Results 261-280 of 4,181 for speaker:Pádraig O'Sullivan

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sports Funding (26 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I ask the Minister about funding for elite athletes in Ireland ahead of the next Olympic cycle.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sports Funding (26 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: It must be recognised initially that, as the Minister of State outlined, since the previous Olympic cycle funding has dramatically improved, which is very welcome, but he will be aware that there are probably more challenges facing our elite athletes than ever before. I speak specifically about aspects of social media and the pressures that brings. Many athletes are having to try to find...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (26 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 95. To ask the Minister for Health the progress her Department has made in honouring the Programme for Government commitment that an early access programme for medicines would be established; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34979/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (26 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 112. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the new elective hospital for Glanmire, Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34978/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Sport and Recreational Development (26 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 190. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update on the implementation of the national swimming strategy; how he hopes it will address the shortage of pools and waiting lists for classes in Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34976/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Culture Policy (26 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 191. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the Programme for Government commitment to examine the introduction of youth culture pass; if there is any progress on its implementation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34977/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Policies (26 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 317. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider the outright ban of all single-use e-cigarette devices in this jurisdiction. [30313/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Policies (26 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 318. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider the outright ban of flavoured and coloured e-cigarettes in this jurisdiction. [30314/25]

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

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 353. To ask the Minister for Health if the new neurological rehabilitation beds proposed for Blarney, County Cork are now going to Mallow General Hospital; if so, whether there is a business case prepared for Mallow; if it will be funded in Budget 2026; if not, whether funding will be included in Budget 2027; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35179/25]

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I welcome the Minister and the Ministers of State. I say "well done" and "fair play" to the Minister on the rostering of staff over the weekend. It is very welcome news. I hope it will contribute to the transformation we all hope to see and are striving for on the health committee. I will start with the nursing homes issue, which has been very topical in recent weeks. In light of the...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: It is welcome to hear that issues pertaining to governance are to be addressed and that the Minister of State hopes to make changes in this regard. The ratio of public beds to private beds is about 80:20 or 85:15.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: The Minister will probably appreciate that I am going to raise one of my favourite topics: rare diseases. I thank her for meeting a group of us last week. We appreciated her time. As I said to her privately, I am encouraged about the direction this could be moving. However, I want to come back to the issue of early access. Thanks to Senator Costello, we had a group in a few weeks ago who...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I re-emphasise that the early access scheme might need to be completely different from the scheme already in situ. As we spoke about at the meeting last week, there are quality thresholds and the area of value for money, or whatever way we want to put it. The drugs in question will never meet the criteria we set down under the existing process, so whatever early access scheme is devised...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I have two more questions. On asking them, I will give the Minister the remainder of the time. First, the Minister mentioned the Italian health minister. The Italians do a very expensive heel-prick test. Over the past few years, Deputy Burke and I have lobbied for an expanded heel-prick test. Les Martin, a constituent of the Tánaiste, Deputy Simon Harris, has been very active on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (25 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 234. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the new elective hospital for Glanmire, Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34948/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (25 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 235. To ask the Minister for Health the progress her Department has made in honouring the Programme for Government commitment that an early access programme for medicines would be established by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34949/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: The Mazars report stated that the HSE has not been implementing the legal timelines for the reimbursement of medicines. I can refer to at least four studies commissioned in the past year that show legal timelines are not being adhered to. In February last year, the Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association published a paper showing that 86% of all reimbursements did not adhere to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 16. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [33563/25]

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I welcome the Minister in this evening. It beats meeting him at a parliamentary party meeting. We can speak a bit more frankly here.

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I refer to road safety and the RSA. It is on foot of a parliamentary question I asked a number of months ago about the number of offences where people were caught using their mobile phone, which had increased. It was approximately 18,000 people in 2022. In 2023, it was 19,000. In 2024, it was up to approximately 22,000. In March-April time, figures for 2025 to that date illustrate that...