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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (25 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 140. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to extending the voucher scheme run by the Irish Sign Language (ISL) Interpreting Service and Citizens Information Board to persons under the age of 18, as the scheme is presently only available to ISL users over the age of 18; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50431/25]

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 suppose, though, if we are all being-----

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: To that Chair, with respect, I would add that when someone becomes aware of a concern, that it should also be escalated and acted upon, even when not necessarily made in the form of a complaint. I would like to add one last issue, and it is probably more for Dr. May than anybody else. It comes back to the earlier questions from Deputy Malcolm Byrne. I have sat on seven different boards...

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: Should concerns be raised at the board before they are escalated to complaints? The witnesses are saying to us today that they only became aware of them when they became complaints.

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: Historically, did that happen prior to this incident?

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: So that only happened as a relatively new thing.

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 was going to ask generic questions. I have one last generic question.

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: If somebody comes to one of the witnesses as an individual and says they have heard stuff concerning potential historical complaints, I would like to know what the people referred to, particularly concerning the FAI, think that means. I know what I think historical complaints or complaints of a historical nature mean. I know what that means and what it suggests. I would like to know what...

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 asking the question outside of any individual case.

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: Chair, I will just finish. I know what I think when somebody infers there is stuff behind the scenes of a historical nature. We are all grown-ups in the room. We know what that infers.

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: The point is the association should have done it in 2023.

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: Mr. Keohane cannot speak about it, because he was not aware of it to be fair to him.

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: Mr. Keohane and the president did.

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: To be fair to Senator Ní Chuilinn, she hit the nail on the head there when she made the comparison with racism. We are all familiar with those campaigns. Things are escalated immediately. There has been a time lag here between the emails and the actual complaint, which I think is inexcusable. Whatever about people's ability or inability to talk about the emails, it is inexcusable. ...

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: The focus today of today's meeting, though, to be fair, has been on 2023. Let us be straight about it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I welcome everybody. I will direct my questions to Mr. Gloster and perhaps he or Mr. Watt will identify who is best placed to respond. I want to follow on from Deputy Sherlock's questions about elective hospitals. Deputy Colm Burke and I have tabled so many parliamentary questions on the elective hospital in Glanmire that I have lost count. Initially, we were looking at the prospect of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: That is fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Will that be built as initially envisaged or have things changed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: To the specification and the design that was outlined initially?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Is that likely to be done in a more phased manner or will we try to build it all in one go, as initially envisaged?