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Other Questions: Housing Policy (29 Jun 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: Yes. Other Deputies are allowed to contribute in taking ordinary questions.

Other Questions: Housing Policy (29 Jun 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: If the availability of affordable land is one of the problems in local authorities building houses, will the Government consider implementing a recommendation made in the Kenny report of more than 40 years ago, one that was considered to be constitutional by an Oireachtas all-party committee? I am referring to land being made available at its existing zoning level price, usually...

Other Questions: Housing Policy (29 Jun 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Kenny report made recommendations on the issue of affordable land.

Other Questions: Severe Weather Events Expenditure (29 Jun 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: Deputy Mick Wallace must have received the award from the Parisian Government.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (29 Jun 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I also thank the Minister. We are all pleased to be on this committee and we look forward to working constructively together on it. As agreed, we will concentrate on the first programme, programme A. The first question relates to the additional resources in terms of child welfare and protection services. There is a concern about unallocated cases in particular. Could the Minister give...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (29 Jun 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: It is a reduction from 2015 but the reduction is in the capital spend so I presume that is what is required to complete the work but I would appreciate if the Minister could clarify it. The third question relates to young people transitioning from care. There is some information but all of us would agree that young people transitioning from care are particularly vulnerable and need a...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (29 Jun 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I, too, have questions on the ECCE programme. In the context of the question that Deputy Rabbitte asked, will the Minister clarify whether children can start to attend at three different times of the year? Is that the reason the length of time that children attend varies?

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (29 Jun 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: The provision of an additional €85 million is extremely welcome. I think the Minister will get the support of everybody on the committee to continue to look for more funding for early childhood care and education because it is an area in respect of which Ireland has under-invested historically. I think the committee would be interested in doing work on how we might support the...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (29 Jun 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: With regard to our duty to oversee the financial side of things, the Minister mentioned that a number of underspends would probably be caught up on by the end of the year. Can the Minister give us an undertaking that she will keep the committee informed? We have a duty in that regard. I am interested in subhead C5. There are not many other financial questions that we can ask under this...

Equal Status (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Jun 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I welcome the fact that, by and large, there is general appreciation of the Bill's contents, with the exception of the last speaker. Members, primarily on our left, have said they support the Bill. I am disappointed, however, that both the Minister and Fianna Fáil are willing to kick this down the road. Last Friday, I described this as the do-nothing Dáil. This is another...

Equal Status (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Jun 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: In fairness, Deputy Thomas Byrne made the point that the issues of concern could have been teased out on Committee Stage. In that sense, I am disappointed the Government has tabled an amendment to the Bill’s passage. While I welcome the fact the Minister has said he is willing to publish the admissions Bill in this term, I do not see any reason the two Bills could not go side by...

Equal Status (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Jun 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: That is the issue we have identified if this section were simply abolished. Deputy Thomas Byrne said the Church of Ireland had contacted him on this. I spoke with representatives from the Church of Ireland today and assured them our intention is not to wipe out minority religious schools but to define their catchments in a much broader way than a local parish Catholic school. I know some...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (23 Jun 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am disappointed that there is no timeframe for the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill in the legislative programme, despite the fact that the Minister, Deputy Zappone, said she would introduce it before the end of the year. The Tánaiste will be familiar with this matter from her time as Minister for Children and Youth Affairs. Can the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill be...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (23 Jun 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: Can this be kept under review? It is very important.

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I welcome the opportunity to have this debate. The Labour Party is committed to the concept of paying by weight for refuse charges as an important contribution to the environment. I think Deputy Dooley said it earlier on, but there has been considerable progress in Ireland with regard to how we treat waste and how we reuse, separate and so on and paying by weight is a contribution to that...

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: -----because he seems to be blamed for everything else.

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: He did bring in a statutory instrument, but he did not anticipate, as no one else did at the time, how it might be abused. I have some questions with regard to the Government amendment and the statement by the Minister, Deputy Coveney, today. I commend him on the actions he has taken but there are still some outstanding issues, particularly in respect of what exactly he intends to bring...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (21 Jun 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: 160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the removal of rule 68 from the Rules for National Schools; the progress he hopes to make in amending the rules to reflect the changes here since they were written; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16726/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (16 Jun 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: 283. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs why Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, has issued a directive stating that the monitoring of school attendance is no longer deemed to be part of the school completion programme and responsibility has now transferred to the school itself; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16405/16]

Order of Business (15 Jun 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to ask the Taoiseach about the housing (regulation of approved housing bodies) Bill, which is on the legislative programme. The heads were agreed some time ago. There is a voluntary code to which most of the voluntary housing associations are signed up. However, this is important in the context of the provision of housing because voluntary housing associations have the capacity to...