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Message From Maureen
After much thinking and talking, I have decided not to stand in this election. It was a difficult decision to...
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Widespread hardship in the developing world due “profit-sharing”
There is widespread hardship for those in the developing world due to something called “profit-sharing...
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My take on Budget 2020
Budgets are strange creatures. This is my 11th or 12th one. Listening to the Minister of the day, as we did ye...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
It is obvious to us that protecting the Good Friday Agreement has to be paramount but not, I believe, to people in Britain. The Good Friday Agreement was hard won and it is positive that a g... Read more
I put it urgently to the Minister, that the understaffing and workload are so significant in the Mater Hospital at present that it is having a detrimental effect on the mental and phy... Read more
A “caring budget” or a PR budget?
As the dust settles on Budget 2019, I’m posting snippets of my post budget speech made the day after it was announced to argue that there is no doubt but that inequality is growing and... Read more