Slider | Maureen O'Sullivan TD

Big Pharma holding patients to ransom as government stands by…

Posted date: May 15, 2019in: Health Care, Leaders’ Questions, SliderNo Comments

Deputy Maureen O’Sullivan: Coming from a medical background, the Taoiseach will agree that we need sustainable models of medicine development and medicine procurement. We are seeing si... Read more

Children experiencing homelessness in 27 per cent of primary schools

Posted date: April 04, 2019in: Education, Homelessness, Housing Crisis, SliderNo Comments

There are children experiencing homelessness in 27 per cent of primary schools in Ireland and there is no Government policy to cater for the educational needs of children who are homeless or... Read more

Ireland’s increased securitisation and the high price we’re paying to get UN Security Council votes

Posted date: February 19, 2019in: International, Leaders’ Questions, SliderNo Comments

Deputy Maureen O’Sullivan: In a month, the Taoiseach, Ministers and officials will head around the world for St. Patrick’s Day. Over 300 venues around the world will be lit green... Read more

My speech at the commemoration of the First Dáil

Posted date: January 29, 2019in: Local & National, SliderNo Comments

The press in 1919 wrote of the tomfoolery of the Sinn Féin parliament in Dublin, the “stage play at the Mansion House”, a “futile and unreal” event which, if it were... Read more

Poor pay and conditions in the early childcare sector

Posted date: December 17, 2018in: Childcare, Community, SliderNo Comments

Deputy Maureen O’Sullivan asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress to date in addressing the perceived poor pay and conditions in the early childcare sector; her... Read more

Ireland’s incoherent development aid strategy

Posted date: December 13, 2018in: International, Overseas Development Aid, SliderNo Comments

Working for the Foreign Affairs Committee I can say Ireland’s development aid programme does invaluable work because it makes a difference, it is poverty focused, it is about community... Read more

PESCO and the EU Army will be disastrous for Irelands international reputation and neutrality, which presently gives us a unique voice

Posted date: December 02, 2018in: European Union, SliderNo Comments

Deputy Maureen O’Sullivan: I acknowledge that there are some positives in the reply of the Minister of State, but it was rather vague on PESCO spending. I want to go back to... Read more