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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Transgender Health Issues: Discussion (4 Jul 2013)

Sandra McLellan: I am delighted to welcome our guests and to thank them for their presentation. To be honest, it is not a subject about which I am well informed. As other members have stated, we are lucky that various groups appear before the committee and give us the information that we need. Since many of the questions that I was going to ask have been covered, I may make a few points instead of asking...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Aftercare Services (4 Jul 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 49. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children during each month of 2012 and 2013 between the ages of 18 and 21 years who were in receipt of aftercare services broken down by gender; the number of young persons broken down by gender during each of those same months who were receiving a service and details of what receiving a service means, including any...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Support Agency Establishment (4 Jul 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 18. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the required legislation for the establishment of the new child and family agency will be published in early July and will commence its address in the Dáil before the impending summer recess; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32585/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Tourism Industry Market Strategies: Discussion with Tourism Ireland, Fáilte Ireland and Irish Hotels Federation (3 Jul 2013)

Sandra McLellan: I thank the witnesses for their very informative presentations. Some of the points I had intended to raise have been covered so I will deal with the ones that have not yet been raised. The Gathering has been very positive. It has been rolled out in many communities around the country. In fact, almost every community has taken part in it. However, Ireland has a very low rate of tourists...

Equal Status (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 Jul 2013)

Sandra McLellan: The rhetoric of Irish politics is weighted very heavily towards the idea of equality, albeit perhaps in a vague way and without a certainty as to what is meant by that but it is there nonetheless. It fits in with the particular sense of community and solidarity that defines Irish people or sprid an meitheal, one might call it. It often is to be seen at budget time, when politicians of all...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Debtors (2 Jul 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 71. To ask the Minister for Finance further to his response in Dáil Éireann where he set out that 45 National Asset Management Agency developers had a collective amount of €8 billion owing to NAMA when they were declared bankrupt outside of Ireland, if NAMA has made provision for the non-payment of what was owed by these developers on its books and what that means for NAMA's...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Debt (2 Jul 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 115. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason over a year after the Eurogroup statement of June 2012 was welcomed as a seismic shift Ireland continues to pay off banking debt as sovereign debt. [31867/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals (2 Jul 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 464. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an appeal for jobseeker's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32057/13]

Other Questions: Tourism Promotion (27 Jun 2013)

Sandra McLellan: The most recent figures for overseas visitors to the Republic of Ireland show a 7% increase in the first four months of this year, and the total air-sea capacity for the peak summer season of 2013 is forecast to be at least 3% higher than for the same time last year. Recent figures from the CSO for the first three months of this year show a 17% increase in visitors from North America to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health Nurses: Discussion (27 Jun 2013)

Sandra McLellan: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for their presentations. Like other members of the committee, I acknowledge the valuable work done by public health nurses. We have all had experience of them and all have been positive experiences. I hope I will not be repetitive. I had written down a number of questions, many of which have been dealt with, so I will skip over some of them. The...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: North-South Ministerial Council (27 Jun 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 25. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of the agenda for the North/South Ministerial Council meeting to be held on 26 June in Armagh; if he will also provide specific details of the major tourism initiatives North / South planned for 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30941/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Peace and Reconciliation Programme (27 Jun 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 69. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of the project that will benefit from Peace/INTERREG funds 2012/13; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30942/13]

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)

Sandra McLellan: We are here to debate the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill and I will begin by noting the very apt and accurate title which it has been given because that is what we are debating, the protection of life, ensuring the joy of childbirth does not turn into tragedy, that the life of a woman is not lost, that a family does not lose a mother, a daughter, a sister, a wife or a partner, and...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (26 Jun 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 20. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to reports that the Laotian Government handed over nine refugees, who escaped from North Korea and fled to Laos, to the North Korean authorities and that this move has endangered the lives of these refugees; and if the Irish Embassy in Hanoi, which is accredited to Laos, has discussed the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications (26 Jun 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 33. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the campaigns his Department has undertaken to inform the general public of the new changes to the passport application service. [30781/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (25 Jun 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 129. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the reconfiguration of ambulance and emergency services here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30401/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments Closures (25 Jun 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 147. To ask the Minister for Health if he will defer any decision on the cutting of accident and emergency services at Bantry General Hospital, County Cork, currently scheduled for 8 July, for a further 12 months until a full process of consultation with all relevant stakeholders, as outlined in the Future Care document, has been completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30400/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (19 Jun 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason letters to schools with the following school year's allocation of resource hours cannot be issued by 15 May or 30 May when primary schools are required to submit applications for resource hours and or special needs assistants help to the National Council for Special Education by 15 March each year; if this delay is an attempt at...

An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2013)

Sandra McLellan: At the present time we need more democracy, not less. The conscious and deliberate removal or shrinking of a democratic space is and should be a cause for great concern and alarm. Having said that, I acknowledge that there are serious problems with the Seanad as it is presently configured. How could ordinary Irish people have any sense of ownership over the current Seanad when most people...

Trade Union Movement and Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2013)

Sandra McLellan: Tonight’s Private Members' motion on workers’ rights reminds Members yet again of the power of capital and the willingness of the business class, supported by other conservative elements, to use State violence, excessive force and the law when, in their estimation, their class interests are under threat. William Murphy was particularly vicious and his intransigence and basic...