Results 2,101-2,120 of 5,534 for speaker:Maureen O'Sullivan
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Data (15 Apr 2014)
Maureen O'Sullivan: 292. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of persons, companies or projects Enterprise Ireland referred to Dublin Business Innovation Centre in the years 2012 and 2013; the number of persons, companies or projects that were referred to Enterprise Ireland by DBIC in the years 2012 and 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17419/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Data (15 Apr 2014)
Maureen O'Sullivan: 293. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of persons, companies or projects that were referred to Enterprise Ireland by Dublin Business Innovation Centre and received feasibility grant funding in the years 2012 and 2013 and his views on whether it is appropriate that a number of entities performing the evaluation of high tech CSF applications themselves do not...
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Support Schemes (15 Apr 2014)
Maureen O'Sullivan: 294. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total funding provided by Enterprise Ireland to the Dublin Business Innovation Centre for the years 2011, 2012 and 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17421/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (15 Apr 2014)
Maureen O'Sullivan: 372. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a date has been set for his meeting with relatives of the signatories to the 1916 Proclamation as agreed at the 2011 Easter Rising GPO Commemoration. [18027/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: NAMA Social Housing Provision (15 Apr 2014)
Maureen O'Sullivan: 423. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of vacant housing units that are in the National Asset Management Agency portfolio for Clongriffin/Belmayne, Dublin 13; if there are plans for these NAMA housing units to be released and used to relieve the housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17679/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Official Commemorations (15 Apr 2014)
Maureen O'Sullivan: 509. To ask the Minister for Defence if he has responded to the issues raised in a recent correspondence, details supplied, in relation to the 1916 Commemoration in Arbour Hill; if he will outline changes made by his Department in relation to the way the commemoration is carried out since he took office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17680/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Neuro-Rehabilitation Services Provision (15 Apr 2014)
Maureen O'Sullivan: 612. To ask the Minister for Health if reform of neurorehabilitation care will be included as part of universal health insurance; if it will address the long waiting lists, including up to a year for patients in comas or semi-responsive states, and the fact there are only seven rehabilitation programmes when the Neurological Alliance of Ireland states the country needs 26; and if he will make...
- Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (16 Apr 2014)
Maureen O'Sullivan: 10. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the increasing difficulties in which tenants on rent allowance are finding themselves when having to negotiate rent with their landlords after rent has risen; if her attention has been further drawn to the discrimination by landlords against tenants on rent allowance and the difficulties tenants are having in...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (16 Apr 2014)
Maureen O'Sullivan: 40. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of considerable lack of affordable private rental accommodation in Dublin due to rent increases and a decrease in rent allowance, her plans to co-ordinate a multi-pronged approach to tackle the issue of Dublin's accommodation crisis in terms of raising rent allowance or social welfare supports; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Legislation (16 Apr 2014)
Maureen O'Sullivan: 75. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reasons section 16 of the Freedom of Information Act 1997, which requires public bodies to publish and make available the criteria they use for making decisions, has been excluded in the current Freedom of Information Bill 2013 and replaced by section 8; if his attention has been drawn to transparency issues in section 8 of the new...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Legislation (16 Apr 2014)
Maureen O'Sullivan: 76. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will publish the code of practice and guidelines as cited by him, in relation to the Freedom of Information Bill 2013 which have still not been published nine months after the publication of the Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18167/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hare Coursing (16 Apr 2014)
Maureen O'Sullivan: 145. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to the six greyhounds that participated in this year's national hare coursing festival testing positive for banned substances, if he will have the Irish Coursing Club extend drug testing of greyhounds to all hare coursing events; his views on having his Department initiate its own drug testing at these events; and if he...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Guarantee (16 Apr 2014)
Maureen O'Sullivan: 151. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will ensure voluntary youth organisations are involved in the roll out of the Youth Guarantee; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18154/14]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Syria: Dr. Thomas Pierret (16 Apr 2014)
Maureen O'Sullivan: I welcome the witnesses. Last week we acknowledged the anniversary of the massacres in Rwanda and we are facing another situation of that magnitude. People say that what happened in Rwanda could never happen again but it is happening in Syria and I have no doubt that in ten or 20 years' time we will be acknowledging the number of casualties, fatalities and massacres in Syria. It seems we...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Monuments (17 Apr 2014)
Maureen O'Sullivan: 3. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in view of the fact that a survey by three structural engineers concluded that 18 Moore Street is pre-1916, if he will commit to seeking independent expert advice on the status of the structure of 18 Moore Street and all 1916 buildings in the GPO-Moore Street area, described as the most important site in modern Irish history by the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Monuments (17 Apr 2014)
Maureen O'Sullivan: I still find it really bizarre that the site of Moore Street and the area from the GPO, which was described by the National Museum of Ireland as the most important site in modern Irish history, should be in private ownership and in the hands of a developer who is in NAMA and owes billions of euro to the State and that the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and the Oireachtas can do...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Monuments (17 Apr 2014)
Maureen O'Sullivan: I was not a member at that time.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Monuments (17 Apr 2014)
Maureen O'Sullivan: I return to the point that we still do not know the significance of the remaining buildings in the area and therefore there is a vital need to have an independent assessment done as quickly as possible on that whole battlefield site. I do not think anyone in the House would disagree if the Minister with responsibility for arts and heritage were more proactive on this matter. I accept his...
- White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (Resumed) (17 Apr 2014)
Maureen O'Sullivan: Ba mhaith liom aitheantas a thabhairt do na buntáistí atá ag baint le cúrsaí sláinte. In order to discover what people think of our health services, I chatted with some friends who work in the service and asked them to highlight its particularly positive aspects. The first aspect to which they all referred - I completely agree with them in this regard - is the...
- White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (Resumed) (17 Apr 2014)
Maureen O'Sullivan: The third negative aspect we identified is that which relates to community health care, particularly as it relates to those who have just given birth. The type of care provided in this regard could be a great deal better. Another negative aspect we discussed was that which relates to accident and emergency services. Originally, the latter were meant to be for trauma patients. The clue is...