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Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: Many Travellers do not live in areas with community crèches. Living on the edge of the city it may be difficult to access one. I do not know whether Mr. McDonagh has gathered statistics on this but perhaps there could also be intervention there and a conscious programme to facilitate Traveller families to have this opportunity. I was involved in preschool education at one stage. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: The free preschool year I mentioned is only free for a certain number of hours a day. I imagine if someone does not have access to a community crèche because there is significant pressure on places, parents who can afford to pay for extra hours in private services probably get preference over those who cannot. I would prefer if all provision was public but the reality is that private...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Enforcement Activity (27 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 95. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a series of matters (details supplied). [49307/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Enforcement Activity (27 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 96. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a series of matters (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49308/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Enforcement Activity (27 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 97. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a series of matters (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49309/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (27 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the acceptable requirements to receive approval for time served teaching outside the European Union in respect of teachers who have taught outside the European Union; and the reason time served teaching at overseas private primary schools is recognised and time served teaching at secondary schools is not. [49254/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (27 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to reduce the pay gap between teachers recruited pre- and post-2011; the timeframe for achieving pay parity for teachers recruited pre- and post -2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49314/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Literacy Programmes (27 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has forecast the funding amount, the numbers of beneficiaries and type and amount of provision to achieve the NSS targets in view of the declining number of beneficiaries of adult literacy provision in ETBs. [49316/19]

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Labour Party has no confidence in the Government and we particularly have no confidence in the Government with respect to its action or inaction relating to housing and homelessness. One need only look at the figures published today, unexpectedly late and into December. They normally come at the end of the month, which would have been November in this case. More than 10,500 people,...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Preparations (3 Dec 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 53. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the uptake of supports to companies to offset the negative impact of Brexit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49934/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Personal Injuries Commission (3 Dec 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 58. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress of the implementation of the recommendations of the Personal Injuries Commission that are relevant to her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49932/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Flexible Work Practices (3 Dec 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 63. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the introduction of a four-day working week as proposed by a number of organisations (details supplied); if she will help to facilitate debate and consideration of this issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49931/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Losses (3 Dec 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 82. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the actions taken to protect and assist workers in a company (details supplied) which announced proposed job losses of approximately 500 recently; if an application has been made to the European Globalisation Fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49933/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (3 Dec 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 372. To ask the Minister for Health the number of addiction liaison midwives that have been funded nationwide; the number currently in post; and the plans in place to fill the outstanding posts including University Maternity Hospital, Limerick. [49927/19]

Environmental Impact of Quarries and Incinerators: Motion [Private Members] (4 Dec 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: I want to speak very briefly about complaints from residents in the Mungret and Raheen areas of Limerick regarding dust deposition and Irish Cement's proposals to burn tyres and various other materials at the cement factory in Mungret. As previous speakers from the Limerick area stated, this is a cause of real concern. There have been public meetings, marches, etc., and several serious...

Microbeads (Prohibition) Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: Is it possible to say a word on the Bill?

Microbeads (Prohibition) Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (4 Dec 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: On behalf of my colleague, Deputy Sean Sherlock, I thank the Minister for bringing forward the Bill in response to legislation introduced by Deputy Sherlock and the former Senator, Grace O'Sullivan, MEP. Deputy Sherlock felt very strongly about this issue. He has arrived in the Chamber and I will let him speak for himself.

Housing Solutions: Statements (5 Dec 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: I will begin by supporting Deputy Ward's call for an end to self-accommodation. It is one of the most difficult aspects of homelessness for children. There are almost 4,000 homeless children in the country and the idea that they do not know where they will be from one night to the next is appalling. During last night's no confidence debate I referred to a study conducted by the Royal...

Housing Solutions: Statements (5 Dec 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: I had it with me on the most recent occasion we debated this matter. The Labour Party has proposed the provision of 80,000 social and affordable homes over a five-year period at a cost of €16 billion. Our document outlines from where the money would come. On the use of public land, I am convinced there is an ideological policy that requires local authorities to use the majority of...

Housing Solutions: Statements (5 Dec 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: We need clarity in that regard because there are many tracts of public land for which the council could very quickly put out a tender for one or more builders to come in and get on with using the land. I ask the Minister of State to address that issue in his reply. Many Deputies have referred to the Ó Cualann model whereby a voluntary co-operative housing association has been able...