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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (16 Apr 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ...Moynihan will, the urgency around the technical team submitting that report. As the Minister of State knows, those things take time and often require planning permission. It is not just a case of landing a modular unit or building. There are considerable planning requirements from the school's point of view as it arranges resources and so on. This project has been ongoing for a number...

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

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ...to find ourselves back in the place we were three or four years ago with kids with no school places. I will be specific about one site in Glanmire, though, because I know the city council transferred the land to the Department of Education. I cannot get an update from the Department. Could Mr. Kearney give me an update on that? If we are looking at other schools, it is great that we...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (1 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 108. To ask the Minister for Finance if the proceeds of the vacant homes tax and residential zoned land tax will be returned to the relevant local authority where it was raised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4590/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (8 Feb 2023)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 143. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify if land zoned in recent development plans as residential reserve will be subject to the land value tax, or if he is considering exemptions to residential reserves; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5561/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (29 Nov 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: .... I have served on seven boards of management. I was interested in politics and in the staffroom, that meant I was a good candidate to run the student council. I was the kind of fellow who got landed with those jobs. I loved them, to be fair. It is important that we are hearing the student voice. I was watching the meeting on the monitor in my office and our guests are doing a great...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (17 Nov 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ..., I do not believe it was envisaged that it would to go into each and every local area plan in such minute detail. I have spoken here before about the role of the OPR in recommending the dezoning of land that is serviceable. I could speak about instances in Fermoy and Bantry in County Cork. Deputies Stanton and O’Connor in east Cork regularly mention an outlet centre in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (17 Nov 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ...Minister has said he cannot speak to those, and I understand that. However, of the nine items that are listed in the city council plan, for example, at least three that I am aware of are on serviced land. The Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, has said previously that no serviced sites should be dezoned - he said that on the record - but I can flag three separate occasions in the city...

Water Policy: Statements (9 Nov 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ...be familiar with Carrignavar. The school there has closed and there is a brownfield site in the middle of the village. The new school is under construction, but nothing can happen with the brownfield site or the other lands that are zoned for residential development until such time as the existing treatment plant is upgraded, at an estimated cost of between €1.5 million and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Junior Cycle Examination Results 2022: State Examinations Commission (25 Oct 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: To go back to my own experience, I remember I had cleared my desk and had done all of my examinations when I was landed with another 200 or 300. Does Ms Feeney have any figures on the number of examiners who are in that situation as it is now almost inevitable that people will get additional scripts?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ...most important step the Minister took last year to ensure cover in second level schools. Before this meeting, I was in contact with the principal of a school I used to work in to see what the lie of the land was within her school. Of a staff of 83 teachers, 27 were absent today with illness with nine of these cases relating to Covid. That is still a fairly significant number,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (5 Jul 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ..., Climate Action and Environment the powers the Environmental Protection Agency and other agencies have to remove waste and pollution from a site in cases in which the site is an unregistered land and title (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35667/22]

Insurance Reform: Statements (22 Jun 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ...with other Members that this needs to be passed on by the industry at a greater pace. Third, I would like to bring up the area of competition. There is a distinct lack of competition in Ireland, not just in banking but also in the insurance sector. That is having a knock-on effect in overall pricing and premiums. I understand that the Minister of State is chairing a committee...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Issues (22 Mar 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 1128. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when does the land change from agricultural land to commercial land for the purposes of valuation and succession where agricultural land is leased to become a solar farm; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14145/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Planning Issues (3 Mar 2022)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ...and advised them of the overall strategy. I ask the Minister of State to write to the local authorities and chief executives specifically outlining the situation in regard to serviceable lands and their inclusion or exclusion from the plans. Will he indicate whether there will be a review of the NPF in line with the census in a couple of years' time? That would be a worthwhile exercise.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Tax Clearance Certificates (14 Dec 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Fleming, for taking this matter. I want to discuss the use of cash for the purchase of property, including small parcels of land and sites. It is important that such financial transactions be evaluated, controlled and monitored, with particular attention needing to be paid to high-value cash transactions. I pay tribute to the agencies of the State...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Tax Clearance Certificates (14 Dec 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ...representative is acting on their behalf and make a financial transaction far in excess of their means. In this State, it is very difficult for us to track or trace where people are acquiring sites, land or buildings when they clearly do not have the means to do so in a legal way. It is worth examining this either through the Department of Justice or elsewhere. The Criminal Assets...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Facilities (1 Jul 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ...pools, tennis courts, sports halls, meeting rooms, libraries, gyms and so on. All of those amenities should be made available. The Department should open up schools. Many buildings are on public land and most are publicly funded. They should all be open and available for community use. I ask that the Minister and her Department devise a policy or scrutinise the possibility of opening...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Local Authorities (30 Jun 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ...case. I have identified a few areas. There are more which we might discuss in future. I highlight development contributions. When the city initially took over large tracts of rural agricultural land in the former county area, there was no policy about planning contributions devised for agricultural buildings. Farmers who were building farm sheds, outhouses and so on were charged...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (25 May 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ...located within the county council boundary and now find themselves within the boundary of the city council, despite the boundary extending in nonsensical ways, for example, 20 km into rural hinterland. They are communities that were lined up to deliver on the scheme proposals. They had dealt with local engineers, had money in the bank and had collected their own percentage in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Issues (11 May 2021)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 314. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a person (details supplied) will receive their Land Registry documentation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24705/21]