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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Miscellaneous Provisions (Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union on 29 March 2019) Bill 2019: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: In that case, there is the same level of uncertainty. After the British Parliament votes on the matter and when we know what it happening, we will need to return to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Miscellaneous Provisions (Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union on 29 March 2019) Bill 2019: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: On the Erasmus+ programme, the British Government seems to be making decisions to protect students. Can the Government not make decisions to protect Irish students?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Statement of Strategy 2019-2021: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister, the Minister of State and the departmental officials. Early years to fourth level is a broad discussion and I will begin with the former. While I know the running and funding of early education is primarily a matter for a different Department, apart from the Early Start programme, which I think is the only relevant programme within the remit of the Department of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Building Programme (13 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 130. To ask the Minister for Health if the €50 million that has to be provided from the 2019 budget of his Department relating to the cost of the national children’s hospital will not delay a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7228/19]

Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: I would like to thank Deputy Broughan and his colleagues for tabling this motion. It gives us an opportunity to talk about homelessness again. We have not seen any of the real and substantial progress we need to address it from the Government. This morning the Minister said the social housing delivery figures for 2018 were good news and talked them up. The changes are minimal and are...

Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: That is what is in the figures.

Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: If voids have been delivered they should fit the definition of voids.

Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am not on the committee but either way-----

Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: In 2014, there were 2,333 voids. Voids are local authority houses that have been boarded up for a long time with nobody living in them. They are houses that have been brought back into use for families. In 2014, the figure was 2,333; in 2015, it was 2,829, which is the figure on which this eightfold increase is based; in 2016, it was 2,308; in 2017, it was 1,757; and in 2018, it was 560....

Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: If money has been allocated to them, it is the Minister of State's job to make sure it is spent.

Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: These are the figures in front of me in black and white, as delivered by the Department. Last year, there were 560 voids. The figure for 2015, with which the Minister of State is making comparisons to show how much progress has been made, was 2,829. If those figures were added in, we would not see the kind of figures that were being boasted about by the Minister today. We can quickly...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Union Lending (14 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 45. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress being made in matching the capacity of credit unions to lend to small businesses with the needs of those businesses to obtain credit in the context of the proposal on lending to SMEs from the Irish League of Credit Unions in 2016 and the report on public banking; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50416/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Attendance Data (14 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address the matter of reduced timetables being used in schools to manage behaviour; the way in which the practice is monitored; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7506/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Attendance Data (14 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the practice of reduced timetables operating in schools and address the loophole in which children are marked present then sent home and therefore not being reported to Tusla will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7507/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Attendance Data (14 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will insert a mandatory ethnic identifier in reporting by schools further to a review of the practice of reduced timetabling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7509/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Guidelines (14 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 272. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the new revised guidance for local authorities on one-off rural housing regulations will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7519/19]

Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: I agree with some of the points that have been raised by Deputies, but we have problems with the Bill. I will explain some of the issues that concern me. There is a problem with people having to pay management fees and what management companies can require of residents in managed estates needs to be regulated. I acknowledge the interdepartmental review. The multi-unit developments...

Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: I cannot see why payers of local property tax who live in housing estates that are maintained by local authorities should have to subsidise people who live in private housing estates that should be taken in charge instead of remaining private indefinitely. As someone who believes in equity, I do not see why the majority of housing estates where homes are privately owned and people maintain...

Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: I would be interested in the Deputy's response. I am not completely knocking what he is trying to do.

Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am not aware of it personally, but I have been told of a development that has its own private gate, one that cannot be accessed by other people, to the local Luas stop. If this Bill essentially subsidises people who are very well off - I believe it was Deputy Fleming who originally stated the cost would be approximately €17 million - using public funding that would otherwise go to...