Results 101-120 of 17,531 for speaker:Jan O'Sullivan
- Education for Persons with Disabilities Bill 2003: Report Stage (Resumed). (13 May 2004)
Jan O'Sullivan: I support amendment No. 121. It is important and it links into the point I made about the need to specify the resources required. Deputies Crowe and McGrath propose that it should be specified that the child has received the services required when reviewing the plan. That links in with the issue of ensuring that while we set goals and decide that certain things need to be done, we need to...
- Education for Persons with Disabilities Bill 2003: Report Stage (Resumed). (13 May 2004)
Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 129: In page 16, line 3, to delete "request" and substitute "require". Question, "That the word proposed to be deleted stand", put and declared carried.
- Education for Persons with Disabilities Bill 2003: Report Stage (Resumed). (13 May 2004)
Jan O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 130: In page 16, lines 5 and 6, to delete "where the principal considers it appropriate to accede to their request". Question, "That the words proposed to be deleted stand", put and declared carried.
- Written Answers — Health and Safety Regulations: Health and Safety Regulations (13 May 2004)
Jan O'Sullivan: Question 19: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position with regard to her consultation with the social partners on proposals to increase penalties for breaches of the health and safety legislation, especially in view of the ongoing level of death and injury being caused to workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13827/04]
- Written Answers — Health and Safety Regulations: Health and Safety Regulations (13 May 2004)
Jan O'Sullivan: Question 63: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if her attention has been drawn to the recent study carried out by the Health and Safety Authority suggesting that safety regulations introduced in 1995 have had no impact on the type of accidents occurring on building sites; the action she intends to take to address this situation; and if she will make a...
- School Enrolment. (18 May 2004)
Jan O'Sullivan: Question 33: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his plans to address the situation in Limerick whereby 49 children from disadvantaged areas have no secondary school to attend due to the restrictive enrolment policies of some local schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14389/04]
- School Enrolment. (18 May 2004)
Jan O'Sullivan: I welcome the fact that the Minister will meet the various interested parties. There has been some progress with regard to some of the children since I tabled the question. Does the Minister accept that it is the responsibility of the Minister for Education and Science to ensure that all children under the school leaving age have the opportunity to go to school? Will the Minister ensure some...
- School Enrolment. (18 May 2004)
Jan O'Sullivan: Does the Minister not agree that, at present, schools can hide behind their enrolment policies to exclude certain children?
- School Enrolment. (18 May 2004)
Jan O'Sullivan: The Minister can make regulations.
- Departmental Costs. (18 May 2004)
Jan O'Sullivan: I know some of my Labour Party colleagues subsequently applied for the information and received it. Although information is available on the departmental website, on this occasion extra material was given out that was not available there. Will the Minister clarify how people are to know what information is available on request?
- Departmental Costs. (18 May 2004)
Jan O'Sullivan: The Minister will be busy for the next month.
- State Examinations. (18 May 2004)
Jan O'Sullivan: I agree with the Minister on the need for students to develop certain skills. However, a student will not earn 500 points or more in the leaving certificate examinations for them. When will the leaving certificate examinations be reformed to test more complex skills than memory and the ability to pass exams? Such reforms would make grinds schools less attractive to parents.
- State Examinations. (18 May 2004)
Jan O'Sullivan: The leaving certificate examinations begin in two and a half weeks. There is an extraordinary amount of stress on young people. Is there any way the Minister can speed up the process he described, whereby the NCCA must make recommendations and agreement must be obtained among all the partners involved? Something must be done about this quickly so that young people need not go through this any...
- Rights of People with Disabilities: Motion. (18 May 2004)
Jan O'Sullivan: It would be easy to begin a speech like this with recrimination. People with disabilities and their families feel let down and betrayed by promises made and broken, hardships and stresses that have been ignored and by a commitment to rights abandoned. Those of us who know families that struggle with the consequences of disability know only too well the pain and frustration they feel. I do not...
- Rights of People with Disabilities: Motion. (18 May 2004)
Jan O'Sullivan: Why can the Government not publish the Bill?
- Rights of People with Disabilities: Motion. (18 May 2004)
Jan O'Sullivan: This issue is not about litigation.
- Rights of People with Disabilities: Motion. (18 May 2004)
Jan O'Sullivan: That is completely untrue.
- Rights of People with Disabilities: Motion. (18 May 2004)
Jan O'Sullivan: When will that be?
- Rights of People with Disabilities: Motion. (18 May 2004)
Jan O'Sullivan: It told the Minister of State everything it wantsââ
- Rights of People with Disabilities: Motion. (18 May 2004)
Jan O'Sullivan: Is there anything newââ