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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (25 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 6. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is considering the consolidation of all disability payments together into one single payment system; if so, her plans to consult and co-design this scheme in conjunction with the disability community; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18411/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (25 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: Is the Minister considering the consolidation of all disability payments into one single payment system and, if so, has she plans to consult and co-design the scheme in conjunction with the disability community, and will she make a statement on the matter?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (25 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: As the Minister has said, one of the proposals was to merge the disability allowance, blind pension and invalidity pension into a single payment called the personal support payment. While the Green Paper has been scrapped, and for good reason, there were proposals within which merited further analysis and I believe this is one. In our consultation with disabled individuals and DPOs, there...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (25 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: The Green Paper also proposed higher rates for disability payments, and that, too, needs to be progressed. The cost of disability payment needs to be looked at. The priority is to ensure no person is living in poverty. I also refer to a number of constituents who have come to my office because their payment has been cut or curtailed without any warning. There may be perfectly good reasons...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (25 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 39. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider altering the Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024 to apply the reduced rate of social welfare payments to Ukrainian people who arrive after a particular date instead of the current approach of connecting the reduced payment to new designated centres; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (25 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 70. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is taking over responsibility for the inspection of small abattoirs from the local authorities who currently undertake this on behalf of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland; the timeframe within which this will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18421/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 79. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will introduce specific measures to support farmers affected by extremely difficult weather conditions which have resulted in a much-delayed turnout of livestock and planting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18420/24]

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: Ongoing bad weather has created huge problems for farmers this spring, with fields too wet for planting or taking livestock. Many farmers face fodder shortages because animals have been in sheds for too long. They cannot access grass in the fields because of wet ground conditions. Tillage farmers cannot get onto their land to plant their crops. My neighbours' fields are still empty....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: My colleague Deputy Carthy and I have consistently raised the issue of the very limited provision of respite in our constituency of Cavan-Monaghan. The Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, has committed to looking at an additional house for children in Monaghan and I hope she will proceed with that very soon. It has been brought to my attention by a parent that Steadfast House in...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: I thank the Regional Group for bringing forward the motion and affording us the opportunity to address the House on the need to review and reform support for carers. Family carers have long been held up as a crucial pillar of parent support in Ireland. Various departmental strategies and documents refer to the important role that family carers play in our society, viewing them as the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services Staff (24 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: I appreciate that and I am delighted to hear there will be further talks and negotiations. If this issue is not dealt with, we will not see an end to this problem. There is a shortage of workers within the sector, so they will go to the agencies and organisations that can pay them more. They will do exactly the same work but be paid better. Several organisations have expressed concern....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services Staff (24 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: In the early hours of Tuesday, 17 October 2023, unions reached an agreement on pay parity for section 39, section 56 and section 10 workers who are employed in community services. The agreement came about on foot of a long-running dispute relating to the pay they were receiving and the pay their counterparts directly employed by the State were receiving. A proposal was agreed acknowledging...

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: That concludes statements of acknowledgement and apology to the families and victims of the Stardust tragedy. I thank you for being here today and commend your fortitude, determination and resilience over the past 43 years in doing something you should not have had to do and for seeing it through. I am just in awe. Thank you very much.

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: The Deputy’s time is up.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Law Cases (23 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 36. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider reviewing the penalties that can be issued by a judge for non-compliance with a court order (details supplied) in family law cases; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17814/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Budgets (23 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 86. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage has made an application to his Department for increased funding in budget 2025 for the repair and maintenance of local and regional roads; if he will increase the funding for allocation to the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage in budget 2025 for the repair...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (23 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 512. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the proportion of disabled people in residential care in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024 who were categorised as having low to medium support needs; and the proportion of disabled people in residential care in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024 who were categorised as having high to intensive...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (23 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 513. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the capital costs of providing a four-bedroom residential centre for disabled people; the first-year current costs of providing a four-bedroom residential centre for disabled people; and the full year current cost of providing a four-bedroom residential centre for disabled people, in tabular form. [17452/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (23 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 514. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the capital costs of providing a four-bedroom respite centre for disabled people; the first-year current costs of providing a four-bedroom respite centre for disabled people; and the full-year current cost of providing a four-bedroom respite centre for disabled people, in tabular form. [17453/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (23 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 515. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the Department's target for the provision of respite places for disabled people over the next three, six and nine years, in tabular form. [17454/24]