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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Okay, I thank Ms Dolan. From listening to our guests and the discussion of parity of esteem between disciplines, I get their concerns and I think we all do. On competitive funding processes for research grants, how do our guests recommend we ensure equity or equal distribution into the future? It is akin to what Deputy Jim O'Callaghan said, namely, is it about specific quotas of people...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [19983/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I welcome many of the programmes the Taoiseach mentioned, especially the Croí Cónaithe scheme,. The latter will be beneficial going forward. One of the biggest barriers we are still experiencing in County Cork is the provision of wastewater treatment plants when it comes to servicing new housing estates in smaller villages outside the city boundary such as Carraig na bhFear, where...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (11 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 25. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a further update on the Glashaboy flood relief scheme; if he can provide a timeline on when it is likely to go to tender; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21895/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (11 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: We were here a few months ago seeking the latest update on this project. I have no doubt we will be here again looking for further updates the next time the Minister of State is taking questions in the Chamber. We welcome the update he has provided. People are getting frustrated. Their frustration does not necessarily stem from the process. The process is the process and it has to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (11 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: The Government is going to deliver this scheme. Fair enough, we might all wish that it had happened many months sooner but this scheme is going to be delivered. I would welcome it if the Minister of State could give reassurance to people. I was listening to his discussion with Deputy Conway-Walsh earlier. Obviously there are difficulties in other parts of the country with OPW schemes. I...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (11 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: It must be said that the Minister of State himself did come on-site a number of months ago and that has to be welcomed, just as the Minister, Deputy Michael McGrath, did before him. Both of them reiterated on site to the people they met that day, residents and businesses, that money is not an issue. The issues concerned the process that was being undertaken initially and then, subsequently,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (9 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 101. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline his plans for the surplus of €16 billion estimated for 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21435/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Rates (9 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 98. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to reduce the impact of interest rate rises on persons whose home loans rest with a non-pillar bank or vulture fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21434/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (9 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 588. To ask the Minister for Health the number of job advertisements for home care workers in CHO 4 that the HSE has placed in 2022 and to date in 2023; the number of home care positions that have been filled to date in CHO 4; the average timeframe between initial interview and commencement of employment, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21248/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (9 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 590. To ask the Minister for Health the measures in place to alleviate the crisis in home care services delivery; the new initiatives that are being proposed to resolve the staffing shortages in this sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21256/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Military Neutrality (16 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 11. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for a report on the planned consultative forums on security and defence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22628/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Military Neutrality (16 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I ask the Tánaiste to furnish the House with a report on the planned consultative forum on security and defence.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Military Neutrality (16 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: While the report of the Commission on the Defence Forces predates the Russian invasion of Ukraine it does mention the threat Russia poses. It states, "Ireland’s global geostrategic environment, looking out to 2030, will be characterised by intensified great power competition." In an era of intensified great power competition, the commission report states that Ireland can expect,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Military Neutrality (16 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I have two more supplementary questions. Other nations in the EU, such as Finland and Sweden, have decided to join NATO. Will the Tánaiste tell us his thoughts on other neutral nations such as Austria, Cyprus and Malta and any other neutral nation he might want to refer to, with regard to how the question is being debated in their own parliaments and countries? I am trying to...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (11 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 74. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of employment permits approved for workers outside the European Economic Area to address skills shortages in Ireland’s dairy, transport and home care sectors since December 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22031/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Co-operative Sector (11 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 108. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the initiatives he is taking to strengthen and enhance the co-operative sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22032/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Early School Leavers (11 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to solve the issues facing the school completion programme Newbridge, County Kildare (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22239/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I follow up on an issue raised earlier by Deputy Naughten concerning European reference networks, ERNs. I note the Tánaiste’s comments and welcome that he believes the ERNs need to be resourced and supported in upcoming Estimates processes but these ERNs cannot be sustained on the goodwill of clinical leads and consultants alone, as is the case now. Yesterday. the cross-party...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Facilities (18 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister of State for taking this Topical Issue on behalf of the Minister, Deputy Donnelly. As the Minister of State knows, St. Stephen's Hospital in Glanmire, County Cork, is the location for one of three new elective hospitals in the country, with the others in Galway and Dublin. We finally got word approximately six months ago that Glanmire was the preferred site in Cork....