Parliamentary questions

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

1161. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE behavioural specialists, by location, working in children's disability network teams based in counties Cavan and Monaghan in the years 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [15093/24]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

1162. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of respite places available in Cavan-Monaghan area from 2021 to date in 2024 for patients aged under 65 years old, in tabular form. [15094/24]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

1177. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what medical supports are available outside of normal business hours, 9am-5pm Monday to Friday, to enable disabled people to live independently in the community. [15356/24]

Hospital Staff

Pauline Tully

1558. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE critical care nurses in both CHI Temple Street and CHI Crumlin in the years 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; and if this number will be further increased this year. [15101/24]

Hospital Staff

Pauline Tully

1559. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE radiation therapists working in each of the public hospitals at the end of March in the years 2021 to 2024, in tabular form. [15102/24]

Hospital Staff

Pauline Tully

1560. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant nephrologists and nephrologist registrars working in each hospital part of the RCSI Group in the years 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [15103/24]

Health Services Staff

Pauline Tully

1561. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health the breakdown of WTE vacancies of public health nurses, by health centre and primary care centre, within the Cavan-Monaghan area; and the expected timeframe for which these vacancies will be filled, in tabular form. [15104/24]

Education and Training Boards

Pauline Tully

1684. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 48 of 27 February 2024, if there is an update on the updated proposal submitted by his Department and the Department of Education to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform concerning the pay scale of tutors employed in ETBs to deliver FET programmes. [13709/24]

Departmental Data

Pauline Tully

1732. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of WTE compliance concerns managers at the grade of HEO working in the Charities Regulator in the years 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [15105/24]

Bus Services

Pauline Tully

78. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Transport if he has concerns regarding the safety issues faced by disabled people in navigating floating bus islands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13256/24]

Public Transport

Pauline Tully

93. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Transport if transport policy is based on the principles of universal design; if he is considering legislation that mandates national mandatory minimum accessibility standards for public transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13255/24]

Tax Code

Pauline Tully

232. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Finance the steps he will take to address the matters raised in correspondence (details supplied). [12073/24]

Departmental Policies

Pauline Tully

251. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Finance for an update on the actions being taken to implement the proposals for a modern, fit-for-purpose vehicle adaptation scheme in line with international best practice that would replace the disabled drivers and disabled passenger's scheme. [12612/24]

Education Policy

Pauline Tully

491. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Education to detail what future planning is undertaken to ensure that the necessary number of places required in both mainstream of special schools by children with additional educational needs are delivered prior to the start of the school year in both primary and secondary school. [12613/24]

Vacant Properties

Pauline Tully

667. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will permit applicants for the vacant property grant reside in the house prior to applying for the grant where they are facing homelessness. [12660/24]

Social Welfare Eligibility

Pauline Tully

735. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason self-employed people are not entitled to claim carer's benefit; if she will consider changing the eligibility criteria whereby self-employed people can claim carer's benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12074/24]

Pension Provisions

Pauline Tully

736. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will adjust the new flexible pension arrangements to allow people under the age of 70 years to work if they so choose and claim contributions towards a State pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12075/24]

Social Welfare Eligibility

Pauline Tully

758. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Social Protection if she has concerns regarding the equitability of the fact that disabled people over the age of 65 years were not entitled to the cost-of-living disability lump sum payments contained within either Budget 2023 or Budget 2024. [12611/24]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

1130. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of residential places that were available as of December 2023; and the number available to date in 2024, in tabular form. [11964/24]

Hospital Services

Pauline Tully

1337. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure newborn babies are screened for SMA and SCID in 2024 as he previously committed, considering the fact that the new laboratory to be located in the new National Children’s Hospital, will not be ready until at least Q2 2025; if consideration has been given by his Department for an interim solution to screen newborn babies for SMA and SCID in order to bridge the gap between year-end 2024 and the opening of the new National Children’s Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12093/24]