Results 17,401-17,420 of 17,531 for speaker:Jan O'Sullivan

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dietician Service Provision (5 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 699. To ask the Minister for Health the posts in place for community dieticians in mental health, disability and primary care in each of the HSE areas; the plans in place to fill gaps in these services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45381/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Staff (5 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 708. To ask the Minister for Health when a consultant and supportive posts for mental health and intellectual disability which have been sanctioned for CHO3 will be filled; if the posts have been advertised both nationally and internationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45426/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Funding (5 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 981. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if adequate funding will be provided to an organisation (details supplied) that receives its main funding from Tusla; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44310/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (5 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 1153. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average length of a private rental tenancy here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44985/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (5 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 1154. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the outcome of the tender process that was conducted in 2016 for a deposit protection scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44986/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (5 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 1155. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost for mediation, an adjudication and a tribunal provided via the Residential Tenancies Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44987/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (5 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 1156. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of unlawfully retained deposits that the Residential Tenancies Board ordered landlords to return to tenants in each of the years 2015 to 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44991/19]

Report of the Seanad Reform Implementation Group: Statements (7 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: We are having another debate on Seanad reform, but we want to see action rather than more debate. Like other speakers, I have participated in these debates before. I was a Member of the Seanad from 1993 to 1997 when Maurice Manning was the Leader of the House. His group produced a report. Subsequently, Senator McDowell's group produced a report. The Minister of State has said calmly...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Costs (13 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 76. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to ensure more transparency on the part of insurance companies on premiums charged, cases contested or uncontested and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40870/19]

Financial Challenges Facing RTÉ and its Revised Strategy 2020-2024: Statements (Resumed) (14 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: I thank the Ceann Comhairle and the Business Committee for facilitating this debate. I called for it last week at the committee. It is really important that we put on the record, as legislators, our views on the announcement by the director general of RTÉ last week, leaked to The Irish Times, as others have said, which was really putting people on the back foot. It is very important...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (19 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to plans by management at Dundalk Institute of Technology to develop a fifth school with the working title of new school of flexible and postgraduate provision at the institute arising from a recent report on the Review of Key Functional Areas relating to Admissions July 2019; if his Department has had...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology Staff (19 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the failure of Dundalk Institute of Technology to appoint a financial controller and the fact that this position in which the occupant also performs the role of secretary of the governing body has remained unfilled for in excess of one year; his further views on the impact of same on good financial and corporate governance at the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (19 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an issue of access to a post-primary school (details supplied) will be resolved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47601/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Members (19 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 656. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the Moorhead report will be published; when action will be taken to address issues of pay and conditions for local public representatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47396/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Urban Regeneration and Development Fund (19 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 670. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the review requested by Louth County Council in relation to a funding application under the urban regeneration and development fund was unsuccessful; the details in relation to the assessment of the review under the criteria laid down by his Department under the scheme that is, the way in which the application and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Business of Joint Committee (19 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: Apologies have been received from the Chairman, Deputy O'Loughlin, and Deputy Catherine Martin. I propose that we go into private session to deal with some housekeeping matters before resuming in public session. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Limerick Institute of Technology: Chairperson Designate (19 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: I remind members and witnesses to turn off mobile phones or to switch them to flight mode as they interfere with the sound system and make it difficult for the parliamentary reporters to report the meeting. Television coverage and web streaming will also be adversely affected. We now move to engagement with Mr. Tony Brazil, chairperson designate of the governing body of Limerick Institute of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Limerick Institute of Technology: Chairperson Designate (19 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: I should explain that priority questions on education are coming up in the Dáil and that explains why there are very few committee members here today. They will probably be coming in and out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Limerick Institute of Technology: Chairperson Designate (19 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: I have an understandable interest in this topic, being a Limerick Deputy. Deputy McLoughlin asked about the issue of apprenticeships and I would also like to hear about any plans that are in place, particularly for the campus in Coonagh, which has potential in terms of apprenticeships and engineering in general. How is that progressing? I understand there are different stages in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Limerick Institute of Technology: Chairperson Designate (19 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: I thank Mr. Brazil. Some of the themes he mentioned, such as apprenticeship and access, are ones on which we in the committee have had much engagement. I should also have welcomed Dr. Vincent Cunnane to the meeting. The committee will notify the Minister that it has had an engagement with Mr. Brazil. On behalf of the committee, I thank him for his engagement on the matter and wish him...