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Other Questions: Student Accommodation (23 Feb 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Dublin City Council may speak about balanced development but I can provide some figures. It is reckoned that currently, between what has already been granted and what is coming on stream, there will be student accommodation for 8,000 students in a very particular part of the north inner city. Dublin Institute of Technology's Grangegorman campus has indicated it needs accommodation for 4,000...

Other Questions: Student Accommodation (23 Feb 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: What I described is the reality in areas where there is a high density of student accommodation. We have the list of planning applications and they add up to 8,000. Who is the accommodation for? Students use student accommodation for possibly six months of the year. Who will avail of the space afterwards? It will be profit for the developer in the area. I take the Minister of State's...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments (23 Feb 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 26. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on whether changes to the housing assistance payment could be beneficial in tackling the housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9042/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (23 Feb 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 84. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration will be given to the need for an independent complaints mechanism for those persons living in direct provision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9176/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Report (23 Feb 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 85. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the archive of the interdepartmental committee on the Magdalen laundries will be made available. [9177/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities Funding (23 Feb 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 419. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to increase funding towards walking and cycling initiatives in line with reducing carbon admissions, improved health and less congested cities and towns; his views on whether active modes of transport should be prioritised for enhanced funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9468/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Commissions of Investigation (23 Feb 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 437. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if consideration will be given to the wishes of a group (details supplied) to see a draft report, due to its concerns about the issue of race being adequately addressed. [9178/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Territorial Integrity of Georgia and its Integration into the European Union: Motion (23 Feb 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I support the motion. I acknowledge the work of the Georgian chargé d'affaires in pursuing the interests of Georgia. Having recently attended a meeting of the EU's foreign affairs committees in Pristina, there is no doubt about the interest in EU enlargement among the countries of the western Balkans. I acknowledge what Deputy Darragh O'Brien has done in addition to what the Embassy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Territorial Integrity of Georgia and its Integration into the European Union: Motion (23 Feb 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I was appalled to read about what happened to the Israeli ambassador. He had been invited to speak by a group of students in Trinity College but was denied the right to do so. If we were to apply that behaviour to other parts of the world, - for example, Northern Ireland, Colombia and other conflict regions - we would be shutting the door on dialogue and communications which, as we know,...

Insurance Industry: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: For me the whole area of insurance should be about assurance and reassurance and that, in the event of an accident, an injury or a fatality or, with property, in the event of theft, damage or vandalism, people feel assured and reassured that their insurance will cover them. What we are seeing in the insurance industry recently, however, is this whole spiralling. The word I would use to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (1 Mar 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 40. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the staffing schedules outlined in the DEIS programme; if his attention has been drawn to the consequences of applying the pupil teacher ratio of 20 to 1 to existing junior DEIS band 1 schools that currently retain additional teaching posts to allow a pupil teacher ratio of 15 to 1 in junior classes. [10415/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Reform (1 Mar 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 41. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of history within the framework for junior cycle; and his views on the merits of history as a core subject. [10414/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Hare Coursing (7 Mar 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 61. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of the methodology behind the figure that more than 99% of hares used for coursing meetings are released unharmed back into the wild as she has previously stated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11744/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Funding (7 Mar 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 643. To ask the Minister for Health the level of funding for home care packages; the additional funding that is required which would help alleviate pressures on hospitals by allowing patients to return home in a timely manner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11905/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Process (7 Mar 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 651. To ask the Minister for Health if he will treat with urgency the outstanding issues preventing the Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act, relating to tablets, from being implemented and thus enforced by gardaí. [7646/17]

European Council Meeting: Statements (8 Mar 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Tá cúpla rud gur mhaith liom caint faoi san am atá agam. Tá dhá rud i gceist agam atá ag cur imní ar dhaoine. An chéad ceann ná CETA. We know CETA will apply provisionally from April, but we are told it will not be brought before the Dáil for ratification until a judgment has been handed down by the European Court of Justice on another...

National Educational Psychological Service: Motion [Private Members] (8 Mar 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I wish to share time Deputy Pringle.

National Educational Psychological Service: Motion [Private Members] (8 Mar 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: The motion recognises the reality in respect of psychological services for children in education. NEPS is seriously understaffed and a high number of DEIS schools do not have access to a NEPS psychologist for the purpose of carrying out an assessment. That means a financial strain on NEPS to pay for private psychologists. With regard to the new resource allocation model for allocating...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Suicide Prevention (8 Mar 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 33. To ask the Minister for Health his plans, in conjunction with the Minister for Education and Skills, to implement a multi-pronged strategy to address the level of youth suicide here. [6761/17]

Commission of Investigation Announcement on Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (9 Mar 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: We meet so many people, individuals and groups in our political lives, and there will always be some who will make a significant impact on us. For me, some of those people are the women I met from the Magdalen laundries and from the Association of Mixed Race Irish . I met the latter group several times over the years and with them I met the then Minister, Senator James Reilly. For me, it...