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Adaption Grants for Older People and People with a Disability: Motion [Private Members] (1 Jun 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: We move to Sinn Féin. I call Deputy Martin Browne, who is sharing time with colleagues.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Review of Out-of-School Provision Report and Education and Supports Provision for Ukrainian Students: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I welcome the Minister and Minister of State. Like previous speakers, I believe we have debated this issue for a good while. The report was instigated in 2017 and I suppose it must be welcomed that it is now being published. At least we know where we are at. Many of us were waiting eagerly for the report. When I got a chance to read it a couple of weeks ago, my initial reaction was that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Review of Out-of-School Provision Report and Education and Supports Provision for Ukrainian Students: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: When is the working group due to conclude its deliberations? Will it be in six months or 12?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Review of Out-of-School Provision Report and Education and Supports Provision for Ukrainian Students: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I have one other point, a substantive one. It seems from reading the report that there is an emphasis on students aged up to 15. A sizeable proportion of the students of the life centre with whom I am most familiar are above that age. I realise the report is to emphasise the return to mainstream education. That is the ideal scenario, but the Minister, having taught in a classroom for long...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Review of Out-of-School Provision Report and Education and Supports Provision for Ukrainian Students: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: This committee has had correspondence with the Department regarding continuing engagement with the life centre. Have officials met them or is it the intention to meet them to continue those discussions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Review of Out-of-School Provision Report and Education and Supports Provision for Ukrainian Students: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Review of Out-of-School Provision Report and Education and Supports Provision for Ukrainian Students: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Are officials due to meet them anytime in the future to discuss this report?

Transport, Accelerating Sustainable Mobility: Statements (31 May 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I will start on a positive note. For the first time, I will be able to walk my three and a half-year-old son to preschool this September because we are availing of a €12 billion investment from central government into connecting Glanmire to the city and Glanmire to east Cork. We are seeing the benefits of active travel and the extension of greenways and cycleways in my area, which is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (31 May 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 739. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a shortage of a drug (details supplied) used to treat epilepsy; the reason that pharmacies cannot guarantee more than one month’s supply of this medication; his views on whether there is a solution to guarantee a supply for a patient on a monthly basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27902/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products (26 May 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: The real answer to my question was near the end of the Minister of State's response, when she said that "a significant body of work" needs to be undertaken and it will "require extensive consultation and primary legislation". Halfway through the life of the Government, if there is substantive work to be done, we really need to start doing it. That is the reality. If legislation and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products (26 May 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, who has been here on more than a few occasions to answer questions in regard to rare diseases and orphan drugs, and now this issue pertaining to the establishment of the medicines agency. As the Minister of State is aware, this is a commitment in the programme for Government. We are over two years into government and while I can probably guess...

Passport Services: Statements (26 May 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Less might be more on this occasion, so I will be brief enough. To put the issues in context, I have been looking at average passport processing times for our European counterparts. In the UK, for example, there are significant delays, with people looking at anywhere between ten and 12 weeks to receive their passport. The same is true for many other countries in western Europe. I was...

Passport Services: Statements (26 May 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: In fact, a whole litany of people, including politicians, solicitors, peace commissioners and others, can witness applications. Obviously, any of us would welcome anybody who needs that service into our offices. If we can be of help, we will try to oblige. I have several criticisms of the current process. The Oireachtas helpline was established to assist Members in making passport...

Irish Apprenticeship System: Statements (26 May 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I echo Deputy Ó Ríordáin's sentiments regarding the establishment of the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. It has given a focus, particularly on apprenticeships, that was not there heretofore. We are heading into a phase in which the Government will be rolling out the largest retrofitting scheme in the history of the State, which...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 May 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I will again raise the issue of special education centres, as so many other Deputies have done. As the Tánaiste knows, I was a teacher for 15 years, 12 of which were spent teaching in a Delivering Equality of Opportunity in School, DEIS, school that had an autism spectrum disorder, ASD, hub. I saw first-hand the benefits of the inclusive model of education we have and of children being...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (26 May 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 16. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the elective hospital in Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25968/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (26 May 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 86. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the lack of services available in the Cork University Hospital paediatric diabetic clinic (details supplied); if additional consultants and specialist nurses are being recruited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25837/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Costs (26 May 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 141. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the discussions he has had at European Union level regarding the need to provide assistance to farmers to mitigate the substantial increase in fertiliser costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26981/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (26 May 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 190. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures that have been taken to enforce laws regarding animal welfare; the number of prosecutions relating to the abuse of animals to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25941/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (26 May 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 332. To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to establish a dedicated clinic for persons with long-Covid on a permanent basis in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25836/22]