Results 181-200 of 1,468 for does speaker:Jan O'Sullivan

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Child Care Scheme: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: What if the parent does not know what he or she will be entitled to on top of the universal payment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Child Care Scheme: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: I pay tribute to all three organisations for the work they do. They have already done research on the cost of provision. I accept the Chairman does not want us to stray into that area. Ms Heeney raised an issue, unscripted, on what we found out earlier this morning. I am not sure whether the other two groups had an opportunity to follow the questioning of the Department and Pobal this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: NewERA, National Treasury Management Agency (7 Feb 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: From the committee's perspective, obviously we will have to consider all of the possible financial implications of the recommendations we make. Does Ms Fitzpatrick envisage that NewERA might be asked to look at that?

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (1 Feb 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...the Government in this regard. I urge the Minister to consider accepting the Labour Party amendment. I do not think it would cause any difficulty for the intention of the legislation but what it does do is protect the sex worker from having his or her assets seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (1 Feb 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...is on the person who is being accused and where there may legitimately be a lack of knowledge that the person at that particular time did not have the capacity to consent when that person generally does have the capacity to consent in other circumstances?

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (1 Feb 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...not taken his or her medication. I do not have a problem with the definition but with the fact that it is combined with the burden of proof being on such a person to know that his or her partner does not have the capacity to consent. I ask the Minister to address that issue in order that we do not inadvertently put somebody in such a situation. Can she tease out this issue? Real issues...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Public Water Forum (1 Feb 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...a little further the question of the role of the Public Water Forum in regard to the public. The witnesses might share my view that there is not a lot of wide public knowledge of what the forum does, and they might be able to answer as to what can be done about that. Do they feel there should be public deliberations? How could there be better transparency, given one of the issues we are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and Mr. Séamas Ó Tuathail, SC (25 Jan 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...want to achieve. As I understand it the wording concerns the protection of the water system. I am concerned that we accurately define what we mean by that. Is it the assets and the infrastructure? Does it protect the utility as it is now and therefore tie people's hands to change the nature of Irish Water into the future? My concern is to protect the assets and the infrastructure. ...

Private Members' Business - Anti-Evictions Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Jan 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...Part 3 which deals with the so-called Tyrrelstown amendment, but as has been said, it only protects tenants in cases where ten or more notices to quit are given in the same group of properties. It does not, therefore, protect the vast majority of tenants from being served with an eviction notice where there is an intention to sell the property. It does not protect the vast majority of...

Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Jan 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...the Tyrrelstown amendment. It is very welcome that The Strand apartment dwellers in Limerick have got a reprieve but others will not be protected until Part 3 of the legislation is commenced. Does the Taoiseach have clarity on this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...is a regulatory matter but I presume the reason he is suggesting that it be parked is partly because of the deliberations of this committee and the questions we have to answer. He also said he does not have a position or an answer as to how excessive use would be measured. I know that is a topic for a future meeting but we should put both bodies on notice that for this committee to make...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...enter into an enforceable agreement for the transfer to another, for full consideration, of the whole of his or her interest in the dwelling or the property containing the dwelling. This paragraph does not apply to a landlord—(a) of a dwelling that was purchased with borrowed money for the purpose of its being let, (b) of a dwelling in respect of which rented residential relief...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...for houses for the time being prescribed under section 18 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992, the annual rent payable under the tenancy of the dwelling may be increased— (i) if the total cost of the improvement works, does not exceed €50,000, by not more than 10 per cent of the total cost, (ii) if the total cost of the improvement works exceeds...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...do not have a direct role, by going straight to An Bord Pleanála with these large developments. 5 o’clock A speeding up of the process could have been achieved in a different way that does not take out that layer. The Irish Planning Institute has also said this should not be done because it is a fundamental change. It means that the opportunities to appeal and for the...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...will address the issues that were raised last night. I too wish to thank the staff the and the Minister for the briefing this morning and the work that was carried out overnight. I believe it does address the concerns that were raised by colleagues in the House. I wish to make one further point. This is clearly quite complex legislation. For those of us in the House who have been...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...the fact that today's hammered through agreement may give false hope to tenants is that already there are tweets going out stating that now Limerick and Galway will be included, etc., but that does not seem to be quite what the Minister is saying.

Social and Affordable Housing Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Dec 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...so that they can make a killing at a later stage. That is what the Kenny report was about too. It was about controlling the price of building land so that when land is required for building as cities develop, it does not result in such huge profits and what happened in the tribunals. That is a deliberate misinterpretation of what we are proposing. I was a member of the All-Party...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (1 Dec 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...of the Kenny report and by bringing forward the vacant sites levy. That is for another day, but the fact that there are so many existing planning permissions is enough to suggest that the problem does not lie with the local tier of the planning process. I welcome the measures in respect of the extension of planning permission. The Minister has said that this will only apply where...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (1 Dec 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...raised serious concerns about this app, which is being used by young teenagers. Mr. Shannon made the case about it being open to sexual predators. The Bill will deal with issues such as this. When does the Tánaiste expect it be enacted?

Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (30 Nov 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...the Minister is talking about. It relates to the guardian ad litemissue, raised by Deputies Rabbitte and Ó Laoghaire, as to whether that is too precise a definition. Is that why the Minister does not use the term or is the Minister keeping it looser in order to have different possible appropriate persons? I presume that having such appropriate persons does not mean that the child...