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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Interim Report on Reduced Timetables: Minister for Education and Skills (24 Sep 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: To take up Deputy Thomas Byrne's point on cases where a parent does not agree with a decision on reduced timetables and it effectively becomes a suspension, there should be some intermediate step between this and a section 29 appeal. The decision should not have to go straight to a section 29 appeal where it would become confrontational. I do not know whether there is a role for education...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Eligibility Criteria of Student Universal Support Ireland: Discussion (12 Sep 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...might address many of these issues. The regulations regarding holiday earnings are also very rigid. Both Ms Fanning and Ms Fitzpatrick made the point that a deterrent to students working does not make sense. The holiday period in the summer is just June, July and August, it does not even go into September. There is an argument for more flexibility. The system has been in place...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Eligibility Criteria of Student Universal Support Ireland: Discussion (12 Sep 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: Even if that involves going over a narrow mountain road, the distance that a person would normally take is longer. Does SUSI have any discretion in that regard?

Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: If the students are not paying, then the provider does not have to pay towards the PEL fund.

Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...The Minister of State must communicate with the community education sector about all of these matters because, as she noted, it is a highly diverse sector. Based on my knowledge of the sector, it does not charge fees so in that sense, community providers should be okay. Courses leading to a State certificate such as the junior certificate and leaving certificate and other post-primary...

Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: .... We had a big issue here around Christmastime, when some teachers were not paid because the college they were teaching in closed. I have worded this amendment in a way that should protect the public purse. It does not envisage a subjective judgment on the part of a school that its cover is better than that offered under the proposed legislation. There is a three-year lag. If a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (9 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...further to Parliamentary Question No. 592 of 2 July 2019, if the decision that Shannon Airport should not receive State funding for capital projects will be reviewed in view of the fact that it does qualify for State support under European Union rules (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29617/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Impact of Homelessness on Children: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...restricted in terms of their physical growth and ability to socialise and all of the other things that are so important to a child. I do not know whether Mr. Gibson can answer the following but does Tusla have a position on whether there should be a limit on the time children spend in homelessness services? That might well be a policy area on which he cannot comment, but I would have...

Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...BER ratings which are provided for in the Residential Tenancies Act. I ask the Minister of State to clarify the position. He has stated the rent set for a protected structure is the market rent. Does that mean that a landlord may set the rent at whatever level he or she wishes and that it will be accepted as the rent when he or she is letting the property after the specified period of...

Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: I echo the point that I made last night and that has been made again in this debate about making this very long amendment to the Bill even though it does not concern this legislation. I have expressed a different view from Deputy Ó Broin regarding the question of the Planning Regulator. That the Minister must explain to the Houses if he or she is taking a different view from the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Brexit Issues (27 Jun 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...gone up. Clearly, we are still very dependent on that market and we face, possibly, a hard Brexit. Can the Minister let me know what is being done to ensure that our dependence on the UK market does not continue to be as high as it is? Later, in one of my own questions, I refer to research that was done by the ESRI and the Department on imports and exports. The research states that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Brexit Issues (27 Jun 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: In relation to food, the closer markets are more important in the sense that one does not want to be sending food thousands of miles across the world for all sorts of reasons. Will there be a step-up in efforts to get a greater extent of the market in the European Union and European countries generally?

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...respite home at the edge of Limerick. It serves a wide region of not just the mid-west but further. While I acknowledge the HSE has given the centre some funding to manage, the St. Gabriel's Centre does not have the money to open the respite centre. It would make such a difference to many families in my part of the country. However, this motion is about carers in all parts of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: Does Mr. Beausang mean that if a person in a community education programme above level 3 is not paying, there will be no charge to the community education provider?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: Many of them are community organisations and in some cases the ETB sector provides the teachers. In those cases, does Dr. Maguire mean they would not have to pay?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: Mr. King mentioned the different representative bodies of the schools. Does there need to be agreement right across the sector with regard to representative bodies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Use of Reduced Timetables: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...day but consultation with parents is crucial. The Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016 is coming forward and this issue could be relevant to that. Data are completely lacking and it does not seem that anything is required to be reported. We need data as well as consultation with parents and we need the rights-based approach which Deputy Byrne proposed. Does the experience...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Use of Reduced Timetables: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...to report to the National Educational Welfare Board on suspensions? That indicates a breakdown. I wish to ask the departmental officials the question Mr. Harris raised earlier about data. Does the Department have data for suspensions and/or reduced timetables broken down by children attending DEIS schools, children from Traveller or Roma families and children with special educational...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Activation Projects (11 Jun 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 878. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the EmployAbility national contract for 2019 does not provide for budgetary measures for pay increments for employees delivering this important service; if this decision, which adversely impacts staff on post-2012 contracts, will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23534/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Use of Reduced Timetables: Discussion (30 May 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...next question might be more appropriately directed at the Department rather than at our guests. When a child is not given his or her constitutional right to attend school for education, what right does he or she have to an alternative outside the school? It seems a corollary that if a child is not receiving his or her educational support in school, he or she should receive it elsewhere....