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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...

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

Pauline Tully: This is something that occurred to me. I am aware of a carer who looked after her daughter for 40 years. Her daughter has a profound disability and she has been placed in a supported living home in the community after many years of campaigning for this. When this lady applied for a pension, however, she was distraught to find that she was not entitled to any pension because she did not...

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

Pauline Tully: -----or an adult's pension. She told me that for some reason she is not entitled to a non-contributory pension either. She just feels it is not fair. I know there is a new pension coming in next year.

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

Pauline Tully: Is that retrospective?

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

Pauline Tully: Her daughter just got her home last June and she received the carer's allowance for a number of weeks after that. It would just be from the summer to next January. We are talking about a year and a half where she should have been entitled to a pension but was not. Even if she knew she would receive the payment, it would be something.

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

Pauline Tully: Okay.

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

Pauline Tully: January was mentioned in a reply I received to a parliamentary question.

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

Pauline Tully: I will be brief because I realise we are close to the end of the meeting. Ms Gallagher addressed many issues in her reply to Deputy Ellis, as well as many of the issues that are raised in this committee on a continual basis. I congratulate her on the work she did in getting the law changed so that PhD students could keep their stipend with their disability allowance and medical card. Many...

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

Pauline Tully: That is coming in January 2024.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Pauline Tully: I wish everyone a good morning. All research is welcome. A broad range of issues was researched on which people were engaged. As the Committee on Autism, we are interested in the findings from autistic people who engaged in the process. As a committee, we are tasked with coming up with a report and recommendations in a few months. Does Science Foundation Ireland have any advice for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Pauline Tully: I thank the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Pauline Tully: From our engagement with people over the past months many have said that it seems to make a huge difference if there is a positive experience at school, especially at primary level, if supports are there. It makes a huge difference to a child's ability as they grow older to progress further in education or into employment or to live independently. Has that been found or did it arise in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Pauline Tully: Has the Department of Education or, more specifically, the National Council for Special Education, NCSE, engaged at all?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Pauline Tully: The centre works with roughly three schools a year. I know the centre was founded in 2007. Is it since then or 2012?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Pauline Tully: It is very welcome. The centre works with 60 to 66 children and gives them individual attention and then there is also the whole-school model, but there is no whole-school model in the South.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Pauline Tully: How are the referrals made, particularly from the South?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Pauline Tully: Have the NCSE or the Department indicated they want to expand the service? It is still a pilot after all these years here. Do they want to make it more permanent and expand it? I know the centre may be working at its capacity but is there a possibility of expanding services by increasing the level of staff?