Results 2,301-2,320 of 5,534 for speaker:Maureen O'Sullivan

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (15 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 494. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his position on the air strikes in Syria, if he has voiced his position at European Union level; and if he will outline Ireland's position on the future of President Assad of Syria in any peace talks on the future of Syria. [45189/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (15 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 503. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on air strikes in Syria; if he has voiced his position at European Union level; and if he will outline Ireland's position on the future of President Assad of Syria in any peace talks on the future of Syria. [45461/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (15 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 495. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he condemns the Israeli raid on the Aida refugee camp outside Bethlehem and the perceived total over-reaction of Israeli forces to stone throwing; if he accepts this reaction by Israeli forces will further deter moderate Palestinians from peaceful dialogue; and if he will condemn this action. [45190/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (15 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 496. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he condemns the treatment of the Palestinian poet, Mr. Ashraf Fayadh, at the hands of the Saudi Arabian Government, on the charge of abandoning his Muslim faith, a crime which warrants a death penalty in Saudi Arabia; and if he will make representations to the Saudi Arabian authorities on this issue. [45192/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (15 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 504. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will make representations to the relevant authorities over the raid on Aida refugee camp outside Bethlehem and the plight of a Palestinian poet (details supplied) facing the death penalty in Saudi Arabia. [45462/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (15 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 497. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the human suffering of families of prisoners of conscience in Iran, especially those of the Baha'i faith, where parents are in jail for their beliefs and children are deprived of their parents. [45193/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (15 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 502. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the human suffering of families of prisoners of conscience in Iran, especially those of the Baha'i faith, where parents are in jail for their beliefs and children deprived of their parents. [45460/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Biofuel Obligation Scheme (15 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 499. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Irish Aid intends to respond to the public consultation issued by the Minister for Communications Energy and Natural Resources in relation to a proposed increase in the biofuels obligation rate; and how he envisages that the principle of policy coherence for development will be given effect in decision-making in relation to biofuels....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Economic Partnership Agreements (15 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 500. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on concerns with the passing of Economic Partnership Agreements that they can be considered to be undermining policy coherence in terms of humanitarian aid by not fully supporting the self-sufficiency of farmers in the developing world and their ability and potential to feed themselves. [45458/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (15 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 505. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will highlight the case of the Douma4, prominent Syrian human rights defenders who were abducted two years ago; and if he will support calls for the United Nations' mandated independent international commission of inquiry to be allowed into Syrian detention facilities. [45463/15]

International Protection Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: There is no doubt that the system in Ireland is in need of major reform because there have been so many problems, difficulties and delays in the past for those foreign nationals who have arrived here. It is an abuse of their human rights and we have been guilty of abuse of human rights, which makes a mockery of our position on the UN Human Rights Council. Regardless of the circumstances in...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management (10 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 37. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that the significant numbers of tyres collected by the local authorities in Dublin in the weeks before Halloween 2015 have not been properly disposed of; and if current plans for the tyre industry will address this issue. [44116/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (9 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I was forcibly struck by Dr. Sabella's comment that Palestine is powerless to go ahead with elections and that its right to hold elections depends on many forces outside, despite the right of the Palestinian people to have elections. Some of the points he made were made by the committee recently when it met an Israeli delegation. One point was that Palestine is not the enemy and that there...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Addiction Prevention Programmes (9 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 19. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the budget for school-based prevention and education programmes on addiction; the programmes available at primary and at second level; the time provision for such programmes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43875/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Support Schemes (9 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 47. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how she is responding to foreign students who, in some cases, experience language difficulties when dealing with the educational system. [43876/15]

Establishment of Independent Anti-Corruption Agency: Motion [Private Members] (8 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: This debate is very opportune in view of last night's RTE report and the discussion which followed it. There were three points that struck me having watched the programme and the debate. The first, obviously, was the extent of the corruption that was revealed. Second was the pathetic quality of the excuses we heard such as that the forms were too difficult to fill in properly. My own...

Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2008 [Seanad]: Second Stage (8 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: When considering this Bill certain people come to mind - the Minister for her persistence on this issue, consultant psychiatrist Pat Bracken and the late John McCarthy of Mad Pride Ireland. Wherever he or his spirit is, he must be smiling and saying it is about time this has happened. We know how long he campaigned on this and of his total opposition to a system whereby doctors could...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (8 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 81. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the tendering process for restoration contracts for Nos. 14 to 17 Moore Street in Dublin 1; the estimated cost of the restoration and who costed it; and if proposals will be made available to relatives and interested parties. [43482/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: State Properties (8 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 192. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of refurbishing the near empty building of Carrisbrook House, given that it is almost totally vacant and of national and historical importance, given the site's role in the 1916 Rising, if he will make this site available to the local authority as housing for persons in emergency accommodation; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Resources (8 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 513. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary level and secondary level students in Dublin north-east and Dublin north-west inner city seeking special needs assessments by school in tabular form, and the number of these assessments completed and the allocation of resources as a result of submitted needs assessments by school. [43920/15]