Results 3,401-3,420 of 5,534 for speaker:Maureen O'Sullivan

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Insolvency Service of Ireland (17 May 2016)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I have two questions. Mr. O'Connor mentioned the new scheme and said he envisages that the numbers availing of the services will increase. He mentioned a range of organisations in connection with the new scheme. Will he indicate how that will work in practice for the person who needs that service and if he has the resources and staff to deal with the increase in numbers? Mr. O'Connor...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Insolvency Service of Ireland (17 May 2016)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I asked about tenants and rents and the work the service does with tenants.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Residential Tenancies Board (17 May 2016)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I am looking for the more definite proposals the witnesses would like the committee to pursue in regard to the difficulties they are having with the work they are doing. We know about the pace of rent increases. The legislation probably made the situation worse rather than better, and I wonder whether that is the experience of the witnesses. I am interested in hearing about the length of...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Residential Tenancies Board (17 May 2016)

Maureen O'Sullivan: What is the length of time from an adjudication to the implementation of the order?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Free Legal Advice Centres (17 May 2016)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I acknowledge FLAC's very focused recommendations, which is what people are being asked to do. What percentage of the work FLAC does involves housing issues? I am aware of the wide range of work in which FLAC is involved. Where does housing come in the bigger scale of things?

An Teanga Gaeilge: Statements (Resumed) (18 May 2016)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Ceapaim go bhfuil sé dearfach go bhfuil an t-ábhar seo, cúrsaí Gaeilge, á phlé againn inniu i dtosach an Rialtais seo. Is mór an trua é agus is cúis náire é go bhfuil Béarla á labhairt againn inniu agus go mbíonn gnó na Dála ag leanúint ar aghaidh trí Bhéarla in ionad Gaeilge. Is cúis...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Drugs Strategy (18 May 2016)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to engage with the current review of the national drugs strategy. [10858/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (18 May 2016)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will commit to a timeframe to end the pay inequality that teachers endure; when he hopes to establish the public service pay commission and potentially end the situation whereby appointed teachers after 2012 are receiving significantly less pay for equal work and given the healthier outlook of the economy if this will be a priority for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Health and Safety (19 May 2016)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 15. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if educational programmes relating to drugs and alcohol addiction awareness in primary and secondary level schools are effective in addressing these issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10758/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (19 May 2016)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 24. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has ensured additional counselling and other resources for those students seriously affected by recent gangland crime and murder in the North Inner City of Dublin. [10759/16]

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Pavee Point (19 May 2016)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I thank Ms Fay for her presentation. Following on from what the Chairman said, do the witnesses have figures on the accommodation needs and wishes of the Traveller community? Are they looking at living on sites or in houses? Do we know exactly what the figures are for each type of accommodation? Ms. Fay mentioned the statutory Traveller agency. Could she elaborate on who she would see...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Tiglin Challenge (19 May 2016)

Maureen O'Sullivan: It is good to see the delegates again. I had the opportunity to go to Tiglin and I have been on its bus several times, so I know at first hand the work it does, the way it reaches out to people and the dignified way it does it. It is done in a respectful way for those who are homeless and in addiction. On addiction and capacity, I know Tiglin's physical building has capacity for more....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Union Data (24 May 2016)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 97. To ask the Minister for Finance the nature and extent of the tax expenditures in favour of credit unions which his Department's tax strategy group recommended be continued in March 2011 (details supplied); if his Department has reviewed the matter since then; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11192/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (24 May 2016)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 210. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department has assessed the effect on subsequent local authority housing output of the disposal by the State of the proceeds of certain mortgage loans associated with the local loans fund, which was established in 1935, to provide capital funding for local authority housing under the Securitisation (Proceeds of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Redundancy Payments (24 May 2016)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 271. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 62 of 28 January 2016, to review the decision announced in budget 2013 to abolish the redundancy rebate, given that its abolition not only affected profitable foreign owned companies, which seems to have been the intention, but has had a disproportionate negative effect on indigenous small and medium sized...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (24 May 2016)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 357. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland is doing enough to combat the refugee crisis in Syria and although Irish Aid has distributed humanitarian aid if more vocal and progressive action is needed at European Union level and at international level to combat some of the dreadful atrocities being committed within Syria, which in turn is contributing to the refugee...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (24 May 2016)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 358. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had discussions on the outstanding issues in Maghaberry Prison in County Antrim and the implementation of the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11882/16]

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Threshold (24 May 2016)

Maureen O'Sullivan: As Threshold is based in Dublin 7, Mr. Jordan will know that there are concerns on the part of the community about the massive influx of students and the effects it will have on it. I have also heard stories of landlords who have had tenants for a number of years in adequate accommodation. They are now telling them to leave because they are subdividing what was an adequate bedroom into two...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Property Owners Association (24 May 2016)

Maureen O'Sullivan: What percentage of the 170,000 or so landlords registered are members of the Irish Property Owners Association? I suspect there is a considerable number of landlords who are not registered with anybody. I do not want to demonize all landlords because I know that they have ended up with tenants from hell. Unfortunately, however, I have come across too many landlords who are big into their...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Housing Finance Agency (24 May 2016)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Mr. O'Leary said that the Housing Finance Agency is committed to financing the local authorities and approved housing bodies and to targeting that funding at those who can respond quickest. What engagement is currently taking place between the agency and the local authorities and are any of them ready to avail of this funding and move on building?