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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Allocations of Special Education Teachers: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: We have been given a document - I presume it is from the Department of Education - about this advocacy forum and 50 engagements with advocacy stakeholders. I do not know how far back that goes. To clarify, however, were any of the witnesses involved in the process relating to that document or do they know anything about it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Allocations of Special Education Teachers: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I do not know where to begin. I was listening upstairs and I have been doing some reading over the past few weeks. I read the NCSE report last week - several hundred pages of it. I wanted to inform myself. To be fair - and I am not being facetious - we generally do a good job with education in this country. Having read that document, however, I came away thinking that a parallel...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Allocations of Special Education Teachers: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I was struck by what Dr. Brady said about complex needs. With the model as it is now, does she think that children with more complex needs will just end up going into more specialised settings, that is to say, special schools? Is that the inevitable conclusion?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Allocations of Special Education Teachers: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I have one final question with regard to the lack of engagement, and what the witnesses are saying.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Allocations of Special Education Teachers: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I have one last thing for Mr. Harris. I was listening to what he said when I was upstairs. Going forward, the review is not going to happen for schools until May or June. I will not say Mr. Harris is dismissive about the potential of that review, but I suppose he did not speak as if he is overly optimistic about it. What led him to arrive at that standpoint?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (29 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 26. To ask the Minister for Health if he will supply data for the ten fastest and ten slowest approvals of orphan drugs by the HSE, by year, for the period 2014 to 2023, stating the date on which the applications for said drugs were received by the HSE and the date on which a reimbursement decision was subsequently made, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9461/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (29 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 69. To ask the Minister for Health the level of expenditure by the HSE on orphan medicines in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9460/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (29 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 138. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he intends to reduce the weekly payment to existing beneficiaries of temporary protection at any point in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9712/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an individual update on all school capital projects in Kildare south; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9896/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Parental Leave (29 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 278. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 180 of 24 January 2024, when he will bring forward the regulation to extend the duration of parental leave; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9889/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Discussion (28 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I welcome the witnesses tonight. I have just four questions because there are other people who want to get in. Deputy Ó Murchú has me under savage pressure here. I will follow on with one question where Deputy Canney finished. I was a schoolteacher and I have been inundated with queries about the special education teaching changes. I am familiar enough with the allocations that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Discussion (28 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I have spent too much time up here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Discussion (28 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I will ask one supplementary question and comment on what Ms Walsh just said. Are we ever going to move to a model where CPD is not mandatory? It could be done as part of the Croke Park hours or whatever, but there would be no compulsion to do it whether a person is teaching in an ASD class or not. Should we not move towards a model where if an Irish and history teacher is teaching in a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 61. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the locations of four new special schools announced in Q4 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9693/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (28 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 135. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of whole-time equivalent staff working in the pricing and reimbursement system for medicines; the number in the HSE's corporate pharmaceutical unit; the number in the NCPE, the NCCP and the HSE's Medicines Management Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9448/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (28 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 136. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the Governance arrangements in place by his Department to ensure schedule 1 of the framework agreement with the pharmaceutical industry is complied with by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9450/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (28 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 137. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE’s systems can extract spending on reimbursements in respect of orphan drugs; and if so, the amount spent in this respect in each year 2014-2023 inclusive, in tabular form. [9451/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff (28 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 138. To ask the Minister for Health if he will supply data detailing the staffing breakdown of the National Rare Diseases Office, by grade and WTE rating; and the monetary allocation to and outturn spending of the NRDO for the period 2015–2023, in tabular form. [9452/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (22 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 33. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of times in this jurisdiction the EU Dublin Regulation has been enforced per annum since September 1997; the number of escorted deportations that have occurred since 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8158/24]