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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services Waiting Lists (5 Mar 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 583. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to detail for each local health area as of 29 February 2024 or latest date available; the number of people on the speech and language therapy further treatment waiting list and within that the numbers waiting less than 4 months; the number waiting 4-12 months; the number waiting more than 12 months; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services Waiting Lists (5 Mar 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 584. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to detail for each local health area as of 29 February 2024 or latest date available; the number of people on the occupational therapy first time assessment waiting list and within that the numbers waiting less than 4 months; the number waiting 4-12 months; the number waiting more than 12 months; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (5 Mar 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 620. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment with a consultant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9972/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (5 Mar 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 706. To ask the Minister for Health if he will supply data, in tabular form, for the ten fastest, and ten slowest approvals of orphan drugs by the HSE, by year (for the period 2014 to 2023), stating the date on which the applications for said drugs were received by the HSE and the data on which a reimbursement decision was subsequently made; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (5 Mar 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 707. To ask the Minister for Health if he can confirm if the HSE’s systems can extract spending on reimbursements in respect of orphan drugs; and if so, to provide in tabular form, the amount spent in this respect in each year 2014-2023 inclusive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10301/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Allocations of Special Education Teachers: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: We have been given a document - I presume it is from the Department of Education - about this advocacy forum and 50 engagements with advocacy stakeholders. I do not know how far back that goes. To clarify, however, were any of the witnesses involved in the process relating to that document or do they know anything about it?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ukraine War (7 Mar 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 11. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on the action he is taking in relation to diplomatic outreach efforts and co-operation with Ukraine and other countries to ensure the widest possible international support for a comprehensive, just and lasting peace on the basis of the key principles and objectives of Ukraine's peace formula; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (7 Mar 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 15. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade what initiatives are being taken to support Ukraine's repair, recovery and reconstruction, in coordination with international partners, and specifically in relation to the demining process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10900/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Quality (7 Mar 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 83. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the role his Department takes in monitoring air quality; the number of air quality testing stations in Cork; if he will provide an overview of their results for 2022, 2023, and to date in 2024; if there will be additional funding provided for more air testing stations in Cork; and if he will make a statement on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Allocations of Special Education Teachers: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I do not know where to begin. I was listening upstairs and I have been doing some reading over the past few weeks. I read the NCSE report last week - several hundred pages of it. I wanted to inform myself. To be fair - and I am not being facetious - we generally do a good job with education in this country. Having read that document, however, I came away thinking that a parallel...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Allocations of Special Education Teachers: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I was struck by what Dr. Brady said about complex needs. With the model as it is now, does she think that children with more complex needs will just end up going into more specialised settings, that is to say, special schools? Is that the inevitable conclusion?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Allocations of Special Education Teachers: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I have one final question with regard to the lack of engagement, and what the witnesses are saying.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Allocations of Special Education Teachers: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I have one last thing for Mr. Harris. I was listening to what he said when I was upstairs. Going forward, the review is not going to happen for schools until May or June. I will not say Mr. Harris is dismissive about the potential of that review, but I suppose he did not speak as if he is overly optimistic about it. What led him to arrive at that standpoint?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Mar 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I wish the Taoiseach the best of luck in the future. I have known him for a few years here and, to be fair, I have always found him to be very forthcoming and reasonable to deal with, so I wish him the best. I raise the issue of SET allocations. This is something I have raised with the Minister for Education previously. I taught for 15 years and I have a fair idea of how the model...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (20 Mar 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the programme for Government. [9218/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (20 Mar 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Before I get to my question, I will clarify what I was saying earlier about the SET allocation. I have a scoresheet in front of me from a school principal. It includes weighting towards, as I said, illiteracy, innumeracy and the educational disadvantage or geographical location of a school. Nowhere in that assessment is there any provision for complex needs, as I stated. When it comes to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (20 Mar 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: It was definitely laggards.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (21 Mar 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 68. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport about the progress that will be made on the Mallow relief road in the coming months given recent allocations from his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11867/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (21 Mar 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I ask the Minister for an update on the progress that will be made on the Mallow relief road in the coming months given the recent allocation he announced.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (21 Mar 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I acknowledge that Deputies Stanton and James O'Connor advocated for this project long before I did. I also acknowledge the allocation of €300,000 the Department of Transport has contributed towards its progression. Cork County Council initially sought more than €1 million. I think it estimated it would cost €1.2 million to progress the project. While I acknowledge...