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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps taken in Cork county and city to ensure all children who require a place have the possibility of securing a place in a special class or special school for the next academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17159/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: This question is to ask the Minister the steps taken in Cork county and city to ensure all children who require a place have the possibility of securing a place in a special class or a special school for the next academic year. We have this problem every year with mainstream school places across the suburban area of Cork, but we have a particular pinch point this year with special school...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 11. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the work of the child poverty programme in his Department. [13753/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on plans for a Department of Education site at Brooklodge, Glanmire, Cork; the progress made to locate a special school at that site; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17158/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 536. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the progress of the new extension at a school (detail supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17439/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 537. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to ensure that communication between NCSE and her Department’s building unit is operating effectively given the severe lack of special school places in 2025 and commit to a review to ensure that such a scenario does not materialise again; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17440/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 538. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will undertake a review of the way in which we provide special education classes and special school places for children with additional needs given that the nature of how we undertake assessment of needs is an all year round process that does not conform to the policies surrounding mainstream enrolment; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 539. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department’s building unit provides for additional headroom capacity in the area of special needs given that the children present with a diagnosis on an all year round basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17442/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 990. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she is taking, as per the Programme for Government commitments, to undertake a review of the drug reimbursement process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17359/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 991. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the situations where private health insurers are in some cases covering access to drugs and orphan drugs for their clients and the very same drugs are not available to public patients; if he is aware of this two tier approach; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17360/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 992. To ask the Minister for Health if the full budget for new medicines was drawn down by the HSE in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17361/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 993. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new medicines approved per annum in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17362/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 994. To ask the Minister for Health the overall extent of pharmaceutical expenditure per annum in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17363/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 995. To ask the Minister for Health the protocols and processes available or used by pharmacists to return unused medicines or to redistribute any paid for, yet unused medicines in the wider pharmacy sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17364/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 996. To ask the Minister for Health the value of drugs, particularly orphan drugs, that go unused for one reason or another per annum; the way her Department is attempting to limit the wastage and number of medicines that expired unused; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17365/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (3 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 44. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider the inheritance-tax liability of citizens without children and, in doing so, allow more favourable terms when their estate provides for nieces and nephews, brothers and sisters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15981/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (3 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 155. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide and update on all flood relief schemes in Cork north central, including the Morrisons Island project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15836/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Emergency Accommodation (3 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 275. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of beneficiaries of temporary protection currently residing in the State; of that number, how many are in hotel and bed and breakfast accommodation, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16341/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services (3 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 298. To ask the Minister for Health how the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics is funded; its annual expenditure; if it is funded per application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16349/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Service Executive (3 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 299. To ask the Minister for Health if she will publish the terms of reference of the HSE Drugs Group and the HSE products committee for medicines; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16350/25]