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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (8 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I live in Glanmire, so I am more familiar with the Glashaboy scheme. The progress being made there is welcome. There are some traffic issues delaying people going to work, school and so on, but they understand that it is a necessary evil. The protection that the scheme will provide to many homes and businesses in Glanmire is something that I and, to be fair, other Deputies have advocated...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (8 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister. I would not want to undermine any process that is under way. Thank goes without saying.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (8 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: At the same time, though, I find myself dealing with many of these planning quagmires that we encounter and discuss. Blackpool aside, I will make a general point. We seem to discuss processes and respecting the process rather than the material subject at hand and the real difference it will make once undertaken. I am highlighting this issue once more so that the foot is not taken off the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (8 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 93. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on the Blackpool and Glashaboy flood relief schemes in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5519/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (8 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I ask the Minister for an update on both the Blackpool and Glashaboy flood relief schemes in County Cork.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Business Supports (8 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I would like to reiterate a lot of what has been said by Deputies Crowe and Murnane O'Connor regarding the challenges. It is good to see that the Minister is also considering additional measures over the coming months to help businesses to meet those challenges. I agree with Deputy O'Reilly in relation to the timing. I have used my Dáil speaking time over the last couple of weeks,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Business Supports (8 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I welcome the Minister’s response. There was a fair bit of detail in it. We woke up to news this morning that there has been 2.2% growth and 3.8% growth has been forecast for the economy for next year, which is obviously very welcome. Yet, all of us in this Chamber will know, including the Minister and Ministers of State, that many small businesses in particular are at the pin of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Business Supports (8 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: -----and the businesses there that will be eligible for this scheme. Can he give people a realistic target for when we hope to have the money going into their accounts? Timing will be crucial in this. We are again waking up to headlines that state that two businesses are closing per day. Timing is therefore crucial for many small businesses. If we could expedite the process as quickly as...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Business Supports (8 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 22. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the increased cost of business scheme will be activated as part of budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5546/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Flood Relief Schemes (8 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 60. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total amount of expenditure dispensed through the Red Cross to victims of flooding last year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5547/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (1 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 17. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has an update on the funding for Mallow relief road and the Cork city north distributor road; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4557/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (1 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 38. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the necessary electric locomotives will be provided when the Cork line is fully electrified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4558/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (1 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 108. To ask the Minister for Finance if the proceeds of the vacant homes tax and residential zoned land tax will be returned to the relevant local authority where it was raised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4590/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (1 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 141. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to address the difficulties that businesses are facing with regards to warehouse debt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4589/24]

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister and call Deputy O’Callaghan.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: We will now move to Deputy Farrell. The Deputy as six minutes.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I welcome the Minister. I will start my series of questions with a question I am asking for the third time, so the Minister will know what is coming. It is about the school transport review. I understand it is fairly advanced. Perhaps the Minister will give us an update in anticipation of the portal opening in April.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Very good. That is great to hear. Obviously the Minister is not going to reveal any of the content of the review to me this evening but I would just like to stress again that given the geographical handicap a number of villages north of Cork city find themselves in with distance and proximity to schools for students, are we still going to proceed with the kilometre-based assessment? Is...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I acknowledge the progress. To be fair, the majority of educators in Cork would genuinely acknowledge the progress made in school places over the last few years. As an add on, and again I will be parochial, earlier in this term we highlighted a Cork City Council site that was being purchased by the Department for a special school in the Glanmire area. I understand there were some legal...