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Other Questions: Child Care Services Regulation (12 Nov 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 17. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to ensure highest standards are reached and adhered to and an appropriate inspection regime across all preschool child care facilities is in place; the timeframe for achieving both; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47838/13]

Other Questions: Child Care Services Regulation (12 Nov 2013)

Sandra McLellan: In the aftermath of the "Prime Time" investigation into preschool care, "A Breach of Trust", there was considerable concern about how to ensure the failures highlighted in that programme would be rectified and prevented from recurring. The programme found that most preschools are inspected once every 20 months and that many experts believe the child care regulations are too basic and poorly...

Other Questions: Child Care Services Regulation (12 Nov 2013)

Sandra McLellan: While I welcome many of those changes, more progress is required. This country does not provide child care properly. We have outsourced, in effect, it to the private and voluntary sectors and the State has abdicated its responsibility. We do not invest in child care properly either. Even after the introduction of the free preschool year, we spend 0.4% of GDP on preschool education, which...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Tourism Data (12 Nov 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 47. To ask the Taoiseach the numbers of visitors here from emerging tourism markets, in particular China, India, Brazil, Russia and South East Asia [47111/13]

Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)

Sandra McLellan: I will speak to the specifics of the Bill shortly but, first, I wish to comment on the Government's supposed vision for health care. The Minister will know that we had our reservations to begin with, to put it mildly. We never truly believed that reliance on the private insurance sector, itself enfeebled and in many respects subsidised by the public system, could ever truly deliver the type...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (13 Nov 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 108. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 117 of 6 November 2013, if he will provide details of funding that the ILDN received annually since 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48470/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)

Sandra McLellan: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for their interesting presentations. We know we have a lot to do in this regard. I commend the witnesses on all the hard work they do, of which we are very aware. A number of points came up again and again in the presentations. A significant one is the unfitness of our hospital system for end-of-life patients and caring for the bereaved. Is there a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)

Sandra McLellan: I am very sympathetic to the challenges faced by chaplains. They are reduced to meeting and greeting on many occasions. Would Ms Naughten agree there is a structural need for the health care system and hospitals to be more responsive to the bereaved and would it aid the work of chaplains if this situation was to improve significantly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)

Sandra McLellan: Consent for procedures is a tricky area and the responsibility regarding the treatment rightly lies with the individual unless they are unable to give consent. Regarding mental capacity for consent, does McNaughton believe our mental capacity laws are adequate or do they create difficulties for those caring for people with mental disorders at the end of life? Mr. Plunkett made some...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (19 Nov 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 458. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when works will be carried out in a housing estate (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49266/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects Expenditure (19 Nov 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 737. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the areas for which the National Roads Authority have provided funding for in 2014 under the infrastructure and capital investment 2012-2016 programme; the amount allocated to each area; the reason Buttevant, County Cork, with one of the worst road surfaces in any town or village in the country has been omitted from funding allocation;...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Sixth Report of Special Rapporteur on Child Protection: Discussion (19 Nov 2013)

Sandra McLellan: I welcome Dr. Shannon here today and thank him for the report, which is so comprehensive. I compliment him on the amount of work that he has put into it. I agree with everything in it. I also agree totally with what Deputy Conway said about alcohol. In 95% of cases it is the root cause of all the problems. I will not go into it because Deputy Conway has aired it pretty well. We do not...

Government Decision on Exiting Programme of Financial Support: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2013)

Sandra McLellan: The decision to exit the EU-IMF programme without seeking an additional credit line was significant and should have been discussed at greater length in the Dáil at the time. We need to be clear as to the reasons it was significant. The media hailed it as a gamble and a bold move. While some considered it reckless, others viewed it as an achievement and an end to our humiliation. All...

Youth Employment: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Nov 2013)

Sandra McLellan: I recall a time in the late 1990s and early 2000s when the Irish people genuinely believed that Ireland was finally in a position to ensure that we could keep our young people here. As many of our relatives returned to make their lives here again, we believed that emigration would become a thing of the past and be banished to the realm of folk memory - to stories of uncles, sisters and...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Abuse Issues (20 Nov 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 177. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will transpose Directive 2011/93/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 combating the sexual abuse and exploitation of children and child pornography, and replacing Council Framework decision 2004/68/JHA ahead of the transposition due date on 18 December 2013; the position regarding the Governments...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (20 Nov 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 184. To ask the Minister for Health the number of mental health beds available for children, in tabular form, by Health Service Executive area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49833/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (21 Nov 2013)

Sandra McLellan: I thank the witnesses for their presentations and for sharing their very personal experiences with us today. The witnesses made reference to the borrelia ELISA and the borrelia Western Blot tests. They suggested that the latter test results in a higher rate of detection. Would they recommend that this test be available in Ireland and how important a tool is it? The witnesses said that if...

Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2013)

Sandra McLellan: She is terminally ill.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge (26 Nov 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cad atá ar intinn ag an Roinn a dhéanamh lena chinntiú go bhfaighfidh scoileanna Gaeltachta a ndóthain tacaíochta agus áiseanna. [44227/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge (26 Nov 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills ráiteas a dhéanamh maidir le todhchaí COGG; cad é éifeacht an chinnidh a rinne sé COGG a thabhairt faoi scáth CNCM; cad iad na himpleachtaí a bheidh ag an gcinneadh sin i dtaca leis an Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge; an bhfuil an cinneadh seo fós le cur i bhfeidhm [44224/13]