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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Companies Law (13 May 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 213. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Companies Registration Office is aware of a matter regarding property transactions (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21436/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (13 May 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify the position regarding the redundancy and work contracts of employees in community training centres, CTCs, since the transition from FÁS to education and training boards; if his Department will intervene to clarify the conditions of employment in light of the communication breakdown between the Department of Education...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Company Registration (13 May 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 316. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will instruct the Companies Registration Office to explain the irregular manner in which it conducted business with a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21432/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Company Registration (13 May 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 317. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will instruct the Companies Registration Office to explain its conduct with a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21433/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Company Registration (13 May 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 318. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will instruct the Companies Registration Office to explain its conduct with a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21434/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Industry Lobbying (13 May 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 603. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to counteract the lobbying force of tobacco companies and their spreading of misinformation about the tobacco industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21174/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Neuro-Rehabilitation Policy (13 May 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 613. To ask the Minister for Health if reform of neuro-rehabilitation care here is included as part of the universal health insurance; if it will address the long waiting lists, including up to a year for patients in comas or semi-responsive states, and the fact there are only seven rehabilitation when the Neurological Alliance of Ireland states the country needs 26; and if he will make a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Bord na gCon Remit (8 May 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Greyhounds are kept for two reasons: for racing on the track with a mechanical hare, and for coursing, in which wild hares are captured within an enclosure. The National Parks and Wildlife Service has detailed the extent of the injuries suffered by the hares through mauling and tossing and pinning to the ground and also injuries to the greyhounds. In my view it is incongruous and it does...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Bord na gCon Remit (8 May 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Our point is this: why can the mechanical hare, which is used in track racing, not be used in coursing so that live hares are not used and injured? I will be attending the animal welfare conference. Deputy Clare Daly and I had hoped we would be asked to make an official input in view of our work on animal welfare, but that was not to be. I have two further points. The website of The...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Bord na gCon Remit (8 May 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 3. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the fact that 90% of the Irish Coursing Club's funding is provided by dog registration fees; if he will propose a complete transfer of the function of greyhound registration from the ICC to Bord na gCon; if he will amend existing legislation governing the greyhound industry to include this transfer...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Animal Welfare (8 May 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 122. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reasons the National Parks and Wildlife Service issued the licensed killing of an individual pine marten; the reason no other non-lethal alternative was applied to this animal; where this killing took place and in which county; the other licences for the killing of pine martens that have been granted in the past five years by...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Administration (8 May 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 229. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the regulations regarding pharmacy conduct around processing the drugs payment scheme; if controls are in place to ensure that a pharmacy cannot sell more than it has ordered from its suppliers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20797/14]

Children First Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 May 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: First, I acknowledge the Minister's commitment on the matter of safeguarding children and their welfare because we know too well the appalling litany of abuses of children in industrial schools, laundries, their homes, schools and sports organisations. I mention, in particular, the young swimmers who were horribly abused a number of years ago at the hands of coaches. We saw the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Functions of Christian Aid Ireland (7 May 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I agree with what Deputy Mitchell said about the lack of interest and action in respect of the young girls. The delegation painted a grim and alarming picture of another African country that is rich in natural resources. The country has arable land yet its people are starving and dying from illnesses that we take in our stride. I have a couple of questions and one of them is on land...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hare Coursing (7 May 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 170. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if testing for illegal substances was carried out at all the smaller hare coursing events leading up to the grand final at the national coursing meeting; if not, if he will extend drug testing to all greyhounds at all hare coursing events and consider carrying out testing for banned substances at hare coursing events; if his...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (7 May 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 171. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the regulations as prescribed by his Department for dog training schools and for dog trainers themselves; the procedures in place for complaints of any abuse of animals made by trainers in these training schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20579/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (7 May 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 172. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the National Parks and Wildlife Service's licensing unit for the granting of licences to kill pine martens comes under the remit of the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and not under that of his Department; the level of communication and information sharing that exists between the two Departments in respect...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (7 May 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 173. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the cramped and filthy conditions that animals, including tigers are forced to live in at some circus encampments here; if circus encampments are regularly checked by animal welfare officers; the monitoring carried out to ensure that high standards of animal welfare are maintained in the animal...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (7 May 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 174. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to better target public money towards the protection of the environment in his Department's agri-environment schemes and as called for by the Irish Wildlife Trust's submission under the rural development programme; if his Department has plans to undergo a formal assessment and evaluation of the mistakes made in respect of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Energy Rating Compliance (6 May 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 303. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of buildings that must have a display energy certificate displayed as per the legislation; the number that currently have a valid DEC issued by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20221/14]