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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...

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

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Leading on from special education, it is great to see all the additional school places. That is being felt on the ground in Cork. There is a distinct problem with therapies. I have mentioned it to the Minister before specifically in relation to the Carrigaline special school where they are essentially locked out of getting therapies from the local teams. I know it is more of an issue for...

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

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I understand it is an issue with the Department of Health. The Minister paid testament to the work the ETB has done there and I would underline that. If I was the parent of a child and the ETB was to take on further special schools, despite the excellent work it has done, I would have to question whether that was the right place to send my child if those therapies are not being provided....

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I thank the Chair and Deputy Farrell. I have two or three brief questions. I am really more interested in hearing what the Minister of State has to say rather than giving a long spiel. Initially, he mentioned investing in our people and talent and rightfully so. He mentioned that we are going to go from 13,000 to 16,000 places for craft apprentices. Is there any factoring in of a review...

Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I do not know where to start. I have lived beside a direct provision centre in my home parish for the best part of 23 years. We have always been welcoming to migrants from all over the world, and who have settled well and integrated into our community. I would like to bring some balance to the debate. I have been listening upstairs, and listening to the latest speech from the Sinn...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jan 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I wish to raise the issue of a social housing passport. I think Deputy Devlin raised this issue in the past. We are living in a society that is much more complex that the one in which we grew up. Many marriages and relationships break down and of the many couples who have shared an application on a local authority housing list, one or both partners might end up going back to their county...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jan 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I want to raise again the issue of rare diseases. The Taoiseach might have seen the news that last week, thankfully, the drug Libmeldy was approved for patients who suffer from metachromatic leukodystropohy, MLD. I pay tribute to the parent of a child who passed away a number of years ago. Les Martin sadly lost his son, Cathal, a few years ago to this disease. We saw and heard from Les...