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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Disposal (8 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 587. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has discussed its grievances on the workings of the tyre working group and some of the practices and recommendations that have resulted from its deliberations, with the Independent Tyres Wholesalers and Retailers Association. [44166/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Disposal (8 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 588. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will review the prescribed solution of a full producer-responsibility initiative, with the suggested loss of jobs, distortion of trade and imposition of a new tax on the consumer, given that the tyre industry claims that the tyre working group process was flawed. [44167/15]

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

Maureen O'Sullivan: 657. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on the low earnings of those in the arts sector and that they do not have recourse to collective bargaining; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43787/15]

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

Maureen O'Sullivan: 658. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a designated Famine commemoration day is merited given the scale of the tragedy itself and its effect on Ireland and the world, if and when she will make a definite decision on this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43788/15]

Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (3 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I welcome the opportunity to make some comments on the Bill. The exchanges in the debate on Committee Stage were good because the Minister of State was prepared to listen to and engage with us. I have a particular interest in this issue as I am from a docklands community and have relatives living in another docklands community nearby. I was brought up in this community; I still live in it...

Other Questions: Child and Family Agency Services (2 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 7. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the supports Tusla has in place for children and parents living in emergency accommodation; if specific supports are needed given the extraordinarily difficult circumstances children in emergency accommodation face in trying to attend school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42687/15]

Other Questions: Child and Family Agency Services (2 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: My question relates to children who are living in emergency accommodation and the need to acknowledge that it is difficult for them. What is Tusla, in particular, doing to support these children?

Other Questions: Child and Family Agency Services (2 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: We are storing up incredible problems for services in the future as a result of the impact of living in these situations on children. It goes against everything stated in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. We are supposed to put the best interests of the child first and do everything we can for the well-being of the child. I know about these children from the families I meet and...

Other Questions: Child and Family Agency Services (2 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: We know that the children living in these situations are very much at risk of a lot of issues later in their lives. We know the importance of early intervention when it comes to the mental health and physical well-being of these children. The Minister mentioned priorities and the extra funding his Department has received in his answer to Deputy Kyne. Will the Minister look at these...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Sustainable Development Goals and Disability Issues: Discussion (2 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I want to acknowledge the work being done by CBM. I had not realised the impact of disasters on people with disabilities until I attended the event held by CBM in regard to the Philippines. That brought home in a stark way the impact disasters, whether man-made or natural, have on communities, but the impact on people with disabilities is a hundred thousand times worse. We are not as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Sustainable Development Goals and Disability Issues: Discussion (2 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I have a particular question for Dr. Keogh regarding funding for disability groups. Will she fill us in on the organisations that are working here and advocating for people with disabilities and how happy or unhappy she is with the level of funding?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Sustainable Development Goals and Disability Issues: Discussion (2 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: On monitoring for the future, what is the best framework for looking at the sustainable development goals in terms of disability and of ensuring they work? Are there frameworks operating in other countries that we can adopt? We need to see progress on these goals. There has been disquiet over the millennium development goals in regard to how much they achieved. Now we have 17 sustainable...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Sustainable Development Goals and Disability Issues: Discussion (2 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: It would be useful if the committee had those questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Sustainable Development Goals and Disability Issues: Discussion (2 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: It would mean we could pursue this matter with the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade or otherwise.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Young People’s Facilities and Services Fund (2 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 19. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will re-introduce funding for the young people's facilities and services fund; his views on the substantial benefits this will have for young persons in their formative years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42688/15]

Rent Certainty and Prevention of Homelessness Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: How many times will we discuss housing and homelessness without seeing measures that will make a difference? I know from my office and those involved directly in homelessness and housing that things are getting worse. There have been a number of strategies to prevent homelessness over the years, all of which have been unsuccessful. A preventative strategy is needed, a system whereby the...

Topical Issue Debate: Drug Treatment Programmes (1 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: The Minister of State's answer is very welcome. I still believe recovery is the ultimate goal, but, in the meantime, we need innovative strategies to deal with the people concerned, the kernel of which are compassion and dignity. I refer to the issue of detox beds and draw the Minister of State's attention to a winter strategy used in London in the 1990s. Unused office space was taken over...

Topical Issue Debate: Drug Treatment Programmes (1 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Gabhaim mo bhuíochas leis an gCeann Comhairle go bhfuil seans againn an t-ábhar seo a phlé. We know that people get caught up in abusing and misusing drugs and alcohol and many will be come addicted. While there is a wide range of reasons this happens, we can all agree that no one sets out to become an addict or an alcoholic. I would like to see everyone in recovery and very...

Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I listened to the speeches from Paris yesterday. They were passionate and inspiring, and were saying all the right things. However, saying is one thing and doing is something else. We know that climate change is happening, we know that it is extremely dangerous and we know the negotiations have been going on for over 20 years. As there has been mainly talk the reality is very grim. The...

Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I am not sure NGOs such as Trócaire, Oxfam and Friends of the Earth will take much heart from what the Taoiseach has just said. On Leaders' Questions some months ago, the Taoiseach said to me: "[W]e must challenge ourselves in measuring up and being recognised as a country that really is fulfilling obligations in respect of climate change". The one positive thing that came from what...