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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: Cuirim fáilte roimh Dr. Mitchell. I thank her for coming in today. I have listened to her in the audiovisual room before this as well. What she has done is really enlightening. Anything we can do to broaden the conversation around constitutional change and the future of this country is really important. It is really important to include as many different voices and perspectives as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: Is there something more than that, which the Government, political parties or even this committee could be doing to encourage conversations and to try to allay the fears? As Dr. Mitchell says, it could be with some people that they have lost their identity or they feel they are losing it because of Brexit, so there might be something we could do to assure them they have not and that their...

Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: There have been 63 deaths on our roads this year, meaning 63 grieving families. At the current rate of traffic fatalities, Ireland is on course to record 225 deaths by the end of the year, which would make it the worst year for road safety in over a quarter of a century. We hope that does not happen because we do not want to see any more grieving families. We also need to remember all the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: I raise the current situation in regard to the Irish Wheelchair Association service in Cavan. As of this week, the service has been reduced to an outreach-only model, similar to what was offered during the Covid period. This decision, which is based on the lack of staff, was made in conjunction with the HSE. Service users are devastated. The service was already severely reduced but now it...

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

Pauline Tully: I, too, welcome the decision 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...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Reports (17 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 114. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the timeframe for the publication of the report on the Demonstration Project on Personalised Budgets; if the accompanying evaluation process will be completed in quarter 2, 2024, as reported in July 2022; the numbers currently involved in the project; and if he will give an update on the brokerage models...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (17 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 123. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of residential disability respite centres in use by December 2018, December 2019, December 2020, December 2021, December 2022 and December 2023; the total number of overnight residential respite places available at each of these dates; and the total number of day-only residential respite places...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: I welcome everyone and thank them for their opening statements. Like everyone else, I welcome the positive work they have outlined that their organisations are undertaking. I will also refer to the Disability Act. Section 26 provides that public bodies are required to ensure their services are accessible to people with disabilities by providing integrated access to mainstream services....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: I am sorry, but-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: -----we had a lot of disabled people in here last Monday week for a full day and that issue came up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: Everybody has a right to use the road space.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: I understand we need cycle lanes that are safe for cyclists and we need spaces for buses and other traffic, but we also need people to be able to get on and off buses safely. They cannot do so at present in many locations. I am not saying they are all bad but there are some locations that they feel are really dangerous. I referred to the person who told me about getting off a bus and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: There must be stops or something. There has to be some sort of a safe way to cross.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: Is "Yield" written on the cycle lane? How does a cyclist know he or she is supposed to yield?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: I have noticed any lights at bus stops.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: I welcome that because we need something.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: I do not accept that there was good and proper consultation done on this beforehand.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: I was told about a meeting attended by representatives of cyclists and people with disabilities. When they could not agree, the NTA decided to do its own thing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: One meeting is hardly consultation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: People who have a visual impairment are telling me these things; it is not that I am making them up. Those people are not happy with the change.