Results 821-840 of 5,534 for speaker:Maureen O'Sullivan

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Commissions of Investigation (7 Nov 2018)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I acknowledge what happened at the two day conference in Boston University. I read what the Minister said at the conference and am aware that members of the Clann project also attended. One of the themes of that conference was transitional justice and how important it will be. In its report, the Clann project provides a comprehensive account of the countries where access to records is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Commissions of Investigation (7 Nov 2018)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 13. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will consider the recommendations made in a report (details supplied) for the commission to hold hearings in public and provide a transcript for witnesses who have given oral evidence to it in private; and if she will consider the request for the archive not to be sealed once it finishes its inquiry. [45789/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Commissions of Investigation (7 Nov 2018)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Will the Minister consider the recommendations made in the Clann project report for the commission to hold hearings in public and provide a transcript for witnesses who have given oral evidence to it in private? Will she consider the request for the archive not to be sealed when the commission finishes its inquiry?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Commissions of Investigation (7 Nov 2018)

Maureen O'Sullivan: As I could not hear all of what the Minister was saying, I will read the Official Report, but I got some hope from it that the Minister would consider some of the recommendations made in the report of the Clann project. I attended the launch of the report and heard some of the people who made statements. It was harrowing listening to them as they told about the abuse they had suffered. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Youth Services (7 Nov 2018)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 5. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way in which voluntary youth work can be supported in view of the considerable demands on voluntary boards and volunteering. [45787/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Youth Services (7 Nov 2018)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way in which voluntary youth work can be supported in view of the considerable demands on voluntary boards and volunteering.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Youth Services (7 Nov 2018)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I have asked the question to highlight the tremendous work done over many years by volunteers in the real meaning of the word, for which they are not remunerated. They are, however, finding it very difficult and it could come to the point where we will have no voluntary boards of management, no voluntary directors and no volunteers in the youth service. As there are 600 volunteers in Dublin...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Youth Services (7 Nov 2018)

Maureen O'Sullivan: There are a lot of requirements in the supervision of volunteers in the City of Dublin Youth Service Board, while some volunteers have to complete the Tusla online safeguarding programme. Some older people do not have the IT skills to do this and some of the retraining courses are being offered at times that do not suit volunteers because they work on a full-time basis. Some may feel...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Staff (7 Nov 2018)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 41. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way in which she will address the need for quality childcare and the low pay levels of staff in view of the fact that additional funding was announced for early years mostly targeted at the affordable childcare scheme. [45786/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Airport Development Projects (6 Nov 2018)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Airport Development Projects (6 Nov 2018)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I would like to put my question now, please.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Traffic Legislation (6 Nov 2018)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 68. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views as to whether the laws relating to horse-drawn vehicles and-or carriages are in need of review and strengthening. [45523/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Traffic Legislation (6 Nov 2018)

Maureen O'Sullivan: My question to the Minister relates to horse-drawn carriages and vehicles and whether the laws relating to them are in need of review and strengthening.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Traffic Legislation (6 Nov 2018)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister. I know my question related to reviewing and strengthening the by-laws but I realised when I looked at the matter that there are not many regulations in place in respect of this industry. Like the Minister, I saw the Dublin Carriage Acts 1853 to 1855, inclusive, leading to the Dublin Carriage Bye-Laws 1946 and then a Road Traffic Act in 1961, which states that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Traffic Legislation (6 Nov 2018)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I very much welcome that the Minister will have a consultation on this and engage with the relevant stakeholders. I ask that the animal welfare groups, particularly those that are engaged with horse welfare, also be invited to attend and give their views on this. It seems to be one of those areas that fall between a number of groups. The NTA has some responsibility, the local authority has...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Proposed Legislation (6 Nov 2018)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 106. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the work being carried out on the legislation for the regulation of rickshaws. [45524/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: North-South Implementation Bodies: safefood Ireland (25 Oct 2018)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Today's presentation is another example of the challenges thrown up by Brexit. Every presentation we have had has thrown up a new area which we had not been thinking about and this is extremely challenging as we still do not know if we will have a hard deal, a soft deal or no deal. I do not envy anybody trying to work in that environment. We have a long way to go in respect of the labelling...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: North-South Implementation Bodies: safefood Ireland (25 Oct 2018)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I do not know if safefood is involved in the initiative with some supermarkets in which food which is just past its sell-by date is taken for use. It is still safe to take and it is a good thing to do this as the wastage of food is terrible. The Healthy Ireland survey came out yesterday. In all our constituencies, not least my constituency of Dublin Central, some parts of the community are...

Third Interim Report of the Disclosures Tribunal: Statements (Resumed) (25 Oct 2018)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Go raibh maith agat a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. Nuair a chuaigh mé abhaile aréir bhí seans agam féachaint ar chlár ar TG4, an clár ar a dtugtar "Finné". Bhain an clár sin le cad a tharla d'Osgur Breatnach agus do dhaoine eile sna 1970í. Chuir an clár sin na rudaí a tharla in iúl dúinn, rudaí uafásacha, rudaí...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Betting Regulations (25 Oct 2018)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 25. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the uncertainty the increased betting duty has caused for small betting shops; and if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that further taxation of online betting as opposed to retailers could have been more justified. [44236/18]