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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (26 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 57. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the follow-up for hip dysplasia patients at CHI arising out of the recently published review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33556/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (26 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 71. To ask the Minister for Health the measures she is taking to increase in-patient bed capacity in Louth Meath mental health services in view of the fact that the area has the lowest number of beds per head of population; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33557/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Detention Centres (25 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 178. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality what measures she is taking to support workers at Oberstown Detention Centre in light of recent incidents (details supplied); the measures she is taking to prevent similar incidents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34922/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: Last week, Children's Health Ireland confirmed just 105 appointments have been offered so far to the children potentially affected by the scandal of unnecessary hip surgeries. Only 60 people have been seen so far out of a total of 2,259 children who had hip surgery since 2010 at Children's Health Ireland or the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Cappagh. At this rate it will take more than 20...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. I confirm to the Chair that I am on the Leinster House campus. Following on with a similar theme, in terms of what was said earlier and the statement to the effect that we face two distinct sets of risks that must be balanced simultaneously and not ranked. I am of the view that we have to rank them. There is an idea that there is potential...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank Dr. Scanlon and Professor Smeaton. On the education piece, I refer to that comparison with what they are doing in Finland - I take on board the earlier point that that is already outdated - in terms of the potential for Ireland to do better.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I am probably out of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I again thank the witnesses. I want to ask about the role of the AI advisory council and where the witnesses would like to see it go. Is it based on a model elsewhere? I have some experience of the Climate Change Advisory Council, as I was on the climate committee in the previous Dáil term. It has a very important advisory role and it has a certain structure and relationship with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: Does anyone else want to come in on that? No. Does the advisory council have an input with the Government in terms of the AI Act? It strikes me that it has an important contribution to make in that regard. The sense from this meeting is that different folks are looking at one another wondering who is going to pick up the ball but all wanting to play a positive role. Does the council...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: The advisory council is not a notifiable body or a body that is consulted-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: What might the council have to say on it if it did have that role?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (24 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 135. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the design manual for urban roads and streets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33555/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (24 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 149. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he is taking to address bus no-shows, delays, and punctuality in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33554/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Consumer Protection (24 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 355. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures he will take to improve the consumer protections of home buyers arising from a case in County Meath (details supplied) and others; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33694/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (24 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 384. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 85 of 12 June 2025 (details supplied), the number of children that account for the 92% of allocations receiving a place in a special class/school, by county. [33621/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (24 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she is taking to ensure reasonable accommodations for standardised testing in primary schools, such as increased time for dyslexic children is taking place at the moment. [34145/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Defective Building Materials (24 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 510. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the options open to apartment owners experiencing the effects of pyrite but whose neighbours, also affected by the same problem, do not want to take any action via the Pyrite Remediation Board or other means; if this issue is acknowledged and if possible solutions via the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011; if not, if other...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Meetings (24 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 823. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which she will meet with a group (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34064/25]

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank all the Deputies on both sides of the House for their contributions on this Second Stage debate. In particular, I thank Deputy Toole, my constituency colleague, with whom I previously discussed this legislation. She has a particular interest. This is an important intervention we are trying to make from a number of different perspectives. We have touched on a few of them. I...

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I welcome the opportunity to discuss the Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022, which I am co-sponsoring with my colleagues Deputies David Cullinane and Seán Crowe. I thank Dr. James Larkin, senior postdoctoral fellow at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, for his research in this area and for his help in preparing the...