Results 101-120 of 760 for speaker:Pádraig O'Sullivan in 'Dáil debates'

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (14 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I am not going to leave. To make a comment on that, I understand why people get frustrated. I would not legitimise certain actions but we do prepare for Topical Issues. I have come a number of times and-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (14 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I know that.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (14 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I welcome the funding that has been provided for Cork in the past few years. We were at the Dunkettle interchange site on Monday with the Tánaiste cutting the ribbon. There has been an investment of €215 million over the past several years. It will considerably enhance the lives and travelling habits of people across that area of Cork county and city into the future. I also...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (13 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I support the premise of what Deputy Burke has put forward. We have also had conversations about the retirement age for drivers, or the age at which they are not allowed to drive for Bus Éireann in particular. However, we all have anecdotes. I have often driven to matches and so on, as a school teacher, with a bus driver who is well into his 70s. We have always arrived safely at the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (13 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: My initial point is that there has been extensive engagement on this, but the Minister is the only Minister who has delivered on the review, which has been promised on numerous occasions by successive Governments. It is great to see it being finally brought to Cabinet. I commend the Minister on that. She said it would be brought through the various stages by the end of quarter 1. Will she...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 18. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education will meet next. [3805/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I wish to raise special education. I acknowledge the good work that has been done in Cork in the last couple of years, during the lifetime of this Government. To be parochial, I point to the provision of a new special school in Carrigaline and the identification of a site for a new special school in Glanmire, not to mention the refurbishment of St. Gabriel's Special School, which will be...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (13 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I raise the issue of the future of education and the citizens' assembly on education that was mooted. I ask the Taoiseach to provide a timeline on when that might actually be instigated. I raise this because now is a very pertinent time, particularly in the context of the skills crisis that is facing the country. I acknowledge the work that has been done on higher education over the last...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (13 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 14. To ask the Taoiseach the expected timeline for the citizens' assemblies committed to in the programme for Government. [5225/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: The Minister may be familiar with the Before 5 childcare service in Churchfield in Corky city, which closed last August. Its closure left a big hole in the context of the provision of childcare on the north side of Cork city. Alternative childcare had to be sourced for nearly 100 children just weeks before school started again in September. Thankfully, Northside Community Enterprises...

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

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 102. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to list all the flood relief schemes nationally, county by county, and indicate the stage of development each is at; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5518/24]

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

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I ask the Minister of State to list all the flood relief schemes county by county and outline the stage of development each is at. He might give me the national figures and the stages they are at, and I can get the county-by-county list afterwards in the written response.

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

Pádraig O'Sullivan: As I said, I am asking for the overall figure nationally and whether a project at stage 1, stage 2 or whatever. This relates to the broader point of trying to clarify how many are at stage 1 and identifying any delays. I have spoken previously about schemes that have been beset by problems and I want to get an overall picture of how many are stuck, for want of a better adjective. The...

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

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister of State. As I said, I want to gauge where we are at with the various schemes. Judging from the initial figures that the Minister of State read out, and I do not want to misquote him, there are 67 major schemes and 29 smaller schemes, and just six of them are at construction. If that is the headline figure, there are obviously difficulties with various schemes across...

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,...