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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: What is Professor Barry's view on an early access scheme? Patients want it. Is it something we can deliver? Under the programme for Government, the Minister has commenced an investigation into it. Is it something that can be done here and what would it look like?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (16 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 43. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to encourage more uptake in apprenticeships in skills necessary for the green transition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55311/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (16 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 49. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to encourage more uptake in apprenticeships in the construction sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55310/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (16 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 121. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if consideration will be given to providing additional funding for community and voluntary organisations to assist with running costs given currently the grant schemes that exist are for capital works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55308/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Rural Schemes (16 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 128. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to outline his ambitions to support the rural road network under the LIS scheme in Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55309/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 13. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on infrastructure will next meet. [56982/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I raised an issue with the Taoiseach three weeks ago regarding the elective hospital in Cork. To be fair, the Taoiseach gave a good response and said it was a political decision that was made on the timing of the hospital, not a HSE decision. As I told the Taoiseach, the hospital was initially meant to take patients in 2027, but it is now looking like 2030 because the project will go from...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Sports Funding (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy McConalogue, for coming in. It is rare enough to come in here for a Topical Issue and get the line Minister, so I do appreciate it. This is a long story. It goes back to 2020 initially. I think in January 2020 we were delighted when the Taoiseach, Deputy Micheál Martin, unveiled plans for a massive development, or so we thought, of a centre of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Sports Funding (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister of State for the response. The one thing I can glean from this response, and that is encouraging, is that the Minister of State has stated the FAI told him at its next board meeting it will bring forward details on the project. That is welcome progress because this is something that the community of Glanmire and all the public representatives involved, including local...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Aid (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 91. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of current blockages of aid to locations in Sudan; his view on this; the work Ireland is carrying out with international partners to provide humanitarian assistance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56941/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 144. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on the progress made towards achieving the 0.7% of gross national income being spent on official development aid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56942/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 581. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of civilian staff currently employed by An Garda Síochána in each of the Garda Stations on the north side of Cork city and Cork city in 2023, 2024, and 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56769/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 582. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of civilian staff employed by An Garda Síochána in the wider Cork area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56770/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 583. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of civilian staff vacancies by An Garda Síochána in each of the stations in Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56771/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 620. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will clarify the action needed regarding American citizenship for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57399/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disabilities Assessments (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 688. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 158 of 1 October 2025, of the number of complaints upheld for the years 2022 to 2025, if the Minister can provide a breakdown per CHO for each year, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56778/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Policy (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 847. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to raise the level of psychotherapy standards and criteria; the engagement she has had with the sector in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57323/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I am sorry for being late. I was listening upstairs. I will follow on from Deputy Sherlock's points about drugs. We had a meeting here last week, and I do not want to put words in Professor Michael Barry's mouth, but there was almost an impression given that the public system is performing reasonably well. Deputy Sherlock made the point there about people having access to drugs possibly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I would like to talk about that groundbreaking progress. Let us be straight about it - quite a lot of new cancer drugs are orphan drugs. We do not have any separate reimbursement process for those drugs. Is a separate pathway something the Government and the Minister should be looking at?