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Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: 2016 Commemoration Programme (25 Nov 2014)

Sandra McLellan: 595. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will ensure that every school under the Government's remit is provided with a proclamation on the run up to the 1916 Centenary. [44998/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Famine Commemoration Ceremony (25 Nov 2014)

Sandra McLellan: 596. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will ensure there is a national day of famine commemoration, with a fixed date in order to properly commemorate the millions of lives lost during the famine. [44999/14]

Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2014)

Sandra McLellan: It is 20% out.

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)

Sandra McLellan: What has that got to do with it?

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)

Sandra McLellan: It has nothing to do with this.

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)

Sandra McLellan: That comment was outrageous.

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)

Sandra McLellan: A false accusation.

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)

Sandra McLellan: She said, "your organisation".

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIV in Ireland: Discussion (27 Nov 2014)

Sandra McLellan: I thank the delegates for their detailed presentations which included information on the services people could contact if they wished to talk about their condition. This is not an issue that is raised with us daily in our constituency offices. As such, the information provided in the presentations is welcome. A lack of awareness and education has been highlighted as the main cause of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (2 Dec 2014)

Sandra McLellan: 375. To ask the Minister for Health if he will approve a discretionary medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45793/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (2 Dec 2014)

Sandra McLellan: 393. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the primary care reimbursement service can ask a person with spina bifida to complete a review to ascertain if they are still eligible for a medical card; his views that this person's medical circumstances could have changed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46035/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Eligibility (2 Dec 2014)

Sandra McLellan: 542. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 156 of 25 November 2014 his plans to address the gaps in the new housing assistance payment scheme whereby a person is not entitled to receive a payment until a housing need assessment has been completed (details supplied); the options available to such persons; and if he will make a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Ambulance Service Review: Health Information and Quality Authority (2 Dec 2014)

Sandra McLellan: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Ambulance Service Review: Health Information and Quality Authority (2 Dec 2014)

Sandra McLellan: I also congratulate Mr. Quinn and wish him well in his new role. I thank HIQA for the report, which was published today and which, I think, everybody here agrees is quite shocking but at least honest. With regard to the finding in the report that many staff in leadership positions do not have the appropriate technical knowledge, I took a quick look over recommendation 9. While it is only...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Best Practice Access Guidelines: Irish Wheelchair Association (4 Dec 2014)

Sandra McLellan: I welcome the delegates and thank them for their presentation and the documentation they provided. I commend all members of the Irish Wheelchair Association on the tremendous work they do in communities throughout the country. I convey apologies from my colleague, Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin, who is unable to attend because he is partaking in Leaders' Questions in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: National Monuments (9 Dec 2014)

Sandra McLellan: 88. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if, following Dublin City Council's rejection of the proposed Moore Street land swap with a private developer, she plans to initiate a full and independent battlefield site survey of the Moore Street area; and if she will bring together all relevant parties with the intention of developing a new plan to protect, preserve and develop...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: National Monuments (9 Dec 2014)

Sandra McLellan: Following Dublin City Council's rejection of the proposed Moore Street land swap will the Minister initiate a full independent battlefield site survey of the Moore Street area? Will she now bring together all relevant parties with the intention of developing a new plan to protect, preserve and develop the historic quarter?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: National Monuments (9 Dec 2014)

Sandra McLellan: There are many people who will not only be disappointed in the Minister's position that the land-swap deal rejected by Dublin City Council was appropriate, but will be astonished to learn that she deemed the plan to demolish most of the Moore Street terrace as an opportunity. The Government consistently lacks ambition. It is beyond disappointing that the Minister's response to Dublin City...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: National Monuments (9 Dec 2014)

Sandra McLellan: To use the Minister's words, it was a heated exchange. The families presented evidence of the historic significance of the buildings that the council is seeking to preserve. I find it surprising that the Minister would so readily have washed her hands of it.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: National Monuments (9 Dec 2014)

Sandra McLellan: I do not believe the Minister's response is good enough. Those who went before us and secured the future of the State deserve much better. I suspect the signatories of the 1916 Proclamation, if they are looking down on us, would care little for the Minister's sense of disappointment and are bewildered by her abandonment of such an important project that they would not only celebrate our...