Results 21-32 of 32 for 5 million speaker:Maureen O'Sullivan
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Waterways Ireland Remit (3 Dec 2013)
Maureen O'Sullivan: 199. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the European Regional Development Fund has been considered as a possible source of funding towards the costs, estimated at over €5 million, of overcoming obstacles to navigation, namely, the lifting bridge and the fixed Spencer Dock bridge on the sea level of the Royal Canal; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Biofuel Obligation Scheme Targets (19 Nov 2013)
Maureen O'Sullivan: Failing to have an agreement does not mean that Ireland should give up on this issue. An interesting report produced recently by Action Aid examines the difference between the rates of 5% and 7%. The difference is such that if the former was adopted, over 68 million people could be fed. It is all very well to say we might have the lower cap by 2020, but by then how many more people will...
- Council of the European Union (Lithuanian Presidency): Motion (17 Jul 2013)
Maureen O'Sullivan: ...at those conferences really brought that home. On the area of hunger, they focused on the vulnerabilities of small farmers, fishermen, women and children. We are living in a world where 870 million people go hungry and 6 million children die from malnutrition yearly. I know the Minister of State had an opportunity to visit one of those countries and he has seen this at first hand. I...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Alternative Energy Projects (28 Mar 2013)
Maureen O'Sullivan: ...-grabbing in Africa. Some of the scientific data and reports we have received bear this out. Recently an NGO from Kenya told us about the circumstances in that country. It is reckoned that 40 million hectares have been taken from African land for bio-fuels since 2000, and this is having very negative effects, such as land displacement and evictions. These, in turn, cause hunger and...
- Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2012)
Maureen O'Sullivan: ...the work and research done on this issue by Independent Deputies Stephen Donnelly and Catherine Murphy. Figures on State funding to the political parties show the Fine Gael Party received €5.5 million, the Labour Party received €3.5 million, the Fianna Fáil Party received €3.75 million, Sinn Féin received €2.2 million, the United Left Alliance...
- Mental Health Services (4 Jul 2012)
Maureen O'Sullivan: Reading the programme for Government, I was struck by the following commitment: "We will ring fence â¬35m annually from within the health budget to develop community mental health teams and services as outlined in A Vision for Change to ensure early access to more appropriate services for adults and children and improved integration with primary care services." Speaking during an excellent...
- Education (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (29 Feb 2012)
Maureen O'Sullivan: ...for the sake of it and trying to reform something that does not need reform. On the issue of achieving cost savings, I suggested to the Minister last week or the week previously how to recoup â¬5 million or â¬6 million from the loan the previous Government made to the Teaching Council. I am sure the Minister has the wherewithal and the means to recoup those moneys, which could be put to...
- Education (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (29 Feb 2012)
Maureen O'Sullivan: ...in teaching at primary or secondary level does not have a word of praise for the council. That cannot be attributed solely to the â¬90 fee. The Teaching Council had an income of more than â¬6 million in each of 2009 and 2010. Its staff, who are doing work that used to be done by officials in the Department of Education and Skills, accounted for costs of almost â¬2 million in each of...
- Teaching Council (23 Feb 2012)
Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 8: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has recovered the funding, some â¬5 to â¬6 million, given by the last Government to set up the Teaching Council; if his attention has been drawn to the anger among teachers of having to pay this fee and their criticisms of this organisation which is collecting approximately â¬5 million annually from teachers and in view of...
- Teaching Council (23 Feb 2012)
Maureen O'Sullivan: ...and have no problem in this regard but this Teaching Council certainly has not shown itself to be professional in the few years since its establishment. Moreover, it is taking in approximately â¬5 million per year and the Minister could seek to recoup the initial advance of â¬5 million, which could go into a great many other services that are vitally needed in education.
- Mental Health Services: Motion (15 Nov 2011)
Maureen O'Sullivan: ...in the strategy and its placing of the service user at the centre of the mental health services; â that funding for mental health has dropped from 13% of the health budget in 1986 to just 5% in 2010, while A Vision for Change target is 8.4%; â that Community Mental Health Teams, CMHTs, are understaffed; â that adult CMHTs have 50% of the required clinical psychologists, 60% of the...
- Teaching Council (8 Jun 2011)
Maureen O'Sullivan: When the Teaching Council came in first, I had been teaching for about 35 years. My fellow teachers and I got what I can only describe as a threatening letter, that unless we joined up to the Teaching Council with our â¬90 our salaries would be stopped. I did not think that was a very positive start to the work of the council. I have yet to meet a teacher, although maybe there are some,...