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Other Questions: Public Park Access (16 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: There appears to be an agenda in Dublin city against people who have cars. I would not like to see that continuing into the Phoenix Park because people use their cars to travel to the park to enjoy the amenities it offers. When we consider meters for cars, that sort of motorist should not be penalised because of those who park their cars there all day. I acknowledge the Minister's...

Other Questions: Public Park Access (16 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 10. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has sent an application to UNESCO with the intention of including the Phoenix Park on the list of UNESCO sites; her view on whether, since the park is a public one and is used frequently by the public, there should be an open consultation process to prevent possible changes such as the charging of persons for use of the area...

Other Questions: Public Park Access (16 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Comhghairdeas leis an Aire agus an Aire Stáit ina bpostanna nua. Tá súil agam go n-éireoidh leo sna postanna sin. If an application has been sent to UNESCO with the intention of including the Phoenix Park in the list of UNESCO heritage sites. It is a public park and is used extensively by the public. Residents in the area and other members of the public feared that if...

Other Questions: Public Park Access (16 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister for that reply, which has many positive aspects. The Phoenix Park is an amazing facility and amenity. It is 350 years old and is larger than Central Park in New York. There is a railway line underneath it, linked with a series of tunnels and a station. It also contains Viking burial sites, the Magazine Fort, the remains of a 5,500 year old neolithic village and the...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Wildlife Regulations (16 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 30. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update on the investigation into the report of the deer hunted in Curragha, County Meath last December; and the steps she is taking to make sure that this event is not repeated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31148/14]

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: My question today on Leaders' Questions was about values and the values underpinning our economic policies. I made the point that there is a lack of a social policy component to economic policy. Also missing from economic policy are principles of social justice and human sympathy. All of that is creating unacceptable levels of economic inequality and that applies to people with...

Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Listening to the Taoiseach's answer, we see the disconnect between the theory on the one part and the reality on the other. We know about sacrifices, but those sacrifices have been disproportionate. There are people in this country who have not made one sacrifice because they have been protected by the economic policy. There is no doubt that the cuts have undermined people's rights -...

Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: For a number of weeks there was heightened speculation about Ministers and who would lose his or her job and who would be promoted, with all revealed on Friday. Then we had a similar situation with Ministers of State and all was revealed today. While I wish everybody well in their new role, the question is what difference they will make to the communities and groups in society who are...

Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: There is no doubt there has been an unfairness in economic policy. Regardless of budget, austerity or recession, the lives of some people in society do not change one iota, while those in the low and middle income groups suffer disproportionately. We are told we are in recovery, and we have various statistics to show this, but it is not filtering down through society. Economic policy has...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Drug Rehabilitation Projects (15 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 92. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will ensure that any future changes made to funding channels for the NICDATF and other community employment projects will be negotiated with staff prior to the change as the company needs to be aware of changes coming down the line, as opposed to a decision being pre-made without the projects being informed; if her attention has been drawn...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Drug Treatment Programmes Policy (15 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 97. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when the social inclusion strand on community employment and drug rehabilitation projects will be announced and if Pobal will have a role in this strand; if she will give her commitment that the drug rehabilitation projects will remain central to the delivery of the rehabilitation pillar of the National Drugs Strategy; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Multi-annual Budget Plans (15 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 471. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of migrant led organisations that applied for the scheme to support national organisations funding programme; the number of migrant led organisations successful in receiving this funding in the recent allocation of SSNO funding 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30827/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (15 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 539. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a dog pound (details supplied) in County Clare is killing dogs through intra-cardiac injection with no sedation given; if he will confirm that the practice is no longer being used; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30855/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Rehabilitation Clinics (15 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 615. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds currently available for persons with addiction issues for both under the age of 18 and over 18 years, in the areas of detox and residential addiction treatment; the locations of such beds available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30722/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (15 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 724. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the avenues that are available to persons who upon updating their driving licence, find out for the first time there is a driving ban against them to rectify this situation especially if it were the case that no correspondence was ever relayed to them from Gardaí notifying them of the ban and in view of the fact that this might...

Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I wonder what it is doing for our international reputation that the national Parliament on several days this week has discussed Garth Brooks at a time when there is a homelessness crisis in the country and there are international incidents such as that referred to in Gaza and the abduction of hundreds of girls by Boko Haram in Nigeria because they want an education. Ba mhaith liom...

Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I hope the Government will take it further and provide the €5,000 waiver I mentioned, because, as the Minister said, community education is working. I refer to two providers in Dublin Central, HACE on Henrietta Street and the Larkin Centre for the Unemployed on the North Strand. There were 20 participants on a community employment scheme, five of whom had to drop out for various...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: What is the ambassador's view on what is happening? There are dreadful casualties at the moment in Gaza. Last week, we informally met the Israeli ambassador. There seems to be no impetus for a negotiated peace. Regardless of the political situation in Syria, I ask that the Iranian Government, because it has influence, to ensure that food is not used as a weapon of war and that food gets...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I represent a constituency that has suffered more devastation through drugs than most others but I do not believe that capital punishment of those who are involved in dealing is the answer to the problem. We need to investigate alternatives. I am aware of the number of Iranian policemen and officials who have been killed in the course of the drug war but executing that number of people,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I thank the ambassador. I was a member of the foreign affairs delegation which visited Iran in January. The human rights issue was an important matter for everyone on that delegation. I acknowledge the frank and open discussions we had with everyone we met there on the death penalty, treatment of the Baha'i community and prisoners’ access to legal representation and medical...