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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (2 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: What is the timeframe for the completion of a full review of the school transport scheme, and the publication of that review and its recommendations?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (2 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: I thank the Minister. I presume changes to the scheme will be in place for September 2023. I will raise a situation that arises in the townland in which I live, where a cluster of students are attending their second-nearest school in Cavan town. There are four secondary schools in that town. Historically, students in the area where I live have gone to Cavan town rather than the nearest...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (2 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: My son is one of the students who is availing of a private transport arrangement that is costing €40 per student per week. That adds up to €1,300 per year, not including exam periods if students are in third or sixth year. Quite a number of students this year who would traditionally have been concessionary ticket holders lost out on their bus places. This was because the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (2 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: I would like to come in on this question. I am a member of the Joint Committee on Autism. Fiacre Ryan and his mother, Carmel, presented as witnesses at the committee and talked about and explained this method. I have been contacted by a number of parents and teachers about this method. The Minister of State said that schools are not prohibited from using the method. However, one school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (2 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: 160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will revise the ratio of clerical and administration staff to pupils in both primary and post-primary schools to ensure that they increase concurrently; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4557/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (2 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: 212. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the National Transport Authority, in conjunction with Bus Éireann, will provide an additional bus service on the 182 bus route from Monaghan to Drogheda at the weekends, in both directions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5300/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (2 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: 231. To ask the Minister for Finance the current number of Revenue Commissioners staff, by grade, that answer the personal PAYE hotline number; if he has plans to increase the number of these staff, given that many older people are not able to use computers and or do not have access to the internet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5299/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: An Garda Síochána (2 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: 237. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the timeframe for the completion of the refurbishment works on Bailieborough Garda station; the estimated cost of these works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5301/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (2 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: 251. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the Irish Embassies that are scheduled for refurbishment in 2023; the nature of these works; the timeframe for when these works will commence, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5289/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (2 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: 258. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of vacancies by rank in the Defence Forces school of music as of 23 January 2023; the timeframe within which each of these vacancies will be filled, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5288/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Official Engagements (2 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: 259. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he has plans to invite his French counterpart (details supplied) to Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5290/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (2 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: 359. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of evidential breath-testing machines allocated to each Garda division as of 20 January 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5295/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (2 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: 360. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the age of each boat currently in the Garda water unit. [5296/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (2 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: 361. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a fresh recruitment campaign for persons to apply to join An Garda Síochána will be launched before the end of Quarter 1 2023. [5297/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (2 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: 362. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí who have successfully completed the competency-based driving level 3 course by rank in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5298/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Transfers (2 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: 378. To ask the Minister for Health if the pathfinder alternative care pathway will be extended to cover counties Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5291/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (2 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: 379. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent consultant vascular surgeons attached to each hospital in the RCSI hospital group in the years of 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5292/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (2 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: 380. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of recruiting two additional whole-time equivalent advanced nurse practitioners and two additional whole-time equivalent clinical nurse managers for the minor injuries unit at Monaghan Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5293/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (2 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: 381. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite beds that are available for adults with intellectual disabilities in the Cavan-Monaghan area; the number that are occupied at present; when extra respite beds will be made available during 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5294/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Living with a Disability: Discussion (2 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: I cannot disagree with anything that has been said. We have heard many of these issues in the committee before, but the more we hear and discuss them and tease them out, the better, to continually raise them and raise awareness. They do not get the proper recognition or pay and conditions, and that has to change. There is a major shortage of home care workers and assistants. Until the...