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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (8 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 2722. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of volatile CAO points locking students out of medicine, nursing, and pharmacy, the number of additional places that will be created for 2026, particularly in UCC and MTU. [46264/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (8 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 2767. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will detail the criteria by which NGOs are selected for multi-annual funding; the proportion of total State NGO funding allocated to small, volunteer-led organisations; and the proportion concentrated in the largest 100 NGOs. [46642/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (8 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 2768. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht whether his Department has conducted any assessment of duplication or overlap among State-funded NGOs; and if so, if he will publish those findings. [46645/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Consultations (29 Jul 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 1791. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if organisations (details supplied) are to be excluded from his Department's pre-budget forum in July as they were in 2024; and his views on whether it is wise or sustainable to ignore the only disabled persons’ representative organisations specific to physical impairment and visual impairment, respectively, in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (29 Jul 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 2791. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider reviewing the current regulatory status of melatonin in Ireland, given that it is available over the counter in many EU countries. [41999/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (29 Jul 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 2792. To ask the Minister for Health if she will outline the rationale for maintaining prescription-only of melatonin access in this jurisdiction. [42000/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (29 Jul 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 2793. To ask the Minister for Health if she will address the significant cost disparity between Irish pharmacy-dispensed melatonin and equivalent products available legally from EU-based manufacturers. [42001/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (29 Jul 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 2794. To ask the Minister for Health 1792 the measures, if any, being considered to ensure price transparency, and to protect patients, particularly those with long-term conditions, from excessive mark-ups for essential medications that are not currently covered under public schemes such as the drug payment scheme or the medical card system. [42002/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (29 Jul 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 2947. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the gestation for all neonatal deaths in 2022 through termination of pregnancy under the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018, broken down in categories of less than 22 weeks, 22-27 weeks, 28-31 weeks, 32-36 weeks, 37-41 weeks, over 41 weeks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42659/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (29 Jul 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 2952. To ask the Minister for Health the audits or reports that have been compiled including information on the care of babies born alive after abortion; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42667/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (29 Jul 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 3019. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of an elderly person (details supplied) will be reviewed who was recently removed from the public health nurse service, which had been providing essential vitamin B12 injections on a three-week cycle. [42857/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Jul 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: I hope the Tánaiste will join with me in welcoming Don José González Carballo and his wife, Justa García Toro, on their visit to Leinster House. Don José is a professor of history who is studying in Ireland at the moment. On 3 July, ComReg activated the SMS sender ID protection register, which is a great idea. It is meant to stop the scam texts we are all...

Dental Treatment Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Jul 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: I have now been seven months in this House. This is another important debate that is going on in this House, but let us have a look at the benches. There is not one member of Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil on the backbenches. Not even the senior Minister bothered to turn up. Instead, we are left with the Minister of State. With all due respect to him, and I appreciate him coming to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jul 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: I am in my office in Agriculture House. I do not have a webcam; I apologise. I thank the witnesses for coming in and giving their statements. I want to touch on the topic of Ireland's credibility abroad. Ms Hausdorff mentioned US civil law and that US companies will leave. I would like to hear more about that and where she has found this information. What US companies have committed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jul 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: Yes, I am on the premises but in the interests of brevity I will waive my right to speak.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: I thank the Tánaiste for his response but, with the greatest of respect, they are only words. We are talking about a man whose life has been left in a legal limbo for over half a decade and who has been defamed, isolated, ignored and ricocheted from one Department to another. Two senior Ministers, officials, and the chair and CEO of Tusla knew about this, and nothing has been done. I...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: He has been there and there has been no investigation since.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: Last week in the House, I raised with the Minister, Deputy Chambers, the urgent need to extend legal aid to whistleblowers who step forward not for personal gain, but to protect the public interest. In that exchange, the Minister expressed his willingness to meet me and the whistleblowers in question. I accepted the offer in writing but have received no reply as yet from the Minister....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (10 Jul 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: I commend both the Minister and the Minister of State, who have committed to meeting me regularly. I have met the Minister of State in particular about this. As has been highlighted, the application is not in but I am very grateful for the €30,000 that was secured by me and colleagues for the scoping exercises to find the right site for Ballyvolane. I am acutely aware of the recent...