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Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2017: All Stages (12 Dec 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: ----- and hopefully we will not have an election too early in the new year. Even in the McGrath and Murphy case of 2007 which the Minister of State quoted, there was a reference to an urgent burden on the Oireachtas following the census. It is quite a significant argument but one which happily has now passed us by. I have tabled an amendment and Deputies Cowen and Breathnach have...

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2017: All Stages (12 Dec 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: Names were changed in the Dublin area and there was the case I just mentioned in Louth. I presume it is the commission itself but on what basis? Is it arbitrary? Why does it decide to change names or have particular names for particular constituencies? It is something on which public representatives possibly should have some role because we know our constituencies and people do get upset...

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2017: All Stages (12 Dec 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: Like other Deputies, the Labour Party will not be opposing the recommendations, as is the tradition. We will support the recommendations of the independent commission. I also support the idea of having a standing commission, as suggested by Deputies Ó Broin and Stanley. It would make a lot of sense. Having listened to Deputy Stanley and the Fianna Fáil Deputies, one must ask...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (12 Dec 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: 163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will issue on an application for an extension to a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52755/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (12 Dec 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: 182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a site has been acquired for a new school (details supplied); the arrangements that have been made for temporary accommodation for the school which is scheduled to open in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53002/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (12 Dec 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: 486. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans for changes to the management of school completion programmes, particularly those that relate to voluntary secondary schools; if consideration is being given to transferring the management to ETBs to ensure effective governance and the continuing working of the programmes which have proved very beneficial to the students that...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (12 Dec 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: 526. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the benefits that accrue from the contribution of K stamp PRSI payments; if they are counted for pension purposes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53170/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance Payments (12 Dec 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: 529. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons who were previously self-employed and who moved to carer's allowance can acquire credited contributions for pension purposes similar to PRSI workers who become carers; if not, her plans to amend this in the interests of fairness to those self-employed persons who have to give up work to care for a family member;...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (12 Dec 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: 530. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the overhaul of the PRSI contribution assessment for pension entitlement, including averaging of contributions, will be carried out; when it is likely to be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53205/17]

Other Questions: Housing Provision (7 Dec 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Deputy was late.

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (7 Dec 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: 7. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of households on local authority housing waiting lists at the end of November 2017, or October 2017 in the event November's statistics are not available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52066/17]

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (7 Dec 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: My question looks for an accurate figure for the number of people on waiting lists for local authority housing. At the rough end of that are the people described in Deputy Smith's question but there are also issues related to construction and supply.

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (7 Dec 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: I appreciate that the figures will be out in a few weeks' time but while the Minister has indicated they will be lower, I imagine they will not be much lower. We are all aware of the huge demand for housing and the number on waiting lists around the country. This goes back to Deputy Cowen's question about supply and the construction programme of local authorities. We really need local...

Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (7 Dec 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: Is the Minister going to deliver on those timelines? In my local authority, houses which are going to be ready for occupation next year will be counted as delivered in 2018 but they started back in 2014. There are sites on which construction should have started years ago but they are still sites and, meanwhile, people are out on the streets, hungry and cold and trying to get into emergency...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (7 Dec 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: 25. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to introduce a pilot scheme using the cost rental model developed by an organisation (details supplied) on one or more of the sites owned by local authorities in consultation with the relevant local authority and local residents groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52067/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Bodies (7 Dec 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: 28. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will appoint a director for Housing First; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52068/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rent Pressure Zones (7 Dec 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: 40. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, a year after it was introduced in Dáil Éireann, he will review the legislative base for rent pressure zones, in particular the tight criteria for qualification which excludes many parts of the country in which rents have increased substantially in the past year; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Applications Data (7 Dec 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: 192. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the organisations in County Louth that applied for support under the recent capital sports grant programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52342/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (7 Dec 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: 304. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the contingency plans in place to protect persons who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless as temperatures drop; when the winter initiative measures will be in place; the progress that has been made in opening up unused homes for families and persons that are homeless; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements by Committee Members on Recommendations oif Citizens' Assembly (6 Dec 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: I begin by thanking Senator Noone for her very good chairing of the committee and thanking all those who appeared before us for giving the evidence they gave. I will briefly respond to Deputy Fitzpatrick's point about balance. I know we have said this before but as I am the next speaker it is important that I say it again. It is regrettable that people declined our invitation. We did not...