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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla (Atógáil) - Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Home Care Packages (7 Nov 2024)

Pauline Tully: I am raising the issue of gaps in home care provision because it is having a detrimental effect on the everyday lives of people, whether elderly or disabled. I am contacted regularly by family members of older people and disabled people who have been approved hours that are not being filled. This is where a home care package has been put in place, the person has been assessed and the hours...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla (Atógáil) - Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Home Care Packages (7 Nov 2024)

Pauline Tully: People are living longer and their care needs are going to increase, and we will have more people with neurological conditions. Rather than having them go into homes, we prefer to see people make the choice to stay in their own homes and receive the care they need. It is recognised that they need the care, and they have been assessed and approved for the hours, but those hours are just not...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Nov 2024)

Pauline Tully: What does Government plan to do regarding what can only be described as a crisis in children's disability services? The progressing disability services model was established. Children's disability network teams, CDNTs, were set up throughout the country in 2021, but they are not working. The delay in addressing this crisis will have knock-on consequences on all of those children who...

Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2024)

Pauline Tully: I wish Deputies Howlin and Catherine Murphy well in retirement.

Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2024)

Pauline Tully: Can we move on to Deputy Cian O'Callaghan?

Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2024)

Pauline Tully: I am sorry, Tánaiste, your time is up. I call the next speaker, please.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Sanctions (7 Nov 2024)

Pauline Tully: 90. To ask the Minister for Finance in light of the historic Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice in July that Israel's continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory is unlawful, if the Government will now enable the passage of Sinn Féin's Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40665/24]

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...

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

Pauline Tully: We need proper workforce planning. We are creating a level of dependency if we do not provide the supports to children or people at every juncture of their lives to be able to live their best lives. Even in our special schools, people are coming out without any kind of qualification. It is assumed they will go into a day service. It is not right to assume they will go in there at 18 and...

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...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (5 Nov 2024)

Pauline Tully: 341. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of vacant WTE posts, by job title, currently at the Workplace Relations Commission; and the estimated timeframe in which each of those vacancies will be filled, in tabular form. [45017/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Labour Court (5 Nov 2024)

Pauline Tully: 342. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of vacant WTE posts, by job title, currently at the Labour Court; and the estimated timeframe in which each of those vacancies will be filled, in tabular form. [45018/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (5 Nov 2024)

Pauline Tully: 384. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the decision to remove a teacher from a school (details supplied) can be immediately reversed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44165/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (5 Nov 2024)

Pauline Tully: 478. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans she has in place for the opening of an autism class in a school (details supplied); if this classroom will be open by September 2027 for autistic students transitioning from the autism class in the local primary school. [45088/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (5 Nov 2024)

Pauline Tully: 605. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details for all capital plans for the development of fire services in counties Cavan and Monaghan. [45005/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (5 Nov 2024)

Pauline Tully: 777. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of mountain bikes attached to each Garda district within Cavan-Monaghan division as of 29 October 2024, in tabular form. [45008/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (5 Nov 2024)

Pauline Tully: 778. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated cost in 2025 if 220 new recruit prison officers were recruited into Irish Prison Service. [45009/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (5 Nov 2024)

Pauline Tully: 779. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new Garda cars and vans allocated to the Cavan-Monaghan division to date in 2024; and the number of those vehicles withdrawn from this division to date in 2024, in tabular form. [45010/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (5 Nov 2024)

Pauline Tully: 780. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated cost of increasing the size of the Garda Reserve to 900 before the end of 2026. [45011/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff (5 Nov 2024)

Pauline Tully: 867. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of WTE qualified horticulturists, by grade, employed by the Department in the years of 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [45016/24]