Results 1-20 of 158 for long speaker:Pauline Tully

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

Pauline Tully: ...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. They...

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: ...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 that the workers in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (18 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: ...and Skills if he will consider changing the eligibility criteria for the student grant scheme to enable students whose family was granted legal residency in Ireland through the regularisation of long-term undocumented migrants scheme to apply using the total number of years they lived in Ireland, including when they were undocumented. [17239/24]

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

Pauline Tully: ...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 discuss the Green Paper....

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

Pauline Tully: ...alternative services are accessible to autistic children. It is essential the HSE provides a single point of entry for autistic children where they may access disability services and mental health services in tandem. Along with making disability and mental health services more accessible, we must also build capacity in these services to provide assessment and therapies to autistic young...

Rare Diseases: Statements (6 Mar 2024)

Pauline Tully: I welcome the preparation of a rare disease plan, but this should have been commenced long before now. The current plan is six years out of date, because the time period for its implementation was between 2014 and 2018. More than one third of people with rare diseases in Ireland have had to wait more than five years for a diagnosis. Currently, in Ireland, only nine conditions are...

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Pauline Tully: ...an acquired brain injury or mobility issues. They return home after discharge from hospital, sometimes the National Rehabilitation Hospital which does excellent work although its waiting list is long. If there is nowhere for them to go, they end up in nursing homes, which are not the right places for them. That practice continues and these men have no access to proper services and...

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Pauline Tully: ...Disability Service 2024-2026; and — the publication of the Roadmap for Service Improvement 2023-2026: Disability Services for Children and Young People; considers that: — waiting lists for disability services are far too long, where they are maintained, and that personal assistance services are far too limited; — the €55.6 million in additional new...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (29 Feb 2024)

Pauline Tully: ...even spoken to people who have not applied at all even though they need it or know they will need it in the future but they feel it is pointless because they hear of others who have been waiting so long. Then there are some who are unsure how to even apply. That just points to a deficit of information being provided to people around disability services in general and what supports are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for People with Epidermolysis Bullosa: Discussion (28 Feb 2024)

Pauline Tully: EB is not included in the long-term illness scheme.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for People with Epidermolysis Bullosa: Discussion (28 Feb 2024)

Pauline Tully: Why is EB not included? It is not curable and is a long-term illness. What is the reason given and what criteria does it not meet?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Safeguarding: Safeguarding Ireland (21 Feb 2024)

Pauline Tully: I thank the witnesses for their attendance and presentation earlier and for waiting such a long time for all those votes. I am looking at some of their objectives and some of the things they have identified as being positive developments. A number of reports are due, including the results of the review from Mr. Bernard Gloster of the HSE in a couple of weeks, the Minister of State, Deputy...

Paediatric Orthopaedic and Urology Services: Motion [Private Members] (20 Feb 2024)

Pauline Tully: This motion outlines the stark statistics pertaining to the long waiting lists for children who require orthopaedic surgery. Behind every statistic is a child from a toddler to a teen, who is waiting in pain when they should be enjoying their lives. As a parent, I would do anything for my children, and the parents here are doing everything they can for their children but it is like banging...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (15 Feb 2024)

Pauline Tully: ...organise classes, provide speaking opportunities for all levels and work with schools, etc. In short, they have stood up to do a job the State has never been seriously interested in doing and has long forgone, that is, to reinstate Gaeilge as a spoken language of Ireland. Many people want more opportunities to speak the language and those who have Irish want opportunities and supports to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Pauline Tully: ...existence and the supports it offers? What kind of inquiries does it receive on the cross-Border hub, for example, and that sort of thing? Some of InterTradeIreland's programmes and schemes are long-running. It is constantly creating new ones and expanding the work it does, which is very impressive. Acumen is one of its schemes. How and why has it endured? What do the witnesses see...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (18 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: ...further, it turns out the appointment is only an initial one to see the consultant. It does not take into account the time they will have to wait on a waiting list for an operation. That is too long. Some of them will end up using the cross-border directive but they should not have to do that, as it can place a financial pressure on them because they have to pay upfront for it, although...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (18 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: 32. To ask the Minister for Health what actions he is taking to reverse the current trend in long-term residential care (LTRC) where there has been a consolidation of LTRC homes under larger operator groups in Dublin and the commuter belt at the expense of smaller independently owned and operated LTRC homes which are not part of operator groups in rural areas such as in Cavan (details...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Planning for Inclusive Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: ...be said about congregated settings. Again, moving people out of congregated settings into the community has been quite slow. There has been some progress and that is welcome, but there is still a long way to go.