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Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: If money has been allocated to them, it is the Minister of State's job to make sure it is spent.

Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: These are the figures in front of me in black and white, as delivered by the Department. Last year, there were 560 voids. The figure for 2015, with which the Minister of State is making comparisons to show how much progress has been made, was 2,829. If those figures were added in, we would not see the kind of figures that were being boasted about by the Minister today. We can quickly...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Union Lending (14 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 45. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress being made in matching the capacity of credit unions to lend to small businesses with the needs of those businesses to obtain credit in the context of the proposal on lending to SMEs from the Irish League of Credit Unions in 2016 and the report on public banking; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50416/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Attendance Data (14 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address the matter of reduced timetables being used in schools to manage behaviour; the way in which the practice is monitored; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7506/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Attendance Data (14 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the practice of reduced timetables operating in schools and address the loophole in which children are marked present then sent home and therefore not being reported to Tusla will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7507/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Attendance Data (14 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will insert a mandatory ethnic identifier in reporting by schools further to a review of the practice of reduced timetabling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7509/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Guidelines (14 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 272. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the new revised guidance for local authorities on one-off rural housing regulations will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7519/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Building Programme (13 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 130. To ask the Minister for Health if the €50 million that has to be provided from the 2019 budget of his Department relating to the cost of the national children’s hospital will not delay a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7228/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Nuclear Waste (12 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 585. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to proposals to consider the establishment of a geological disposal facility and-or nuclear waste disposal facility in the Newry, Mourne and Down area; if he has been notified and consulted by the UK authorities on this matter of concern to Border communities; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Services Programme (12 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 687. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a review of the community services programme is taking place; when the review will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6330/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Miscellaneous Provisions (Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union on 29 March 2019) Bill 2019: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: Will we have an opportunity to raise other Brexit issues at another meeting?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Miscellaneous Provisions (Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union on 29 March 2019) Bill 2019: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am referring to some other meeting. Certain other issues are not provided for in the Bill.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Miscellaneous Provisions (Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union on 29 March 2019) Bill 2019: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Miscellaneous Provisions (Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union on 29 March 2019) Bill 2019: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: To follow Deputy Byrne's question on the longer-term timeframe, what certainty do we have of what will happen? What discussions has the Minister had on what will happen? Presumably there will be a transition period, but whatever form Brexit takes, we must look to the longer term in relation to the long-established patterns of students from Ireland travelling to Britain for higher education...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Miscellaneous Provisions (Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union on 29 March 2019) Bill 2019: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: We will watch that space.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Miscellaneous Provisions (Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union on 29 March 2019) Bill 2019: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: My question was similar to Deputy Thomas Byrne's.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Miscellaneous Provisions (Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union on 29 March 2019) Bill 2019: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Department circulated the House of Lords report which seemed to indicate that the British Government was going to underwrite some Erasmus+ programmes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Miscellaneous Provisions (Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union on 29 March 2019) Bill 2019: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: Will the Minister of State clarify whether Irish programmes will be protected up until the same date and that there will not be programmes funded through Britain but which involve Irish and British students?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Miscellaneous Provisions (Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union on 29 March 2019) Bill 2019: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: In that case, there is the same level of uncertainty. After the British Parliament votes on the matter and when we know what it happening, we will need to return to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Miscellaneous Provisions (Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union on 29 March 2019) Bill 2019: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: On the Erasmus+ programme, the British Government seems to be making decisions to protect students. Can the Government not make decisions to protect Irish students?