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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: Is there any way of estimating the amount of money that might be required by the people who have to pay?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: Does Mr. Beausang mean that if a person in a community education programme above level 3 is not paying, there will be no charge to the community education provider?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: Many of them are community organisations and in some cases the ETB sector provides the teachers. In those cases, does Dr. Maguire mean they would not have to pay?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: Mr. King mentioned the different representative bodies of the schools. Does there need to be agreement right across the sector with regard to representative bodies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: One of my questions aimed to get a response to that issue. Perhaps Mr. Maguire could respond to it.

Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018: From the Seanad (19 Jun 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: With respect to the new subsection (3), I am curious as to why specifically not more than 5% of any work can be copied under this section in any calendar year. Is that a standard percentage? Can the Minister of State explain why it states that not more than 5% of a work can be copied? I understand from the table in the amendment No. 7 that under the heading of the column titled "Words to be...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Costs (19 Jun 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 35. To ask the Minister for Finance the discussions his Department has had with representatives of the insurance industry to address the closure and threatened closure of indigenous companies due to the cost of insurance and in some cases the inability of companies to secure insurance cover; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20509/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities Status (25 Jun 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 250. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if confirmation has been received from Dundalk Institute of Technology of plans to pursue technological university status; if the process has been formally commenced; his views on whether an application for technological university status would be of benefit the institute and the north east region; if his attention has been drawn to the high...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Capital Programme (25 Jun 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 480. To ask the Minister for Health if the extension and expansion of a hospital (details supplied) will be achieved before the end of the current health capital programme as originally planned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26693/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Industrial Relations (25 Jun 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 681. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a company (details supplied) has refused to accept an invitation extended by the WRC to attend a conciliation conference with a union regarding a range of issues affecting the members of the union at the company; his views on the fact that this beneficiary of a significant State contract...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Aftercare Services Provision (25 Jun 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 686. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if locations in which parents cannot access an afterschool place for their children following the introduction of the new childcare scheme are assisted to provide such places in order that parents can fulfil their work commitments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26522/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Proposed Legislation (25 Jun 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 728. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the planned legislative changes to address the area of bogus self-employment announced in the media on 25 March 2019 will be published; the number of occasions on which she or her officials have consulted directly with trade unions on the changes she plans to make since the announcement on 25 March 2019; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Reform (25 Jun 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 764. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to amend the law to prevent candidates from contesting local authority elections in more than one electoral area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26694/19]

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: I welcome the people to the Visitors Gallery, many of whom are family carers. I thank Members of other parties who have expressed support for this motion, which I believe will be passed by the Dáil tomorrow afternoon; I certainly hope so. We tabled the motion to get action. As did Deputy Penrose, who spoke so passionately about the cases he knows, I attended a regional meeting in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (26 Jun 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 152. To ask the Minister for Health if the pilot inpatient detox programme available for persons with a dual diagnosis in counties Clare and north Tipperary can be extended to include persons from County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26947/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Staff (26 Jun 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 168. To ask the Minister for Health when a clinical lead will be appointed to drive the national clinical dual diagnosis programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27024/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Adaptation Plans (27 Jun 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 4. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to take the actions identified in the recently published Climate Action Plan 2019 required to be taken by her Department and in which it is a key stakeholder; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27290/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Adaptation Plans (27 Jun 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: I join others in congratulating Deputy Kelleher on becoming a Member of the European Parliament. It is interesting that he is going to be an MEP for almost everyone in the Chamber, apart from the Acting Chairman and the Minister, Deputy Humphreys. The rest of us are all in the constituency of Ireland South and look forward to working with him. My question relates to the climate action...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Adaptation Plans (27 Jun 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: Several of the actions are for 2019. Most of the actions the Department is leading on are for 2019 or 2020. I have a question on one action in particular. Action 41 aims to promote climate consideration in business operations through the work of the corporate social responsibility stakeholder forum. Is it convened regularly? Is it likely to be convened in the near future? One function...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Adaptation Plans (27 Jun 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: I will bring this back to my local area. People coming into Limerick will see a nice wind turbine belonging to Vistakon, a division of Johnson & Johnson. That is an example of an international company that has supplied its own energy through a sustainable model. Are there other examples where the Minister will encourage that? Cork Harbour is another example. Clusters of wind...