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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Special Educational Needs Service Provision (6 Dec 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 35. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and its future status and designation in order to allow it continue its long established work with students with a visual impairment and with students with learning difficulties. [51978/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Special Educational Needs Service Provision (6 Dec 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: My question concerns a school in Dublin 9, Rosmini Community School, and it is to ask about its future status and designation to allow it to continue its long-established tradition of working with children with a visual impairment and children with learning difficulties.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Special Educational Needs Service Provision (6 Dec 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I take it from the Minister's reply that its status and designation will continue. I know the school very well, I know its current and former staff and I know the current and former staff in ChildVision. They share the same campus and there has been a long tradition of children moving from one to the other. This is reflected in the ethos of Rosmini. Traditionally, it was inclusive of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Special Educational Needs Service Provision (6 Dec 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I will certainly get back to the principal. I encourage the Minister to do that. They were very happy with the design of the new school, which is taking the wider corridors, the two lifts and tactile surfaces into account. The reality is that the school was turned down for transport for children with an impairment of one sort or another. The Department only backtracked when it...

Neurological Services: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I was particularly anxious to speak on this issue because of what I know about motor neurone disease which, while it was not specifically mentioned in the Fianna Fáil motion, is a progressive neurological condition. I know about it from a very close friend of mine, a teaching colleague, who battled motor neurone disease very bravely and with great dignity - as much dignity as the...

Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2017: Motion (6 Dec 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: My position on animals and greyhounds is well known. This issue was dealt with in Private Members' business some time ago and I also tried to bring foreard a Bill to ban live hare coursing. We have far too many examples of appalling ways in which animals are treated in this country and I want to acknowledge the individuals, families and organisations which do so much for animal welfare and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (6 Dec 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has had discussions with an organisation (details supplied) in view of the delays in registering teachers. [51977/17]

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (6 Dec 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I may have to leave at some point as I must speak elsewhere. The first point I would make is that we have never really had a national debate on our defence policy. There is this rush today. I do not think saying that there was a Commencement debate in the Seanad and a Topical Issues debate in the Dáil is enough. The Minister of State is now before the committee and we have four hours...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (6 Dec 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: We all know about the work done by our peacekeeping troops, of which everybody is very complimentary. Our peacekeeping troops are different from those of other countries. There is a great respect for them and nobody would deny them the equipment, capabilities and training they needed to do the work involved which they have been doing extremely well. However, there is still disquiet about...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (6 Dec 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Who wrote it?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (6 Dec 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: As I have to return to the Chamber, I will just make one point. I refer to an article by an academic, which is balanced-----

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (6 Dec 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: The academic in question made the point that Ireland has to decide to engage or opt out. Both options are open, but each involves costs. In the article, he allowed for the potential for gain. The principle of PESCO is to strengthen Europe's military capabilities in specific collaborative defence projects. That is what raises alarms. Irrespective of what the Minister of State says, it is...

Other Questions: Student Accommodation (7 Dec 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 11. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which the increase in student accommodation is addressing the homelessness situation and the housing lists, particularly in Dublin. [52064/17]

Other Questions: Student Accommodation (7 Dec 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: The question relates to student accommodation. I would like to know the correlation between the increase in student accommodation and how it is affecting or addressing the homelessness situation and housing lists, particularly in Dublin.

Other Questions: Student Accommodation (7 Dec 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: We have had this discussion before, and I understand the point the Minister of State made then and makes now that this is an important and a distinct category and that under-provision of student accommodation has meant demands on the private rented sector. However, the point I made then and which I make again now is that we have this urgency and this efficiency in getting student...

Other Questions: Student Accommodation (7 Dec 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: We discussed before the difficulties that a preponderance of student accommodation brings into an area and a community and the need to address that. On-campus accommodation is excellent because there are ways for the community to engage; with the private sector there is not. This is why the suggestion had been made of some kind of regulator of student accommodation, perhaps combining it...

Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (7 Dec 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: The Minister came into the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence yesterday and outlined all of the reasons Ireland should join PESCO. Many of us made the point about the haste in which this is happening. I compare and contrast it with when the foreign affairs committee was considering our Irish Aid policy some time ago. There were public consultations, submissions and...

Public Services Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: This is the section which is causing most disturbance among teachers because it will freeze increments and also be discriminatory against certain teachers. It will affect the pensions of some who are already at a disadvantage and thus affect the future of the profession. It is being seen as an assault on unions, normal industrial relations and the principles of trade unionism. It...

Public Services Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I listened to the Minister but the members of the union see this section very differently. They see it as causing undue discomfort and upset to them. This comes from branches of the trade union right across the country. When I hear moderate members of trade unions calling this section reckless and infuriating, that makes me sit up and listen to what they are saying. They say that it could...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (7 Dec 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 18. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which Rebuilding Ireland plans to address the commodification and financialisation of housing; and his view on whether the reliance on acquisitions and leasing from the private market to supply a significant share of social housing will continue this trend. [52063/17]