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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Question: City of Culture Initiative (24 Sep 2015)

Sandra McLellan: Limerick City of Culture still requires an extra €400,000 of taxpayers’ money to meet a funding shortfall after a spend of almost €11 million. As the Minister stated, €7.1 million was provided by the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and €3.4 million was raised through sponsorship and donations. A total of €152,000 was allocated to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Question: City of Culture Initiative (24 Sep 2015)

Sandra McLellan: It is well known that the city of culture ran into serious cash flow problems only weeks before it opened in January 2014. Internal documents from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, obtained by The Irish Times under the Freedom of Information Act 2014, disclosed that Limerick City of Culture had none of its €6 million State funding in place by the time of the official...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Architectural Heritage (24 Sep 2015)

Sandra McLellan: 28. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason the destruction of a major archaeological monument, a major timber-built road of European significance at Mayne Bog, Coole, County Westmeath is continuing, given the National Monuments Service, under her aegis, has known since 2005 about the existence of the monument; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32186/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Babies Born to Mothers with Substance Abuse Issues: Discussion (24 Sep 2015)

Sandra McLellan: The nature of the Houses is such that I had other commitments this morning but I did have a look through the report last night. To be honest, it was very useful information. It is also sad to realise that it is so patchy throughout the country, we lack so much data and we obviously need a national study. We have no data on alcohol and we know what our relationship with alcohol is like in...

Social Housing Policy: Motion [Private Members] (29 Sep 2015)

Sandra McLellan: The basis of this motion is once again to highlight the need for social housing and how the crisis is just becoming worse as time goes on. An estimated 5,000 people are living in emergency accommodation in this State today. In Dublin alone, more than 1,200 children are living in these unsustainable conditions. That is double the number of people from this time last year. These families...

Social Housing Policy: Motion [Private Members] (29 Sep 2015)

Sandra McLellan: It could.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (29 Sep 2015)

Sandra McLellan: 179. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will approve and expedite an application for a carer's allowance to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32922/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (29 Sep 2015)

Sandra McLellan: 454. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review contributions made in relation to a nursing home loan in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33214/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (29 Sep 2015)

Sandra McLellan: 474. To ask the Minister for Health if a personal assistant will be allocated to two preschool children (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33387/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Residential Institutions (29 Sep 2015)

Sandra McLellan: 485. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1018 of 22 September 2015, if he will confirm when the new investigation team will be put in place to deal with reports of abuse of residents and clients in Health Service Executive homes by members of staff, so that all incidents are investigated in a timely manner; if he will acknowledge that these delays are causing...

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Sandra McLellan: They do not want that. They want a home.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Eligibility (6 Oct 2015)

Sandra McLellan: 344. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will approve an appeal for a person (details supplied) in County Cork to entitle that person to the national average under the basic payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34036/15]

Building on Recovery: Statements (7 Oct 2015)

Sandra McLellan: Having briefly had the opportunity to read through the infrastructure and capital investment plan, I have noticed what I believe to be a few gaping holes in it. There would appear to be a lack of investment in child care, given the public outcry for better facilities and access in this regard. The sum of €11 million a year in early years and youth projects is a pittance when looked...

National Cultural Institutions (National Concert Hall) Bill 2015: Instruction to Committee (8 Oct 2015)

Sandra McLellan: The overall aim of the Bill is provide a statutory basis for the conversion of the National Concert Hall from a company limited by guarantee to a statutory body. The motion, which is technical in nature, changes the name of the Irish Film Board to Screen Ireland, in Irish Fís Éireann, and gives effect to the change of name in all enactments, legal proceedings, statutory instruments...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Sandra McLellan: Take a break for ten minutes.

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Sandra McLellan: We should reconvene and get a vote on it.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (13 Oct 2015)

Sandra McLellan: 21. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if a person on a widow’s, widower’s or surviving civil partner’s pension can partake in a community employment scheme and retain a pension plus a community employment payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35402/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (13 Oct 2015)

Sandra McLellan: 290. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 454 of 29 September 2015, if the value of the site transferred in 2009 can be disregarded and capped after three years, as is the case with the family home; if he will use his discretion given that the person's spouse will have no option but to bring the person home, which would be detrimental to the person's health, as...

Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)

Sandra McLellan: They cannot give it if they do not have it.

Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)

Sandra McLellan: This is not about interference. It is about action.