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Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am not sniggering.

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am not sniggering at children. I am just smiling at the Deputy's hyperbole.

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I take you seriously, Deputy.

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: He is in the Seanad.

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: They are taking statements.

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: I think we know why; we know the legacy we took over.

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: We do, but we do not take responsibility for what the last Government did.

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: Over the past number of years we have allocated money for vacant properties.

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: We have allocated significant money for vacant houses to the local authorities.

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Deputy should look at Fingal County Council.

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: That is absolute rubbish.

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Deputy knows better than that.

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: Does the Deputy take any responsibility for what his party did in the past?

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: No. He is in the Seanad at the moment. I am filling in for him until he comes to this Chamber, if that is all right.

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: As I said earlier, I have no intention of rushing the Bill through. We have given it full time on all Stages so far and have had very good engagement at the committee. We have three scheduled time slots in the Dáil this week. If we have not finished it by then, we have not finished it. I am not rushing it through. Last night, I met representatives of staff in Cork. They have...

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: The latter is included. Certainly, my interpretation is that it is already catered for.

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: In the section of the Bill that talks about the rights of students unions, which we discussed earlier on. With regard to the use of the term "staff association," this legislation is for the future, and even if there are not any staff associations now, we do not want to preclude them, if there were any in the future, from being covered under the Bill. As I stated, the term is used in a...

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: Section 3 provides that an order of the Minister to merge institutes of technology under section 18, to establish a technological university under section 46 or to incorporate an institute of technology into a technological university under section 53 shall require a positive resolution of each House of the Oireachtas before it can be made by the Minister. Because those sections give the...

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: My amendment No. 8 is grouped with Deputy O'Brien's. Can I speak to my amendment?

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Jan 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: Deputy O'Brien raised this issue during discussion on Committee Stage, so I considered what he had said and following further discussion I also met the student union representatives. I propose amendment No. 8, which will have the effect of deleting "or appointed" from the definition of student set out in section 2, in line with Deputy O'Brien's proposed amendment. I think we are in...