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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Safeguarding Policies and Procedures within the Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: If somebody comes to one of the witnesses as an individual and says they have heard stuff concerning potential historical complaints, I would like to know what the people referred to, particularly concerning the FAI, think that means. I know what I think historical complaints or complaints of a historical nature mean. I know what that means and what it suggests. I would like to know what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Safeguarding Policies and Procedures within the Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I am asking the question outside of any individual case.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Safeguarding Policies and Procedures within the Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Chair, I will just finish. I know what I think when somebody infers there is stuff behind the scenes of a historical nature. We are all grown-ups in the room. We know what that infers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Safeguarding Policies and Procedures within the Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: The point is the association should have done it in 2023.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Safeguarding Policies and Procedures within the Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Mr. Keohane cannot speak about it, because he was not aware of it to be fair to him.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Safeguarding Policies and Procedures within the Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Mr. Keohane and the president did.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Safeguarding Policies and Procedures within the Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: To be fair to Senator Ní Chuilinn, she hit the nail on the head there when she made the comparison with racism. We are all familiar with those campaigns. Things are escalated immediately. There has been a time lag here between the emails and the actual complaint, which I think is inexcusable. Whatever about people's ability or inability to talk about the emails, it is inexcusable. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Safeguarding Policies and Procedures within the Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: The focus today of today's meeting, though, to be fair, has been on 2023. Let us be straight about it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I welcome everybody. I will direct my questions to Mr. Gloster and perhaps he or Mr. Watt will identify who is best placed to respond. I want to follow on from Deputy Sherlock's questions about elective hospitals. Deputy Colm Burke and I have tabled so many parliamentary questions on the elective hospital in Glanmire that I have lost count. Initially, we were looking at the prospect of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: That is fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Will that be built as initially envisaged or have things changed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: To the specification and the design that was outlined initially?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Is that likely to be done in a more phased manner or will we try to build it all in one go, as initially envisaged?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: We will wait to see what the budget brings on that. I will move on to my last topic; it is about thalidomide survivors. I know the witnesses have to be careful in what they say because there is an ongoing process there and I am not trying to undermine that in any way. Can I clarify if there is a protocol in place that has affected the process of the unacknowledged thalidomide survivors...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: As a follow-up, it is my understanding there is a process in how these people were categorised. My understanding is they were categorised by some algorithm that was used by the HSE. In other states, that algorithm has been dismissed, such as in the high court in Canada.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Are we still progressing with that algorithm?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: It will be clinical and not based on this algorithm.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I am glad to hear Mr. Gloster say that because since I have been elected here, it is something a number of us have pursued. Unfortunately, with every year, more and more of these people are dying. Whatever about the ultimate resolution to this, fundamentally all they want is transparency, honesty and to draw a line under it, one way or another. That could lead to what I think it will lead...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: It has definitely made progress. I acknowledge that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Okay. I will move onto my second question. It is on an issue myself and Senator Costello are very passionate about. There is the possibility under the programme for Government for an early access scheme for people to receive treatment, drugs or clinical trials for rare diseases, in particular. It is a commitment in the programme for Government. We have met the Minister privately and she...