Results 261-280 of 5,534 for speaker:Maureen O'Sullivan

Written Answers — Teaching Qualifications: Teaching Qualifications (13 Jan 2011)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 89: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider granting incremental credit to a person (details supplied). [1973/11]

Written Answers — Animal Welfare: Animal Welfare (13 Jan 2011)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 196: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will ban the Larsen cage trap which has been banned in Denmark due to the stress and injury caused to the captured birds which either die of starvation or are subsequently strangled to death. [1890/11]

Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (19 Jan 2011)

Maureen O'Sullivan: This technical Bill will make two key amendments to the proposed voice and participation voting weight and the funding arrangements for the IMF's investment authority. The IMF has been responsible for seriously damaging the lives of people in poorer and developing counties. I hope this country will not suffer the same fate. It is claimed the voting formula contained in the voice and...

Health Care Services: Motion (19 Jan 2011)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I want to acknowledge the positive things in our health system. We have excellent health care, which is provided by hard-working and highly trained staff, and it has a significant budget, once one is in the system. That is central and brings me to the issue of beds. It is ironic that people are left on trolleys, chairs and worse who need a bed while those in wards are left in beds, through...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (25 Jan 2011)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 186: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide clarification on the way the proposed changes to stamp duty will affect a family (details supplied). [3391/11]

Written Answers — International Trade: International Trade (25 Jan 2011)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 323: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the position regarding illegal business practice in Western Sahara; if he will request Irish companies operating there to suspend their business until such time as the Saharawi people benefit from the presence of international companies in their country; if he will make it clear to Irish companies abroad that unethical and illegal...

Written Answers — Animal Welfare: Animal Welfare (25 Jan 2011)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 398: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 196 of 13 January 2011, the justification for allowing the use of the Larsen cage trap, the unnecessary and wilful cruelty of which has been confirmed by various officials and organisations. [3362/11]

Written Answers — Court Procedures: Court Procedures (1 Feb 2011)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 169: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if plaintiff-in-person can be denied access to a court if they lack the ability to pay. [4661/11]

Programme for Government: Motion (15 Mar 2011)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I am sharing time with Deputies Clare Daly and Mattie McGrath. While this is called a programme for Government, it is more than that because what is needed is a programme for the survival of this country. I read a section on the statement of common purpose and noted the point that the public demanded change. No doubt there is a great desire for change, but it must be real and meaningful in...

Written Answers — Turbary Rights: Turbary Rights (22 Mar 2011)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 185: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will clarify the position regarding the continuation or not of turf cutting on 32 designated raised bogs in view of the media reports (details supplied) concerning the ending of the derogation. [5014/11]

Written Answers — Turbary Rights: Turbary Rights (22 Mar 2011)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 186: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government in view of the statement by his predecessor in April 2010 that the derogation permitting turf cutting was to end on the 75 natural heritage area bogs designated in 2004, if the sentence in the programme for Government that will allow an exemption for domestic turf cutting on 75 national heritage area sites...

Written Answers — Turbary Rights: Turbary Rights (22 Mar 2011)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 187: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps he took to ensure the ban on mechanised peat extraction for domestic purposes in the 32 special area of conservation raised bogs in 2010 was enforced; and if he will provide details of any breaches of which he is aware. [5017/11]

Written Answers — Turbary Rights: Turbary Rights (22 Mar 2011)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 196: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the proposed ending of the derogation for mechanised peat extraction for domestic purposes relating to the 23 designated raised bogs that was scheduled to end in 2011. [5015/11]

Written Answers — Turbary Rights: Turbary Rights (22 Mar 2011)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 197: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps he will take to enforce any ban on mechanised peat extraction on designated raised bogs should breaches arise. [5018/11]

Written Answers — Turbary Rights: Turbary Rights (22 Mar 2011)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 188: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, further to Parliamentary Question No. 225 of 4 November 2010, if he will re-examine the reply to same and inform this Deputy of the steps he proposes to take to ensure that projects for the extraction of peat meet the requirements of this judgment. [5019/11]

Response to the Aftermath of the Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan: Statements (23 Mar 2011)

Maureen O'Sullivan: This is an appalling tragedy for the people of Japan. They have the sincere sympathies of this House and the Irish people. This is just the latest disaster of epic proportions following those in New Zealand, Pakistan and Haiti. We cannot but admire the heroism and calmness of the Japanese people as they come to terms with what has happened. People in Ireland, particularly on the eastern...

Corporation Tax: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2011)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Why are we so unwilling to take on big businesses when we have no difficulty cutting disability payments or abolishing the Christmas bonus? Prior to this debate I believe I was the only Member of the previous Dáil, despite my short term in the House at the time, who questioned our corporate tax rate. It appears that maintaining our corporate tax rate is the answer to all our woes and...

Situation in Libya: Statements (24 Mar 2011)

Maureen O'Sullivan: What we are seeing happening throughout north Africa is the culmination of years of frustration caused by living under dictatorships with no concern for the well-being of their citizens. It is caused by frustration and the lack of decent living standards, adequate food, water and housing, opportunity, particularly for young people when it comes to education and employment, and, most...

Written Answers — Report on Magdalene Laundries: Report on Magdalene Laundries (24 Mar 2011)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 79: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if he intends to offer a formal apology on behalf of the nation for the failure to protect women and young girls from abuse in the laundries; and if he will make a statement on the Attorney General's response to the Irish Human Rights Commission's Assessment that called on the Government to institute a statutory inquiry into human...

Moriarty Tribunal Report: Statements (29 Mar 2011)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I am sharing my time with Deputies John Halligan, Richard Boyd Barrett, Mick Wallace, Tom Fleming and Joan Collins. The findings of the Moriarty tribunal are very disturbing. These findings are that there was inappropriate political interference and the process through which the licence was awarded was grossly deficient, that the Government of the day acted with gross impropriety and the...