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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (9 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: What supports has the Minister for Social Protection put in place to deal with the consistent delays in processing applications for additional needs payments and what actions has she taken to ensure persons who require the payment to pay for a deposit or first month's rent are not missing out on possible house rentals?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (9 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: Additional needs payment applications for assistance with deposits and rents are now being dealt with in the centralised office in Dublin. I am hearing the applications are taking weeks, if not months, to be processed. I have been contacted by a tenancy sustainment and support officer who works with people who are homeless or in danger of becoming homeless. They are referred by the local...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Offices (9 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: 6. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will detail the usage of the mobile unit to visit the homes of those who cannot attend the Intreo office, by county from 2016 to 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; the action she has taken to make persons aware of the mobile unit and home service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5945/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Offices (9 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: Will the Minister detail the usage of the mobile unit to visit the homes of those who cannot attend the Intreo office? I was looking for the information by county from 2016 to date. I do not necessarily need the Minister to read it out. I can get it in writing. I am more interested in the action the Minister is taking to make people aware of the mobile unit and the home visit service.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Offices (9 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: I raise this because, prior to Christmas, I was contacted by a man whose wife was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2016. She is unable to leave the house and is barely able to speak. She had her disability payment being paid directly into her Ulster Bank account, but as Ulster Bank is closing, she was transferring it to the post office so that her husband could pick it up for her....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Offices (9 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: Most people do not need the home service. Maybe if it was made available, too many people would access it. Is it possible to get a PSC through the portal or does a person have to present to the Intreo office or somebody call to his or her home?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Offices (9 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: The office in Sligo said that it did not need the public services card but the post office said it did and would not give the payment to the woman's husband without her having a PSC. The Intreo office did give him a temporary card and, eventually, when he was able to get access to staff, someone visited her home afterwards, but it caused a lot of trouble. She also got a letter to say she...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: 275. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that healthcare assistants currently employed by a company (details supplied) have received the pandemic special recognition payment, while healthcare assistants previously employed by this company during all of the Covid-19 period have not yet received their payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6302/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Raising Awareness of the Lived Experience of Congregated Settings: Discussion (9 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: I apologise for being late. I read the witnesses' statements last night and I thank them for their presentations this morning, particularly Mr. Alford. It is the lived experience that brings home what is needed and that some people are restricted from living their lives. I am aware that a sizeable amount of the disability budget every year goes towards residential services. I presume...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economic and Social Benefits of the Belfast-Good Friday Agreement: IBEC (9 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: I thank IBEC for its presentation. I note it said the investment we have seen in the country since the Good Friday Agreement and the relative peace is not yet delivering on its full potential. IBEC obviously sees more potential. What could the Government here do to expand on this potential? Has IBEC seen a huge increase in investment from the US or other global entities since Brexit, in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Payments (8 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: The Taoiseach stated that while the Government has a responsibility to do what is right, it also has a responsibility to protect the taxpayer. The Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy O'Gorman, when speaking on "Morning Ireland" stated that the need to protect State resources had obscured the need to protect the vulnerable. He is reported as saying,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Payments (8 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: We need full disclosure and openness from the Government and those who were in positions of power in regard to the Government’s heartless political strategy to withhold and deny disability payments to those in residential care who were entitled to it. This must involve the full co-operation of and transparency on the part of the Government, including the acceptance of any requests...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (8 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: 237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe for the completion and publication of the review of the Summer Programme 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6010/23]

Report on the Summer Programme 2023: Motion [Private Members] (2 Feb 2023)

Pauline Tully: No problem. I welcome the report of the committee and its recommendations in respect of the summer programme for 2023. I commend the Chair of the committee, as well as my fellow members. We met many groups and parents who have lived experience of the programme. They told us of the devastation they experienced when their child did not get access to summer provision. The July provision...

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

Pauline Tully: 87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe for the completion of the full review of the school transport scheme; the timeframe for the publication of the review and its recommendations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4556/23]

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]