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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (13 Jun 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I have one supplementary question. I echo the sentiment Deputy Ring espoused - I was going to call him Minister Ring. Many communities have put shoulder to the wheel and it is great to see them acknowledged and rewarded for that. However, there are anecdotal tales that sometimes certain projects are being advanced where those communities might not have had as many refugees or Ukrainians...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (13 Jun 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: From the outset, the funding the Minister made available in 2022 through the community investment fund was well spent. I was looking at the list that was published late last year in relation to my own constituency. There are sums that are large and small but which are significant to many voluntary groups out there. Whitechurch received €100,000; Firmount, €136,000; Grenagh,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (13 Jun 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister. I have two supplementary questions. First, from what the Minister said, I take it that the focus this year will be on the new builds, and pending the budget later in the year, that the Minister hopes for a new round of last year's community investment fund sometime next year. Will the Minister clarify that? I do not want to be putting words in her month but she might...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (13 Jun 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: How many applications have been received to date for the 2023 community centre investment fund?

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Broadband Infrastructure (13 Jun 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 109. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the Broadband Connection Points Programme in Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28332/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (13 Jun 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 114. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the local improvement scheme in Cork; the number of applications received and approved in Cork in 2022 and to date in 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28333/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (13 Jun 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 195. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress to provide broadband to a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27605/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (13 Jun 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 196. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress to provide broadband to a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27606/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Programmes (13 Jun 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 854. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a list of the projects approved under the IIP project prior to the closing of the scheme which are still eligible to drawdown endowments to ensure completion, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27094/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (13 Jun 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 918. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the powers An Garda Síochána has to disclose personal information to a victim of a violent crime in relation to their perpetrator; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28145/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (13 Jun 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 919. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the powers she has granted An Garda Síochána to disclose an alleged perpetrator’s previous convictions where a victim’s life is believed to be in danger; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28146/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (13 Jun 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 1029. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when his Department will pay a contractor (details supplied) in Cork for accommodation and services rendered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27328/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: State Bodies (13 Jun 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 1131. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 737 of 30 May 2023, the number of times the Chief Clinical Officer of the NCPE has briefed him since he took office in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27244/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (13 Jun 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 1307. To ask the Minister for Health the current members of the implementation working group set up to consider and progress the various recommendations contained in a report (details supplied) into governance arrangement to support HSE drug reimbursement; the dates of each of the meetings of the working group; the target month for the working group to report to Government; the consultation...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (1 Jun 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to ensure there will be sufficient student accommodation ahead of the next academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26589/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (1 Jun 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: On the same theme, what are the Minister’s plans for student accommodation in the coming year?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (1 Jun 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: The €59 million investment is very welcome. I will refer to some statistics in a recent UCD student union survey. Approximately 14,500 campus beds are in place across the country. That accounts for about 6% of the total student population. There are about 250,000 students in this country. Not all would need on-campus accommodation and many do stay at home but the figure gives an...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (1 Jun 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I welcome that. One fifth of the respondents in that survey said they had no written agreement or formal lease with their landlords or the place they have digs or a room-share arrangement. Are there any plans by the Minister or in any other Department to regulate digs-style accommodation? Is giving those people security something that is being examined? They are in a rather precarious...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (1 Jun 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I welcome that the Minister took the initiative to publish the Mazars report recently because it was sitting there for an awful long time. I acknowledge and welcome that. The Minister is quite aware of its contents and what it proposed. There are various steps being taken on the positive front on foot of that, including increasing transparency through an online portal that will keep people...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (1 Jun 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I appreciate that the Minister is considering that request in the process that is to come. If I can go off on a bit of a tangent around the greater reimbursement process, does the Minister have any proposals in terms of allowing early access to drugs? Is that being considered by his Department or by himself? Will he be doing any review or report on it? Previously I spoke to the Minister...