Results 1-20 of 118 for long speaker:Pádraig O'Sullivan

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ...authorities have performed admirably in recent years with their household delivery. I believe there is a specific problem in Dublin and that Dublin needs specific intervention. I have said that for a long time, not just on the rental side but also the construction side. Cork City Council, Cork County Council and Waterford City and County Council have all done reasonably well. Those...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (2 May 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ...be farming their children out to outlying villages like Ovens, Farran, Dripsey and Inishcarra on minibuses and taxiing them all around the place. The problems in Ballincollig have been known for a long time at departmental level and locally in Cork. From this debate, and I do not know if this is included in the Minister of State's response, I would like to have it reaffirmed that the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (23 Apr 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 549. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of an application for long-term residential care for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17640/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (16 Apr 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ..., is playing catch-up in respect of the number of special needs classes it is providing to its population. It is imperative the classroom is given the utmost priority. The officials visited as long ago as 2021 and acknowledged on site the difficulties that exist. It is about time the parents in the area were given the reassurance that their children will be accommodated in the near future.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (16 Apr 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 644. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for long term residential care by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16075/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ...million and €51 million for both of those increases. My question was with specific regard to the numbers because when we have this debate, it is easy to call for deferrals and putting things on the long finger. It is also important to highlight that it is €153 million, and the people calling for deferral will need to explain their own position on the other side as to where...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (21 Mar 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I acknowledge that Deputies Stanton and James O'Connor advocated for this project long before I did. I also acknowledge the allocation of €300,000 the Department of Transport has contributed towards its progression. Cork County Council initially sought more than €1 million. I think it estimated it would cost €1.2 million to progress the project. While I acknowledge...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Mar 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 1268. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to extending the temporary scheme created to pay healthcare workers who were unfit to work after contracting long-Covid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11803/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ...Senator Murphy alluded to this fact, that there is great pride locally. The address where I live is Dunkettle. I cannot see the motorway but I can hear it. Nonetheless, it is a project that is a long time coming. It is great to have it. I am originally from Little Island so I am well used to traffic and people coming in and out. There are 15,000 employees in that general area. It...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (8 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ...that it is a necessary evil. The protection that the scheme will provide to many homes and businesses in Glanmire is something that I and, to be fair, other Deputies have advocated for for a long time. My concern centres around the Blackpool flood relief scheme. I am familiar with all of the details that the Minister mentioned. I am just trying to stress the urgency of the situation...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I thank the Chair and Deputy Farrell. I have two or three brief questions. I am really more interested in hearing what the Minister of State has to say rather than giving a long spiel. Initially, he mentioned investing in our people and talent and rightfully so. He mentioned that we are going to go from 13,000 to 16,000 places for craft apprentices. Is there any factoring in of a review...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (30 Nov 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ...need to be ticked and so many groups that need to be consulted. I hope I am wrong but, in a perverse way, I think this saddling with so many different strategies will actually be counterproductive in the long term. I genuinely hope I am wrong on that. That is more or less my bit. Before I close, I will reiterate my concerns about the local democracy side of things. When councillors on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Labour Court (28 Nov 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ...to January 2023 in which this was one of the main recommendations, yet here we are towards the tail end of the year and we have made little or no progress on the issue. This dispute has been going on for a long time. I will take the Minister of State’s advice and raise the matter with the Minister for Health.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Funding (28 Nov 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding that will be allocated to the Ballyvolane Strategic Transport Corridor; how long the improvement project is expected to take; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52418/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Oct 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I raise an issue I came across in a small village called Watergrasshill, north of Cork city. It concerns the provision of a school-age childcare service. The long and the short of is that the provider of this service has English as her second language. She went in good faith to apply on the Pobal website for funding for the provision of her service. In error, she put in the tabulation...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Legislative Measures (6 Jul 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 127. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update regarding preparations within her Department for an enhanced pension for long-term family carers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32968/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (6 Jul 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 358. To ask the Minister for Health if SouthDoc management is committed to providing a long-term service in Fermoy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33400/23]

Matters Arising in RTÉ: Statements (4 Jul 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I am not sure I will be able to add anything new to the debate. It has gone on for so long now and I understand more might come out in the wash but I still feel I have to put on the public record my disappointment over what has gone on in the past few weeks and my disdain for some of the practices that have allegedly occurred. Over the last few weeks, it has been demonstrated that a culture...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Work Permits (29 Jun 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ...of State, who has also outlined his disappointment about the uptake. It behoves us to look at this again, albeit that the initial quota was announced in December 2022. Seven months is not a long time, in particular in terms of how we deal with issues here. There is a pay threshold that can prove problematic for what are often relatively lower paid jobs. I am not saying I am advocating...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Jun 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 151. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the expenditure levels of new medicines and new uses of existing medicines in 2022 on an in-year basis under the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28655/23]