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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I apologise that I missed some of the contributions. use I was speaking in the Dáil, so I apologise if I repeat some questions that were put previously. Deputy Kelly began by citing “Room to Improve”. Unfortunately, a different programme comes to mind here. It is one of the episodes of "Killinaskully" in which the Pat Shortt character is selling concrete frogs. The...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Regarding that timeline, what is the baseline date? We see it slip and slip. We are now hearing February 2025 for a substantial completion date, which is a difficult date to believe when we do not have a baseline programme. If we are pursuing the contractor for these damages after the fact, what is the baseline against? What was the expected date?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Okay, so we can expect the process after the fact, and probably a contested process after the fact, to seek-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Which will cost time and money, as all of these things do. The last time Mr. Gunning was with us, he was quite sanguine about the number of contractors on site and the substantial completion date we had been given at that time, which has slipped as of this morning. He felt that, through robust engagement with the contractors, he was seeing enough boots on the ground to make that timeline...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Regarding when Mr. Gunning was supplied this, I assume that in preparation for his appearance before the Committee of Public Accounts today, he engaged with the contractors and told them, “We will be answerable to the Oireachtas; please give us updated substantial completion dates,” or whatever it is. When did that process happen? Where my question is going with this is there...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: When was that most recent information provided to Mr. Gunning?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am stating the obvious but it becomes clear that the relationship between the development board and the contractor is not the one that we would hope for, whereby Mr. Gunning could pick up the phone to somebody and say, “How are you there, Tom? How are things going? What is the latest?” Of course, it has to be a formalised process because of the amount of money we are...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Good. That is better than what was existing in my head, so I am glad Mr. Gunning clarified it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The Taoiseach said that road safety would be a priority of his tenure. We have had significant loss of life on the roads this year - 79 people to date with a bank holiday weekend looming. Beneath that headline are many accidents, collisions and injuries, many of which are life-changing. The Minister of State, Deputy Chambers, has commissioned a report on the Road Safety Authority to make...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Public Transport (29 May 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Deputy.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Public Transport (29 May 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The Deputy's time has elapsed. I call on the Minister to respond.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (29 May 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 37 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú - To discuss the recent cancellations of the 100X bus service in Dundalk. Deputy David Stanton - To discuss upgrading the N25 national road in east Cork. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire - To...

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: When they bring a child into the world, every parent does so with the same mixture of hope and trepidation. We have the same hopes and fears as we take that tiny bundle into our arms as we consider the enormous and fragile potential of that human life. We hold our mind's eye the milestones we hope to witness, the graduations, weddings, arrival of grandchildren, skinned knees, lost teeth and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion. (28 May 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the witnesses for their very inspiring opening statements. One of the most unfair aspects of climate change is that it is asymmetric. The people most responsible for it are not the people who bear the greatest consequences. That is both geographical and generational. Often people who are the root cause of climate change are people who look like me and are in their mid- to late...

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Systems Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (22 May 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Deputy Sherlock made reference to a good day's work. More than a good day's work was put into this. The Cathaoirleach of the committee cannot be here today but Deputy Ó Laoghaire and I are so, on behalf of the committee, I am thankful for all of the support at the pre-legislative scrutiny stage. We might have liked to see more of the recommendations being taken on board in the final...

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Systems Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (22 May 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister for taking what I had proposed to the OPC and coming back with an amendment. Of course, I had originally two individual amendments on this but the OPC found a better place to do it with one amendment. As the Minister said, it is in section 69, which provides for AE provider schemes and risk levels. I am firmly of the opinion, as the impact of climate change will...

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Systems Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (22 May 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: From the outside, if you had a look at this amendment, which removes the word "may" and replaces it with the word "shall", even if you did not have a knowledge of the legislative process, you would ask what are those guys doing in there that something like this is what is taking up their time. However, this is probably the most consequential amendment. Certainly, it is the most...

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Systems Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (22 May 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The first thing to say is that the Minister is as good as her word. She promised to take four of my amendments back to the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel. They have returned to the House this evening as three amendments but all four are captured. I thank the Minister for that. It is unusual and rewarding as a Government backbencher when a Minister engages constructively with the...

Protection of Hedgerows Bill 2024: First Stage (22 May 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Protection of Hedgerows Bill 2024: First Stage (22 May 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to make provision for the protection of hedgerows, to confer power on the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to make regulations for the protection of significant hedgerows and for the establishment of a register of significant hedgerows, to prohibit the removal of significant hedgerows except in...