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

Pádraig O'Sullivan: In his remaining years in secondary school, are there any additional interventions he should be getting, and not just Calum but all the other children in these circumstances? Should there be some way to, and I hate to use the word compensate but to ameliorate the loss of time?

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

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I thank Mr. Geary.

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

Pádraig O'Sullivan: A business case.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 87. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the research conducted within her Department for linking jobseeker's benefit to previous earnings; if she is seriously considering such a reform; the likely implementation date for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24158/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (23 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 129. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will give consideration to removing the means test for carer's allowance or to increasing the carer's allowance income threshold given the significant increase in the cost of living; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24157/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (23 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 390. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress of the development on right-sizing; if he has engaged with participating local authorities regarding the uptake of this policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24063/23]

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....

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

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister of State for her response. Perhaps we can talk later about the meeting the Minister had. Perhaps the Minister of State can tell me the exact details of it. This has been a long time coming. It is going to be a major project in my constituency. I had selfishly hoped that the announcement of this hospital would trigger the start of development of the north ring...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I follow up on an issue raised earlier by Deputy Naughten concerning European reference networks, ERNs. I note the Tánaiste’s comments and welcome that he believes the ERNs need to be resourced and supported in upcoming Estimates processes but these ERNs cannot be sustained on the goodwill of clinical leads and consultants alone, as is the case now. Yesterday. the cross-party...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (18 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 16. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount allocated under the 2018 Large Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund (LSSIF); if she can clarify how much has been drawn down; how the review of the LSSIF is progressing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23288/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (18 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 42. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht with regards to the Centre of Excellence in Glanmire, if she can outline the position in relation to entitlements and conditions of the grant funding; if she will provide an update on future plans for a centre of excellence in Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23287/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (18 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 86. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to use new technologies/building techniques to increase the delivery and supply of modular housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23219/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (18 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 108. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of properties approved by both Cork City Council and Cork County Council for the tenant in-situ-scheme; the number of properties actually handed over, and those still in train; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23220/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Military Neutrality (16 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I have two more supplementary questions. Other nations in the EU, such as Finland and Sweden, have decided to join NATO. Will the Tánaiste tell us his thoughts on other neutral nations such as Austria, Cyprus and Malta and any other neutral nation he might want to refer to, with regard to how the question is being debated in their own parliaments and countries? I am trying to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Military Neutrality (16 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 11. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for a report on the planned consultative forums on security and defence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22628/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Military Neutrality (16 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I ask the Tánaiste to furnish the House with a report on the planned consultative forum on security and defence.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Military Neutrality (16 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: While the report of the Commission on the Defence Forces predates the Russian invasion of Ukraine it does mention the threat Russia poses. It states, "Ireland’s global geostrategic environment, looking out to 2030, will be characterised by intensified great power competition." In an era of intensified great power competition, the commission report states that Ireland can expect,...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (16 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 42. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for an update on the establishment of the statutory inquiry recommended by the Independent Review Group into the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22627/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a progress report on a special education site (details supplied) in Glanmire, County Cork and a special education site in Carrrigtwohill, County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22490/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 May 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the ongoing school transport review will facilitate children in September 2023 who cannot gain access to their nearest school due to a shortage of school places and would then not qualify for school transport as they would not be attending their nearest school or second nearest school; if she will give specific consideration to an area...