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Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: There have been 63 deaths on our roads this year, meaning 63 grieving families. At the current rate of traffic fatalities, Ireland is on course to record 225 deaths by the end of the year, which would make it the worst year for road safety in over a quarter of a century. We hope that does not happen because we do not want to see any more grieving families. We also need to remember all the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: I raise the current situation in regard to the Irish Wheelchair Association service in Cavan. As of this week, the service has been reduced to an outreach-only model, similar to what was offered during the Covid period. This decision, which is based on the lack of staff, was made in conjunction with the HSE. Service users are devastated. The service was already severely reduced but now it...

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: I, too, welcome the decision to scrap the Green Paper on Disability Reform. My colleagues in Sinn Féin and I had grave reservations about it and had called for it to be binned. As Sinn Féin spokesperson on disability, along with its spokesperson on social protection, Deputy Ó Laoghaire, I met a wide range of disabled people and representatives of disability organisations to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Reports (17 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 114. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the timeframe for the publication of the report on the Demonstration Project on Personalised Budgets; if the accompanying evaluation process will be completed in quarter 2, 2024, as reported in July 2022; the numbers currently involved in the project; and if he will give an update on the brokerage models...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (17 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 123. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of residential disability respite centres in use by December 2018, December 2019, December 2020, December 2021, December 2022 and December 2023; the total number of overnight residential respite places available at each of these dates; and the total number of day-only residential respite places...

National Cancer Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (16 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: I pay tribute to the cancer support groups in my constituency, including Ballyjamesduff Cancer Support Fund, CUAN cancer support in Cavan, and Crocus cancer support in Monaghan, and also the Moylagh JFK 50 Mile Challenge committee, which has raised over €1.2 million for cancer services and research over the past 11 years. These groups provide vital services and support for cancer...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of autism unit places in mainstream primary schools in County Cavan; the number of autism unit places in mainstream post-primary schools in County Cavan; her plans to expand the number of autism unit places for children in mainstream primary and post-primary schools in County Cavan; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions she is taking to resolve the issue of the delays in school capital projects in County Cavan which has led to a number of secondary schools becoming oversubscribed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16466/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (16 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 603. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of residential places for disabled people that were delivered as of December 2023. [16567/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (16 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 606. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of disabled adults with a residential placement in CHO7 that are attending a day service; the number that are attending a day service in the same catchment area they reside in; and the number that attend a day service in a different catchment area to the one they reside in. [16705/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (16 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 726. To ask the Minister for Health the number of endocrinologists employed in Cavan General Hospital in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024. [16504/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (16 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 727. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children from counties Cavan and Monaghan with type 1 diabetes that are currently being referred to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda and Temple Street Hospital for the provision of insulin pump therapy; the reason these children require onward referral to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda or Temple Street Hospital as insulin pump...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Disability Services (11 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 36. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the progress his Department has made regarding Action 9.2 of the Action Plan for Disability Services to establish along with the HSE a dedicated project implementation team to work with residents, CHOs, service providers, local authorities and Approved Housing Bodies to accelerate decongregation; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (11 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 61. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider amending the vacant property refurbishment grant to allow applicants who are facing homelessness to move into the property prior to applying to the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15721/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Strategies (11 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 180. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in respect to the HSE National Service Plan 2023 which places the projected outturn 2022 for the number of people with a disability in receipt of respite services ID/autism and physical and sensory disability at 5,170 if this figure accounts for both adults and children (details supplied). [15815/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for their opening statements. To start with Pobal, I acknowledge the AIM programme. It does vital work and supports many young children with additional needs in preschool, playschool and before they go to school. It is a model that could be continued to primary and secondary level, instead of relying on a diagnosis for supports. That should be looked...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: Is that countrywide?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: Early childhood educators are saying they do not even have an input into the child starting primary school. They have amassed so much information about a child, the supports that child needs and what works and does not work, yet there is no mechanism for transferring that information from the early childcare sector into primary school. The children's disability network teams, CDNTs, used to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: I thank Ms Goodman.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (10 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 92. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people in receipt of payments (details supplied) as of 31 December 2023, in tabular form. [15535/24]