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

Pádraig O'Sullivan: We will wait to see what the budget brings on that. I will move on to my last topic; it is about thalidomide survivors. I know the witnesses have to be careful in what they say because there is an ongoing process there and I am not trying to undermine that in any way. Can I clarify if there is a protocol in place that has affected the process of the unacknowledged thalidomide survivors...

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

Pádraig O'Sullivan: As a follow-up, it is my understanding there is a process in how these people were categorised. My understanding is they were categorised by some algorithm that was used by the HSE. In other states, that algorithm has been dismissed, such as in the high court in Canada.

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

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Are we still progressing with that algorithm?

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

Pádraig O'Sullivan: It will be clinical and not based on this algorithm.

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

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I am glad to hear Mr. Gloster say that because since I have been elected here, it is something a number of us have pursued. Unfortunately, with every year, more and more of these people are dying. Whatever about the ultimate resolution to this, fundamentally all they want is transparency, honesty and to draw a line under it, one way or another. That could lead to what I think it will lead...

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

Pádraig O'Sullivan: It has definitely made progress. I acknowledge that.

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

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Okay. I will move onto my second question. It is on an issue myself and Senator Costello are very passionate about. There is the possibility under the programme for Government for an early access scheme for people to receive treatment, drugs or clinical trials for rare diseases, in particular. It is a commitment in the programme for Government. We have met the Minister privately and she...

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: Okay, so I will rephrase it. If there is an allegation of a sexual nature, is immediate action taken? Is there a process? Does the process typically take a few weeks or months? What happens?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Health Services (30 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Health will next meet. [48524/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Health Services (30 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I raise the elective hospitals and surgical hubs that are being delivered across the country, with particular reference to the Cork situation. Initially, in response to parliamentary questions, we were told it was envisaged that patients would be seen by 2027, all going well. The language used in parliamentary questions of late is frustrating and now suggests patients might not be seen...

Investment in Sport and Sporting Infrastructure: Statements (1 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I start by supporting Deputy Kenny's call for clarity for that project in Mallow. To be fair, the funding announcement was made. I do not think the funding is in jeopardy at all. I do not want this to turn into a negative story because the funding is still there. My understanding is that extra information was requested and it has now been submitted. It is now just a matter of sign-off....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I will follow on from Deputy Whitmore. It is quite clear that everybody in the room might have been fulfilling their statutory duties to the letter of the law, or that is what has been presented. That may well be the case, but it is quite clear from listening to people on the ground and other public representatives over those weeks that there was an absence of information at times. People...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Is that decision to consider the organisation’s position on the emergency response taken in light of failings that everybody here has identified concerning this particular incident, or was it happening anyway?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: It is a lesson learned from this particular event.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Specifically regarding fish kills, although perhaps not of this massive magnitude, how many incidents like this have there been nationwide in the past 12 to 24 months? Following on from that, how many incidents were similar in terms of having inconclusive reports or findings?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I am sorry to interrupt, it is just that I am watching the clock as well, but I suppose this goes back to Mr. Arnold’s point earlier. From the time this incident was identified to the time people actually got to sitting around the table collectively, the best part of a week if not longer had passed. Let us be honest about it. Water flows fairly fast in parts of the River Blackwater,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Obviously, I understand that the Minister of State, Deputy Dooley, has written to IFI to ask it to undertake the review of legislation and make recommendations. From what Mr. Fox said, the key to all that will be how the agencies are brought together in a co-operative way and, probably most importantly, in a timely way. Is this something IFI will be specifically focusing on in terms of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I am going to ask another question and I am not trying to be smart with my use of words. In the opening statement, Mr. Fox said that "under the fisheries Acts or the water pollution Acts and where sufficient admissible evidence is available, IFI will initiate legal proceedings against the alleged offender".

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I am not trying to ask Mr. Fox to identify anybody, but the word “admissible” there is just sticking out to me. Just to be clear about what I am asking, was there evidence that was not sufficient in terms of identifying somebody in the context of the reference to admissible evidence?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I will use my last 30 seconds or so to turn to the anglers. For the future, given the state the river is in, will Mr. Arnold tell me what it is going to take in terms of investment to get tourists back and bring about restoration and possibly compensation for people on the river?