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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (14 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I know that.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (14 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I welcome the funding that has been provided for Cork in the past few years. We were at the Dunkettle interchange site on Monday with the Tánaiste cutting the ribbon. There has been an investment of €215 million over the past several years. It will considerably enhance the lives and travelling habits of people across that area of Cork county and city into the future. I also...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I have been listening in my office to the vast majority of the meeting. I was at Dunkettle on Monday-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: No. I echo the sentiments expressed, and Senator Murphy alluded to this fact, that there is great pride locally. The address where I live is Dunkettle. I cannot see the motorway but I can hear it. Nonetheless, it is a project that is a long time coming. It is great to have it. I am originally from Little Island so I am well used to traffic and people coming in and out. There are 15,000...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: There is much development mooted for east Cork in particular. We are on about a big retail facility, akin to Kildare Village, being located somewhere in the east Cork area around Carrigtwohill. It would bring volumes of traffic in addition to what is already there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Sorry to interrupt but to clarify, let us say a road is at planning and design stage and TII is engaging a contractor or consultant to do it. Is Mr. Walsh saying that at that stage, if something is built into the planning and design phase, when it goes out to tender, it can be accommodated in that way and anything subsequent reverts to the local authority?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: If it is a health consideration as the noise is excessive, the Department of the environment would be responsible, technically speaking.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: That is the first time I have heard that. It is good to know. I am over time but I ask the Leas-Chathaoirleach to allow me to make a final point relating to Mallow. The mood music for Mallow seems positive and I hope that when TII makes these announcements in the coming days, sufficient funding will be provided for the town. Obviously, the ring road has transformative potential for the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (13 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I support the premise of what Deputy Burke has put forward. We have also had conversations about the retirement age for drivers, or the age at which they are not allowed to drive for Bus Éireann in particular. However, we all have anecdotes. I have often driven to matches and so on, as a school teacher, with a bus driver who is well into his 70s. We have always arrived safely at the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (13 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: My initial point is that there has been extensive engagement on this, but the Minister is the only Minister who has delivered on the review, which has been promised on numerous occasions by successive Governments. It is great to see it being finally brought to Cabinet. I commend the Minister on that. She said it would be brought through the various stages by the end of quarter 1. Will she...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 18. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education will meet next. [3805/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I wish to raise special education. I acknowledge the good work that has been done in Cork in the last couple of years, during the lifetime of this Government. To be parochial, I point to the provision of a new special school in Carrigaline and the identification of a site for a new special school in Glanmire, not to mention the refurbishment of St. Gabriel's Special School, which will be...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (13 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I raise the issue of the future of education and the citizens' assembly on education that was mooted. I ask the Taoiseach to provide a timeline on when that might actually be instigated. I raise this because now is a very pertinent time, particularly in the context of the skills crisis that is facing the country. I acknowledge the work that has been done on higher education over the last...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (13 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 14. To ask the Taoiseach the expected timeline for the citizens' assemblies committed to in the programme for Government. [5225/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (13 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 324. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on her Department’s proposed accommodation plans for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6496/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: The Minister may be familiar with the Before 5 childcare service in Churchfield in Corky city, which closed last August. Its closure left a big hole in the context of the provision of childcare on the north side of Cork city. Alternative childcare had to be sourced for nearly 100 children just weeks before school started again in September. Thankfully, Northside Community Enterprises...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (8 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 102. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to list all the flood relief schemes nationally, county by county, and indicate the stage of development each is at; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5518/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (8 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I ask the Minister of State to list all the flood relief schemes county by county and outline the stage of development each is at. He might give me the national figures and the stages they are at, and I can get the county-by-county list afterwards in the written response.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (8 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: As I said, I am asking for the overall figure nationally and whether a project at stage 1, stage 2 or whatever. This relates to the broader point of trying to clarify how many are at stage 1 and identifying any delays. I have spoken previously about schemes that have been beset by problems and I want to get an overall picture of how many are stuck, for want of a better adjective. The...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (8 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister of State. As I said, I want to gauge where we are at with the various schemes. Judging from the initial figures that the Minister of State read out, and I do not want to misquote him, there are 67 major schemes and 29 smaller schemes, and just six of them are at construction. If that is the headline figure, there are obviously difficulties with various schemes across...