Results 1-20 of 44 for going forward speaker:Pádraig O'Sullivan

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (30 Apr 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I support what has been said. The Minister said that 3% growth is envisaged. Is that for this year and going forward annually or does he envisage it will grow at a greater pace? Will the Minister provide in tabular form later the number of childcare services that have been established, especially in my constituency? I would appreciate it. To allow me to compare, will he include the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (25 Apr 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ...The Minister has acknowledged in her response that up to 50% of the overall cost is also covered. Does the Department have any intention to review that 50% allocation or will that remain the case going forward? Second, the Minister mentioned that two organisations in Cork are availing of this funding in 2022. If possible, will she let me know what those two organisations are? Is there...

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

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ...felt, particularly in Border counties. When one is talking to hauliers or people whose business is on a forecourt, one hears genuine concern about fuel tourism and the impacts on Border counties going forward. That is possibly compounded by the UK chancellor's recent decision to extend the deferral of excise across the Border. I suggest that the Department should undertake some type...

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

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ...might source that money or otherwise. I know people are hard pressed. That goes without saying. All of us in the House and those belonging to us, our friends and family, watch the forecourts and the prices going up and down. That volatility is making things difficult for people. However, I welcome the Minister's statement today and when he earlier answered other Deputies' questions...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Allocations of Special Education Teachers: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ..., there is obviously no provision there for, say, student X having a visual impairment or student Y having some other disability. This is where I would come back to the Department of Education. Going forward, is this the next step for the Department of Education or the NCSE to have that included in the assessment? Is that what we are pushing towards? In the absence of HSE data, if that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Allocations of Special Education Teachers: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I have one last thing for Mr. Harris. I was listening to what he said when I was upstairs. Going forward, the review is not going to happen for schools until May or June. I will not say Mr. Harris is dismissive about the potential of that review, but I suppose he did not speak as if he is overly optimistic about it. What led him to arrive at that standpoint?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (13 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ..., including the provision of extra places for apprentices and so on. A citizens' assembly would be the right forum to question what education is for, to determine how we devise an education system going forward to produce a sustainable society and to answer all of those big questions that need to be asked about how we develop our future education policy. Of particular interest is the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Housing Policy (22 Nov 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ...recent progress report update for Housing for All. It is something I have an interest in as a person who bought a house in the last few years, namely, the difficulties that people have when they go through the process itself. The Taoiseach and the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, have spoken about the establishment of an expert group to examine the processes around purchasing a home with a view...

School Transport 2023-2024: Statements (3 Oct 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ...and implementation of its guidelines. I raised this here on the floor with the Tánaiste last Thursday. I refer to the use of a measuring wheel on one particular route that concerned me. Going forward with the review, I hope, in respect of the type of prescriptive interpretation that is there, that a bit more flexibility might be given to Bus Éireann to use a bit more common...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Animal Welfare (13 Jul 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ...myself and Senator McGreehan are intent on drafting a Bill to deal with some of the matters that are arising. I would be grateful if we could meet the Minister at some stage to discuss that Bill going forward and any improvements that can be made to existing legislation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (23 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ..., ISL. Has the NCBI liaised with universities about training? Has the NCBI ever sought the provision of a course to train people in this country as opposed to prospective teachers having to go abroad? How do we plan ahead? Are projections based on how many visiting teachers will be required? Is provision demand-led? How does the NCBI forward plan? I presume the NCBI would like to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (23 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Mr. Geary gave us a picture of what Calum’s education is like now and it is vastly improved from previous years. With the implementation of the two new roles, what should it look like going forward in his remaining secondary years?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I welcome many of the programmes the Taoiseach mentioned, especially the Croí Cónaithe scheme,. The latter will be beneficial going forward. One of the biggest barriers we are still experiencing in County Cork is the provision of wastewater treatment plants when it comes to servicing new housing estates in smaller villages outside the city boundary such as Carraig na bhFear, where...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Research Funding (30 Mar 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ...and it is rare inside here that many of my supplementary questions have already been answered so I appreciate the response. It was very thorough. We all know the importance of this review and going forward there will be so many PhD researchers engaged on issues relating to climate change, energy, public health policy, and so on in the next few years. It is very welcome the Minister has...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (30 Mar 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ...there. I think it was in the 2021 to 2022 figures that there was a slight drop of 300 apprenticeships nationally. I suppose I have a straight question, how does the Minister account for that? Going forward into this year does he envisage that the figure will improve on that and make amends for that? Regarding retrofitting, it is very frustrating for public representatives that when we...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (23 Feb 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister of State. I know he is not the Minister for Health and is not in that Department. I have had correspondence and parliamentary questions going back and forward. I have a reply here from 24 June 2022 which is similar to what the Minister of State has read out this evening It mentions assessments, reviews and the like with veiled, shrouded language. I am asking...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ...will be flexibility or a proviso in the upcoming review to cover circumstances where there is a demonstrable requirement for a bus. The second issue, which I mentioned last week when the buildings forward planning unit was before the committee, is oversight of projects that are already sanctioned. Autism spectrum disorder, ASD, classes and extensions of various kinds might be sanctioned...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ...on the group who are predicting we are heading for another shortage in terms of capacity for special school places in Cork. We do not want to be reminded of the difficulties we had two years ago. Ultimately they were resolved with the opening of the new school in Carrigaline but that was a very difficult period. Can Mr. Loftus give an update regarding that site? Second, and this goes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Employment: Discussion (13 Dec 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ...Ireland funding. Will he give us the background to that funding? Is it annual? Is it reviewed annually? Is it on an application basis? Does Specialisterne have a more sustainable funding model going forward? Could Mr. Brabazon comment on that briefly first?