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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: That is quite significant. I assume there is a scale of severity.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I assume they are not all in big trouble but that is still significant. Is the model of 10,000 beds in the hands of 15 large companies sustainable? Is it desirable?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: A lot of the discourse has been leaning that way up to now but based on what the witnesses have said, that is not necessarily reflective. There was an incident in the "RTÉ Investigates" programme where there was a lack of incontinence sheets for beds and people were encouraged to defecate in bed. In that situation, who is at fault? Is it the employees for making do? I saw they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: We should have been able to share the time more equitably among ourselves.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Child Protection (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I start by thanking the Minister of State for coming in to address this matter himself. It was remiss of me not to preface my comments by saying that if anybody has been affected by these issues, they should follow the formal complaints procedure that the FAI has encouraged people to come forward with, details of which the Minister of State has outlined. I do not raise this matter lightly....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Child Protection (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I appreciate the Minister coming in this evening to take this Topical Issue matter. He will be aware that earlier during the Order of Business, I raised this issue with the Taoiseach, but such is my concern about this matter that I believe it needs further deliberation. On 8 June, the Sunday Independent's Mark Tighe wrote an article entitled "FAI 'too slow' to act over allegations of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 12. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the Cork city task force. [29738/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Back in February, Deputy McGrath and I raised the issue of the city task force with the Taoiseach, who confirmed that proposals were being developed and, once finalised, would be submitted to the Government for consideration. As yet, no formal announcement has been made regarding the establishment of a task force in Cork city. We are well into the term of this Government at this stage. I...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: On 8 June, Sunday Independent journalist Mark Tighe wrote an article with the headline, "FAI ‘too slow’ to act over allegations of former national team manager’s behaviour towards female footballers". The article alleged a number of things. The first was that the FAI agreed a financial settlement with its former director of public relations to keep details of his...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: That was one of the questions I was going to ask. I apologise for being late; I had a few other meetings. When it comes to independent broadcast media, we are in the era of citizen journalists. Who is the next Tucker Carlson in Ireland? I am not sure. In terms of funding for independent media or independent citizen journalists, are there any limitations or what is the bar or threshold...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: To give an example, we had an issue of balance on a local radio station a couple of weeks ago. I will not name the radio station. The people who went on air for the sake of balance, just because the Lord Mayor of Cork was on giving a certain point of view - fair enough, he is entitled to it - were not people I would consider balanced in any way, shape or form.

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I am sorry I am late. A few different committee meetings are on at the same time. Garda numbers in Cork are a particular local issue. From talking to businesses, people and tourists frequenting the city centre, people feel unsafe in the city centre, which is something we had never seen before and which may have been more closely associated with Dublin. I am not sure whether Senator...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Can I ask another question?

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: It relates to protests, not necessarily protests against IPAS centres but protests in general, including the ones that have happened outside the walls of Leinster House. Do the witnesses have any idea of the overall budget nationally and whether the resources that are allocated are actually going towards policing large-scale events, be they protests against IPAS centres or the Raise the Roof...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Regarding those types of incidents, particularly the ones where there have been significant flare-ups, what is the feedback from gardaí who have been attending them? Do the witnesses have any idea how many gardaí have been injured or assaulted in the course of their duties at those types of events?

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: On the topic of injection centres, which I know is probably a matter for the HSE, do the witnesses or the members of their organisations have any experience in this regard? There is a debate in Cork city now about possibly opening an injection centre in the city centre. I am not giving any opinion here on the positives or negatives of this undertaking. I would be interested, however, in...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Disability Services (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 240. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 284 of 29 May 2025, if pet dogs are permitted to travel without restrictions on Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann services. [32523/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 557. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an appeal process will be completed for an applicant for Cork (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32176/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 834. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications in the process annually by CORU-the Health and Social Care Professionals regulator, for 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32310/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 835. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications to CORU-the Health and Social Care Professionals regulator, that were successful on the first application for 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32311/25]