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Other Questions: Child and Family Agency Services (2 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: My question relates to children who are living in emergency accommodation and the need to acknowledge that it is difficult for them. What is Tusla, in particular, doing to support these children?

Other Questions: Child and Family Agency Services (2 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: We are storing up incredible problems for services in the future as a result of the impact of living in these situations on children. It goes against everything stated in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. We are supposed to put the best interests of the child first and do everything we can for the well-being of the child. I know about these children from the families I meet and...

Other Questions: Child and Family Agency Services (2 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: We know that the children living in these situations are very much at risk of a lot of issues later in their lives. We know the importance of early intervention when it comes to the mental health and physical well-being of these children. The Minister mentioned priorities and the extra funding his Department has received in his answer to Deputy Kyne. Will the Minister look at these...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Young People’s Facilities and Services Fund (2 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 19. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will re-introduce funding for the young people's facilities and services fund; his views on the substantial benefits this will have for young persons in their formative years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42688/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Sustainable Development Goals and Disability Issues: Discussion (2 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I want to acknowledge the work being done by CBM. I had not realised the impact of disasters on people with disabilities until I attended the event held by CBM in regard to the Philippines. That brought home in a stark way the impact disasters, whether man-made or natural, have on communities, but the impact on people with disabilities is a hundred thousand times worse. We are not as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Sustainable Development Goals and Disability Issues: Discussion (2 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I have a particular question for Dr. Keogh regarding funding for disability groups. Will she fill us in on the organisations that are working here and advocating for people with disabilities and how happy or unhappy she is with the level of funding?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Sustainable Development Goals and Disability Issues: Discussion (2 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: On monitoring for the future, what is the best framework for looking at the sustainable development goals in terms of disability and of ensuring they work? Are there frameworks operating in other countries that we can adopt? We need to see progress on these goals. There has been disquiet over the millennium development goals in regard to how much they achieved. Now we have 17 sustainable...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Sustainable Development Goals and Disability Issues: Discussion (2 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: It would be useful if the committee had those questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Sustainable Development Goals and Disability Issues: Discussion (2 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: It would mean we could pursue this matter with the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade or otherwise.

Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (3 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I welcome the opportunity to make some comments on the Bill. The exchanges in the debate on Committee Stage were good because the Minister of State was prepared to listen to and engage with us. I have a particular interest in this issue as I am from a docklands community and have relatives living in another docklands community nearby. I was brought up in this community; I still live in it...

Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2008 [Seanad]: Second Stage (8 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: When considering this Bill certain people come to mind - the Minister for her persistence on this issue, consultant psychiatrist Pat Bracken and the late John McCarthy of Mad Pride Ireland. Wherever he or his spirit is, he must be smiling and saying it is about time this has happened. We know how long he campaigned on this and of his total opposition to a system whereby doctors could...

Establishment of Independent Anti-Corruption Agency: Motion [Private Members] (8 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: This debate is very opportune in view of last night's RTE report and the discussion which followed it. There were three points that struck me having watched the programme and the debate. The first, obviously, was the extent of the corruption that was revealed. Second was the pathetic quality of the excuses we heard such as that the forms were too difficult to fill in properly. My own...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (8 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 81. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the tendering process for restoration contracts for Nos. 14 to 17 Moore Street in Dublin 1; the estimated cost of the restoration and who costed it; and if proposals will be made available to relatives and interested parties. [43482/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: State Properties (8 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 192. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of refurbishing the near empty building of Carrisbrook House, given that it is almost totally vacant and of national and historical importance, given the site's role in the 1916 Rising, if he will make this site available to the local authority as housing for persons in emergency accommodation; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Resources (8 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 513. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary level and secondary level students in Dublin north-east and Dublin north-west inner city seeking special needs assessments by school in tabular form, and the number of these assessments completed and the allocation of resources as a result of submitted needs assessments by school. [43920/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Disposal (8 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 587. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has discussed its grievances on the workings of the tyre working group and some of the practices and recommendations that have resulted from its deliberations, with the Independent Tyres Wholesalers and Retailers Association. [44166/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Disposal (8 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 588. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will review the prescribed solution of a full producer-responsibility initiative, with the suggested loss of jobs, distortion of trade and imposition of a new tax on the consumer, given that the tyre industry claims that the tyre working group process was flawed. [44167/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (8 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 657. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on the low earnings of those in the arts sector and that they do not have recourse to collective bargaining; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43787/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (8 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 658. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a designated Famine commemoration day is merited given the scale of the tragedy itself and its effect on Ireland and the world, if and when she will make a definite decision on this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43788/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Addiction Prevention Programmes (9 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 19. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the budget for school-based prevention and education programmes on addiction; the programmes available at primary and at second level; the time provision for such programmes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43875/15]