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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Monuments (12 Nov 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister for her reply. I do not know if the Minister did a tour with the relatives group from the GPO all the way around to the point of the surrender. Each relative tells the story of their particular relative, whether it was Thomas MacDonagh, Joseph Plunkett, The O'Rahilly or James Connolly. It is an area that is steeped in history. Is there a concern that because of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Monuments (12 Nov 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I acknowledge the group of supporters who are there every Saturday gathering thousands of petitions to save the whole area and the whole terrace. The Taoiseach referred to the laneways around there as the laneways of history. They are in danger of also being destroyed under this plan. One has to question the practicality and suitability of the current plan which is for a massive shopping...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Monuments (12 Nov 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 5. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the person who costed and valued the sale of the NAMA-owned properties on the Moore Street battle site in Dublin 1; if there was a survey with a report available; if there will be a tendering process for contractors involved in the restoration; and when a timeframe will be drawn up for the works. [39631/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Monuments (12 Nov 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: This question relates to the costing and valuation of the NAMA-owned properties on Moore Street and whether a survey was carried out on that. The rest of the question deals with the tendering process and the timeframe. I had tabled the question before the Minister announced the details of the monument.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Monuments (12 Nov 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: The announcement of plans for the commemorative centre is welcome. However, there are questions. The Minister has paid €4 million for what is a derelict site. Why were these buildings not handed over to the State by NAMA, instead of the State having to pay €4 million for a derelict site? The Minister and I have been in these buildings so we are aware of the state of them....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Monuments (12 Nov 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: The Minister seems to be adopting the Chartered Land ministerial order that was obtained under a planning application and which would also demolish the whole area around Nos. 14-17 Moore Street. It is important that what goes around the national monument is appropriate to it. I still do not understand why the Government had to buy back the national monument, which, as we know, was a...

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I return to a subject we have previously discussed, namely, community employment, CE, schemes. We know the value of the CE schemes and the difference they make. The system should be there to suit the individual participant and the community where it is based. However, it is not the case. Some CE schemes are struggling due to several issues. The Department assessment is based solely on...

Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I raised very specific issues and they need very specific answers. I draw the Minister's attention to an issue that is common to CE schemes and the designated places for people in rehabilitation. It is the role of the CE supervisor in areas of great need. These supervisors are seeing people who are presenting with much more complex needs than in the past, who have barely enough to live on...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (12 Nov 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 43. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans, if any, to mark the role played in the Easter Rising 1916 by the original Carrisbrook House on 122 Northumberland Road in Dublin D04 A295; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39536/15]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Unemployment Levels (17 Nov 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 111. To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons who have left the labour force in the past four quarters, and how this has affected unemployment rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39934/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (17 Nov 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 131. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection on the need to increase the basic social protection rate to combat the increase in inflation since January 2011; that the failure to make progress on restoring the buying power of minimum social protection payments in budget 2016 is a concern; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40249/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (17 Nov 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 132. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 217 of 3 November 2015, if she is aware of any individual problems persons have been facing in social protection offices when trying to provide proof of actively seeking employment; her views that the current system is very loose; and that a fairer system needs to be put in place to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (17 Nov 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 133. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her views that a system which prohibits a cohabiting unemployed parent from claiming a jobseeker's benefit based on the income of the other parent is a contributing factor to social protection fraud in some cases, whereby parents in relationships can, on occasion, claim to be separated in order to receive benefit under the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (17 Nov 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 276. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 101 of 8 July 2015, if he will confirm that Horse Racing Ireland took the claims of grievance seriously and that it investigated the allegations in a fair way; if it had any dialogue with the Turf Club regarding the very serious allegations made by the person concerned; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Roads Authority Projects (17 Nov 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 630. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to add an outer orbital motorway route to complement the M50 along the South Drogheda, Navan, Newbridge corridor, to the capital investment plan; his views on the need for a new outer orbital motorway for the significant populations of Dublin and east Leinster, and to alleviate pressure on the M50; and if he will make a...

Housing and Homelessness: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (18 Nov 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: "Alarming", "disturbing" and "frightening" are the three words I would use to describe the housing issue. While there is no doubt that the posltion is getting worse outside Dublin, it is in Dublin where the most severe difficulties are being experienced when it comes to housing and homelessness. We know the facts. We know that more than 700 families and 1,500 children are homeless. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Expressions of Sympathy Following Paris Attacks (18 Nov 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: The events in Paris were truly horrifying and were particularly targeted at ordinary people doing very ordinary things - the kinds of ordinary things we do at weekends. It has brought home the reality of life for people in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Syria. They face that almost every day of their lives because there are suicide bombs and other bombings going on. The West...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: COP21: Discussion (18 Nov 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: What the witnesses have presented has been frightening and alarming, in particular where it relates to Ireland. I am conscious of our role in human rights, for example, our membership of the UN Human Rights Council and our overseas development aid, ODA. We give with one hand, but it is obvious that we are taking with the other hand. Does it suit us to do that? Unfortunately, we will have...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Economic Partnership Agreements: Motions (18 Nov 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: These motions are presented to us in a way that is totally positive and suggest this will be a wonderful success. Page 7 of the Caribbean agreements refers to the positive EPA effect for some agricultural and industrial exports from the Dominican Republic and some other projects. That does not come across as a glaring success of what is happening in the Caribbean. In the previous...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Economic Partnership Agreements: Motions (18 Nov 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Does that come from the American embargo?