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Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Pharmacy Services (10 Dec 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: 413. To ask the Minister for Health if talks have commenced with the representative body for pharmacy contractors regarding new fee regulations, the reform and modernisation of pharmacy services and the unwinding of FEMPI for community pharmacists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51628/19]

Financial Challenges Facing RTÉ and its Revised Strategy 2020-2024: Statements (Resumed) (14 Nov 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...urgent action is required". These are headings for three different pages in the report. My former colleague, Pat Rabbitte, when he was Minister did a considerable amount of work in changing the model of the licence fee and of the funding of RTÉ. This was continued by Senator Alex White. This seems to have been left on a shelf for the last three years. I would be really concerned...

Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Second Stage (24 Sep 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...of State has made progress in this regard but I would like to an update. With regard to the various sizes and types of voluntary housing associations, I support Deputy Ó Broin's comments on fees, which are referred to in sections 11 and 35. The fees are not outlined in the Bill. I presume they will be set at a later stage. They should not be an obstacle. Deputy Ó Broin...

Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...State must communicate with the community education sector about all of these matters because, as she noted, it is a highly diverse sector. Based on my knowledge of the sector, it does not charge fees so in that sense, community providers should be okay. Courses leading to a State certificate such as the junior certificate and leaving certificate and other post-primary programmes are...

Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...to pay into the fund being established by this legislation. The fund is intended to ensure that if a college goes to the wall, particularly in the English language teaching sector, students will not lose out on the fees they had paid or on continuing with their course. We do not have any quarrel with ensuring protection for the students. My concern in this amendment is to ensure that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (18 Jun 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: .... I will address first the Aontas presentation because community education should not have to pay what are relatively substantial amounts of money for the sector. The issues surrounding re-engagement fees, etc. have already put a lot of pressure on it. I do not know if it is possible to address that issue at this stage. Obviously, we cannot submit amendments. Perhaps the delgates...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (17 Apr 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...made to advance the project in 2018 and to date in 2019; the funds expended on the head office project in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019, including professional and consultancy fees, surveying, legal fees and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17989/19]

Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...of the points that have been raised by Deputies, but we have problems with the Bill. I will explain some of the issues that concern me. There is a problem with people having to pay management fees and what management companies can require of residents in managed estates needs to be regulated. I acknowledge the interdepartmental review. The multi-unit developments legislation needs...

Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...public roads, footpaths and playgrounds, I would limit it and not have it open to whatever the management companies want to charge and provide. The Bill limits the amount to one third of the management fee or €300, whichever is the lower, so there is some control.

Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: If one third of the management fee is more than €300, then we are talking about pretty expensive homes.

Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Feb 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: The question of management fees raises many issues. In some cases, estates are pushed into remaining in private ownership even though the norm in most parts of the country is for local authorities to take estates in charge after a certain period of time and then maintain their open spaces, grounds and so on. That is a better principle. Where a number of people live together, the roads and...

Prohibition of Above-cost Ticket Touting Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (31 Jan 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...on resale. However, I cannot find any provision in the Bill which states that one can charge commission on resale. The legislation states that a service charge means "any booking charge or fee imposed and printed on the ticket at the time of the initial sale by an authorised person". I cannot see the provision to which Deputy Donnelly referred but perhaps the Minister can clarify that...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...simple so landlords can register every year in a way that is not too complex for them, perhaps involving filling in something simple online. Perhaps the Minister will come back on this. I know the fees will be reduced but given that there will be yearly registration I wonder whether they should be as high as they will be. This is another question to be raised. I want to raise a very...

Residential Tenancies (Prohibition on Viewing Fees) Bill 2018: First Stage (20 Nov 2018)

Jan O'Sullivan: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to prohibit the charging by landlords of viewing fees from prospective tenants; and to provide for related matters. This is a short Bill entitled an Act to prohibit the charging by landlords of viewing fees from prospective tenants, and to provide for related matters. It is quite straightforward. It is one of a number of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (7 Sep 2018)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...if a person whose parents are Irish citizens and who has been living and attending school here since the person was six years of age but whose own passport is from outside the EU qualifies for EU fees for higher education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36687/18]

Affordable Housing: Statements (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)

Jan O'Sullivan: .... It has been able to deliver affordable houses in the Dublin area in conjunction with the local authority, which gave them the sites for a relatively low price and did not charge the development fee and so on. They have been able to do that so there is no reason why it cannot be done. We really have to use the publicly-owned land that is there. This is available to us and it is...

Domestic Violence Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second Stage (15 Dec 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...Stages there can be some consideration of that point in the meantime. Women's Aid provided an example in which an abuser may challenge that the relationship was committed on the basis that he does not feel committed. In other words, the perpetrator does not feel committed. Women's Aid has suggested other situations where the word "committed" might cause difficulties as well. Barnardos...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Brexit Issues (28 Jun 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the possible affect of Brexit on fees and access to higher education for Irish students who attend British universities and colleges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30365/17]

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Feb 2017)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...competition law. That agreement had set rates for voice-over actors. Senator Bacik explained the practical import of this matter. Until then it was accepted that, for example, unions could publish freelance fee guides. This was a particular issue in the arts and creative sectors, including acting, where unions such as Equity and the NUJ had long made agreements about minimum fee rates...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Undocumented Children: Discussion (30 Nov 2016)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...a change while I was there. If a child had been at school in Ireland for three of the five years prior to doing the leaving certificate, he or she could attend college without paying international fees and would be eligible for Student Universal Support Ireland, SUSI, grants, etc. To answer the Chairman's question, we only dealt with people in the asylum system because we were...