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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Work Permits (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister of State for being here this morning to take the question. I want to discuss the delays businesses and employees are experiencing when applying for work permits, particularly permits for haulage companies. I am under no illusion as to the gravity of the situation. I understand there has been an unprecedented volume of applications for these permits over recent years....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Work Permits (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister of State. I know it is not his direct remit, and I appreciate him coming in and delivering the script, but there is very little information in relation to how many applications people are currently waiting for, and there is no information in relation to numbers waiting in excess of three, six and 12 months. I ask the Minister if State to bring that back in order that...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 98. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider increasing the free legal aid eligibility allowance for mortgage and rent to a figure the reflects current housing market costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50516/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 165. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public patients from 2021 to 2025 on waiting lists in Cork University Hospital who have received care via insourcing activity; the extent to which this has activity reduced waiting lists, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50547/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 191. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made by her Department in expanding the screening process for newborn babies with rare diseases; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50779/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I thank the Chair for ensuring that we are having this debate, particularly as it is something the wider public have been talking about for some time. I live beside a direct provision centre and have done so for 25 years. Anybody who has ever come through the gates of Ashbourne House Hotel has always been welcomed by the community and been well integrated. Notwithstanding that, recent...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: How does the Minister actually quantify it? That is what I am trying to discern here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: The Minister said that when he took over there were 3,000 unaccommodated international protection applicants. That figure is down to 600 today. When the Minister says "unaccommodated", does he know how many of them are in tents? Are any of them in tents or are they in emergency accommodation in hotels? If it is the latter, what is the cost for them as against the cost for people in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: The Minister said that around 5,000 people remain in accommodation after they were supposed to leave. I have come across quite a few people in my own work locally who are occupying IPAS accommodation and working full time. Of course, finding a rental property is the big question for a lot of them, particularly in urban environments. What is the plan for those 5,000 people? We looked at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Yes, but 5,000 is a significant number. Where do they all go in the current environment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Safeguarding Policies and Procedures within the Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I might start by saying something unexpected. I compliment some of the people in the room on the work they have done with the FAI in recent years. I genuinely mean that. There are some people here who I have great time for as I do for the work they have done in recent years. However, I will follow the line of questioning of Senator Ní Chuillin. I will start by reading an extract of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Safeguarding Policies and Procedures within the Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Yes, it was by the FAI on the day after the "RTÉ Investigates" programme was aired.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Safeguarding Policies and Procedures within the Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: At the press conference, Ms Rafferty stated: It is really important to understand policies and procedures and safeguarding measures are in place and have been in place for a long time. That is not enough. It is about our behaviours across all of our football community and why we would ask everyone to help us to create a really safe environment for those who play or are in administration...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Safeguarding Policies and Procedures within the Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I am sorry to interrupt. I am not doubting Ms Rafferty's integrity at all. We are all human. People make mistakes all the time. I am not saying anyone here made a mistake. It might come out in the fullness of time that they did, but I am asking specifically in reference to the email where Ms Rafferty said that the press statement was prepared and ready for publication. It was clear to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Safeguarding Policies and Procedures within the Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I respect that. I will maximise my time. I will move on to Mr. Courell. I genuinely meant my opening comments, and he is the specific person I was referring to, about the improvements in football. On the emails in 2023, the thread presented to some of us shows that Mr. Courell was copied in on the email of 5 May. Is he willing to comment on that email?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Safeguarding Policies and Procedures within the Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I will take the email out of it. Did Mr. Courell discuss anything with the then chief executive about the content of the email or with anyone else on the senior management team?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Safeguarding Policies and Procedures within the Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I am not sure how more blatantly I can ask. The last time something like this happened, I was not here. A former chief executive came here and did the same thing. It did not end well for that individual. In the context of what we have heard so far, we are in familiar territory. Is the Mr. Courell willing to disclose any communication he had with anyone in senior management at any stage...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Safeguarding Policies and Procedures within the Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: With respect, I have three young children and there are other people here who have children. If I was a parent involved in any set-up about any individual - I am not referencing a specific individual - and if I felt that people in senior management in the FAI had let me down as a parent, by not implementing proper safeguarding procedures, I would be offended and upset. I will move to Ms...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Safeguarding Policies and Procedures within the Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: When did Ms Pakes become aware of the safeguarding complaint? Initially, there was this email thread in 2023. Ms Pakes acknowledged that she became aware of it at a later date. When did she become aware of it?