Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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781. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in line with Action 98 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report (details supplied) if he has plans to review the application processes for social housing and other housing supports to ensure that they are accessible to autistic people and disabled people; and the estimated cost of implementing this proposal. [57337/23]

Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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782. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in line with Action 99 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report (details supplied), if he has plans to ensure that autism is regarded as a sensory disability by all local authorities for the purposes of accessing prioritised social housing provision. [57338/23]

Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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783. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in line with Action 100 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report (details supplied), if he has plans to provide adequate grants to allow for sensory rooms to be added to homes and the sensory proofing of homes for autistic people; and the estimated first and full year cost respectively of implementing this proposal. [57339/23]

Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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784. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in line with Action 101 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report (details supplied) if he has plans to ensure that local authorities engage with schools to assist in developing suitable sensory provision for autistic children; and the estimated first and full year cost respectively of implementing this proposal. [57340/23]

Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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785. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in line with Action 102 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report (details supplied) if he has plans to provide designated funding to local authorities to add sensory areas and communication boards to all playgrounds; and the estimated first and full year cost respectively of implementing this proposal. [57341/23]

Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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786. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in line with Action 103 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report (details supplied) if he has plans to provide autism training to staff in local authorities and ensure that autism is accepted as a condition which qualifies for housing support; and the estimated cost of implementing this proposal. [57342/23]

Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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787. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in line with Action 104 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report (details supplied) if he has plans to incentivise participation in continuing professional development courses in universal design and accessibility for architects and planners; and the estimated cost of implementing this proposal. [57343/23]

Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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788. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in line with Action 105 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report (details supplied) if he has plans to liaise with professional bodies within architecture and planning to promote education in universal design and the implementation of Universal Design practices. [57344/23]

Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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789. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in line with Action 106 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report (details supplied) if he has plans to engage with the Office of Public Works (OPW) to implement guidelines on making facilities and sites under their auspices more autism-friendly; and the estimated cost of implementing this proposal. [57345/23]

Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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790. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in line with Action 107 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report (details supplied) if he has plans to provide autism training to tour guides and other public-facing OPW staff at heritage sites and cultural institutions; and the estimated cost of implementing this proposal. [57346/23]

Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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791. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in line with Action 108 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report (details supplied) if he has plans to provide more opportunities for career development in public sector planning to retain planners; and the estimated cost of implementing this proposal. [57347/23]

Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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792. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in line with Action 109 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report (details supplied) if he has plans to recruit a designated Disability Officer in every local authority to advise autistic people and their families on accessing supports and assist them to complete the application process, where needed; and the estimated first and full year cost respectively of implementing this proposal. [57348/23]

Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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793. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the housing adaptation grant for older people and people with disabilities can be used for creating a sensory room and other structural adaptations in local authority homes (details supplied). [57379/23]