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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (4 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the implications that the lack of special educational needs resources are having on a school (details supplied) in Dublin 1; the reason there was a change in policy resulting in excluding the special school under the DES from SEN resource supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53754/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Rehabilitation Programmes (5 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of teachers, scheduled classes, work training programmes that have been curtailed and or cancelled in each prison and the comparable numbers for six and 12 months ago; the impact of the reduction in prison officers and prison office hours on the availability of services for prisoners including education, psychology, work training, health...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Preschool Services (5 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason for the withdrawal of Health Service Executive funding to a preschool (details supplied) in Dublin 1; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54729/12]

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 26: In page 17, subsection (1), between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following:"(a ) hare coursing and track racing, the netting of hares, the shooting of hares and the use of hares in the training of greyhounds before, during and after sporting events, (b ) the use of animals in sporting events which may result in the mutilation and/or mental and physical suffering of...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Based on what the Minister said about amendment No. 30, there is a case to be made with regard to the situation where terrier dogs are being trained in the digging out of foxes. There is documentary evidence that both the dog and the fox suffer appalling cruelty. The dog, in that case, is being trained to dig out the fox. I ask the Minister to examine that further.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: May I ask a question?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I would not like to see animal welfare groups being precluded from investigating reports of animal cruelty. Can the Minister assure me that this will not happen?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: We discussed the issue of feral cats briefly. I refer to the cost-effective way of dealing with them which is the system of trap-neuter-return. Constituents have told me of instances where domestic cats have been damaged by poisoning. I do not agree with the poisoning of feral cats. Will feral cats be included in this provision? Poisoning is not a way to deal with feral cats.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 38: In page 22, subsection (1)(c), between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: "(iii) the substandard animal health and welfare conditions of the destination country of Irish animal exports,".There have been instances where animals were exported to countries where the animal health and welfare standards are way below those which obtain in Ireland. The amendment is...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I accept what the Minister is saying and can accept the practicality and common sense of his argument, in that his officials cannot be authorities on animal welfare regulations in the 167 countries to which we export. However, there have been glaring examples in which animals were exported to countries with extremely unhealthy practices when it comes to animal welfare. I know the Minister...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: No.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 39: In page 22, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following subsections:"(2) The Minister will draft guidelines outlining acceptable animal health and welfare standards in countries receiving Irish animal exports and which will determine the standard of living to be experienced by that animal in the receiving country. (3) The animal is not exported to countries that...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I am thinking about farming friends whose children bought animals at the mart at quite a young age and looked after them until it was time to sell them, and also about young teenagers in urban areas. Smithfield horse fair is in my constituency. I have seen young teenagers from housing estates totally devoted to the animals they purchased but I have also seen the other side of the equation,...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: We realise the extra pressure that is put on animal welfare groups which take in abandoned horses and donkeys.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I propose to share time with Deputy Joan Collins and Deputy Tom Fleming. I listened to the tones of assurance and confidence with which Ministers spoke yesterday and the conviction that the decisions they were making were the right ones and the positive language, such as "success", "growing and developing economy", "well on the road to recovery" and "protecting the most vulnerable to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Prison Visiting Committees (11 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the disparities between the Inspector of Prisons' report on St. Patrick's Institution, Dublin and the Visiting Committee Report of 2010; the location at which it is planned to accommodate 18 to 21 year olds, who would currently be residing in St. Patrick's Institution (detail supplied), after 2014; and if he will...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Prison Visiting Committees (11 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: The positive message from the Minister's reply is that he acknowledges what other reports, including the Whitaker report and the reports of the Ombudsman for Children, prison chaplains and the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice, have highlighted since 1985, namely, that there is an appalling breach of the human rights of young people in St. Patrick's. What is the long-term plan to provide...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Prison Visiting Committees (11 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I represent Dublin Central and we know about the revolving door syndrome and the incidence of repeat offences. We should be all on the same wavelength in encouraging rehabilitation and ensuring conditions in prison facilitate it rather than hinder it. Will the Minister engage with those civil society organisations who are involved in the prison and speak with former prisoners to get their...

Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I have no doubt that people were very generous when the Society of St. Vincent de Paul held a collection in every parish throughout Dublin last weekend. Some weeks ago I visited the Capuchin day centre in Smithfield where the effects on their services of the recession and Government cutbacks are very visible. These two organisations have in common that they are now seeing people who had...

Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I do not believe anyone comes into the political arena to cause hardship and suffering, particularly to those at the lower end of the socio-economic scale or people with disabilities. The optimist in me believes in the essential goodness of people, which is why it is so difficult to understand the rationale behind some of the cuts introduced by the Government. I am not using this occasion...