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Seanad: Post Office Network: Statements (9 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: ...about 3 miles from the village of Kilnaleck. Some 12 or 13 years ago, there was a branch of Ulster Bank with an ATM that was open all hours, a branch of Cavan Credit Union and a post office in the town.Now, there are none of those. There was an ATM service provided through one of the shops when the ownership changed, so at least that is there during opening hours. The post office there...

Seanad: National Drugs Strategy: Statements (8 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: The national drugs strategy is coming to an end, so one would imagine that preparation should be ongoing to review the current strategy in order to learn from it and inform the next strategy or where we go from here, but stakeholders have expressed concern that there has been a lack of consultation on the ground. There are many organisations that work in our communities. They know what is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pauline Tully: ...years. Are schools with physical space getting priority over schools without such space, despite the fact the need might be greater in the school without the physical space? I know some building works have been sanctioned, but there are delays in this regard too. Basically, are budgetary constraints impacting schools opening classes where there is an identifiable need? Some schools...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Housing Schemes (18 Jun 2025)

Pauline Tully: I have been recently notified by Cavan County Council that it is pausing the private housing grant applications for the moment due to high demand. This refers to the housing adaptation grant, the mobility aids grant and the housing aid for older people grant. These grants are vital to make changes or improvements to homes to accommodate changing needs which may occur due to ageing and...

Seanad: Delivering a World-Class Education System: Statements (12 Jun 2025)

Pauline Tully: I was not expecting to be next. As a former teacher, I am delighted to speak on this issue. I was a teacher for nearly 30 years and most of that time was spent in Breifne College in Cavan town. I am proud of my teaching career, our education system and the good work teachers, SNAs and the whole school staff, including secretaries and caretakers, put into making our schools not only good...

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Pauline Tully: I will be sharing time with Senator Nicole Ryan. I join in acknowledging Sheila O'Byrne and Catherine Coffey O'Brien in the Gallery. I acknowledge the profound detrimental impact residential institutional abuse had on survivors, not only at the time but right up to the modern day. I also join Senator Curley in acknowledging Senator Boyhan on his passionate speech today and for all his...

Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (11 Jun 2025)

Pauline Tully: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. I have questions on a number of issues. First is the contract for adult education tutors. There is a lot of concern about this across the country. I spoke to tutors last September in Cavan-Monaghan and a number of other ETBs who did not get any hours, though that was not across the country. There seemed to be a funding issue. I think it was somehow...

Committee on Education and Youth: Business of Joint Committee (21 May 2025)

Pauline Tully: I thank the Cathaoirleach and congratulate him on his appointment. I am looking forward to working with him and with all the other members on addressing the challenges and barriers relating to our education system. I want to say how good our education system is, and I commend all of those involved in education in this country. Our system is the envy of many other countries but, as I have...

Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Business of Joint Committee (21 May 2025)

Pauline Tully: A Chathaoirligh, I congratulate you on your appointment as Chair of this committee and I look forward to working with you - again. We worked very successfully on the disability matters committee during the last Government's term. It was an excellent committee with a lot of cross-party co-operation, and I am sure the same will happen under your control of this committee. There are a lot...

Seanad: Mental Health and Suicide Prevention: Statements (15 May 2025)

Pauline Tully: ...had one of the highest rates of suicide in the past few years. It has twice the national average. It is distressing that so many, especially young men, are taking their own lives, but it extends to men and women of all ages, unfortunately. I commend the staff in mental health units in the community and hospitals as well as those who work in SOSAD, Pieta and many of our family resource...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Apr 2025)

Pauline Tully: I join earlier speakers in extending good wishes to Jeremy Wilmshurst in his new role and thank him for how very helpful and pleasant he always was to deal with. I also wish George every success in his new role. Last week, when I raised the issue of the humanitarian assistance scheme, the Ceannaire indicated that the Minister for Social Protection would be invited to the Chamber to...

Seanad: Special Education Provision: Motion (26 Mar 2025)

Pauline Tully: I move: That Seanad Éireann: recognises: - the fundamental right of every child to access education; - the growing current and projected demand for special education placements; - the current shortage of special classes and appropriate school places, leaving children, particularly those with additional needs, without access to suitable education; - the trauma and absolute...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Pauline Tully: I would like to call for a debate on mental health services as soon as possible. I would particularly like to focus on the funding crisis facing Save our Sons and Daughters, SOSAD, currently. SOSAD provides a valuable service and has probably saved hundreds of lives. It offers a freephone service, a messaging service and it has two drop-in centres, one of which is in my home town of Cavan,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Feb 2025)

Pauline Tully: I request a debate on the effects of Storm Éowyn. It particularly affected the midlands and the west, including my county of Cavan, very badly. Some customers were only reconnected with power this week, meaning they were 19 days without power. I was nine days without power, and that was difficult enough. I also particularly mention people who are vulnerable. There were older people,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Future-proofing to Improve Life and Longevity for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)

Pauline Tully: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for their presentation. I commend the work they do. It is very impressive that it is the first study in Europe and the only one in the world that compares ageing between people in the intellectual disability community and others. As others have said, data is important, and there is an absence of data among issues relating to disability. Without...

Carer's Allowance: Motion [Private Members] (6 Nov 2024)

Pauline Tully: Yesterday morning, I attended a hustings event organised by Family Carers Ireland. It laid out its asks of political parties going into this general election and what it wants to see included in every party's manifesto. At the top of that list was the abolition of the carer's allowance means test. It was going on what carers themselves were asking for. The room was full of carers and many...

Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)

Pauline Tully: This day last week, I attended a protest at Cavan General Hospital. That protest was held by workers from across the hospital, including nurses, clerical workers, porters and healthcare assistants. They were represented by three unions, which were Fórsa, SIPTU and the INMO. The demonstration was held as the first step in opposition to the pay and numbers strategy introduced by the HSE...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Children with Disabilities - UNCRPD Article 7: Discussion (16 Oct 2024)

Pauline Tully: ...and staff members, from three special schools in different parts of the country were present. Their focus was on the removal of therapies from special schools in 2020 and the call for those to be reinstated. A pilot programme was announced but has not been launched. Therapies in special and mainstream schools are vital. The CDNTs are not working. I agree totally with Mr. Harris about...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Education and Training Boards (8 Oct 2024)

Pauline Tully: I have been contacted by tutors and by students who want to undertake these courses, and the tutors were given very little notice. They were contacted within days of when they assumed they were going to start delivering their classes. One tutor who delivers up to six art classes a week suddenly has no classes. She depends on that funding; it is her job. Students who have been in contact...

Childcare: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2024)

Pauline Tully: I commend Deputy Kerrane on bringing forward this motion and on the work she has done on the policy and commend her predecessor, the former Deputy Kathleen Funchion, on all the work she did in this area as well. Childcare needs to be affordable, accessible and reliable but it is not any of those things at the moment. An average cost of €800 per month is not affordable. Many...