Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

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]

Further and Higher Education

Pauline Tully

107. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will agree to ensuring that a threshold of core funding is put in place to enable supported training organisations to continue to carry out their critical role in providing education and training for the most vulnerable students across our education system; if he will ensure that immediate funding pressures for 2023 are addressed as a matter of urgency through the process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45683/23]

Further and Higher Education

Pauline Tully

134. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the plans he has to resolve the funding crisis facing the provision of supported training; if he and his Department will meet with providers such as (details supplied) as a matter of urgency to agree sustainable funding levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45684/23]

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

Pauline Tully

85. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Taoiseach the bilateral meetings he had during his recent visit to the United States. [45281/23]

Bus Services

Pauline Tully

149. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Transport if there are plans to have a regular Local Link bus serving the Belturbet area of Cavan. [45292/23]

Park-and-Ride Facilities

Pauline Tully

150. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Transport the locations and capacity of each park-and-ride facility funded by the National Transport Authority, in tabular form. [45293/23]

Flood Risk Management

Pauline Tully

181. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the flood relief projects currently under construction and funded by the OPW; and when each of these flood relief projects will be completed, in tabular form. [45291/23]

National Parks

Pauline Tully

342. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the capital works projects that were carried out in each of the national parks under the remit of his Department in 2021,2022 and to-date in 2023; and the further capital works projects that are scheduled to be carried in each of the national parks in 2024 and in 2025, in tabular form. [45294/23]

Visa Applications

Pauline Tully

402. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Justice if there are plans to open new visa processing offices in Washington DC and Seoul in South Korea. [45289/23]

An Garda Síochána

Pauline Tully

403. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Justice the number of senior investigating officer courses held for gardaí within the Cavan-Monaghan division in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [45290/23]

Departmental Funding

Pauline Tully

506. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health if boarding out providers funded through the boarding out regulations under the Health (Nursing Homes) Act 1990 are eligible for the Government’s Inflation Fund for community and voluntary health and social care providers, announced in February 2023; if so, the timeframe within which payment will be made to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44726/23]

Dental Services

Pauline Tully

617. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health the number of GMS registered dentists in Cavan-Monaghan in 2021,2022 and to-date in 2023, in tabular form. [45284/23]

Hospital Staff

Pauline Tully

618. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE ophthalmic registrars working in Cavan General Hospital in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [45285/23]

General Practitioner Services

Pauline Tully

619. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health the number of GMS registered general practitioners in Cavan-Monaghan in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [45286/23]

Hospital Staff

Pauline Tully

620. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant paediatric in infectious diseases based in CHI Temple Street in of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [45287/23]

Departmental Data

Pauline Tully

621. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE lactation consultants positions in CHO1 in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [45288/23]

Apprenticeship Programmes

Pauline Tully

638. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science how many instructors are employed by Cavan-Monaghan Educational Training Board to conduct cybersecurity associate level 6 apprenticeship training in 2022 and to-date in 2023, in tabular form. [45282/23]

Disabilities Assessments

Pauline Tully

175. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the quarter 2 Assessment of Need Process Management Report has been published; if so, if he will share it with this Deputy. [44628/23]

Court Accommodation

Pauline Tully

9. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Justice to detail the actions her Department has taken to date to ensure the provision of appropriate facilities and interview suites in Courts Service buildings for those who are vulnerable or who have invisible or visible disabilities. [44122/23]

School Funding

Pauline Tully

221. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Education the reason a school (details supplied) has not received the ICT grant for this academic year; and the timeframe within which the grant will be issued. [43992/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

408. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason that the parent (details supplied) of a child has been informed that their son is not entitled to funding for a day service; the options that are available to ensure that this young autistic person is able to access a day service and is not left confined to his residential unit. [43466/23]

Cancer Services

Pauline Tully

504. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health the capital funding that has been awarded to each community cancer support centre in each of the past five years, in tabular form; the current funding that has been awarded to each community cancer support centre in the corresponding timeframe to cover staffing costs; and the current funding that has been awarded to each community cancer support centre in each of the past five years to cover operating costs. [43629/23]

Coast Guard Service

Pauline Tully

179. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Transport if a transfer of undertakings protection of employment rights, TUPE, will apply in the transfer of the search and rescue contract for the Irish Coast Guard to a new company (details supplied) to protect the terms and conditions of the workers who are transferring, if not, the reason this is stated to be the case on his Department's website under ‘your questions answered’. [43231/23]

Primary Medical Certificates

Pauline Tully

204. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Finance for an update on the progress made to date on the reestablishment of the disabled drivers medical board of appeal; if the engagement with the National Rehabilitation Hospital has been successful in retaining their service; and the number people currently waiting on an appeal. [43242/23]

Schools Building Projects

Pauline Tully

248. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Education the position regarding the works granted to a school (details supplied) involving the construction of two mainstream classrooms and one SEN base for ASD special classes and the development of an additional outdoor grass-based play area. [43350/23]

Defence Forces

Pauline Tully

98. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the timeframe for the implementation of an agreed policy for the application of the Working Time Directive within the Defence Forces, with legislative underpinning, which is reported as a core strategic priority within the Strategic Framework Transformation of the Defence Forces. [42616/23]