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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Digital Hubs (29 Sep 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 270. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if additional funding will be provided for digital hubs particularly in north central areas of Cork city; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47032/21]

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I am after listening to this debate for the past hour and a half and, like many fair-minded people, I try to digest it and listen to the facts and the counter-arguments being made. However, there is a lie being perpetuated here by many people on the Opposition benches tonight and in recent months. The lie is that these caps on affordable houses are actual prices. In my case, the cap will...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I raise the issue of special education provision in Cork. The Taoiseach has a long history of delivering for special education provision as a previous Minister with responsibility for education. Cork City Council has identified a site in the Glanmire area that is suitable for a school for special education provision. I urge the Taoiseach, given we have such challenges in Cork, to look upon...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will meet next. [45990/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (28 Sep 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 136. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has given consideration to the idea of prefabricated and modular housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46213/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (28 Sep 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 153. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of plans to introduce a social housing passport scheme to allow households to move from one local authority list to another; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46212/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (28 Sep 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 589. To ask the Minister for Health the process that a young person with an intellectual disability follows when they exit formal schooling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46184/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (28 Sep 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 590. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria as to the way in which the money is spent by each service provider in regard to each person with an intellectual disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46186/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (28 Sep 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 617. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to extending the home help hours for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46030/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (28 Sep 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 684. To ask the Minister for Health the allocation to each service provider in respect of each person with an intellectual disability; the scale of payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46185/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (28 Sep 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 685. To ask the Minister for Health if an evaluation of the pilot scheme on personalised budgets for those with an intellectual disability will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46187/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (28 Sep 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 734. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital (details supplied) will be allocated additional resources; and if he will make a statement on the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46338/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (28 Sep 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 735. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a hospital (details supplied) has the busiest orthopaedic trauma unit nationally but is only being funded in 15th place nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46339/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (28 Sep 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 736. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to increase staffing levels in the orthopaedic unit in a hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46340/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion with School Management Bodies (28 Sep 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I am happy for that debate to continue because it covers what I was going to start with. I apologise for missing the first half of the debate. I was in the Chamber, but I have been listening. To reiterate what Mr. Curtis said, we have an over-fascination with leaving certificate points and league tables. We all acknowledge that the system we have at the moment is not perfect. At the same...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion with School Management Bodies (28 Sep 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I did not expect to spend all of my time earlier talking about Irish so I am glad to be able to come back in on two further questions. One relates to apprenticeships, which were mentioned. Many of my friends and family members went on to do fabrication, plumbing and so on because we grew up in a highly commercial area in which such businesses were literally on our doorstep. People were...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (23 Sep 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I welcome the comments of the Minister of State, particularly in respect of the report being published by the end of the year, which will be most welcome. I note that the former Minister, Deputy McHugh, stated that each child should be educated with his or her mainstream peers wherever feasible. That is very much reflected in what the NCSE has stated in its progress report. The former...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (23 Sep 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I welcome the comments of the Minister of State but several issues and challenges would be ahead of us if there were to be any shift in terms of delivering for special needs students. The challenges I highlight are that it would be a phased process if it needed to happen. The number of students about whom we are speaking reflects approximately 2% of the school community. It is a small...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (23 Sep 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she expects the National Council for Special Education to complete and submit its policy advice on education provision in special classes and special schools, which was originally requested in 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45216/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (23 Sep 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: In September 2018, the National Council for Special Education, NCSE, was requested to develop policy advice on the educational provision that should be in place for students educated in special schools and classes and to make recommendations on what is required to enable them to achieve better outcomes. When does the Minister expect the NCSE to complete and submit its policy advice on...