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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Alignment of Special Education Policy with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (23 Feb 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I thank the Chairman for allowing me to sit in on the meeting. The Minister of State will probably think I am following her at this stage because I have been plaguing her in recent times. I have a number of points and questions I would like to raise rather than giving a speech. I am seeking clarification on a number of issues from the Minister of State and her officials. We have spoken...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Expansion of the Technological Universities: Discussion (23 Feb 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I welcome the Minister and the Minister of State. They are frequent visitors to the committee. I listened to the Minister's exchange earlier with Senator Byrne and I wish to get his thoughts on one or two points. We all acknowledge that there are deficiencies in terms of research funding in this country. The Minister acknowledged that we are currently well below the EU average. Does he...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (18 Feb 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister of State for her response. At the outset, I meant to acknowledge the good work that had been done in special needs education over the past decade in particular. We have more special needs assistants, SNAs, and special education teachers than ever before, but we must be cognisant of the fact we also have more children than ever with a diagnosis of some description on the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (18 Feb 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I have raised this issue consistently with the Minister of State, Deputy Madigan, both in the Chamber and when I have an opportunity at the Joint Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. I will continue to raise it because it is an issue of contention in Cork and it needs to be addressed urgently. Any clarification that the Minister of State...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Communications Masts (18 Feb 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 123. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the legislation and licensing process which allows intrusive mobile phone masts to be erected without planning permission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9098/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 Feb 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider making it a requirement that all schools in receipt of public funding would have to facilitate an ASD unit, given the huge shortage of places nationwide; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9097/21]

Covid-19 (Agriculture, Food and the Marine): Statements (17 Feb 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I would like to raise the issue of animal welfare, specifically equine welfare. The majority of Deputies would come across situations where animals, particularly horses, are found in a decrepit condition, many of them emaciated and some having to be euthanised in certain circumstances. The programme for Government calls for the continued robust enforcement of the Animal Health and Welfare...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: EU Regulations (17 Feb 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 36. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if enforcement action has commenced regarding the European Union (Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions, Calculation Methods and Reporting Requirements) Regulations 2017 (as amended) (details supplied); if an application has been made to the High Court, as envisaged; if so, the outcome; if the maximum penalty appears to...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (17 Feb 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 98. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given to changing a bus route (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8512/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Feb 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 424. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8495/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Feb 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 425. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8496/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Feb 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8497/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Feb 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8498/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Feb 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 428. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8499/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Feb 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 429. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8500/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (17 Feb 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 478. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal by persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8127/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (17 Feb 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 700. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the process undertaken by the HSE to tender for general practitioner services for the Bandon primary health centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8097/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (17 Feb 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 923. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the HSE’s national renal office statement that in-centre haemodialysis patients should be considered similar to persons aged 65 and older who are residents of long-term care facilities in terms of prioritisation for the first wave of Covid-19 vaccination given that such patients are extremely medically vulnerable...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (17 Feb 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 924. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to published data indicating a Covid-19 case mortality rate amongst kidney patients similar to that of residents of long-term care facilities; if on account of the particular vulnerability of kidney patients such as persons on dialysis and kidney transplant recipients will be moved into cohort 1 for Covid-19 vaccination; and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Programme for Government (17 Feb 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 830. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made on the commitment in the Programme for Government which pledges to implement the recommendations of the Working Group to Consider Alternative Approaches to the Possession of Drugs for Personal Use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8494/21]