Results 41-60 of 3,105 for speaker:Pauline Tully

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (9 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 1684. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 48 of 27 February 2024, if there is an update on the updated proposal submitted by his Department and the Department of Education to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform concerning the pay scale of tutors employed in ETBs to deliver FET programmes. [13709/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Data (9 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 1732. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of WTE compliance concerns managers at the grade of HEO working in the Charities Regulator in the years 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [15105/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Role of Disabled Persons Organisations and Self Advocacy in Providing Equal Opportunities under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Implementation: Discussion (8 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: I thank the witnesses for giving up their time. They are very generous with their time. It is not the first time most of them have appeared before the committee and shared with us their expertise on disability. They are the experts on disability and all issues relating to disability. This is a day for listening so we are here to listen and learn. While we have heard many of the issues...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (21 Mar 2024)

Pauline Tully: 78. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has concerns regarding the safety issues faced by disabled people in navigating floating bus islands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13256/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (21 Mar 2024)

Pauline Tully: 93. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if transport policy is based on the principles of universal design; if he is considering legislation that mandates national mandatory minimum accessibility standards for public transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13255/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Planning for Inclusive Communities: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Mar 2024)

Pauline Tully: Good evening to the Minister of State and his officials. We hear a lot about data at this committee in the context of disabilities, and talk of poor data around disabilities for lots of reasons. However, I find it hard to understand how something can be planned for if there is no data. Senator Clonan mentioned Germany where a plan is put in place at an early age for a child identified with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Planning for Inclusive Communities: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Mar 2024)

Pauline Tully: It is the adaptive grant. It also applies to local authority housing. Do they all take into account that an additional room may be needed where there is an autistic child? That could be to provide a sensory room or quiet space. Sometimes parents tell me that a child does not sleep well, so they could not put two children in one room because one of them wakes up a lot and wakes the other....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (20 Mar 2024)

Pauline Tully: 232. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he will take to address the matters raised in correspondence (details supplied). [12073/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Policies (20 Mar 2024)

Pauline Tully: 251. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on the actions being taken to implement the proposals for a modern, fit-for-purpose vehicle adaptation scheme in line with international best practice that would replace the disabled drivers and disabled passenger's scheme. [12612/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (20 Mar 2024)

Pauline Tully: 491. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to detail what future planning is undertaken to ensure that the necessary number of places required in both mainstream of special schools by children with additional educational needs are delivered prior to the start of the school year in both primary and secondary school. [12613/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (20 Mar 2024)

Pauline Tully: 667. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will permit applicants for the vacant property grant reside in the house prior to applying for the grant where they are facing homelessness. [12660/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (20 Mar 2024)

Pauline Tully: 735. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason self-employed people are not entitled to claim carer's benefit; if she will consider changing the eligibility criteria whereby self-employed people can claim carer's benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12074/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (20 Mar 2024)

Pauline Tully: 736. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will adjust the new flexible pension arrangements to allow people under the age of 70 years to work if they so choose and claim contributions towards a State pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12075/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (20 Mar 2024)

Pauline Tully: 758. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has concerns regarding the equitability of the fact that disabled people over the age of 65 years were not entitled to the cost-of-living disability lump sum payments contained within either Budget 2023 or Budget 2024. [12611/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (20 Mar 2024)

Pauline Tully: 1130. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of residential places that were available as of December 2023; and the number available to date in 2024, in tabular form. [11964/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (20 Mar 2024)

Pauline Tully: 1337. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure newborn babies are screened for SMA and SCID in 2024 as he previously committed, considering the fact that the new laboratory to be located in the new National Children’s Hospital, will not be ready until at least Q2 2025; if consideration has been given by his Department for an interim solution to screen newborn...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (20 Mar 2024)

Pauline Tully: 1447. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe within which the new pathway for children with type 1 diabetes will be implemented in Cavan Monaghan Hospital for the provision of insulin pump therapy; and the reason for the delay in implementing this service, which was due to start in Quarter 3/Quarter 4 of 2023. [12657/24]

Report of the Joint Committee on Autism: Motion (7 Mar 2024)

Pauline Tully: The Seanad is the Upper House.

Report of the Joint Committee on Autism: Motion (7 Mar 2024)

Pauline Tully: I thank all my colleagues for their contributions to this discussion. It is not really a debate; it is a discussion. I thank the Minister of State not just for being here and participating in this but for all the work she does in this area. I am really looking forward to the launch of the autism innovation strategy. It is great to hear it is just a few weeks away. She said it was...

Report of the Joint Committee on Autism: Motion (7 Mar 2024)

Pauline Tully: I move: That Dáil Éireann shall take note of the Report of the Joint Committee on Autism entitled "Final Report of the Joint Committee on Autism", copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 14th June, 2023. I will share my time with Senator Micheál Carrigy. I express my thanks to my fellow members of the former Joint Committee on Autism who worked...