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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (21 Nov 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: 192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made on the provision of a new school building (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48795/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation Provision (21 Nov 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: 329. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made on the 96 bed extension to University Hospital Limerick and the transfer of the university maternity hospital to the Dooradoyle campus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48793/17]

Housing (Homeless Families) Bill 2017: Referral to Select Committee [Private Members] (15 Nov 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move:That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government pursuant to Standing Orders 84A(3)(a) and 141.

Housing (Homeless Families) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Nov 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: We put money into housing.

Housing (Homeless Families) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Nov 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: I did go to Galway.

Housing (Homeless Families) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Nov 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: We gave a great deal of funding to Galway.

Housing (Homeless Families) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Nov 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I thank the many people, including some Deputies, who have already indicated their support for this Bill, which I commend to the House. No child should have to sleep on the streets. No child should be sent to a Garda station in the middle of the night for want of a place to go. No child should spend months on end with only a hotel room,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Socioeconomic Context: Dr. Caitriona Henchion and Mr. Niall Behan, Irish Family Planning Association (15 Nov 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: Can we please stop-----

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Funding (14 Nov 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: 448. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the grants available through her Department for a pilot programme (details supplied) that works with young persons through voluntary organisations and schools in order to develop the project further; when and the way in which grants can be applied for; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47802/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Pyrite Issues (14 Nov 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: 508. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the counties in which pyrite has been located; the way in which a person who suspects their home may have a pyrite problem can access information in cases in which this might be an issue in quarries in their area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47810/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Nov 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: I referred to the Qalifications and Quality Assurance (Smendment) Bill. The Tánaiste will remember that when she was Minister for Justice and Equality, I was Minister for Education and Skills. We did a lot of work together on bogus English language schools, the importance of rooting out the bogus schools and dealing with the exploitation of young people who had come from other...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: International Legal and Services Context: Dr. Gilda Sedgh, Guttmacher Institute and Ms Leah Hoctor, Center for Reproductive Rights (8 Nov 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: I have a question for Ms Hoctor. With regard to the Amanda Mellet and Siobhan Whelan cases, she said in her presentation that the Human Rights Committee's judgment detailed remedies which included reform of Irish abortion law and, if necessary, the Constitution. In her analysis of the judgment does she consider that it would entail changing the Constitution? In other words, within the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: International Legal and Services Context: Dr. Gilda Sedgh, Guttmacher Institute and Ms Leah Hoctor, Center for Reproductive Rights (8 Nov 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: That is useful for the committee to know. Clearly, it is a basic issue we must examine. Both delegates have answered about the floodgates being opened and so forth. I understand Dr. Sedgh's research is mainly on groups of countries and that it is hard to be specific about Ireland's case, but is there any other comparison in respect of women in one country who have easy access to abortion...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: International Legal and Services Context: Dr. Gilda Sedgh, Guttmacher Institute and Ms Leah Hoctor, Center for Reproductive Rights (8 Nov 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: Generally speaking, however, the issue of whether contraception is freely and easily available is obviously a very significant one. One of our previous sessions here indicated that because Irish women who travel to Britain for abortions do not get the follow-on counselling, they do not always get information on contraception either. Would that be the case in general?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Medical Law Review: Dr. Ruth Fletcher, Queen Mary University London (8 Nov 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: It is unfortunate that, in the area of medical law, we do not have the opportunity to ask detailed forensic questions such as Senator Mullen was able to ask of Professor McCaffrey. I read his document on prenatal counselling but we have been deprived of the opportunity to ask questions of people who have a different view and it is extremely unfortunate, particularly in the context of what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Medical Law Review: Dr. Ruth Fletcher, Queen Mary University London (8 Nov 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: Yes. Thank you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health: Dr. Anthony McCarthy, National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street (8 Nov 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: I have one very practical question. Can Professor McCarthy treat those aged under 18 years who are pregnant? Is there a distinction between child and adolescent psychiatry in that situation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health: Dr. Anthony McCarthy, National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street (8 Nov 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: I was struck by the humanity of Professor McCarthy's presentation and the fact he clearly understands and listens to individual women. He said that over the past 21 years more than 500 women attended the clinic each year. That goes back quite a long way. Would societal changes and attitudes to abortion have affected how women can talk about it? Has it changed how they feel about asking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health: Dr. Anthony McCarthy, National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street (8 Nov 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: Has that improved the ability of women to deal with mental health situations?

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: We stopped the selling of the Coillte harvesting rights.