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Report of the Farrelly Commission: Statements (Resumed) (7 May 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: I wish to share time with Deputies Michael Collins and Paul Lawless.

Report of the Farrelly Commission: Statements (Resumed) (7 May 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: The final report is not just a catalogue of failure, it is a national disgrace. Let us be clear: this did not happen in the shadows. This happened in the full view of the State, with the knowledge of senior officials and successive governments, which chose to turn a blind eye. What this report exposes is not just incompetence; it is complicity. Children and vulnerable adults were failed...

Europe Day: Statements (7 May 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: On Europe Day, we mark a bold vision, born from the ashes of war, of peace, co-operation and prosperity between nations that once stood divided. I am a proud pro-European. I believe in nations working together, not tearing each other down. Let that not be confused with blind obedience to Brussels. This Europe is not the dream we signed up to back in the seventies. We see consequences of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 May 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: Last week, my city of Cork was struck by a deep tragedy with the loss of a young man, Luke Hyde, who got into difficulty swimming in the River Lee. What makes the loss more horrifying to his friends and family is the fact that many people stood by filming and then shared footage on social media. While Coco’s Law rightly criminalises the sharing of intimate images without consent...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Infrastructure (7 May 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 32. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the contingency plans and response measures in place in Ireland in the event of large-scale power outage (details supplied); and If any recent simulations or tests have been conducted to assess the Ireland's preparedness for such an event. [22278/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Expenditure Reviews (7 May 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 241. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 258 of 10 April 2025, if he can provide a list of the local development companies that received funding under the community car initiative, along with the year in which the funding was allocated to each respective local development company or network; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (7 May 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 287. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department is aware of a review into a carer’s allowance application submitted by a person (details supplied); if his Department has received this review request; if a decision has been made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22303/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (1 May 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her Department’s position on secondary schools requiring parents to purchase iPads or specific digital devices, particularly in light of the roll-out of the free schoolbooks scheme; the guidance or oversight her Department provides to ensure that families are not subjected to undue financial pressure due to school-imposed digital...

Final Draft Revised National Planning Framework: Motion (30 Apr 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: I would like to acknowledge the presence in the Public Gallery of my good friends, Paul Lenihan and Richie Herlihy. I invite the Ceann Comhairle to Cork to dine at Richie's restaurant, which is a food truck. He has the best battered sausage in Cork. I know for a fact that you too can have a body like this. I welcome the report but I feel there are lots of holes in it. In fact the...

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: Thank you, Deputy.

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: It is 1.5 minutes.

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: Moving on to the Independent and Parties Technical Group, I call Deputy Paul Murphy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (30 Apr 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 178. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review the case of an elderly person (details supplied) who was recently removed from the public health nurse (PHN) service, and a nurse had been providing essential vitamin B12 injections on a three-week cycle; if, in view of these circumstances, she will confirm that the decision to remove this patient from the PHN service will be reviewed as...

Unnecessary Hip Surgeries at Children's Health Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (29 Apr 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: We are facing not just a mishap or a misunderstanding but a national scandal that strikes at the heart of the public trust and exposes yet again the rotten foundation of the Government management of the health service. Innocent, vulnerable, trusting children were subjected to unnecessary surgeries. This is not a statistic; lives and futures have been irreversibly damaged under the supposed...

Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: I thank the Minister and the Minister of State for their statements, but after what has happened at Children's Health Ireland statements are not enough. Questions need to be answered. Children were harmed, families were failed and trust was shattered by this Government. For the Minister to offer only words today, she should be subject to questions in the Dáil, and answer those...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Apr 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: How can this Government stand over the defunding of Cork City Council through the shutdown of the 2024 social housing acquisition programme, leaving 28 families, some of whom have elderly or disabled members and some of whom are living with young children with special needs, at immediate risk of homelessness? Under Circular 11/2025, the Department allocated just €20 million to Cork...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (29 Apr 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 200. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a full list of the overseas governments and groups that received funding from the State from the beginning of 2019 until the end of 2024 inclusive, in the area of "sexual and reproductive health"; and to provide details on how the monies were spent including written reports on usage of the funds, including in each case...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (29 Apr 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 207. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide a full list of the overseas governments and groups that received funding from the Irish State from the beginning of 2019 until the end of 2024 inclusive, in the area of sexual and reproductive health; and the details of the way the monies were spent including written reports on usage of the funds, including in each case the...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Road Projects (29 Apr 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 477. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a time frame for the completion of the Mallow relief road in County Cork has been established; to provide an update on the current stage of the project’s development; and the amount spent to date on the project. [20231/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Land Issues (29 Apr 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 550. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 64 of 19 February 2025, to clarify whether it was intended that Part 22A (Residential Zoned Land Tax) Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 would impose Residential Zoned Land Tax (RZLT) on a developer who is proceeding with developing his site for an approved housing body, where the developer is required by the approved...