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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Reopening of Further and Higher Education Institutions: Discussion (22 Jul 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I thank the Chair for his patience. I have finally sorted out my IT issues. As Deputy Ó Cathasaigh said, many of the questions I was going to ask have been already posed. I will address a few points. I acknowledge the funding announced yesterday and it is a massive boost for this area. Hopefully, it will allow for further reopening in time. I also raise the issue of mental health...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Reopening of Further and Higher Education Institutions: Discussion (22 Jul 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Do I have time, Chairman, for one final question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Reopening of Further and Higher Education Institutions: Discussion (22 Jul 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I welcome the Minister’s comments on the mental health supports and it is good that there would be some specification or descriptor going to the colleges rather than just a tranche of funding as this is important. To finish on the issue of international students that was raised previously, many of these students coming into the country have missed out on the possibility of education...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (15 Jul 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the apprenticeship incentivisation scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38730/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Jul 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports planned to integrate students back on campus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38731/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Closed-Circuit Television Systems (15 Jul 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 299. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans for the expansion of Garda CCTV in Cork city to deter criminal activity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38732/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (15 Jul 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 361. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the HSE breastfeeding action plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32189/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (15 Jul 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 362. To ask the Minister for Health if staffing levels of lactation consultants will be increased in line with international staffing benchmark and be fully accessible in all maternity units; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32190/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (15 Jul 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 363. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided to remove any barriers to recruitment of new international board certified lactation consultant hospital posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32191/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (15 Jul 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 364. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will have their procedure covered under the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32282/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (14 Jul 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 229. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures being taken to tackle the backlog of appointment requests for public services cards in Cork city; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38229/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (14 Jul 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 260. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons that have died while living in direct provision since 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38408/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (14 Jul 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 261. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of HIQA inspections that have taken place in direct provision centres to date in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38423/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (14 Jul 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the impact Covid-19 has had on international students who have attended university here (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38431/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (8 Jul 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I must echo the Minister of State's sentiments on the unbelievable work that An Garda Síochána has done through the pandemic. However, I come back to the crux of this matter, which is the real shortage of community gardaí in the west Cork division. The number for all of west Cork is four community gardaí and if we go to north Cork, there are seven community gardaí....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (8 Jul 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: At four community gardaí, west Cork has the lowest number of such gardaí in the entire country. Driving from Kinsale in the east of the constituency to the Dursey Sound in the west takes approximately two and a half hours. It is a huge geographical area. I appreciate, as the Minister of State indicates, that the chief superintendent has the responsibility in this but it is a...