Results 21-40 of 3,934 for speaker:Pádraig O'Sullivan

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Policies (26 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 318. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider the outright ban of flavoured and coloured e-cigarettes in this jurisdiction. [30314/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (26 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 353. To ask the Minister for Health if the new neurological rehabilitation beds proposed for Blarney, County Cork are now going to Mallow General Hospital; if so, whether there is a business case prepared for Mallow; if it will be funded in Budget 2026; if not, whether funding will be included in Budget 2027; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35179/25]

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I welcome the Minister and the Ministers of State. I say "well done" and "fair play" to the Minister on the rostering of staff over the weekend. It is very welcome news. I hope it will contribute to the transformation we all hope to see and are striving for on the health committee. I will start with the nursing homes issue, which has been very topical in recent weeks. In light of the...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: It is welcome to hear that issues pertaining to governance are to be addressed and that the Minister of State hopes to make changes in this regard. The ratio of public beds to private beds is about 80:20 or 85:15.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: The Minister will probably appreciate that I am going to raise one of my favourite topics: rare diseases. I thank her for meeting a group of us last week. We appreciated her time. As I said to her privately, I am encouraged about the direction this could be moving. However, I want to come back to the issue of early access. Thanks to Senator Costello, we had a group in a few weeks ago who...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I re-emphasise that the early access scheme might need to be completely different from the scheme already in situ. As we spoke about at the meeting last week, there are quality thresholds and the area of value for money, or whatever way we want to put it. The drugs in question will never meet the criteria we set down under the existing process, so whatever early access scheme is devised...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I have two more questions. On asking them, I will give the Minister the remainder of the time. First, the Minister mentioned the Italian health minister. The Italians do a very expensive heel-prick test. Over the past few years, Deputy Burke and I have lobbied for an expanded heel-prick test. Les Martin, a constituent of the Tánaiste, Deputy Simon Harris, has been very active on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (25 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 234. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the new elective hospital for Glanmire, Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34948/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (25 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 235. To ask the Minister for Health the progress her Department has made in honouring the Programme for Government commitment that an early access programme for medicines would be established by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34949/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: The Mazars report stated that the HSE has not been implementing the legal timelines for the reimbursement of medicines. I can refer to at least four studies commissioned in the past year that show legal timelines are not being adhered to. In February last year, the Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association published a paper showing that 86% of all reimbursements did not adhere to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 16. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [33563/25]

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I welcome the Minister in this evening. It beats meeting him at a parliamentary party meeting. We can speak a bit more frankly here.

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I refer to road safety and the RSA. It is on foot of a parliamentary question I asked a number of months ago about the number of offences where people were caught using their mobile phone, which had increased. It was approximately 18,000 people in 2022. In 2023, it was 19,000. In 2024, it was up to approximately 22,000. In March-April time, figures for 2025 to that date illustrate that...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I hope going forward that gardaí or the RSA would be provided with additional technologies to detect people. It is something that, going forward, is going to become a normal part of road safety. I have a second issue that I raised last week with the Garda Síochána witnesses. We all recognise that everybody has the right to protest. The Garda representatives did not have a...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I said at the outset that I respect everybody's right to protest, but I should have clarified. It is more about the hours and the overtime. I am not saying that this is not necessary; it is. However, when we are in here complaining about the lack of community policing and gardaí on the beat, I am trying to frame it in that context as to what it is as an overall proportion of the Garda...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: If they wanted to include large sporting events and all as well-----

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I have a question about Cork Prison. It is something I have raised with the Minister privately over the past few weeks. I have long lobbied for an increase in the prison capacity that we have. As the Minister alluded to earlier, our population is increasing anyway. It is an evitable consequence of that. In Cork Prison, the last figure I have is that it was at 122% capacity a couple of...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Would it be possible for the Minister to deal with the Irish Prison Service and ask if there could be any possible community element as part of any future development? There is significant ground there as well.

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I have one last question. Garda vetting is a big bone of contention of mine. It is an operational thing for the Garda. Is there any way that we can streamline-----

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (24 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 122. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the new N/M20 Cork to Limerick motorway will be a toll road; his Department's general policy with regard to tolling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33855/25]