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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Acht na Gaeilge: Engagement with Conradh na Gaeilge (4 May 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Yes. That we would be able to support the recommendations.

Leaders' Questions (9 May 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I want to begin with a quotation that is relevant. It comes from a writer-director who wrote "The generation that won ... Independence lives in the ideas we honor, the architecture we preserve and the battlefields we yet can save.” This is quoted at the start of the report from the Moore Street consultative group, which was presented to the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional,...

Leaders' Questions (9 May 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: There has been a lot of agreement, on which we should start to build. The Taoiseach is a cyclist and knows that if he keeps cycling, he will build momentum but if he stops, he will start to wobble and will eventually fall off the bike. The consultative group has been doing a lot of cycling. We have been building up momentum and should keep going with it. The Government owns the structure...

Priority Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (9 May 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 48. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will clarify Ireland's position in relation to the 2020 renewable energy targets; and his plans to invest substantially in renewable energies in line with the increase in power usage across the national grid, in particular in forms of renewable energy that are not yet properly utilised such as wave and ocean...

Priority Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (9 May 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: My question relates to Ireland's position on the 2020 renewable energy targets, the plans to invest in renewable energies and where we are in terms of wave and ocean technology.

Priority Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (9 May 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: The Minister knows from his involvement with the Association of European Parliamentarians with Africa, AWEPA, the effect of policies and practices from the developed world on the developing world, its people and their livelihoods, that is, that those least responsible for the effects of climate change are paying the most. I was reading the speech the Minister gave last month on putting the...

Priority Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (9 May 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland's figure on clean renewable energy and what it has saved was very striking. I think it was €1 billion in fossil fuel imports. That is highly significant. It is interesting to hear what the Minister says about offshore wind, hydro and tidal wave energy. We are over-reliant on fossil fuels and we know the cost of that is €4.6 billion...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan (9 May 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 59. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the timescale for the national fibre broadband plan to be delivered to offshore islands; if his attention has been drawn to the particular problems offshore islands face regarding sustaining a working population without high speed internet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21895/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Data (9 May 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 493. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of referrals to the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, CAMHS, by general practitioners that are returned to general practitioners and not followed up on. [22046/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Illegal Dumping (9 May 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 586. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the role his Department has in combatting illegal dumping in local authority areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21946/17]

Dublin Transport: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: The motion before us is interesting and there is a lot to support in it, as, indeed, there are aspects of the amendments that are worthy of support also. We hear about a traffic management plan for Dublin but, unfortunately, we often see the absence of traffic management. When there is a problem, I fail to understand why we cannot prevent it from worsening by diverting traffic when it is...

Ireland and the Negotiations on the UK's Withdrawal from the EU: Statements (Resumed) (10 May 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I respect the democratic mandate of the electorate in Britain, which means Brexit, but Northern Ireland and Scotland did not vote to leave. There are questions around the will and the decision of those electorates when they are still part of the British empire and not in the EU where they voted to remain. It is still incredible that there was such a lack of in-depth discussion or...

Other Questions: Child Care Services Staff (11 May 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 21. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to address the difficulties for community child care in view of the fact that community employment workers are no longer considered eligible in the ratio of staff to children and there are implications regarding closures of some services and reduction in hours in areas of disadvantage in which these services are vital. [17856/17]

Other Questions: Child Care Services Staff (11 May 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: There is a disconnect between the figures cited by the Minister and the reality on the ground for community child care, certainly in my constituency. In the audio-visual, AV, room yesterday afternoon, I chaired a meeting with some providers from Cork, Dublin Central and Ronanstown as well as a group that provided community care in a number of other areas in Dublin. They all said the same...

Other Questions: Child Care Services Staff (11 May 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: We must accept that we are not discussing a level playing field and that there are areas of greater need. Two of those who spoke at yesterday's meeting - one is from my constituency - discussed the anti-social behaviour and criminality that these young children see every day. In fact, there was a murder outside a particular creche some months ago - that is the reality. The staff are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Implications of Brexit for Foreign Policy: Discussion (11 May 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. Education is another factor in terms of movement. Perhaps they would comment briefly on that. All the presentations we have received re-affirm our incredulity at what has happened in Britain. It is not that we do not respect their right to vote, but it is the lack of exploration, discussion and investigation of what Brexit would mean apart...

Other Questions: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (16 May 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 56. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will provide the source of her information from the European Union on which chapters of the CETA will be provisionally applied and which will not, which she described to Dáil Éireann on 23 March 2017; the dates these provisional applications in each chapter are expected to take place; and if she will report on the...

Other Questions: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (16 May 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I hope the information provided by the Minister in her response will clarify what chapters and what sections of chapters are provisionally included. I have been told by people who have been trawling through the EU documents that there is a lack of real, reliable and specific information in the public domain on the provisional application. There was an EU press release which said that the...

Other Questions: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (16 May 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I have a specific concern regarding transport too. As an insight into the post-CETA world and ISDS, Canada has already sued the EU in attempt to get it to lower its standards on endocrine disrupters, potentially cancerous pesticides and plastics and wires, including those found in children's toys. That kind of action will increase and there is a likelihood of further pressure from Canada on...

Other Questions: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (16 May 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: -----or an official from her Department. I hope we can thrash out some of the issues that are coming up with regard to CETA and that we can debunk some of the myths around the agreement.