability Legislation: National Disability Authority (20 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: Senator O’Loughlin and others mentioned employment. We are a laggard in relation to Europe in the number of people who are employed. Dr. Hartney talked about different surveys that have been carried out around people declaring a disability. In my previous job, there was a confidential survey and one declared whether one had a disability. However, many people who had disabilities,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Pensions and Social Security: Discussion (20 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: Good afternoon. I echo my colleague's welcome to the witnesses and thank them both for the papers they have presented. This has been a really interesting discussion which shows real foresight and forward planning, which is really necessary. Unfortunately, I have had to represent constituents who have been subject to sanctions from the Department of Social Protection for something very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Pensions and Social Security: Discussion (20 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: I thank the witnesses.

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (20 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: 55. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the use of the National Treatment Purchase Fund to alleviate the waiting list for assessment of need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18614/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (20 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: 265. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable housing units delivered via the cost rental equity loan, the affordable housing fund and project tosaigh in County Cavan and County Monaghan respectively for each of the years 2016 to 2022; and the number planned to be delivered in 2023, with a breakdown of units per scheme and average price of units...

Courts Bill 2023: Second Stage (19 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: I welcome the Bill and will support it. I particularly welcome the fact that there are 24 new judges coming in a few weeks and a further 20 to follow. I particularly welcome that they are for both the lower courts, the District Court and the Circuit Court. There has been an increase in the number of judges in the past decade but this has been more for the higher courts. The reason I...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (18 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: 42. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the action he is taking to increase the number of gardaí in the Cavan-Monaghan division, currently at 380, which is 26 fewer gardaí than in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18120/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (18 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: What action is the Minister for Justice taking to increase the number of gardaí in the Cavan-Monaghan division, which currently is 380. This is 26 fewer gardaí than in 2016. Will the Minister make a statement on the matter?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (18 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: I thank the Minister of State. I welcome the increased budget allocated to the Garda force. Last year the national recruitment target was 800 and I believe that only 460 - just over half - were actually recruited into the force. As I said, there are fewer gardaí in the Cavan-Monaghan division since 2016. Also, the population has increased in both counties since then. In Cavan, the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (18 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: I thank the Minister of State for that response. As he is probably aware, Cavan and Monaghan are both extremely rural counties, so for gardaí to respond to the report of a crime or to investigate a crime, they will need vehicles. The response to a parliamentary question I submitted recently indicates the number of vehicles allocated to the Cavan-Monaghan division in 2022 was six but...

Department Underspend and Reduced Delivery of Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 Apr 2023)

Pauline Tully: We are in the midst of a housing crisis where nearly 12,000 people are accessing emergency support, and 3,500 of those are children. This is not counting our rough sleepers and it is not counting those who are sofa surfing. Then we hear that the Minister did not spend almost €1 billion of the Government's capital budget for social and affordable housing since 2020. It just beggars...