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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Energy Conservation (11 Oct 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 323. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an estate (details supplied) is being considered under the energy efficiency funding scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49913/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (11 Oct 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 396. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that a child (details supplied) will be provided with school transport; if she will review the circumstances of this case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49751/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (11 Oct 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 397. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that a child (details supplied) will be provided with school transport; if she will review the circumstances of this case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49752/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (11 Oct 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 398. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that a child (details supplied) will be provided with school transport; if she will review the circumstances of this case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49753/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (11 Oct 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 402. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address an anomaly in the system which has resulted in retired Cork ETB teachers (details supplied) not receiving the 1% pension increase due to them on 1 October 2021 under the Building Momentum Agreement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48158/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (11 Oct 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 639. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the availability of a drug (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49572/22]

Visit of United Kingdom Delegation (13 Oct 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Before Deputy Higgins continues, I would like to welcome to the distinguished Visitors Gallery Sir. Robert Neill MP, the chair of the House of Commons Justice Committee, and his colleagues, Mr. James Daly MP, Ms Maria Eagle MP and Mr. Paul Maynard MP. They are meeting their counterparts in the Committee on Justice today. I extend our welcome to them.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 35. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the significant backlog in her Department for the exceptional needs payment that many applicants have been waiting upwards of eight weeks; if she is concerned with this given that it is supposed to be an urgent payment for those in exceptional need; her plans to tackle the backlog; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Citizens Information Services (13 Oct 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 51. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will ensure that the Citizens Information Board remains a fully functional service despite the recent changes to the organisation; if she has engaged with the CIB in relation to same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50216/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (13 Oct 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 129. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of service providers that dropped out of the early childhood care and education scheme for the 2022/2023 year; the number that did not register; the number that have indicated that they will not re-register for the 2023/2024 year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50212/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (13 Oct 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 169. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when childminders will be added to the national childcare scheme; if an interim measure will be introduced in order that parents who utilise a childminder could avail of the reduction in childcare fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50213/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (12 Oct 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses in which HAP and RAS tenants are under threat of eviction that have been purchased by local authorities by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50478/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (12 Oct 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a student (details supplied) in a third-level institution can transfer courses while still availing of the free fees' initiative; if there is a certain timeframe in such instances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50558/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (12 Oct 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 177. To ask the Minister for Health if he will urgently provide home help hours to a person (details supplied) in County Cork who has recently been discharged from hospital. [50541/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I welcome the Minister. It will probably not surprise her that I am going to start with the Cork Life Centre. I raised it with her in a Topical Issue debate last week and, along with Deputy Colm Burke, I asked her an oral parliamentary question on it yesterday. I did not catch all of Deputy Ó Laoghaire's contribution. When I started off my teaching journey in 2013 and 2014, I was a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: It is encouraging that the Minister is looking at it at the very least but, as I said, that is one school, the first I rang today. There are seven schools in which I used to teach and I guarantee the picture would be very similar in each. There are 10% of teachers absent due to Covid in one particular school. There were also many other absences. When the answer is within the four walls of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Renewable Energy Generation (18 Oct 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire as teacht isteach chomh déanach seo. This is a question I have been looking to put for quite a while. It is something the Government needs to take seriously. This is a space in which we need to be proactive and engage with all stakeholders, including developers, the ESB and other electrical and energy providers. The long and short definition, as...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Renewable Energy Generation (18 Oct 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister. To be fair that is a very substantive response and I appreciate it. I do have several issues. I have listened to many people from Government parties and the Opposition speaking about offshore wind energy. The harsh reality is we are being told it will take an average of seven years to do it here but when we look at our European counterparts, such as Slovakia, it can...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (18 Oct 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has engaged with SUSI about the possibility of raising the income threshold to ensure that middle income earners who are struggling financially will be able to avail of third level grants in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51495/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (18 Oct 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans to upgrade the 1974 building in Munster Technological University, Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51496/22]