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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Support Services (10 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: I thank the Minister for his response but I must say that I believe the Government needs to take emigration seriously and set targets for return. It must be about creating full-time employment and actively encouraging emigrants to return and central to this must be targets.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion (10 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: I thank the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion (10 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: I thank the Minister for the overview of the work she has done. I asked a question with regard to the child and family agency which was not answered very clearly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion (10 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: Yes. I asked whether there will be a place for sectoral representation on the board such as from family resource centres. Will the Minister elaborate on this? Unlike Deputy Ó Caoláin I was lucky that one of my questions was accepted because it ties into the work of the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government with regard to foster allowance.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion (10 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: I am glad the Minister intends to engage with the State bodies and the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government on the issue. I have raised the issue many times because it is appalling and despicable that some local authorities consider fostering allowance to be reckonable income when calculating rent. It is done by only a few local authorities but it is just outrageous....

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Underemployment Data (10 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 16. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he has taken to tackle the issue of underemployment including supporting and promoting full time employment. [42588/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Labour Market Issues (10 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 35. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he has taken to tackle the increased casualisation of the labour market. [42589/13]

Topical Issue Debate: Road Tolls (9 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: Anyone who drove through Fermoy in the 1990s and early 2000s and was caught up in inevitable traffic delays will remember a sign on the Dublin side of the town apologising for the delay and demanding a bypass. Following a long-standing campaign, the local community was very pleased when a bypass was finally built. In many respects, however, Fermoy did not benefit from the bypass because a...

Topical Issue Debate: Road Tolls (9 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. While I understand this is a pilot scheme, in light of the need to support businesses in Fermoy, does he accept that including the Fermoy bypass would make a significant difference for the town, especially given that flood relief works are taking place? Local businesses face significant pressures and some are closing with each passing month....

Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: That is because of changes in their circumstances.

Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: It is not a fact.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Monuments (9 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 46. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to incorporate Kilmainham Court House into the Kilmainham Jail Experience; and the timeline for the incorporation of the Court House. [38501/13]

Discretionary Medical Cards: Motion [Private Members] (8 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: Anyone who knocked on doors over the summer months while canvassing or who held regular clinics will have met a substantial number of people who had either lost their medical card in recent weeks or who are likely to do so. Anecdotally, it was clear that there was a massive change in how medical cards, and in particular discretionary cards, were being allocated. The motion, which I am glad...

Discretionary Medical Cards: Motion [Private Members] (8 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: There are many.

Discretionary Medical Cards: Motion [Private Members] (8 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (8 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to his recent comments that there is no scope for more education cuts, and that he does not know where he can make savings, the efforts his Department has made to force the religious institutions to meet their obligations to compensate the survivors of residential abuse. [42209/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (8 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will respond to concerns that a possible union ban on training for the new English syllabus will delay plans for the implementation of a new style junior certificate next September. [42208/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Physical Education (8 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way the decision to reduce PE from a full subject, 198 hours over three years, to an optional short course, 100 hours, in the new junior cycle framework will impact on the implementation of the Healthy Ireland Framework, the cross-Government policy for health and well-being, which calls for the full implementation of PE and SPHE in primary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Physical Education (8 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way the limiting of PE in the new junior cycle framework to a short course of 100 hours will impact on the Government’s intention to reduce childhood obesity levels, which are currently at epidemic proportions where one in four girls and one in five boys are overweight and obese, and on the implementation of the Healthy Ireland...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Administration (8 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in order to enable persons to fill out a student grant application form properly, he will introduce a third category for mature students who live at home but are not financially dependent on their parents, who share bills equally but do not have any bills in their name; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41856/13]