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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: My last questions are for Virgin Media. Ms Ní Chaoindealbháin stated in her submission that it provides so much public service content but does not actually receive any public funding for that. What percentage of its overall output is public service programming?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Is Virgin Media confident or does it have any expectation as to whether it will be able to stick with that at that level? Does Ms Ní Chaoindealbháin have concerns about it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Apologies for being late but I was listening in. Ms Fitzgerald made the point that nobody wants to see CCTV, surveillance or monitoring 24-7 in a nursing home. It goes back to the culture, as she alluded to. After seeing that programme, I would not blame people for wanting that for their loved one. Trust will take time to rebuild. The culture will take time to be inculcated in any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: If there was legislative change on that, would HIQA welcome it? Should it be looked at?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I am not trying to appear dismissive of that. I am just saying a person with a loved one in their 70s, 80s or 90s does not have the time to see the big, grand change we all desire. I will move on because time is tight. It was stated earlier that there are over 10,700 beds owned by 15 private companies or corporate entities. Is that system sustainable? I know from the witnesses'...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Does that 20% comprise individual infractions in different nursing homes or are they cumulative? Are there possibly five or ten infractions in one nursing home?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: That is quite significant. I assume there is a scale of severity.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I assume they are not all in big trouble but that is still significant. Is the model of 10,000 beds in the hands of 15 large companies sustainable? Is it desirable?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: A lot of the discourse has been leaning that way up to now but based on what the witnesses have said, that is not necessarily reflective. There was an incident in the "RTÉ Investigates" programme where there was a lack of incontinence sheets for beds and people were encouraged to defecate in bed. In that situation, who is at fault? Is it the employees for making do? I saw they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: We should have been able to share the time more equitably among ourselves.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Child Protection (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I start by thanking the Minister of State for coming in to address this matter himself. It was remiss of me not to preface my comments by saying that if anybody has been affected by these issues, they should follow the formal complaints procedure that the FAI has encouraged people to come forward with, details of which the Minister of State has outlined. I do not raise this matter lightly....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Child Protection (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I appreciate the Minister coming in this evening to take this Topical Issue matter. He will be aware that earlier during the Order of Business, I raised this issue with the Taoiseach, but such is my concern about this matter that I believe it needs further deliberation. On 8 June, the Sunday Independent's Mark Tighe wrote an article entitled "FAI 'too slow' to act over allegations of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 12. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the Cork city task force. [29738/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Back in February, Deputy McGrath and I raised the issue of the city task force with the Taoiseach, who confirmed that proposals were being developed and, once finalised, would be submitted to the Government for consideration. As yet, no formal announcement has been made regarding the establishment of a task force in Cork city. We are well into the term of this Government at this stage. I...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: On 8 June, Sunday Independent journalist Mark Tighe wrote an article with the headline, "FAI ‘too slow’ to act over allegations of former national team manager’s behaviour towards female footballers". The article alleged a number of things. The first was that the FAI agreed a financial settlement with its former director of public relations to keep details of his...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: That was one of the questions I was going to ask. I apologise for being late; I had a few other meetings. When it comes to independent broadcast media, we are in the era of citizen journalists. Who is the next Tucker Carlson in Ireland? I am not sure. In terms of funding for independent media or independent citizen journalists, are there any limitations or what is the bar or threshold...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: To give an example, we had an issue of balance on a local radio station a couple of weeks ago. I will not name the radio station. The people who went on air for the sake of balance, just because the Lord Mayor of Cork was on giving a certain point of view - fair enough, he is entitled to it - were not people I would consider balanced in any way, shape or form.

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I am sorry I am late. A few different committee meetings are on at the same time. Garda numbers in Cork are a particular local issue. From talking to businesses, people and tourists frequenting the city centre, people feel unsafe in the city centre, which is something we had never seen before and which may have been more closely associated with Dublin. I am not sure whether Senator...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Can I ask another question?