Results 4,021-4,040 of 5,534 for speaker:Maureen O'Sullivan

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (11 Jun 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 109. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will ensure that medicines are exported to Iran, that while there is no specific ban on the exportation of medicines to the Islamic Republic of Iran, essential medicines are not getting into the country because of the current restriction on financial transactions with Iran which means Iranian citizens are being...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Issues (11 Jun 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 115. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on whether there is a discrepancy between the conclusions at the 3241st meeting of the EU’s Foreign Affairs Council on 28 May, adopting the Annual Report 2013 of EU Development Aid Targets, and the indicative amounts contained in the annex to those conclusions; if he recognises that the EU member states...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Issues (11 Jun 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 116. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will clarify the amounts indicated in the annex to the conclusions at the 3241st meeting of the EU’s Foreign Affairs Council on 28 May; if he intends to drop overseas development aid levels to 0.44%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27447/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Application (11 Jun 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 182. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount the Revenue Commissioners paid in 848(a) tax claims to each individual charity in the years 2009, 2010, 2012 and to date in 2013; if he will provide an explanation on the way the Revenue Commissioners assess claims made by charities including the percentage rejection rate of claims for each charity; if he will provide the number of meetings held...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Debt Relief (11 Jun 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 195. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ask the Africa Development Bank, World Bank and IMF to release all information and evaluations of loans which contributed to Zimbabwe's sovereign debt; and if they will support and co-operate with an official, independent debt audit if one is undertaken by Zimbabwe. [27584/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Debt Relief (11 Jun 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 196. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will work to put the debt cancellation needs of southern countries higher on the World Bank and IMF agenda; if he will support immediate debt write downs for countries with high levels of debt distress; if he will support debt audits where questionable loans are being repaid and work for internationally agreed fair and responsible lending and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (11 Jun 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 395. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there is any discretion for a person to take up a community employment scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27283/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Direct Provision Expenditure (11 Jun 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 412. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total cost of discretionary payments made to asylum seekers in 2012, including the weekly cash allowance and exceptional needs payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26842/13]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Natural Heritage Areas (11 Jun 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 478. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way the Office of Public Works is using the information from the National Biodiversity Data Centre; if it is moving towards granting protection of the proposed 600 Natural Heritage Areas here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26669/13]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Centres Expenditure (11 Jun 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 479. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his plans to establish a mechanism at a county level for the protection of local biodiversity areas as part of a move to protect the proposed 600 Natural Heritage Areas; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that organisations such as BirdWatch Ireland have been forced to issue a code of conduct for visitors to bird colonies...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Hare Coursing (11 Jun 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 485. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the national coursing meeting in Clonmel, County Tipperary on 2, 3 and 4 February, was monitored by the NPWS; similarly for the Irish Cup in Limerick on 22, 23 and 24 February; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27280/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (11 Jun 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 609. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Questions No. 167 of 29 May 2013 and No. 183 of 30 May 2013, if he will confirm that, notwithstanding the creation of an Office of Planning Regulator, even the most egregious legacies of planning abuse and corruption from the period beginning with the effecting of the Planning Act 1963 up to the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: EU Conventions (11 Jun 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 713. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when Ireland will sign and ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence as Ireland holds the EU Presidency and in view of the scale and prevalence of domestic violence here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27408/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Issues (11 Jun 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 675. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the measures he has taken to address the requests made by the Rapporteur for Follow-up on Concluding Observations, Committee Against Torture, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights details supplied) on the Magdalene Laundries paragraph 21; the way he will respond to the statement that the inquiry into the Magdalene Laundry...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Education Service (11 Jun 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 754. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide information on the working and training facilities that have been built as part of the new cell block in the Midlands; the work-training facilities that are available to prisoners on a daily basis within the new cell block at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28022/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Natural Heritage Areas (11 Jun 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 787. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way he will increase protection of the 600 proposed Natural Heritage Areas here; if he is working on proposing areas of conservation in the marine especially in areas exposed to damage from excessive fishing practices such as trawling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26671/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hare Coursing (11 Jun 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 791. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to statements made by vets as presented in the recent ICABS report, that during cold and wet weather, hares are subjected to health conditions such as pneumonia, pleurisy, peritonitis consistent with septicemia and bacterial infections which compromise their chances of survival during hare coursing...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hare Coursing (11 Jun 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 802. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the statistics collected by ICABS of hare coursing deaths at coursing meetings monitored by the National Parks and Wildlife Service; if he has noted one ranger's account at Liscannor coursing meeting that healthy hares are kept as substitutes in the event of hares becoming injured; if he considers...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: UN Conventions Ratification (11 Jun 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 839. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide a timescale for Ireland ratifying the UN Second Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography as it has been 13 years since Ireland signed the Protocol as it is urgently required in view of Ireland's submission of its report on its commitments to the UN Convention on the Rights of...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: UN Convention on Children's Rights (11 Jun 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 869. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide a timescale for Ireland's submission of the State Report to the UN Committee of the Rights of the Child; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27912/13]