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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Community Development Projects (10 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 104. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide details of the budget allocations to the community centres investment fund in 2024 and 2025; the total drawn down to date; when the next round will be announced; if consideration will be given to expanding the capital investment in new-build measures for green-brown field sites; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Rural Schemes (10 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 117. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will consider including former Cork County Council roads, now under the jurisdiction of Cork City Council, for consideration under any future rounds of the local improvement scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37185/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Library Projects (10 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 410. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide an update on the progress to date to the secure an upgrade to St. Joseph's Library, Mayfield, Cork city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38534/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Community Development Projects (10 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 411. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when he expects the next phase of the community centres investment fund capital grants for new centres and the refurbishment grants for existing centres to be announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38535/25]

Pride: Statements (16 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Well done to the Minister of State, Deputy Butler. Thank you.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Tax Yield (16 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 65. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the percentage of carbon tax revenue that was allocated to agriculturally based programs in 2024 and to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30796/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (16 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 242. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide a detailed update on the status of verification testing for spinal muscular atrophy and severe combined immunodeficiency within the national newborn screening programme; when this verification phase is expected to conclude; the remaining steps that must be completed before this routine screening can begin, with particular reference to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (17 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of all capital projects currently underway in Cork city and county, in tabular form; the stages the various projects are at; the amount of capital estimated and spent on each project to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38583/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (17 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister and I would appreciate a list in writing. The reason I asked the question was not to come in here to backslap and say we were all doing great. I taught for 15 years. I was deputy chair of Cork ETB for five of those, and the rate of capital expenditure has been phenomenal in the past number of years, particularly in Cork. That has to be recognised. We have seen...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (17 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I recognise that the Department is always proactive in my engagements with it. As an educator, though, I have concerns, and the Minister may have touched on something there. Cork ETB has a skill set that many voluntary schools would not have. While all schools are not under the patronage of Cork ETB, it has a specific set of skills. It might be worth considering in future that large-scale...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Animal Welfare (17 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Collins, for coming in to take this matter. It relates to dog-breeding establishments. I am looking for details on the number of pups bred in the country every year and the numbers exported. I listed in the text of the Topical Issue I submitted the various bits and pieces I am seeking. I have dealt with many animal rights groups and charities in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Animal Welfare (17 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister of State. I know it is not his Department but I appreciate the figures. I was already familiar with many of them. For example, one statistic was that in 2024, a figure of 8,768 pups were exported. The ISPCA and the DSPCA both estimate that around 40,000 or 50,000 pups were exported. I trust the charities on the ground. As public representatives, when we get a report...

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I apologise for being late; I was at another meeting. I welcome the Minister and Minister of State. I will start with football and an article in the Sunday Independent at the weekend. It related to matters in the Minister's home county connected with safeguarding and governance. Over the last few weeks, this committee has been discussing concerns around safeguarding and governance. I...

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Okay, it is hoped the FAI will come in the autumn. I am a football man. I go to Cork City matches. I have often burned the ears of the Minister of State, Deputy McConalogue, on expanding the large-scale sport infrastructure fund, LSSIF. We want more investment in sports capital grants. We all want the FAI to be governed well. Can the Minister comment on concerns around safeguarding in...

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Like most people here, I am a football fan. Nobody here is trying to comment on any individual situation, but we are faced with requests. The FAI have come in here and made presentations to us about the future funding for academies, for example. We all want to support that. Will the Minister of State elaborate on the status of the specific request to fund those academies? Has that...

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Is that in this budget cycle, as opposed to next year's?

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: A number of us met with TG4 representatives today. As with everybody else, they are looking for consideration from the budget. TG4's key ask is for multi-annual funding. I ask the Minister to comment with regard to multi-annual funding.

Select Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 33 - Culture, Communications and Sport (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: That leads me to my last question on independent editorial control around news. Does the Minister have any comment to make on that?