Results 61-80 of 4,213 for speaker:Pádraig O'Sullivan

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (9 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 244. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to pension security for foster carers to recognise the years spent caring for children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54335/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Funding (9 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 245. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to extending the back to school allowance to all children in state care (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54336/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Inquiries (9 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 284. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the merger of the ISPCA and DSPCA into a national SPCA; if he will address concerns (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54237/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Inquiries (9 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 285. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the interim measures he intends to put in place to ensure national inspectorate coverage during the transition period to a national SPCA and ensure that enforcement capacity is not weakened by the focus on organisational restructuring; if he can provide clarity on timelines, resources and governance for the new national body; and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Inquiries (9 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 288. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the merger of the ISPCA and the DSPCA signals a shift in Department policy toward centralisation of animal welfare services; if so, the rationale; how national coverage will be maintained or improved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54241/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Inquiries (9 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 289. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which his Department plans to support or issue specific charities that play critical roles in local animal welfare but may lack the scale of the newly merged SPCA organisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54242/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Inquiries (9 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 290. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how his Department will evaluate whether the merger of the ISPCA and the DSPCA results in improved animal welfare outcomes nationally, not just improved administration within the merged charity; if there will be a review of the overall funding model to ensure it reflects evolving needs, especially with over 100 registered animal...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Inquiries (9 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 292. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine given that the merged ISPCA–DSPCA entity will now receive approximately one-third of all national animal welfare funding, the way in which his Department will ensure that smaller, regional and grassroots charities are not further marginalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54245/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Inquiries (9 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 293. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will review its grant allocation to ensure fairness, transparency and proportionality, particularly in light of the consolidation between the ISPCA-DSCPA; the safeguards that will be put in place to ensure this concentration of funding does not reduce services or support in areas not directly served by the merged...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Funding (9 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 286. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will urgently review the allocation of funding under the animal welfare grant programme and the designation of authorised officers under Section 37 of the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54239/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Funding (9 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 287. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will appoint designated inspectors to an organisation (details supplied) as authorised officers to close current enforcement gaps for at least ten counties, to provide legal certainty in ongoing investigations and support Gardaí during the transition to a national SPCA; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Funding (9 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 291. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department was consulted in advance of the ISPCA and DSPCA merger; whether an impact assessment was conducted on implications for public funding distribution; if increased oversight and performance metrics will apply to the newly merged organisation given the significant increase in public funds it will control; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (9 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 317. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the status of the Glanmire primary healthcare centre; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54279/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 61. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to expand the provision of modular housing; the number of modular units which have been built since 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53633/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (8 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 132. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied that local authorities are responding positively to the National Planning Framework and are complying with the objectives of the Revised National Planning Framework; if he will provide an update on the progress made on housing and infrastructure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53569/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Properties (7 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 144. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 356 of 30 September 2025, if additional information can be provided on the circular (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53460/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites (7 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 313. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total value of the vacant site levy since its inception, per annum, in tabular form; if he is content it is having the desired impact since constituted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38579/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation (7 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 320. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to the €50 million allocated nationally to support persons leaving emergency accommodation, of which Cork City Council only received €2m, if additional funding will be allocated to Cork considering it received less than other cities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53568/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (7 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 485. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if additional funding will be made available in Budget 2026 for animal welfare charities given the very challenging circumstances at present and the unprecedented number of abandoned and surrendered animals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53174/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (7 Oct 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 681. To ask the Minister for Health the ambulance response times in Cork North Central; if the response times are meeting those as set out by HIQA; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53687/25]