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Free Travel Pass: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Many of our senior citizens have already survived one if not two recessions. The majority of them are living on greatly reduced incomes. Many are helping out their children who are unemployed or in negative equity as well as adult children who have had to move home. They have seen increases in private health insurance and medication costs. They have lost the telephone allowance and the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Quality and Qualifications Ireland Accreditation (8 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he envisages that the QQI will determine the fees that will apply to the providers with which it engages; his views on whether the fees could possibly reach up to €5,000; if this is the case, his views on whether such a high level of fees chargeable to legacy providers would make them financially unsustainable; if he will grant a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (8 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when An Grianán Institution was added to schedule A of the Residential Institutions Redress Act; the rationale for its late inclusion; the actions taken at the time by his Department and the RIRB to advertise and make known to survivors that An Grianán was now included; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some women were...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: House Purchase Schemes (8 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 226. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce a scheme to make provisions for first-time buyers to buy homes and who are unable to buy homes due to the large deposit needed; if this scheme will be in effect this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29905/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 300. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on Ireland’s engagement with the European Alliance for Apprenticeships which is intended to bring together efforts of member states, social partners, business, other relevant actors and the European Commission to improve the quality and supply of apprenticeships across the EU; if he will further report on activity here...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Proposed Legislation (8 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 453. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the draft heads of a national monuments Bill will be published; when it is likely to be introduced to Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29696/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Community Development Initiatives (8 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 490. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a public meeting that has been organised in response to a local community's experience of economic decline and underdevelopment (details supplied); the ways in which his Department directly, or agencies accountable, either directly or indirectly to his Department, including the local...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (8 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 610. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to a camel escaping from a circus in Fermoy on the evening of 2 July, 2014; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this is the second time a camel has escaped this year; his views that this is evidence of the inability of circuses to adapt to the nature and needs of wild animals; if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (8 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 601. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the five racehorses that died from injuries at Clonmel races this month, if he will strengthen regulations in the horse racing industry; if his Department will carry out its own investigation into the deaths of the five horses, despite the fact that the Turf Club cleared Clonmel racecourse of any wrongdoing; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (8 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 609. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason no sufficient advertising was carried out by his Department to announce the publication of the draft code of practice for the fur farming of mink; the reason no invitation was advertised for public consultation; the reason no date of publication was published on his Department's website including a deadline date for...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Expenditure (8 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 619. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the funding that has been provided for counselling for victims of the Dublin Monaghan bombings; the reason this funding has been withdrawn; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29026/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Releases (8 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 620. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider taking on board an amnesty similar, but to a lesser degree, to that given by the Czech President Václav Klaus in 2013, where he granted amnesty to a third of his country's prisoners to mark 20 years of the Czech Republic's independence; if the Government will consider such a gesture having devised their own criteria...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Committals (8 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 632. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the restrictions and or guidelines in place for persons who have been convicted of sex offences seeking housing within communities after release from prison; if, for example, there are proximity regulations with regard to living next to schools; the legislation currently in place to ensure that communities are protected whilst also maintaining...

Public Health (Standard Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I am sharing time with Deputies Finian McGrath and Seamus Healy.

Public Health (Standard Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: We are all very aware of the consequences of smoking. Somebody who smokes today does so in the full knowledge of the possible consequences for his or her health. While I do not smoke and have never done so, both of my parents were heavy smokers for all of their adult lives. Of course they started to smoke at a time when no one was aware of the health risks of smoking. They both enjoyed...

Topical Issue Debate: Voluntary Sector Funding (2 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I refer to two points in the Minister of State's reply. He stated that the effective use of core funding also requires that robust governance and cost control procedures are in place. Is this suggesting that the Irish Deaf Society was not complying? This organisation received funding continually over 11 years. If there were issues, surely they would have been brought to its attention...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Relations Between Ireland and Great Britain: Ambassador of Ireland to Great Britain (2 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I recently met a group of women and I wonder if they were in touch with the ambassador. These women spent time in the industrial schools here but are now living in England. They are women of mixed raced, and they have had to deal with particular issues because of that. I do not know if the ambassador has come across the group.

Topical Issue Debate: Voluntary Sector Funding (2 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I am grateful to have an opportunity to highlight an issue that is causing a great deal of concern, disquiet, and dismay among the deaf community. I am very much aware of the work done by Deaf Village Ireland in Cabra, in the constituency I represent, and the need for more engagement by organisations with the deaf community. It was very saddening to read of the decision for the funding to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Relations Between Ireland and Great Britain: Ambassador of Ireland to Great Britain (2 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I thank Ambassador Mulhall for his very comprehensive report. It is also in keeping with the reports we have had from other Irish ambassadors in embassies throughout the world. Quite a number of Irish ambassadors have presented to the joint committee and we have visited them when we were on official visits abroad. In regard to the possibility of Britain leaving the European Union and in...

Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I will certainly do that. Alcohol is now being integrated in the substance misuse strategy. Many of us think that it should have been there all along. We are aware of recent reports about this country’s unhealthy relationship with alcohol and the cost of that. The task forces with shrinking budgets must take on the alcohol initiative as well. While I know everybody is at risk of...