Results 81-100 of 3,260 for speaker:Pauline Tully

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 May 2024)

Pauline Tully: As of last week the British Government's so-called legacy Bill became law. The British intention is that inquests and investigations will remain unconcluded and that families will go without the answers or the justice they rightly deserve. This cynical and callous Bill is an affront to the victim-centred approach agreed as part of the Stormont House Agreement. The singular purpose it...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Programmes (8 May 2024)

Pauline Tully: There are 5,631 single parents in this country currently relying on the working family payment and the one parent family payment. These single parents are entitled to claim both payments if they meet both sets of qualifying criteria. As the Taoiseach is aware, single parents are already at a much higher risk of poverty. These payments are vital to allow families clothe and feed their...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 May 2024)

Pauline Tully: The most recent HSE staff census and the work course review highlighted a staff vacancy rate of 34%, or 707 vacancies, in 2022. This is up substantially from a 28% vacancy rate, or 524 vacancies, in 2021. The 2023 figures are not in yet but from engagement with and listening to parents, it is highly likely this will show that the situation has not improved and has become even worse. In...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Deprivation of Liberty: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Pauline Tully: Good evening to the witnesses. I thank them for their presentations. When we talk about deprivation of liberty we instantly think of prison so I will address that issue first. We had representatives of the Irish Prison Service before the committee and they identified the fact that there were large numbers of people in our prisons with mental health issues, autism, and intellectual...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (8 May 2024)

Pauline Tully: 451. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the timeframe within which a decision will be made in relation to the business case currently with the HSE to fund an increase in respite provision in a facility (details supplied) from 840 nights per year to 1500 nights per year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20434/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 May 2024)

Pauline Tully: 36. To ask the Minister for Health to detail the specific health supports that are available to people with long-Covid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19867/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (2 May 2024)

Pauline Tully: 62. To ask the Minister for Health the actions he has taken to decrease waiting times for children and adolescents to access CAMHS in CHO1; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19868/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2024)

Pauline Tully: A lot of what I had intended to ask has been covered. The subvention exists because of low productivity in the North, and there is a huge assumption being made here that that is going to continue. Research has shown Irish unity would boost the Irish economy, and we know partition has caused the economy here to suffer. You would hope, therefore, that the removal of partition would end up...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (1 May 2024)

Pauline Tully: I thank the witnesses for coming and for their presentations. I commend all the good work that the different organisations are doing in ensuring that they are improving their services and by engaging with various organisations around disability. I have a question for all of the witnesses. How many people with disabilities are employed within their organisations? Those people can then...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (30 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 83. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Question No. 97 of 29 February 2024, for an update on the recruitment drive for the children's disability network teams, CDNTs, as referenced in the reply; to specifically outline how many staff have been recruited into the CDNTs in Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Strategies (30 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 101. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what progress has been made on compiling a register of DPOs in Ireland; when he envisages that this process will be completed; what measures will be taken to ensure all Government Departments and public bodies engage DPOs in consultation prior to the commencement of projects; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (30 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 125. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to detail the community-based supports that are available to people who have acquired a disability due to stroke, heart attack or accident; the measures he is taking to increase these community-based supports for people with an acquired disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19215/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (30 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 496. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider increasing both the income and disposable assets threshold limits for access to free legal aid; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19033/24]

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]