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Uisce Éireann: Statements (10 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I will carry on from where Deputy O'Connor left off, about whether notices should be issued about the consumption of water. There are other Deputies from Cork North-Central in the Chamber. I know that some Deputies have brought in samples of water in the past. It clearly is not a reliable source of drinking water at the moment. While we cannot blame people for not taking the risk, Irish...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I raise an issue related to special education. Since the Minister and the Minister of State, Deputy Moynihan, assumed their roles they have been doing their best to try to get to grips with the crisis we are facing in special education in particular. I taught in a classroom for 15 years. It was always a struggle to find people to teach special education. Historically it has always been...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (9 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 262. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide the annual expenditure on pharmaceutical treatments by the HSE in 2024; the expenditure on new medicines for the same period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17737/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: That is ridiculous. I drove three hours up the road to listen and so I could come in on this.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I add my voice to Deputy Moynihan's. Every year, I dread this time when the school portal opens because we live in a Bermuda Triangle-type area between places called Watergrasshill, Carrignavar, Glenville and Whitechurch. There are always issues with proximity to secondary schools. I understand there were 14 pilots last year. Will the Minister elaborate on the nature of some of those...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps taken in Cork county and city to ensure all children who require a place have the possibility of securing a place in a special class or special school for the next academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17159/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: This question is to ask the Minister the steps taken in Cork county and city to ensure all children who require a place have the possibility of securing a place in a special class or a special school for the next academic year. We have this problem every year with mainstream school places across the suburban area of Cork, but we have a particular pinch point this year with special school...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 11. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the work of the child poverty programme in his Department. [13753/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on plans for a Department of Education site at Brooklodge, Glanmire, Cork; the progress made to locate a special school at that site; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17158/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 536. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the progress of the new extension at a school (detail supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17439/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 537. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to ensure that communication between NCSE and her Department’s building unit is operating effectively given the severe lack of special school places in 2025 and commit to a review to ensure that such a scenario does not materialise again; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17440/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 538. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will undertake a review of the way in which we provide special education classes and special school places for children with additional needs given that the nature of how we undertake assessment of needs is an all year round process that does not conform to the policies surrounding mainstream enrolment; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 539. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department’s building unit provides for additional headroom capacity in the area of special needs given that the children present with a diagnosis on an all year round basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17442/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 990. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she is taking, as per the Programme for Government commitments, to undertake a review of the drug reimbursement process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17359/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 991. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the situations where private health insurers are in some cases covering access to drugs and orphan drugs for their clients and the very same drugs are not available to public patients; if he is aware of this two tier approach; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17360/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 992. To ask the Minister for Health if the full budget for new medicines was drawn down by the HSE in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17361/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 993. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new medicines approved per annum in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17362/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 994. To ask the Minister for Health the overall extent of pharmaceutical expenditure per annum in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17363/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 995. To ask the Minister for Health the protocols and processes available or used by pharmacists to return unused medicines or to redistribute any paid for, yet unused medicines in the wider pharmacy sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17364/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (8 Apr 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 996. To ask the Minister for Health the value of drugs, particularly orphan drugs, that go unused for one reason or another per annum; the way her Department is attempting to limit the wastage and number of medicines that expired unused; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17365/25]