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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (2 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 294. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if special needs assistants and other workers in the primary and second-level education system will be provided with the same entitlement to paid annual leave that is provided to teachers to allow them to serve on public bodies such as local authorities; the reason this right is denied to special needs assistants; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (2 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 399. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons presenting to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, with alcohol and drug misuse related issues from 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27612/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test Centres (2 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 583. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the driver test centre will open in Drogheda, County Louth; if the centre will be permanent; the location of the centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27621/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (2 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 592. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be allocated to Shannon Airport in view of the fact that other airports have recently received significant funding (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27779/19]

Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Minister of State has not told us anything about amendments Nos. 4 and 5.

Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am seeking clarity. There are only two times in the year when there can be a change. One is when the rate is made and the other is on 1 January following that. Is that correct?

Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: I echo the point that I made last night and that has been made again in this debate about making this very long amendment to the Bill even though it does not concern this legislation. I have expressed a different view from Deputy Ó Broin regarding the question of the Planning Regulator. That the Minister must explain to the Houses if he or she is taking a different view from the...

Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: I indicated yesterday that I had questions about this proposal. I would like to tease it out a little more. There is an issue with the BER ratings which are provided for in the Residential Tenancies Act. I ask the Minister of State to clarify the position. He has stated the rent set for a protected structure is the market rent. Does that mean that a landlord may set the rent at whatever...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (3 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all new apprenticeship programmes developed since 2017 will receive the same allowances for apprentices attending college as apprenticeships developed prior to 2017; if he will seek equality of allowances for all apprenticeships in Budget 2020; the estimated cost of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28614/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (3 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new apprenticeships developed since 2017; the number of apprentices enrolled per apprenticeship programme developed since 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28615/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (3 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 218. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when a hearing will be held in the Labour Court in relation to an unfair dismissals case (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28395/19]

Cork Mail Centre: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 2:(a) To insert the following after “the short-, medium-, and long-term;”: “- of the 240 people working at the Cork mail centre, up to two-thirds are employed on a part-time basis;”; and (b) To delete all words after “calls on the Government to:” and substitute the following: “- ensure the immediate publication of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (4 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 187. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to update the long term illness scheme to include other illnesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28628/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant (4 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 460. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount allocated in 2019 to local authorities for the housing adaptation grant for persons with a disability, housing aid for older persons and mobility aids grants for council owned properties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28830/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Data Protection (9 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 385. To ask the Minister for Health the progress being made in relation to an investigation by the Data Protection Commissioner of a data breach involving the five pages of medical records pertaining to ten patients at a hospital (details supplied) in late April 2019; when the data protection audit at the hospital will be completed; if the findings of the investigation will be made public;...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy (9 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 600. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is preparing a new national cycle policy framework in view of the fact that the current policy finishes in 2020; if there will be consultation with various interests in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29134/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (9 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 641. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 592 of 2 July 2019, if the decision that Shannon Airport should not receive State funding for capital projects will be reviewed in view of the fact that it does qualify for State support under European Union rules (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29617/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Impact of Homelessness on Children: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am continuing on from Deputy Rabbitte's contribution to an extent. Mr. Gibson mentioned the report of the Ombudsman for Children, which shows clearly the long-term damage done to children who spend any time in homeless services, whether that is a hub or hotel. Indeed, there have been other reports as well. It is not just that they feel ashamed that they are in a hub, they are restricted...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Impact of Homelessness on Children: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: If Tusla can push the boat out in terms of its own responsibility to develop a policy in that area, I would appreciate it. It is vital that we have that pressure, which is also coming from other sources, to get people, in particular families and the 3,740 children listed as homeless in the most recent figures, moved on as quickly as possible. I move to Ms Hurley. As Deputy Rabbitte and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Impact of Homelessness on Children: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: On the planned maintenance, do the local authorities have to get that funding out of their own general outlay?