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

Maureen O'Sullivan: We are all very aware of the consequences of smoking. Somebody who smokes today does so in the full knowledge of the possible consequences for his or her health. While I do not smoke and have never done so, both of my parents were heavy smokers for all of their adult lives. Of course they started to smoke at a time when no one was aware of the health risks of smoking. They both enjoyed...

Free Travel Pass: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Many of our senior citizens have already survived one if not two recessions. The majority of them are living on greatly reduced incomes. Many are helping out their children who are unemployed or in negative equity as well as adult children who have had to move home. They have seen increases in private health insurance and medication costs. They have lost the telephone allowance and the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Quality and Qualifications Ireland Accreditation (8 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he envisages that the QQI will determine the fees that will apply to the providers with which it engages; his views on whether the fees could possibly reach up to €5,000; if this is the case, his views on whether such a high level of fees chargeable to legacy providers would make them financially unsustainable; if he will grant a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (8 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when An Grianán Institution was added to schedule A of the Residential Institutions Redress Act; the rationale for its late inclusion; the actions taken at the time by his Department and the RIRB to advertise and make known to survivors that An Grianán was now included; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some women were...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: House Purchase Schemes (8 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 226. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce a scheme to make provisions for first-time buyers to buy homes and who are unable to buy homes due to the large deposit needed; if this scheme will be in effect this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29905/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 300. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on Ireland’s engagement with the European Alliance for Apprenticeships which is intended to bring together efforts of member states, social partners, business, other relevant actors and the European Commission to improve the quality and supply of apprenticeships across the EU; if he will further report on activity here...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Legislation (8 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 453. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the draft heads of a national monuments Bill will be published; when it is likely to be introduced to Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29696/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Community Development Initiatives (8 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 490. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a public meeting that has been organised in response to a local community's experience of economic decline and underdevelopment (details supplied); the ways in which his Department directly, or agencies accountable, either directly or indirectly to his Department, including the local...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (8 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 610. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to a camel escaping from a circus in Fermoy on the evening of 2 July, 2014; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this is the second time a camel has escaped this year; his views that this is evidence of the inability of circuses to adapt to the nature and needs of wild animals; if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (8 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 601. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the five racehorses that died from injuries at Clonmel races this month, if he will strengthen regulations in the horse racing industry; if his Department will carry out its own investigation into the deaths of the five horses, despite the fact that the Turf Club cleared Clonmel racecourse of any wrongdoing; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (8 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 609. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason no sufficient advertising was carried out by his Department to announce the publication of the draft code of practice for the fur farming of mink; the reason no invitation was advertised for public consultation; the reason no date of publication was published on his Department's website including a deadline date for...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Expenditure (8 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 619. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the funding that has been provided for counselling for victims of the Dublin Monaghan bombings; the reason this funding has been withdrawn; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29026/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Releases (8 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 620. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider taking on board an amnesty similar, but to a lesser degree, to that given by the Czech President Václav Klaus in 2013, where he granted amnesty to a third of his country's prisoners to mark 20 years of the Czech Republic's independence; if the Government will consider such a gesture having devised their own criteria...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Committals (8 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 632. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the restrictions and or guidelines in place for persons who have been convicted of sex offences seeking housing within communities after release from prison; if, for example, there are proximity regulations with regard to living next to schools; the legislation currently in place to ensure that communities are protected whilst also maintaining...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I thank the ambassador. I was a member of the foreign affairs delegation which visited Iran in January. The human rights issue was an important matter for everyone on that delegation. I acknowledge the frank and open discussions we had with everyone we met there on the death penalty, treatment of the Baha'i community and prisoners’ access to legal representation and medical...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I represent a constituency that has suffered more devastation through drugs than most others but I do not believe that capital punishment of those who are involved in dealing is the answer to the problem. We need to investigate alternatives. I am aware of the number of Iranian policemen and officials who have been killed in the course of the drug war but executing that number of people,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: What is the ambassador's view on what is happening? There are dreadful casualties at the moment in Gaza. Last week, we informally met the Israeli ambassador. There seems to be no impetus for a negotiated peace. Regardless of the political situation in Syria, I ask that the Iranian Government, because it has influence, to ensure that food is not used as a weapon of war and that food gets...

Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I wonder what it is doing for our international reputation that the national Parliament on several days this week has discussed Garth Brooks at a time when there is a homelessness crisis in the country and there are international incidents such as that referred to in Gaza and the abduction of hundreds of girls by Boko Haram in Nigeria because they want an education. Ba mhaith liom...

Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I hope the Government will take it further and provide the €5,000 waiver I mentioned, because, as the Minister said, community education is working. I refer to two providers in Dublin Central, HACE on Henrietta Street and the Larkin Centre for the Unemployed on the North Strand. There were 20 participants on a community employment scheme, five of whom had to drop out for various...

Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: For a number of weeks there was heightened speculation about Ministers and who would lose his or her job and who would be promoted, with all revealed on Friday. Then we had a similar situation with Ministers of State and all was revealed today. While I wish everybody well in their new role, the question is what difference they will make to the communities and groups in society who are...