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Other Questions: Emergency Accommodation Provision (28 Mar 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 25. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will address the gap in services for persons under 18 years of age in emergency homeless services that are out of emergency accommodation between the hours of 8.30 a.m. to 6.30 p.m. and their particularly vulnerable situation. [15032/17]

Other Questions: Emergency Accommodation Provision (28 Mar 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: My question concerns the perceived gap in services for persons under 18 years of age in emergency homeless services who are out on the streets for long periods during the day because nobody is picking up on their issues.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Staff (28 Mar 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 63. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the consequences of the new regulations from Tusla for community child care services and the impact on the services they provide including reduction in hours of child care and possible closures. [15033/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Funding (28 Mar 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 52. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to increase funding to youth services in Dublin's north inner city in view of the recommendations of the Mulvey report regarding the north inner city. [15029/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Provision (28 Mar 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 57. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to include childminders under the affordable child care scheme; and if she is satisfied that the scheme is adequate to address Ireland's disproportionate child care costs in comparison with other EU states. [15031/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (28 Mar 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 64. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the concerns raised by a group (details supplied) regarding the Adoption (Information and Tracing Bill) 2016; if she will address those concerns regarding the legislation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15030/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Commencement of Legislation (28 Mar 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 343. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 55 of 1 February 2017, the efforts that have been made to invoke the urgency procedure to shorten the notification period with respect to the tablet regulations and to ensure protection of public health and safety in order that the relevant orders can be signed with respect to the Misuse of Drugs Act. [14963/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Safety Standards Regulation (28 Mar 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 465. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the dangers of spreading dog faeces on tillage fields was included in the 2008 report by the Food Safety Authority; his plans to investigate the potential health risks of spreading dog faeces on tillage fields with regard to dog breeding establishment owners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15011/17]

Other Questions: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (23 Mar 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 10. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the lack of a democratic process surrounding the pending EU ratification on the CETA trade deal; the implications of the investor-state dispute mechanism for Ireland; her further views on the need to wait for the EU Court of Justice on the legality of the investment court system, ICS, before ratification by the Houses of...

Other Questions: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (23 Mar 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: The question relates to CETA and the lack of a democratic process surrounding the pending EU ratification of the trade deal. It also relates to the implications of the investor court system and the need to wait for the European Court of Justice ruling on the legality of the ICS before ratification here or elsewhere.

Other Questions: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (23 Mar 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I am not coming at this with an anti-trade agenda but with an agenda that there should be a right to trade without any recourse to these investor court systems. I take from what the Minister said that the investor court system seems to be gone completely. I ask her to clarify that because of concerns among members of parliament in many countries, MEPs, trade unions, NGOs and civil society...

Other Questions: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (23 Mar 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I would also like to make a point about the Seanad's rejection of CETA, which is very significant. There are still concerns about the implications for jobs, particularly in small and medium enterprises, and about agriculture, particularly milk and beef prices. There is a danger of us being flooded by genetically modified foods. The people of Wallonia, who are very dependent on dairy and...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (23 Mar 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Am I to comment only on pensions?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (23 Mar 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I appreciate that. I apologise because I have to go to another meeting at 10 a.m. I echo the Chairman's comments. The past week has been a difficult and sad time for all those involved. There is no doubt about the commitment and dedication of all those involved in the rescue. The difficulty continues for them. I acknowledge the superb role the Defence Forces played in the centenary...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (23 Mar 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 18. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her contingency plans to assist small and medium enterprises operating both sides of the border in view of the uncertainty surrounding Brexit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14424/17]

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cearta Eacnamaíochta, Sóisialacha agus Cultúir), 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Mar 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Thanks to Deputy Thomas Pringle, we are discussing an amendment to our Constitution. The first question is what a constitution is about. When I looked it up to be totally sure, I saw that it is a body of fundamental principles or system of beliefs according to which a state or another body is acknowledged to be governed. In effect, it controls the exercise of power. When I look at that...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Management (22 Mar 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 35. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to alleviate congestion by examining possible solutions such as an outer ring-road motorway to stop reliance on the M50 and examining current public transport costs, in view of the increasing traffic congestion in Dublin and the fact that major public transport projects, such as metro north, are not due for commencement or...

European Council: Statements (21 Mar 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I wish to raise a couple of points, the first of which follows on from our pre-European Council statements and my reference to the increasing use of the securitisation narrative instead of a humanitarian one. The risk was that the EU would renege on, or not fully respect, our legal obligations under international laws like the Geneva Convention and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights....

Death of Martin McGuinness: Expressions of Sympathy (21 Mar 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Ba mhaith liom mo chomhbhrón a chur in iúl do bhean chéile Martin McGuinness, dá chlann, dá chairde, do phobal chathair Doire agus do lucht Shinn Féin. Tá sé an-bhrónach dóibh go léir faoi láthair. Our country had a turbulent and violent 800 years under the British empire before the Twenty-six Counties gained independence, but that...

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I am disappointed in that answer because I believe the meeting with the conveners has to take place first. Otherwise, it will be the statutory players who will be giving their decisions about an area, when it is the community voice that knows exactly what needs to happen there. This is not just about the north inner city, it can be a template and a framework for other areas, in Dublin and...