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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]

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

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Will the Minister outline the efforts he and his Department have made to encourage new technologies in the construction sector, and the role he believes modular housing can play?

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

Pádraig O'Sullivan: The Minister referenced the fact that the Department has made a good deal of progress on MMC. Will he quantify that for me if he has the figures available? How many units have been built since 2023 or whatever date he referenced? I understand a target of 1,500 was mentioned, but will he quantify the number of units that have been delivered via this method? A much-maligned project took...

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

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I am someone who is about to embark on a journey with my family to build our first home. If there was a genuine modular offering for us as a family, we would look at it but, unfortunately, it is just not there for us as one-off house builders. I am lucky to be in that position. Still, there are significant barriers there. I was at a lunch today with the Estonian ambassador and she spoke...

Review of Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004: Statements (1 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I welcome the review. We have been waiting for it for a while. I do not want the House to be in this position again of debating legislation from 2004 and 2005. I do not want to pass legislation that we cannot live up to, as we have done with the assessment of need process. There are timelines in the Act that the State is consistently failing to deliver. Whatever we do with this review,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (1 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 59. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications that have been processed by his Department under the single stage process, per county, for 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; his views on what the strengths and weaknesses of the programme are; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35400/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Appointments (1 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for a contract of indefinite duration for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35701/25]

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (26 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: The Tánaiste referenced the number of staff that the State has put in, as one example. Despite the number of staff increasing from four to 30-odd at this stage, the length of time it takes to assess a drug is actually lengthening, not shortening, despite the additional staff. That is one point of clarity. The Tánaiste also referenced the heel prick test. The decision to add...

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (26 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: It will not come as a surprise to the Tánaiste that I am going to use this question to again raise the issue of the rare disease drug reimbursement process we have. I have lost count of the number of times I have been in here with the Tánaiste and the Taoiseach over the last five or six years since I became a TD. I can quote league tables until the cows come home showing how we...