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Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (1 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 66. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will include Magdalen laundries in the Government inquiry into mother and baby homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27896/14]

Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (1 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: My question is to ask the Minister if he will include Magdalen laundries in the Government inquiry into the mother and baby homes.

Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (1 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I welcome the Minister's statement that the inclusion of Magdalen laundries in the terms of reference of the commission of inquiry is under consideration. People who have taken oral testimonies from some of the ladies in the Magdalen laundries did say that babies were born and nursed at the Magdalen laundry in Sean MacDermott Street in Dublin. The biennial reports that were found in the...

Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (1 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: The Irish Human Rights Commission and the Committee Against Torture of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights have raised the continuing failure to investigate abuse in Magdalen laundries. There are many connections between mother and baby homes, industrial schools and Magdalen laundries. Justice for Magdalenes is an organisation that works with survivors of the...

Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (1 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I take this opportunity to acknowledge what has been achieved in recent years and the good systems that are in place. Examples of such systems include the west Cork mental health service, which operates a 24-hour listening service, and the Celbridge community mental health team, which has a seven days per week service, with service users also having a telephone number to contact the acute...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (1 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 98. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in view of the recent World Refugee Week, if his attention has been drawn to the UNHCR estimates that more than 86,000 persons have left Burma on boats since June 2012, the majority of which are of the Rohingya Community risking injury or death as a result of fleeing; the representations that have been made in respect of...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (1 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 100. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he acknowledges the potential that large sporting events such as the World Cup have in benefitting the marginalised in other countries if they are taken into consideration from the beginning of its organisation; if he has made representations to officials in Brazil this year asking them to take into consideration...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (1 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 436. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the supports that will be made available to the 1,791 children currently in direct provision in view of the Children First Bill 2014 being implemented in the foreseeable future; if she will ensure that the current health and welfare concerns in direct provision do not escalate to the level experienced in previous institutions such as the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (1 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 526. To ask the Minister for Health his view on the effectiveness of anti-smoking initiatives taken to date, given that the smoking ban, the ban on packaging of ten cigarettes and the non-display of cigarettes in outlets appear to have had minimal effect on the rates of smoking; the way he envisages that plain packaging will lead to a significant reduction; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Illicit Trade in Tobacco (1 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 527. To ask the Minister for Health if he is confident that plain packaging will reduce the illegal cigarette trade and not increase further the black market trade in illegal cigarettes; if he has had any engagement with other agencies and Departments on tackling this illegal trade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28221/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (1 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 528. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to any evidence of international best practice in the context of plain cigarette packaging, apart from Australia; to what extent this evidence has been incorporated into the new Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28222/14]

Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: When the drugs issue was mentioned in the past, it was generally synonymous with heroin and Dublin's inner city, but that has changed drastically. Every city and town in the country, as well as many villages, has been invaded by drugs. Those communities, individuals and families have seen the devastating consequences of drugs. I acknowledge the progress which has been made since those days...

Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I will certainly do that. Alcohol is now being integrated in the substance misuse strategy. Many of us think that it should have been there all along. We are aware of recent reports about this country’s unhealthy relationship with alcohol and the cost of that. The task forces with shrinking budgets must take on the alcohol initiative as well. While I know everybody is at risk of...

Topical Issue Debate: Voluntary Sector Funding (2 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I am grateful to have an opportunity to highlight an issue that is causing a great deal of concern, disquiet, and dismay among the deaf community. I am very much aware of the work done by Deaf Village Ireland in Cabra, in the constituency I represent, and the need for more engagement by organisations with the deaf community. It was very saddening to read of the decision for the funding to...

Topical Issue Debate: Voluntary Sector Funding (2 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I refer to two points in the Minister of State's reply. He stated that the effective use of core funding also requires that robust governance and cost control procedures are in place. Is this suggesting that the Irish Deaf Society was not complying? This organisation received funding continually over 11 years. If there were issues, surely they would have been brought to its attention...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Aid (2 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 21. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the situation regarding UN aid not reaching all intended areas most in need of aid in Syria; his views on Kenneth Roth's executive director of Human Rights Watch response that the UN is constrained by the Syrian regime and is hampered by its lawyers who prioritise sovereignty over feeding the starving; the action he will...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (2 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 36. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to testimonies of abuse endured by children in Palestine as published in a magazine (details supplied); if his Department has made representations at EU level of the abuses suffered by Palestinian children under Israeli Army practices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28133/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Relations Between Ireland and Great Britain: Ambassador of Ireland to Great Britain (2 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I thank Ambassador Mulhall for his very comprehensive report. It is also in keeping with the reports we have had from other Irish ambassadors in embassies throughout the world. Quite a number of Irish ambassadors have presented to the joint committee and we have visited them when we were on official visits abroad. In regard to the possibility of Britain leaving the European Union and in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Relations Between Ireland and Great Britain: Ambassador of Ireland to Great Britain (2 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I recently met a group of women and I wonder if they were in touch with the ambassador. These women spent time in the industrial schools here but are now living in England. They are women of mixed raced, and they have had to deal with particular issues because of that. I do not know if the ambassador has come across the group.

Public Health (Standard Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I am sharing time with Deputies Finian McGrath and Seamus Healy.