Results 121-140 of 608 for at speaker:Pádraig O'Sullivan

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (14 Jun 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 142. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has considered the introduction of a flat-fee model of care being reimbursed at €6.50 per medicine; if his Department has costed this proposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28621/23]

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: 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: 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...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (1 Jun 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 268. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if additional money will be allocated to animal rescue charities in budget 2024, given the unprecedented amount of surrenders they are dealing with at present and in the aftermath of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26799/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I apologise for being late. I was stuck on the bus but I got here in the end. I know we are tight for time so I only have a couple of questions. Comments have been made about the carer's allowance and what was recommended in the citizens' assembly. I heard that our guests broadly welcome those recommendations. Family Carers Ireland represents approximately 500,000 carers across the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legislative Measures (25 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ...to hear it is making such swift progress. As I said, it will be unanimously welcomed in the House, I would imagine. I welcome the amendments. For some time, we have needed tougher legislation to crack down on criminals who seriously attack the very people who put their own personal safety on the line every day to serve others. The most recent incident with a full-time worker involved a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (23 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ...way up but we did not brief each other beforehand, I promise. I echo previous speakers' sentiments about the work Mr. Geary has done. He should not have had to do it and we have always told him that. It has been a long campaign but ultimately he was vindicated and that needs to be acknowledged. I have a few quick questions; I prefer to hear from Mr. Geary than listen to myself. He...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Facilities (18 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister of State for taking this Topical Issue on behalf of the Minister, Deputy Donnelly. As the Minister of State knows, St. Stephen's Hospital in Glanmire, County Cork, is the location for one of three new elective hospitals in the country, with the others in Galway and Dublin. We finally got word approximately six months ago that Glanmire was the preferred site in Cork....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (11 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: It must be said that the Minister of State himself did come on-site a number of months ago and that has to be welcomed, just as the Minister, Deputy Michael McGrath, did before him. Both of them reiterated on site to the people they met that day, residents and businesses, that money is not an issue. The issues concerned the process that was being undertaken initially and then, subsequently,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Following on from that, the issue of hard-pressed mortgage holders has been raised here repeatedly in recent weeks by myself and others. Their plight cannot go unnoticed and we need to respond. An appropriate response would be to allow viable mortgage holders to transfer their mortgages back to one of the pillar banks or allowing a mechanism like the local authority home-loan scheme to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I thank the witnesses for attending. We are short on time so I will just ask a few questions rather than speak for a few minutes. Dr. Walsh made two interesting points. He said that we need to look at implementing European standards of good practice that support appropriate governance in research and fair allocation of funding here. At present, ahead of this Bill, how do we compare with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ...on. Dr. Walsh might liaise with us as soon as something bears fruit. To go back to the issue of European governance within academic circles, is there any country we should aspire to be? Who is at the pinnacle?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (27 Apr 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister of State. I am raising the issue today because the deadline is tomorrow. The case I am highlighting is just one of the dozens throughout the country with various anomalies. The reality is that the people in the area I am speaking about have given up applying because they know they fall outside the criteria and they are unlikely to get a concessionary ticket. It is...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (27 Apr 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 37 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Jennifer Whitmore - to discuss the need for a public consultation on the nationalisation of domestic waste management services in Ireland. Deputy Bernard Durkan - to discuss services at Naas General Hospital. Deputy Michael...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (27 Apr 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I believe the Tánaiste just spoke there, as well as in the media recently, about joining a wider group of EU member states. He mentioned a possibility of a pan-European response in the future. In regard to that, will he expand on the development of such a strategy? Has he had any discussions at European level in that regard? How would he envisage such an arrangement working into the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (27 Apr 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 15. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the measures Ireland has taken at EU and international level regarding the ongoing civil unrest and humanitarian crisis in Sudan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19755/23]