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Tue, 18 Apr 2023
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Disability Services
Pauline Tully
1304. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the starting salary cost of employing IT staff for children’s disability network teams; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17910/23]
Tue, 18 Apr 2023
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Disability Services
Pauline Tully
1305. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the all-in fully burdened salary costs of employing IT staff for children’s disability network teams; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17911/23]
Tue, 18 Apr 2023
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Disability Services
Pauline Tully
1306. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated capital cost of providing 1,200, 1,450 and 1,700 additional day service places for school leavers and graduates of rehabilitative training, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17912/23]
Tue, 18 Apr 2023
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Disability Services
Pauline Tully
1307. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current cost, including staff and operating cost, of providing 1,200, 1,450 and 1,700 additional day service places for school leavers and graduates of rehabilitative training, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17913/23]
Tue, 18 Apr 2023
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Health Services Staff
Pauline Tully
1481. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health if speech and language therapists, on registration with CORU, who received their training outside of the State but are missing components required by CORU, such as dysphagia, can be recruited to practice while undergoing in service training on the components they are missing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16862/23]
Tue, 18 Apr 2023
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Medical Aids and Appliances
Pauline Tully
1482. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health the average timeframe wheelchair users are waiting to receive their first wheelchair from application to handover; the average timeframe wheelchair users are waiting for a replacement wheelchair from application to handover; the average cost of replacing a wheelchair; the funding that was allocated for the replacement of wheelchairs over the past five years; the number of people applying for a replacement wheelchair in the past five years; the number of people receiving a replacement wheelchair in the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16865/23]
Tue, 18 Apr 2023
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Qualifications Recognition
Pauline Tully
1483. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health the average processing period for the recognition of qualifications by CORU of speech and language therapists, occupational therapists and physiotherapists who were trained and qualified in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16866/23]
Tue, 18 Apr 2023
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Health Services
Pauline Tully
1506. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health if he will commit to having the health technology assessment by HIQA into the addition of spinal muscular atrophy to the national new-born bloodspot screening programme or heelprick test completed in time for its consideration by the National Screening Advisory Committee at its September meeting, which coincides with new-born screening month; if there is a recommendation by the NSAC to include SMA in the heelprick test that he will commit to do so immediately; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17010/23]
Tue, 18 Apr 2023
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Disability Diagnoses
Pauline Tully
1512. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health in view of the response from An Tánaiste on 23 March 2023 in relation to the use of the National Treatment Purchase Fund for those seeking an assessment of need, where he stated that while “[p]redominantly, it has been used for inpatient acute treatment... the Minister has indicated in the past that it can be used for disabilities... and also to deal with that very significant outpatient list...”, if he will clarify whether the National Treatment Purchase Fund can be used for those seeking an assessment of need, as the response from An Tánaiste seems to contradict the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 1355 of 21 March 2023 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17026/23]
Tue, 18 Apr 2023
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Departmental Data
Pauline Tully
1602. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 174 of 22 June 2022, if the further steps (details supplied) have been implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17444/23]
Thu, 30 Mar 2023
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International Protection
Pauline Tully
32. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason for the delay in payments to those providing accommodation for asylum seekers; his plans to ensure that these payments going forward are made in a prompt manner to ensure that these providers do not decide to remove the provision of their accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15774/23]
Thu, 30 Mar 2023
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Disability Services
Pauline Tully
52. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason that funding was not put in place to retain a respite centre (details supplied), as currently there is no provision of separate respite for children and adults; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15773/23]
Thu, 30 Mar 2023
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Disability Services
Pauline Tully
85. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the actions he has taken, in conjunction with the HSE and the Higher Education Authority, to identify capacity gaps within children's disability network teams and provide additional places on third-level courses to fill these gaps; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15775/23]
Thu, 30 Mar 2023
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School Management
Pauline Tully
198. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Education the grounds on which a school may refuse a student the right to repeat a year at primary school level; who makes this decision; what form of appeal exists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15995/23]
Thu, 30 Mar 2023
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School Transport
Pauline Tully
199. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Education if the procurement process for school bus contracts for extracurricular activities such as sports matches, swimming lessons or day trips considers the distance a company has to travel to and from a school; how this fits in with reaching Ireland's climate action targets; if she will review the procurement process for school bus contracts with a view to ameliorating this issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15996/23]
Tue, 28 Mar 2023
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Social Welfare Benefits
Pauline Tully
95. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider reviewing the application process for emergency needs’ payments for those seeking assistance with a deposit and first month’s rent to enable her Department to issue a letter of pre-approval to applicants which can be used to reassure landlords and assist them in securing a tenancy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15126/23]
Tue, 28 Mar 2023
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Social Welfare Eligibility
Pauline Tully
120. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Social Protection if her Department has a timeframe within which domestic violence has occurred for a person to be eligible for an emergency needs’ payment; if so, the timeframe after the violence has occurred after which her Department will no longer accept an application for an emergency needs’ payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15125/23]
Tue, 28 Mar 2023
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Health Service Executive
Pauline Tully
608. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health if he is setting up a group within his Department to look at the issue of siloing within the HSE; and if this group will agree to meet with therapy professionals' representative organisations (details supplied). [14480/23]
Thu, 23 Mar 2023
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School Transport
Pauline Tully
146. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Education if the procurement process for school bus contracts considers the distance a company has to travel to and from a school and how this fits in with reaching our Climate Action targets; if he will review the procurement process for school bus contracts with the view of ameliorating this issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10567/23]
Thu, 23 Mar 2023
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Disability Services
Pauline Tully
200. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Finance if his Department will take the lead on any new scheme that replaces the disabled drivers and disabled passenger's scheme; if not, which Department will take the lead; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14381/23]