Results 61-80 of 17,531 for speaker:Jan O'Sullivan

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Flexible Work Practices (3 Dec 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 63. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the introduction of a four-day working week as proposed by a number of organisations (details supplied); if she will help to facilitate debate and consideration of this issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49931/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Losses (3 Dec 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 82. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the actions taken to protect and assist workers in a company (details supplied) which announced proposed job losses of approximately 500 recently; if an application has been made to the European Globalisation Fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49933/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (3 Dec 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 372. To ask the Minister for Health the number of addiction liaison midwives that have been funded nationwide; the number currently in post; and the plans in place to fill the outstanding posts including University Maternity Hospital, Limerick. [49927/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Enforcement Activity (27 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 95. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a series of matters (details supplied). [49307/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Enforcement Activity (27 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 96. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a series of matters (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49308/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Enforcement Activity (27 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 97. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a series of matters (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49309/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (27 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the acceptable requirements to receive approval for time served teaching outside the European Union in respect of teachers who have taught outside the European Union; and the reason time served teaching at overseas private primary schools is recognised and time served teaching at secondary schools is not. [49254/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (27 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to reduce the pay gap between teachers recruited pre- and post-2011; the timeframe for achieving pay parity for teachers recruited pre- and post -2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49314/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Literacy Programmes (27 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has forecast the funding amount, the numbers of beneficiaries and type and amount of provision to achieve the NSS targets in view of the declining number of beneficiaries of adult literacy provision in ETBs. [49316/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (26 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when site work will commence at the planned Louth Meath Education and Training Board head office building in Drogheda, County Louth; the amount expended on the project in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019; the purpose of the spend; the timeline for the expected completion of the project; the number of staff the ETB envisages...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: I thank the Chair. I will first apologise, as traffic was horrendous. I thank the Chair for the invitation to address the committee on the topic of education and the Traveller community, with particular reference to school completion rates and educational attainment compared with the settled community. There is no doubt that this is an issue that needs to be addressed urgently, given that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: I can. I thank Deputy Corcoran Kennedy. First of all, we published a draft interim report from the Joint Committee on Education and Skills. Maybe I could ask that the report be circulated to all the members of this committee, which would be useful, and that we keep in touch with this committee. As I said, we had an interaction with the Department of Education and Skills recently and we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: I will give some brief information on the yellow flag programme. Those flags are awarded to schools if they are inclusive and anti-racist. Schools must have a whole programme on inclusion of Travellers and Traveller culture, but also on other potentially excluded cultures. That programme is running in a limited number of schools, however. Yellow flags will be presented to six schools in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: The challenge is that we have to change society so people do not feel they have to hide their identity to avoid being hurt. Mr. McDonagh mentioned early intervention. Does he have statistics on Traveller participation in preschool education? I imagine the children of most so-called middle class families who go to college probably had at least one year of preschool education. Programmes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: Many Travellers do not live in areas with community crèches. Living on the edge of the city it may be difficult to access one. I do not know whether Mr. McDonagh has gathered statistics on this but perhaps there could also be intervention there and a conscious programme to facilitate Traveller families to have this opportunity. I was involved in preschool education at one stage. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: The free preschool year I mentioned is only free for a certain number of hours a day. I imagine if someone does not have access to a community crèche because there is significant pressure on places, parents who can afford to pay for extra hours in private services probably get preference over those who cannot. I would prefer if all provision was public but the reality is that private...

Supporting Children out of Emergency Accommodation and into Homes: Statements (21 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: We are again discussing child homelessness in the House. Something needs to happen. We need progress and a change of policy but there is no evidence of those. The most recent figures available were compiled at the end of October and show that 25 more children were living in emergency accommodation than was the case the previous month. Children make up the biggest group of homeless people...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bullying in Schools (21 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which the implementation of the bullying policies of post-primary schools is monitored by his Department to ensure that the policies are implemented and followed through; the remedy available if a parent is concerned that the various steps outlined in a policy are not taken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48378/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: State Pension (Contributory) Data (21 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 246. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 303 of 24 October 2019, the number of the women in receipt of the State pension (contributory) based on pre-September 2012 bands that are not in the highest band that would have qualified for a higher band if they could be assessed under the homemakers' scheme or the home carers’...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (19 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to plans by management at Dundalk Institute of Technology to develop a fifth school with the working title of new school of flexible and postgraduate provision at the institute arising from a recent report on the Review of Key Functional Areas relating to Admissions July 2019; if his Department has had...