Results 61-80 of 4,011 for speaker:Pádraig O'Sullivan

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Over the last number of weeks many ETBs across the country have expressed their concern about funding shortfalls and are saying that they are being squeezed. I have read articles about same related to Louth and Meath ETBs and in my own county, Cork City and County ETB has experienced a similar shortfall in funding. I am guessing - the Minister can correct me if I am wrong - that this is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Solar Energy Guidelines (3 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I am taking this question in the name of Deputy James O'Connor.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Solar Energy Guidelines (3 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister. I am aware of the scheme he outlined and the number of farmers who have availed of it. It is a very good scheme. The designation of land, land use policy and so on is really a matter for the Minister for local government, but one of the reasons Deputy O'Connor raised this matter with the Minister for agriculture is its potential impact on farming, particularly the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (3 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 7. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will expand on the proposals for the use of the old prison site at Rathmore Road, Cork city; if he will engage with the Irish Prison Service to ensure any extension to that facility includes a provision for community use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35407/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (3 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 37. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the number of attacks on members of An Garda Síochána; the number of man hours lost consequently, for the years 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35408/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Usage (3 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 95. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the improvements to water quality during the lifetime of the fifth nitrates action programme in Ireland, which runs from 2022 to 2025, and in particular since the reduction in the maximum organic manure limit from 250 kg N/ha to 220 kg N/ha being implemented in targeted areas in January 2024; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Usage (3 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 137. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied there is enough in the 1 January 2026 sixth nitrates action programme for Ireland to address water pollution from agricultural sources, specifically nitrates, and ensure no further erosion of the maximum organic manure limits from 220 kg N/ha; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35554/25]

All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Statements (Resumed) (2 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I am sitting here kind of amused though I probably should not be. There is obviously a regional disparity in the investment in rail services. I listened to the contributions of the Social Democrats and there is obviously a Cork bias because the Cork representatives, even within my own party, seem reasonably happy with the level of investment we are receiving. Things in the west are starkly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I will master the ability to be in three or four places at one time some day.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I wish to ask about the LSSIF. I have chased it with the Minister of State for a long time. I understand another round will most likely be sometime next year. With regard to projects on the list to be approved or confirmed - I hate to call it a waiting list - is the Minister of State confident going into budgetary discussions? Will he seek additional money for a fresh call to address some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: To be fair, Mr. Gloster has come in here and been fairly honest. He has held his hands up and I appreciate that. When he was talking about governance earlier, I think he said governance around insourcing would be questionable.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Mr Gloster outlined recommendations to the Minister and it is up to her now to give him direction. We are talking about a big sum here. Can any other short-term measures be implemented to get us away from this practice as quickly as possible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: It goes back to the question about overtime for middle-rank or front-line staff. Based on the practice that has evolved over many years, I could be facetious and say to understaffed and under-resourced medical scientists, or whoever it may be, that maybe they should stop doing their call on their overtime and set up some kind of a consultancy or some kind of a business. I know medical...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Can that be built into the new contracts and whatever else going forward?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Mr, Gloster has been honest enough here today. My last question is to the NTPF and it is to clarify something. Ms Brady stated: "The process involves senior management in public hospitals applying to the NTPF to secure funding outlining their opportunity to get long waiting lists treated faster." Can the witness define what senior management is? Are we talking consultants or HSE managers?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Senior management are making applications. I would like to think that the senior management making these recommendations do not have a stake or skin in the game in terms of membership or directorship of anything. Is that part of the assessment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Their membership or directorship would not be considered as part of the process.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (2 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 244. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital (details supplied) in Cork will provide the full allocation of beds in its dementia unit to the public; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36401/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Construction Industry (1 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 15. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the efforts he and his Department have made to encourage new technologies in the construction sector; the role he believes modular housing can play in the current crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35401/25]