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Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (24 May 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I understand that 420 extra staff have been recruited to local authorities to ensure that house delivery is speeded up. Is the Minister getting reports back on how those 420 people are improving the situation? We hear of local authority houses being left vacant for much longer periods of time in some local authorities than others and some local authorities being much more proactive in the...

Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (24 May 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister for his reply and wish him and the Minister of State well in their challenging roles. Does the Minister expect that he will be able to deliver the target of 17,000 social housing units for 2016? I think he said that he hoped to deliver more. Will an ongoing monitoring process be put in place over the rest of the year to ensure that local authorities deliver in...

Order of Business (19 May 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: Mine is the same issue. We had got the Technological Universities Bill to Report Stage here in this House before the general election and it is imperative that it moves as quickly as possible. For example, the Tánaiste will be aware from her own area that the Dublin consortium needs the legislation to move forward. If there are proposed changes, because, as Deputy Cullinane stated,...

Order of Business (19 May 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: That will definitely cause delay, which is of concern.

Order of Business (19 May 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: That is what I said.

Order of Business (19 May 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: And Deputy Troy was not on the committee where we had extensive consultation.

Order of Business (19 May 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: Deputy Troy never turned up at one committee meeting.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legislative Programme (19 May 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: 19. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his intentions on progressing the Technological Universities Bill; if he will change the requirement for the merger of institutions in order to achieve technological university status; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10838/16]

Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I join other Members in congratulating the Minister, Deputy Katherine Zappone, on her appointment. I very much look forward to working with her. I expect she will be a progressive influence on the Government, which needs one. Certainly, her record and the interest she has shown in a number of issues give me hope that will be the case. I reiterate what has been said that all of us in...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I turn to the area of child care and I wish the Minister, Deputy Zappone, very well. I hope she will not use the concept of a tax credit as a way of supporting child care. I know that is being floated. I am not sure which party floated it. I do not think that is a model that will work and I hope it is not the model the Minister will choose. We need investment directly in the services on...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I begin by congratulating the Taoiseach, Deputy Enda Kenny, and his Ministers on their election and their preferment as Ministers, particularly the new Ministers. I wish them well. We, as a party, worked very well with the Taoiseach and I share very much what the Minister, Deputy Paschal Donohoe, has just said in his contribution on the hard graft that was done to fix the economy, which the...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: The hard work that was done in Government over the past five years-----

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, in particular, well in the onerous job of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform because he will have to deal with all the varying demands on the public purse - it is the public's money - that will come down the line in this Government that has just been formed. Deputy Rock, who was the very first speaker today, told us we should embrace the politics...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: -----and on the other hand are having a fine go at Opposition. There are internal weaknesses that I am really concerned about. The Minister, Deputy Brendan Howlin, spoke earlier today about lack of trust and lack of stability. I fear that is the fate of the Government. I am not judging any individual members of Government. I know there is commitment and I wish them all well. I am really...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: Fianna Fáil gave them cuts when it was in government.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Deputy is-----

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Data (5 May 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: The information requested by the Deputy on the primary and secondary schools in County Donegal that applied for works under the multi-annual Summer Works Scheme (2016-2017), and the category of project in each case, is set out in the following table. Details of the 197 primary and post primary schools that were included in the first round of successful applicants announced on 28th April last...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (5 May 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Deputy will appreciate that information in relation to the estimated cost of projects, referred to, is not released prior to tender stage as this is considered commercially sensitive information.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (5 May 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: As a consequence of the financial crisis, there was a need to enact a number of measures to reduce public expenditure so as to stabilise the country's public finances. The previous Government decided to reduce the salaries and allowances payable to all new entrants to public service recruitment grades (including teachers) by 10% with effect from 1 January 2011. This decision also required...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (5 May 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Teaching Council is, since 2006, the body with statutory responsibility and authority for regulation of the teaching profession including the registration of teachers under the Teaching Council Acts 2001-2015. The Teaching Council's pathways to registration were set out initially in the Teaching Council [Registration] Regulations 2009, under which graduates with certain Montessori...