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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (5 Jul 2023)

Christopher O'Sullivan: 207. To ask the Minister for Health if and when the consumer-directed home support scheme can be rolled out nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33031/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Water Services (6 Jul 2023)

Christopher O'Sullivan: 10. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he has put in place to improve water services since June 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33190/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Water Services (6 Jul 2023)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I wish to ask the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage about the measures he has put in place to improve water services since June 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Water Services (6 Jul 2023)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister for his response. I have seen first-hand the difference the investment in Uisce Éireann and in water services has made in many towns in my constituency, such as Castletownbere, which has a brand-new wastewater treatment plant. Others include Courtmacsherry and Timoleague; the state-of-the-art wastewater treatment plant in Castletownshend near Skibbereen has just...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Water Services (6 Jul 2023)

Christopher O'Sullivan: The Minister has described the situation perfectly. We went there with news that these two schemes could be availed of by the local authority. I think we all took heart from that because I do not see how you could get more urgent than a situation in which sewage is coming up through the surface of a children's play area, which has been closed. Shannon Vale is not a big village. It has...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Parks (6 Jul 2023)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I support Deputy Aindrias Moynihan. The Gearagh is a magical place. While it is only up the road from Clonakilty, it takes me about an hour to get there. I was lucky enough to see the penduline tits there. What is a penduline tit says you? The first penduline tit ever recorded in Ireland landed in the Gearagh last year. An incredibly rare Eurasian bittern was also found there. The...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Planning Issues (6 Jul 2023)

Christopher O'Sullivan: 29. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is undertaking any review of rural planning guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33191/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Planning Issues (6 Jul 2023)

Christopher O'Sullivan: The reason I brought up this matter is twofold. Similar to Deputy Canney, I am aware of the difficulty young people have in getting planning, the hoops they have to jump through and the back and forth involved in trying to get planning. Sometimes they are not successful. There is another aspect of this on which we had a debate recently in the Dáil. We even had a vote on it. I...

Progress on the National Parks and Wildlife Service: Statements (6 Jul 2023)

Christopher O'Sullivan: We will keep the love-in going for the Minister of State.

Progress on the National Parks and Wildlife Service: Statements (6 Jul 2023)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I wholeheartedly agree with Deputy Leddin's comments on what the Minister of State has achieved. Deputy Leddin spent his entire statement speaking about how great the Minister of State is. I will not do that. These are statements on progress in the National Parks and Wildlife Service and, by God, there has been incredible progress in the organisation. I know it is an organisation in which...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I want to bring it back to the car that was out on loan for a five-year period. That seems like an extraordinarily long time. Why was the car only returned yesterday?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Christopher O'Sullivan: This individual was approached to return the car.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Christopher O'Sullivan: We would assume that, after this situation came up, the individual was approached. I understand why, for reasons of sensitivity, Mr. Lynch cannot name the individual or say in what area of RTÉ he or she may have worked. Can Mr. Lynch at least name the brand of car that was returned?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Christopher O'Sullivan: Does Mr. Lynch know what brand it was? Was it a Renault?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Christopher O'Sullivan: Mr. Lynch knows which brand but cannot comment on it.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Christopher O'Sullivan: Mr. Lynch also mentioned, when it was originally brought it up, that this was not approved. He said that at the outset. He said this was not approved.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Christopher O'Sullivan: How does that happen? How does someone get a five-year car loan and not get approval for it?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Christopher O'Sullivan: Again, it is an example of oversight, that something like that could happen without approval. Mr. Lynch said he receives a car allowance. Is that a full car allowance?