Parliamentary questions

Education Policy

Pauline Tully

106. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Education the actions that she has taken to ensure that universal design learning and universal design principles are implemented in primary and secondary schools to make the classroom fully accessible for all children; the actions that she will take to ensure that a multi-sensory learning approach is included in the school curriculum; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50027/22]

Special Educational Needs

Pauline Tully

135. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Education if she will provide details of the system in place to track and measure need for school places for children with disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50028/22]

Bus Services

Pauline Tully

246. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Transport when funding for TFI Local Link daily return routes from the towns of Ballyjamesduff and Kilnaleck to the town of Cavan as applied for by Cavan-Monaghan Local Link will be sanctioned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50085/22]

Special Educational Needs

Pauline Tully

441. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Education if she will intervene in the case of a threatened expulsion of an autistic student from a autism class in a primary school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50197/22]

Northern Ireland

Pauline Tully

36. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will report on the recent meeting that he had with the British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49083/22]

European Union

Pauline Tully

55. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the reason for the decision by European Union foreign ministers to renew the European Union-Israel Association Council; his views on this decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49084/22]

Departmental Correspondence

Pauline Tully

333. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 317 and 318 of 22 September 2022, if he will list the disability representative organisations that his Department has engaged with; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48917/22]

Departmental Correspondence

Pauline Tully

334. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 317 and 318 of 22 September 2022, if he will list the disabled persons’ organisations that his Department has engaged with; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48918/22]

Departmental Correspondence

Pauline Tully

335. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 317 and 318 of 22 September 2022, if his Department includes disability service-providers in its definition of disabled persons’ organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48919/22]

Coroners Service

Pauline Tully

527. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Justice the reason for delays in the post-mortem system which are holding up the release of bodies to families for funerals in many cases to upwards of a week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47891/22]

Coroners Service

Pauline Tully

563. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health his plans, if any, to increase the number of staff who carry out post-mortem examinations given that these currently can take up to a week and are delaying the release of bodies for funerals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47882/22]

Home Care Packages

Pauline Tully

570. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health if the consumer directed home support grant is being administered within each CHO area; the number of consumer directed home support grants which were administered in each CHO from 2017 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47930/22]

Home Care Packages

Pauline Tully

571. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health his views on the adequacy of the consumer directed home support grant as it places the entire responsibility for employing home support on those caring for vulnerable family members; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47931/22]

Home Care Packages

Pauline Tully

572. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health the number of hours for which homecare support assistants were required in each CHO from 2017 to date; the number of these hours that were filled by HSE employed homecare support assistants the number of these hours that were filled by external providers through the HSE and the number of hours in each CHO area within the same period that were unfilled resulting in unmet need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47932/22]

Home Care Packages

Pauline Tully

573. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health the funding that has been allocated to each CHO from 2017 to date to recruit staff to the home support service; the CHO areas that had an underspend of their allocation from 2017 to date; the actions that are been taken within each CHO area to recruit home care support staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47933/22]

Home Care Packages

Pauline Tully

574. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health the HSE policy on the allocation of available homecare support assistants in each CHO; if the allocation is carried out based on severity of need or other factors; if not, his views on whether it should be; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47934/22]

Artists' Remuneration

Pauline Tully

56. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the interactions she has had with the Minister for Social Protection to ensure disabled artists in receipt of the basic income for the arts will not lose their disability allowance or blind pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47515/22]

Trade Relations

Pauline Tully

25. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has spoken formally with the United States trade representative (details supplied) in the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47250/22]

Bus Services

Pauline Tully

101. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Transport if the National Transport Authority will fund two journeys in both directions on the Cavan 929 Local Link bus services on Sundays and bank holidays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47236/22]

Bus Services

Pauline Tully

102. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Transport the details of proposals to provide bike carrying capacity on buses, especially in rural Ireland, on services such as Local Link; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47237/22]

Departmental Data

Pauline Tully

135. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Finance the estimated additional revenue that would be generated from a 3% surcharge on all taxable income above €400,000 and €750,000 respectively in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47244/22]

Defibrillators Provision

Pauline Tully

151. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if each OPW-staffed heritage site has at least one defibrillator on site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47249/22]

Departmental Data

Pauline Tully

202. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of companies that applied for the contract for the construction of Ireland House in Tokyo but were unsuccessful; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47248/22]

Defence Forces

Pauline Tully

210. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Defence the number of females currently qualified as military pilots within the Air Corps; the number of females currently in training to become qualified military pilots within the Air Corps; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47251/22]

Special Educational Needs

Pauline Tully

274. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Education the estimated cost in 2023 if an additional 900 special needs assistants were recruited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47238/22]

Further and Higher Education

Pauline Tully

365. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of Youthreach learners availing of the services in each location available in counties Cavan and Monaghan in 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47235/22]

An Garda Síochána

Pauline Tully

420. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Justice the estimated cost to fit 100% of roads policing unit vehicles with automatic number plate recognition services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47239/22]

Human Trafficking

Pauline Tully

421. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Justice the number of cases that the Garda human trafficking investigation and co-ordination unit has dealt with in 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47240/22]

An Garda Síochána

Pauline Tully

422. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Justice if a new contract for the provision of new Garda roads policing motorcycles will be put out to tender in Quarter 4 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47241/22]

An Garda Síochána

Pauline Tully

423. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Justice the number of cases Cavan-Monaghan that the divisional protection services unit has dealt with in 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47242/22]

An Garda Síochána

Pauline Tully

424. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Justice the number of standard and advanced motorcycle courses that have been held for gardaí within the Cavan-Monaghan division in 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47243/22]

Home Help Service

Pauline Tully

556. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health if he will consider abolishing the consumer-directed home support grant, given that the criteria to fulfil the grant are too onerous for elderly and vulnerable citizens and encourage dangerous practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47178/22]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Pauline Tully

557. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1766 of 26 July 2022, the timeframe for paramedics employed by Dublin Fire Brigade to receive their pandemic special recognition payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47205/22]

Hospital Staff

Pauline Tully

563. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health the number of full-time consultant dermatologists based in each hospital that is part of the RCSI group as of 12 September 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47245/22]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Pauline Tully

564. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health the total number of children awaiting appointments for HSE paediatric ENT services by hospital in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47246/22]

Health Services

Pauline Tully

565. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health the podiatry waiting list by location and waiting times by month in counties Cavan and Monaghan in August 2022; the number of HSE podiatry clinics by location; the number of staff employed in each clinic; the number of vacant podiatry vacancies by location; the timeframe for these vacancies to be filled in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47247/22]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

105. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on progress in the review of the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46247/22]

Departmental Reviews

Pauline Tully

163. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on progress to replace the disabled drivers medical board of appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46248/22]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

317. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health the way that his Department defines a disabled persons' organisation; if this definition conforms with that of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46432/22]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

318. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health the way that his Department defines a disabled representative organisation; if this definition conforms with that of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46433/22]

Waste Management

Pauline Tully

113. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will introduce a bin waiver for carers considering the cost-of-living crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45780/22]

Vaccination Programme

Pauline Tully

566. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 360 of 26 May 2022, if he will provide a further update on a timeframe for the commencement of a catch-up HPV vaccination programme; if this catch-up programme will include girls and boys in secondary school who were eligible to receive HPV vaccine in first year but who did not receive it; if this catch-up programme will include women up to the age of 25 years who have left secondary school and who did not receive the vaccine when eligible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44751/22]

Tax Code

Pauline Tully

376. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Finance if he will review the process by which recipients of illness benefit are liable for tax on this benefit but are not reimbursed once an insurance claim has paid and the illness benefit is repaid to the Department of Social Protection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40668/22]

Social Welfare Code

Pauline Tully

1184. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Social Protection her plans to ensure that foster carers are not penalised for the care they provide and are entitled to credited contributions for the time that they spend caring for a foster child; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39646/22]

Social Welfare Code

Pauline Tully

1247. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will undertake a review of illness benefit to ensure that once an insurance claim has been settled and the illness benefit is repaid to her Department, any credits on the claimant’s Department of Social Protection records are removed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40667/22]

Children in Care

Pauline Tully

1321. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to increase the foster care allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39647/22]

Child and Family Agency

Pauline Tully

1322. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of social workers currently working with Tusla; the average case load per social worker; the number of social workers working in Tusla in each of the past five years; the average case load per social worker in each of these years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39648/22]

Child and Family Agency

Pauline Tully

1323. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has plans to increase the number of social workers employed by Tusla; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39649/22]

Further and Higher Education

Pauline Tully

1444. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of additional places that are being allocated in further and higher education facilities in the coming 2022/2023 academic year to study speech and language therapy courses; the number of additional places to study occupational therapy; the number of additional places to study physiotherapy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40220/22]

Control of Firearms

Pauline Tully

1556. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Justice the make-up of the Expert Firearms Committee which was recently established to review the legislation regarding firearms licensing; the appointment process involved in appointing the members of this committee; the criteria required to be appointed a member of the Expert Firearms Committee; the level of consultation that took place with individual gun clubs and their representative organisation (details supplied); if the representative organisation is represented on the committee; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40293/22]