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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...

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: Okay, so I will rephrase it. If there is an allegation of a sexual nature, is immediate action taken? Is there a process? Does the process typically take a few weeks or months? What happens?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 98. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider increasing the free legal aid eligibility allowance for mortgage and rent to a figure the reflects current housing market costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50516/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 165. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public patients from 2021 to 2025 on waiting lists in Cork University Hospital who have received care via insourcing activity; the extent to which this has activity reduced waiting lists, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50547/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 191. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made by her Department in expanding the screening process for newborn babies with rare diseases; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50779/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (23 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 6. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans to reduce the cost of childcare; the steps being taken to prevent the closure of early years and crèche services; if there is a timeframe in place to cap childcare costs as per the programme for Government commitment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50181/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (23 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I acknowledge the massive investment made in recent years. Since the introduction of core funding in 2022, something in the region of €259 million has been allocated. In many constituencies, particularly in suburban areas like mine, we still face a severe lack of childcare places. One of the largest childcare providers in the country closed its doors to the scheme a couple of months...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (23 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I think we both got stuck for time when we were trying to address the question. I specifically asked about the Mary Geary set-up in Carrigtwohill. I ask about it because it is the largest provider in Munster, if not the country. We are concerned because there are no alternatives for people who choose to go elsewhere. I asked the Taoiseach about it last week but have still not received a...

School Transport: Statements (23 Sep 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I do not now how many phone calls I had with the Minister of State during the summer and in previous years about school transport, particularly in rural areas. To be fair, whether due to his good work or by coincidence, many of the problematic routes I referenced in recent years resolved themselves this year. Pending the implementation of the review commissioned by the then Minister for...