Results 281-300 of 3,192 for speaker:Pádraig O'Sullivan

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (15 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 402. To ask the Minister for Health if the recent pause on recruitment includes home care workers (home support); if so, if he will intervene to allow the HSE in CHO4 replace the 189 health care assistants (home support) that have retired or resigned in the period January to end September 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7337/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Today marks the first meeting of the patients' forum to support the development of the national rare disease plan. As the Taoiseach knows, more than 300,000 people in Ireland have a rare disease. I welcome the initiative the Minister for Health has shown in reviewing and committing to implementing the recommendations of the Mazars report and in instigating the review of the national rare...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (14 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: No.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (14 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: As I said at the outset, to be fair, I did not expect the Minister of State to disclose the allocations that are due to be announced in the coming weeks. I am realistic about the question I asked but, at the same time, I am flagging that I specifically asked about the north ring road, as it was formerly called and the Carrigtohill to Midleton stretch in east Cork. I did not ask about the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (14 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: -----is quite concerning.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (14 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, for coming in. I would obviously have preferred a Minister with a transport brief but nonetheless, I appreciate her turning up. She always does, to be fair.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (14 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I am not going to leave. To make a comment on that, I understand why people get frustrated. I would not legitimise certain actions but we do prepare for Topical Issues. I have come a number of times and-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (14 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I know that.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (14 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I welcome the funding that has been provided for Cork in the past few years. We were at the Dunkettle interchange site on Monday with the Tánaiste cutting the ribbon. There has been an investment of €215 million over the past several years. It will considerably enhance the lives and travelling habits of people across that area of Cork county and city into the future. I also...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I have been listening in my office to the vast majority of the meeting. I was at Dunkettle on Monday-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: No. I echo the sentiments expressed, and Senator Murphy alluded to this fact, that there is great pride locally. The address where I live is Dunkettle. I cannot see the motorway but I can hear it. Nonetheless, it is a project that is a long time coming. It is great to have it. I am originally from Little Island so I am well used to traffic and people coming in and out. There are 15,000...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: There is much development mooted for east Cork in particular. We are on about a big retail facility, akin to Kildare Village, being located somewhere in the east Cork area around Carrigtwohill. It would bring volumes of traffic in addition to what is already there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Sorry to interrupt but to clarify, let us say a road is at planning and design stage and TII is engaging a contractor or consultant to do it. Is Mr. Walsh saying that at that stage, if something is built into the planning and design phase, when it goes out to tender, it can be accommodated in that way and anything subsequent reverts to the local authority?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: If it is a health consideration as the noise is excessive, the Department of the environment would be responsible, technically speaking.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: That is the first time I have heard that. It is good to know. I am over time but I ask the Leas-Chathaoirleach to allow me to make a final point relating to Mallow. The mood music for Mallow seems positive and I hope that when TII makes these announcements in the coming days, sufficient funding will be provided for the town. Obviously, the ring road has transformative potential for the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (13 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I support the premise of what Deputy Burke has put forward. We have also had conversations about the retirement age for drivers, or the age at which they are not allowed to drive for Bus Éireann in particular. However, we all have anecdotes. I have often driven to matches and so on, as a school teacher, with a bus driver who is well into his 70s. We have always arrived safely at the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (13 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: My initial point is that there has been extensive engagement on this, but the Minister is the only Minister who has delivered on the review, which has been promised on numerous occasions by successive Governments. It is great to see it being finally brought to Cabinet. I commend the Minister on that. She said it would be brought through the various stages by the end of quarter 1. Will she...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 18. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education will meet next. [3805/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I wish to raise special education. I acknowledge the good work that has been done in Cork in the last couple of years, during the lifetime of this Government. To be parochial, I point to the provision of a new special school in Carrigaline and the identification of a site for a new special school in Glanmire, not to mention the refurbishment of St. Gabriel's Special School, which will be...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (13 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I raise the issue of the future of education and the citizens' assembly on education that was mooted. I ask the Taoiseach to provide a timeline on when that might actually be instigated. I raise this because now is a very pertinent time, particularly in the context of the skills crisis that is facing the country. I acknowledge the work that has been done on higher education over the last...