Results 581-600 of 2,825 for speaker:Sandra McLellan

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: National Monuments (9 Dec 2014)

Sandra McLellan: 88. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if, following Dublin City Council's rejection of the proposed Moore Street land swap with a private developer, she plans to initiate a full and independent battlefield site survey of the Moore Street area; and if she will bring together all relevant parties with the intention of developing a new plan to protect, preserve and develop...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: National Monuments (9 Dec 2014)

Sandra McLellan: Following Dublin City Council's rejection of the proposed Moore Street land swap will the Minister initiate a full independent battlefield site survey of the Moore Street area? Will she now bring together all relevant parties with the intention of developing a new plan to protect, preserve and develop the historic quarter?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: National Monuments (9 Dec 2014)

Sandra McLellan: There are many people who will not only be disappointed in the Minister's position that the land-swap deal rejected by Dublin City Council was appropriate, but will be astonished to learn that she deemed the plan to demolish most of the Moore Street terrace as an opportunity. The Government consistently lacks ambition. It is beyond disappointing that the Minister's response to Dublin City...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: National Monuments (9 Dec 2014)

Sandra McLellan: To use the Minister's words, it was a heated exchange. The families presented evidence of the historic significance of the buildings that the council is seeking to preserve. I find it surprising that the Minister would so readily have washed her hands of it.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: National Monuments (9 Dec 2014)

Sandra McLellan: I do not believe the Minister's response is good enough. Those who went before us and secured the future of the State deserve much better. I suspect the signatories of the 1916 Proclamation, if they are looking down on us, would care little for the Minister's sense of disappointment and are bewildered by her abandonment of such an important project that they would not only celebrate our...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Sandra McLellan: I welcome the Minister and his officials and thank them for their presentations. I wish to apologise on behalf of my party colleague, Deputy Ó Caoláin, who is just about to take part in Leaders' Questions in the Dáil Chamber. The Minister stated that he intends that a draft will be circulated to the Cabinet before Christmas. Is there any possibility that it will also be...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (9 Dec 2014)

Sandra McLellan: 121. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will include persons (details supplied) who are on illness benefit long term in the social welfare Christmas bonus payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46790/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (9 Dec 2014)

Sandra McLellan: 324. To ask the Minister for Health the reason almost ten years after the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 (details supplied) was introduced there is still no complaints procedure in place in view of the fact that the website of the council set up to deal with this states that this will happen in the next 12 months, this has been the case for years; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (9 Dec 2014)

Sandra McLellan: 350. To ask the Minister for Health the reason children (details supplied) cannot receive a general anaesthetic in Cork University Hospital to have an MRI; his views that it is acceptable that a family should have to travel from County Cork to a Dublin hospital for what should be available to them in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47200/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Recruitment (9 Dec 2014)

Sandra McLellan: 420. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will lift the recruitment embargo in Cork County Council to allow them to hire outdoor staff as since the embargo was put in place in 2008 Cork County Council have lost a total of 893 staff and front line services have been severely affected with the loss of one third of outdoor staff; and if he will make a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Best Practice Access Guidelines: Irish Wheelchair Association (4 Dec 2014)

Sandra McLellan: I welcome the delegates and thank them for their presentation and the documentation they provided. I commend all members of the Irish Wheelchair Association on the tremendous work they do in communities throughout the country. I convey apologies from my colleague, Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin, who is unable to attend because he is partaking in Leaders' Questions in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Ambulance Service Review: Health Information and Quality Authority (2 Dec 2014)

Sandra McLellan: I also congratulate Mr. Quinn and wish him well in his new role. I thank HIQA for the report, which was published today and which, I think, everybody here agrees is quite shocking but at least honest. With regard to the finding in the report that many staff in leadership positions do not have the appropriate technical knowledge, I took a quick look over recommendation 9. While it is only...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Ambulance Service Review: Health Information and Quality Authority (2 Dec 2014)

Sandra McLellan: Yes.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (2 Dec 2014)

Sandra McLellan: 375. To ask the Minister for Health if he will approve a discretionary medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45793/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (2 Dec 2014)

Sandra McLellan: 393. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the primary care reimbursement service can ask a person with spina bifida to complete a review to ascertain if they are still eligible for a medical card; his views that this person's medical circumstances could have changed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46035/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Eligibility (2 Dec 2014)

Sandra McLellan: 542. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 156 of 25 November 2014 his plans to address the gaps in the new housing assistance payment scheme whereby a person is not entitled to receive a payment until a housing need assessment has been completed (details supplied); the options available to such persons; and if he will make a...

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)

Sandra McLellan: She said, "your organisation".

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)

Sandra McLellan: What has that got to do with it?

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)

Sandra McLellan: It has nothing to do with this.

Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2014)

Sandra McLellan: That comment was outrageous.