Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Health Services Staff

Pauline Tully

507. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health the reason that a team (details supplied) has been excluded from the Building Momentum pay increases, cost-of-living pay increases, and the reduction in the working week for nurses to 37.5 hours; the action he is taking to ensure Caredoc nurses receive equal terms and conditions to that of HSE and Section 38 staff; and the reason these workers were also not eligible for the pandemic bonus payment, although they were fully operational throughout this period. [49458/23]

Disease Management

Pauline Tully

19. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health if he will consider providing a funded bandage scheme for those battling with epidermolysis bullosa; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49084/23]

Medical Cards

Pauline Tully

27. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health if he will review the health services that are covered by the medical card, with a view to including such costs as signed letters from a GP or nurse and blood tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49085/23]

Housing Policy

Pauline Tully

96. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider disregarding the working family payment as means for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49083/23]

Housing Schemes

Pauline Tully

154. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will change the conditions of the vacant property refurbishment grant to extend the time a person has to complete the works once one’s application has been approved from 13 months to 24 months and allow for a drawdown of the grant in stages over the course of the build; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49082/23]

Human Rights

Pauline Tully

274. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Justice her plans to establish a Statutory Inquiry, compliant with international human rights standards, into the arrest, detention, interrogation, prosecution and conviction of persons (details supplied) following the Sallins train robbery in 1976, and encompassing their treatment by the Irish State since, as called for by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL). [49109/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

284. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth which Childrens Disability Network Teams do not have staff co-located in one setting. [49092/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

285. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the timeframe for the delivery of the Disability Regional Enhanced Supports and Services (DRESS). [49093/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

286. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will share with this Deputy the revised guidance for Individual Family Support Plans and Guidance for CDNTs. [49094/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

287. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a confined senior grade competition has been finalised within Childrens Disability Network Teams; the number of senior grade posts that have been filled to date from this competition; and the overall number of senior grade posts it is intended to fill from this competition. [49095/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

288. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of new clinical psychology trainee placement posts that have been established in Childrens Disability Network Teams in 2023. [49096/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

289. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of student placements in each Childrens Disability Network Team in 2022 and 2023;and the estimated number of student placements in each Childrens Disability Network Team for 2024, in tabular form. [49097/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

290. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a Therapy Assistant Programme has been established within Childrens Disability Network Teams. [49098/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

291. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of administrative staff working in each Childrens Disability Network Team in 2022 and 2023, in tabular form. [49099/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

292. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if each CHO has included a bespoke Staff Retention Plan within their Service Improvement Plan; and if he will provide a link to each of these plans. [49100/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

293. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a webinar has been delivered to each Childrens Disability Network Manager on establishing a Family Representative Group; and if not, which CDNM's have not yet had this delivered. [49102/23]

Further and Higher Education

Pauline Tully

334. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of FETAC Therapy Assistant Grade Programmes that were offered in 2022 and 2023; the number of FETAC Therapy Assistant Grade Programme places that were filled by students in 2022 and 2023; and the number of FETAC Therapy Assistant Grade graduates in 2022 and 2023, in tabular form. [49101/23]

Water Services

Pauline Tully

71. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason people who are building a one-off house this year and receive their water from a group water scheme will not have their fee waived under the temporary development contribution waiver arrangement; if he has plans to include people on group water schemes in the temporary development contribution waiver arrangement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49081/23]

Departmental Funding

Pauline Tully

94. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason an organisation (details supplied) was unsuccessful in its funding application to the 2023 LGBTI+ community services funding call scheme A; and if he will reconsider this decision. [48879/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

95. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total funding allocated for existing levels of service (ELS) in disability services in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, by the areas it was allocated to each year, in tabular form. [48886/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

109. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health if the home support authorisation scheme covers homecare for disabled people; the funding that providers are paid under this scheme for disability packages; and the funding that providers are paid under this scheme for older persons packages. [48869/23]

Home Care Packages

Pauline Tully

111. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health the actions he is taking to address the current homecare situation; for an update on the progress of the statutory homecare scheme; and if the statutory homecare scheme will cater for disabled people. [48875/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

35. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to detail the effect the HSE recruitment freeze will have on delivering disability services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48528/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

54. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he is taking to establish a national DPRO register to ensure all consultations on matters regarding disability are carried out in accordance with general comment 7 of the UNCRPD; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48529/23]

Departmental Schemes

Pauline Tully

142. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications what additional funding was allocated to the warmer homes scheme in Budget 2024; and the estimated time this additional funding will shorten the current waiting list for the scheme. [47371/23]

Work Permits

Pauline Tully

412. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the person appointed by his Department to conduct the strategic review of the labour needs of the meat processing industry; the timeframe for the completion of this review; if work permits will be made available to the meat processing industry while this review is underway; and the timeframe within which these work permits will be made available. [48123/23]

Social Welfare Benefits

Pauline Tully

701. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of people currently in receipt of a disability payment, by disability category in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47283/23]

Equal Opportunities Employment

Pauline Tully

702. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Social Protection if her Department has undertaken research on the barriers people on disability payments face with finding and entering employment and the supports they need to overcome these barriers. [47284/23]

Social Welfare Eligibility

Pauline Tully

703. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Social Protection how much weight is given to the person's own account of the impact of their condition on their capacity to work in the medical assessment for disability payments. [47285/23]

Equal Opportunities Employment

Pauline Tully

704. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Social Protection the measures she and her Department are taking to improve the employment supports available to people with disabilities. [47286/23]

Primary Medical Certificates

Pauline Tully

746. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Social Protection in regard to the announced expansion of the free travel pass to support people medically certified as unable to drive, if only people in receipt of a primary medical certificate will qualify as medically certified as unable to drive. [48156/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

984. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No.1346 of 11 September 2023, if the HSE have procured diagnostic ASD assessments from the private sector; and if not, the timeframe within which this will be in place. [47465/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

1050. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the current HSE recruitment pause in regard to management and administration staff, as well as agency staff, will apply to children’s disability network teams. [48231/23]

Nursing Homes

Pauline Tully

1087. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of disabled people under the age of 65 years that have been placed in a nursing home in each of the years 2019 to 2022 and to date in 2023; and the average length of stay for a disabled person under the age of 65 years that has been placed in a nursing home. [48815/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

1088. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what more appropriate alternative options are considered before a disabled person under the age of 65 years is placed in a nursing home. [48816/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

1089. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of disabled people under the age of 65 years that have been inappropriately placed in a nursing home in each of the years 2019 to 2022 and to date in 2023. [48817/23]

Hospital Staff

Pauline Tully

1112. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health the number of sonographers working in Cavan General Hospital; the number of sonographers that work at the weekend, Saturday and Sunday in CGH; the days each week that patients can access an ultrasound scan in CGH.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47370/23]

Mental Health Services

Pauline Tully

1298. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health the general wait time for accessing CAMHS, by county; and the wait time for those who have an autism diagnosis accessing CAMHS, by county, in tabular form. [48511/23]

Official Travel

Pauline Tully

1372. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health if he visited any health-related facility during his visit to New York during the recent UN week. [48845/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

30. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the funding his Department has made available to provide a pathway to eliminate the practice of accommodating young people with disabilities in nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47001/23]

Equality Proofing

Pauline Tully

45. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform what action he and his Department have taken to expand the equality budgeting initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47000/23]

Agriculture Schemes

Pauline Tully

84. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to review the farm succession scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47007/23]

Agriculture Supports

Pauline Tully

104. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the sexual and mental health supports he has put in place for young farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47006/23]

Departmental Schemes

Pauline Tully

201. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the details of the submission his Department made to the Department for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform in regard to the adaptation grant for people with a disability and the mobility grant; and the timeframe within which he expects a decision. [47169/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

161. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there were any measures introduced in budget 2024 to enable parents of children waiting an extended period of time to receive therapy interventions by their CDNT to access either the treatment abroad scheme, the Northern Ireland planned healthcare scheme or the national treatment purchase scheme. [46828/23]

Social Welfare Schemes

Pauline Tully

54. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider allowing persons in receipt of disability allowance, blind pension, carer's allowance or an invalidity pension to remain part of the free travel scheme if they return to employment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46446/23]

Social Welfare Code

Pauline Tully

111. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Social Protection if she has considered introducing a permanent cost-of-living payment for disabled people; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46447/23]

Work Permits

Pauline Tully

220. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide this Deputy with a reply regarding issues presented by a person (details supplied) in relation to regulations that exist pertaining to the recruitment of workers from outside of Ireland. [46137/23]

Sports Funding

Pauline Tully

38. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if there are any specific funding streams available for sports clubs to construct disabled facilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45682/23]

Budget 2024

Pauline Tully

55. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media what percentage of the overall Budget 2024 has been allocated to the promotion of Irish language and the Gaeltacht; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45681/23]