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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Medical Research and Training (8 Mar 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: 121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made in determining the longer-term skills needs of the healthcare services; the role which the further and higher education sector can play in meeting those skills needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12767/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Mar 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I have spoken in this Chamber many times about the need to protect wildlife and habitats. Our oceans are the greatest habitat of all. Anja Murray writes in the Irish Examinertoday that "The world’s oceans contain the last great wilderness on Earth". That is pretty powerful. It is true and we want it to remain true. I have often spoken of the abundance of whales, dolphins and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Mar 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I would like to see a condemnation of the behaviour of the second biggest fishing boat in the world, the FV Margiriswhich dumped 100,000 blue whiting in the Atlantic recently and was then observed fishing off the coast of Mayo. We need to stop that practice.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Mar 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: 25. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent attendance at the One Ocean Summit. [11730/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (2 Mar 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister again for her response on behalf of the school and the community and for her intervention in this regard and ensuring the class remains open. There is also the extra special needs class allocation, which means the pupils in the current preschool early intervention class have a special needs provision. This has shed light, I suppose, on the overall matter of a lack of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (2 Mar 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: Last night, we received the fabulous news that the early intervention pre-school class at Kilbrittain National School will remain open for the forthcoming academic year. This is unbelievably important for this community. My colleague is right to thank and acknowledge the incredibly hard work of the principal, staff, parents and the entire community of Kilbrittain who fought for this. I...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (1 Mar 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: 146. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will advise as to the way households who have installed their own totally electricity supply, micro-hydro, wind or photovoltaic off-grid systems will benefit from the energy credit given that they run generators or pay standing charges to suppliers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11795/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Stations (1 Mar 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: 390. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the proposed new fire station for Clonakilty, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11796/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenges: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I get that there is limited time but there were many statements and much information. Two minutes will be really difficult. Would an extra minute be allowed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenges: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I thank all of our witnesses for attending today. This discussion is incredibly timely. The need to accelerate the development of renewables has been brought into sharp focus by the IPCC report and obviously more recently by the geopolitical situation and the cost of energy. Co-operation between Germany and Ireland comes into sharp focus as well, with Germany's reliance on gas from Russia...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenges: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I might ask a supplementary question on the length of time that applications spend going through the planning process. Some projects, in particular onshore wind, become political hot potatoes, in that there is sometimes an element of NIMBYism. Politicians then find it difficult to get behind an energy source that will help to decarbonise our energy system. Is that a significant barrier to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenges: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: The question about objections related mainly to onshore wind, which is far more problematic. I do not envisage there will be the same number of objections to floating offshore, although there could be.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Industry (24 Feb 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: 74. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will implement a plan to facilitate tourism on Dursey Island in the absence of the cable car, which is scheduled to be closed during the summer months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10511/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Údarás na Gaeltachta (24 Feb 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: 240. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the progress that has been made towards the development of An Ghaeltacht Ghlas, the Green Gaeltacht as a key component of the Údarás na Gaeltachta Strategic Plan 2021-2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10429/22]

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Disinformation and Media Literacy: Ms Frances Haugen (23 Feb 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I thank Ms Haugen for attending. I welcome her to Ireland in a virtual way. I apologise if some of my questions have been answered. I have not been able to listen to the entire meeting. If I repeat points, I ask to be indulged. It is now widely known that in 2016 Facebook made changes to its algorithms. These resulted in Facebook becoming a much angrier place. That was evident to all...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Disinformation and Media Literacy: Ms Frances Haugen (23 Feb 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: Ms Haugen just painted an incredibly bizarre picture of the period before 2016, when neo-Nazi pages were being recommended to people whom Facebook thought might relate to or like them. On that approach from Facebook, did any other Facebook staff at the time raise concerns about this approach? If so, what was the corporate response of Facebook to any concerns raised regarding that type of...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Disinformation and Media Literacy: Ms Frances Haugen (23 Feb 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I thank Ms Haugen. I am going to squeeze in one more question in the ten seconds I have left, if that is okay with the Chair. This atmosphere and approach have led to a situation where, as we have already said, partisan pages and organisations have exploited it to a point where many people have trouble distinguishing factual and non-partisan material from that which is partisan and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Island Communities (22 Feb 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: Cork County Council should have acted faster on this. It knew that the towers were deteriorating and that corrosion was happening. It should have acted before this. The Minister of State probably knows west Cork as well as anyone in this Chamber. He frequents it often. He knows that Dursey Island is about as far from Dublin as one can get in Ireland. It is on the western periphery of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Island Communities (22 Feb 2022)

Christopher O'Sullivan: Dursey cable car is more than just a form of transport. Fáilte Ireland uses it in all of its promotional material to sell Ireland across Europe. It is also, more importantly, a lifeline for the eight farmers who keep livestock on Dursey Island. Lambing and calving season is upon us. These farmers need to get across to their livestock. It is an animal welfare issue. Cork County...