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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I will raise the issue of IBD services in Cork with the Taoiseach. Over the last few weeks, I have been liaising with the HSE on this issue but it is appropriate to raise it again here today. The IBD service at CUH is led by three consultant gastroenterologists and two academic consultants. One clinical nurse specialist provides support for more than 2,000 patients with IBD who attend that...

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Systems Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (22 May 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Amendments Nos. 1 to 6, inclusive, 8 to 10, inclusive, 13, 24 to 27, inclusive, and 33 are related and may be discussed together.

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Systems Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (22 May 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Amendments Nos. 12, 23, 30 to 32, inclusive, 34 and 35 are related and may be discussed together.

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Systems Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (22 May 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Amendments Nos. 14 to 21, inclusive, and 36 to 38, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Business Supports (21 May 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 84. To ask the Minister for Finance for a sectoral breakdown of the number of businesses with warehoused debt that did not engage with the Revenue Commissioners before the 3 May deadline in terms of number of businesses and value of warehoused debt, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22710/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (21 May 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 314. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for assistive technology (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22855/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (22 May 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of concerns regarding school accommodation in a school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23122/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (22 May 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 92. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if any other funding streams are open to a sports club (details supplied) considering the sports capital grants are now closed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23123/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (22 May 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 158. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide specific information on the current status of the pricing and reimbursement application for dostarlimab (jemperli) indicated as monotherapy for the treatment of adult patients with recurrent or advanced endometrial cancer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23054/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (23 May 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 17. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on his plans to enhance disability supports for students in higher education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19707/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (23 May 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I appreciate the response. As the Minister will know, students with disabilities suffer significant disadvantage when it comes to college attendance and face additional costs to provide for their needs and equipment. The disability access route to education, DARE, programme provides significant supports to students with disabilities to access third level. The Minister's predecessor...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (23 May 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: As the Minister correctly said, students with disabilities now represent a greater proportion of the student population and it is trending in the right direction, but they are still significantly under-represented. While I, like other Deputies, do not expect the Minister to reveal any details of the budget today, I emphasise that a greater level of investment and resources could be placed...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Business Supports (23 May 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I appreciate the figures the Minister has outlined to us and I want to recognise the work of Minister of State, Deputy Calleary, in keeping our own parliamentary party informed every week and trying to get us to encourage businesses to apply for it in the first place. As the Minister has laid out with the figures, the disparity between Cork county and Cork city has flummoxed me over the last...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (23 May 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 12. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement his Department has had with the Higher Education Authority regarding financial deficits at universities in Ireland; his views on whether there should be greater transparency between the Higher Education Authority and other third level institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19706/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (23 May 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 66. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he last reviewed the critical skills list; if his Department has plans to address the national skills shortages in science, engineering, healthcare and social care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23170/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (23 May 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 84. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of businesses in each of Cork city, Cork county and Kerry registered for the increased cost of business grant before 1 May 2024; how many more in each county have registered since the application process reopened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23169/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (23 May 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 171. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has examined the provision of statutory bereavement leave; if so, the estimated the costs associated with this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18136/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I raise the issue of sound barriers on motorways. There is major development around the Dunkettle interchange. While that is most welcome, with that development comes increased traffic on the roads and the greater likelihood of noise to emanate from that. Unfortunately, at the moment, it is up to TII to provide sound maps periodically. It does that but when the sounds are found to be...

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I will speak in favour of our nation's decision to recognise the right of Palestinians to exist in their own state. In 1980, it was my party that led Ireland to become the first EU member state to declare that a solution to the conflict in the Middle East lay in a two-state solution under which a fully independent Palestine and an independent Israel could coexist. As time has passed, in...