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Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (30 Nov 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Like most people, I will start by saying I have not read all 700-odd pages of the Bill. To be fair, most people have been truthful in that regard tonight. I have, however, cherry-picked bits and pieces in which I have a personal interest. Going back to my days as a councillor, the one fundamental power or responsibility I felt I had as a councillor, as a local rep, was my input to the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (30 Nov 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: The Tánaiste is correct. As an observer to what is going on from the outside, I suppose many countries have shifted in their attitudes and their outlook in regards to the conflict over the past few weeks. At the Union for the Mediterranean meeting that was attended by High Representative, Mr. Josep Borrell, and the Tánaiste attended, it was agreed that, ultimately, a two-state...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (30 Nov 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: It is fair to say that most fair-minded people in this Chamber are appalled by the terrible suffering and the inhumane conditions experienced by all the citizens of Gaza and beyond in the current conflict. I have listened to the Tánaiste over the past few weeks emphasise the importance of diplomacy and this has been demonstrated over the past number of weeks. From an EU perspective, it...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (30 Nov 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 153. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update regarding his engagements with EU Foreign Affairs Ministers in relation to the urgent need for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50163/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (30 Nov 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I ask the Tánaiste to provide an update regarding his engagement with EU Foreign Affairs Ministers in regard to the urgent need for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Nov 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I want to raise again the issue of thalidomide survivors. The Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, who is present in the Chamber, Deputy Devlin, the Minister of State, Deputy Calleary, Senator McGreehan and I have raised this issue persistently for a number of years. I turned on my TV on Tuesday night, as I told the Tánaiste last night, to see the Australian Prime Minister had given an...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (30 Nov 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 35. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the progress of the northern distributor road; the amount of funding that will be allocated in 2024 to progress the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52473/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (30 Nov 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 64. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the Mallow relief road; the level of funding that will be allocated in 2024 considering only €100,000 was allocated in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52474/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Nov 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a three-classroom extension project at a special school (details supplied) in County Cork will progress; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52739/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (30 Nov 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the review into the schoolbook grant scheme for primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52740/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (30 Nov 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 181. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had any engagement with Iran in relation to its continued military support for Russia's war on Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50162/23]

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I welcome the Minister and her officials. I have five questions and I will just rattle through them, so that she will have the remaining time to answer them. My first question is in respect of the arrears due to school secretaries. I understand that there is an agreement which affects over 3,000 school secretaries and I further understand it is to be backdated to September 2021. Could the...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Yes, it was with regard to the inflationary side of things. I ask the Minister to provide to the committee any details she has on that and if it is still the same position where it is an opt in or voluntary system. Could the Minister provide any analysis that has been done at departmental level, even to be provided as a supplementary reply after this meeting as I do not expect her to have...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Renewable Energy Generation (29 Nov 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 63. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when schools in County Cork will be eligible to apply for the solar for schools programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52691/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Labour Court (28 Nov 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister of State and note his response. The majority of public sector pay is dealt with collectively, and I understand the logic and rationale behind that. From the outset, I wish to say that I have a family member who is involved in a pay dispute. I wish to discuss the pay disparity between medical scientists and clinical biochemists. Medical scientists are paid...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Labour Court (28 Nov 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister of State for that advice. The medical scientists’ group engaged with the Labour Court in good faith. Out of that engagement, the Devine report was commissioned. It categorically and unequivocally stated that in the overwhelming majority of work in both professions, there existed no evidence of a material distinction between the grades’ roles and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Labour Court (28 Nov 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 36. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of binding Labour Court recommendations on pay rates for public servants that have yet to be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52127/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Labour Court (28 Nov 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I ask the Minister about the NDP delivery and reform and the number of binding Labour Court recommendations on pay rates for public servants that have yet to be implemented. Will he make a statement on the matter?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (28 Nov 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I appreciate that. I know the phrasing of the question is quite generic in nature. As recently as last Friday I was in Mallow town and had the opportunity to visit a number of one-stop shops that are providing services for people who are engaged in the process of retrofitting their houses. Even they noted when I was visiting them last Friday with Billy Kelleher that there is a significant...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (28 Nov 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: This relates to the measures the Minister of State outlined in his initial response that were taken to combat spiralling inflationary costs in the past year or 18 months. I think back to a project in my area. I will not identify the school but it was a school contract where the legislation provided for schools and other bodies to engage voluntarily in the process surrounding revised costs...