Results 21-40 of 3,220 for speaker:Marc Ó Cathasaigh
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Charities (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (22 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister of State and his officials for assisting the committee with our consideration of the Bill.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Message to Dáil (22 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Clerk of the Dáil: The Select Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands has completed its consideration of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2023 and has made amendments thereto. This shall be deemed to be the report of the select committee on the Bill.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Message to Dáil (22 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: That concludes the committee's business. I thank members for participating in today's meeting.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Charities (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (22 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Amendments Nos. 17 to 19, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Charities (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (22 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: This has been a very constructive process all along the way.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (21 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of the well-being framework launched by his Department. [20534/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (21 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am an enthusiastic supporter of the well-being framework and the move to go beyond GDP in how we assess the health of our economy in order to remind ourselves that the economy should work for society and not the other way around. I want to raise three issues that should be part of the discussion on how we implement it. First, the Taoiseach mentioned the summer economic statement and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Regulation of the English Language Sector: Discussion (Resumed). (21 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: This is a valuable opportunity to dig down into this issue. One of the phrases used by Mr. Moynes was "visa factories". That is one of the very serious and genuine concerns people have. We know that a lot of students were left high and dry by some of these providers winding up at very short notice. While it is a great financial loss to Italian or Spanish students who are coming here to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Regulation of the English Language Sector: Discussion (Resumed). (21 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is a month-long course - 120 hours.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Regulation of the English Language Sector: Discussion (Resumed). (21 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: What qualifications do they need to have going into that course?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Regulation of the English Language Sector: Discussion (Resumed). (21 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: So not even a primary degree is required.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Regulation of the English Language Sector: Discussion (Resumed). (21 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Not an honours degree.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Regulation of the English Language Sector: Discussion (Resumed). (21 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: On the specifics of the level 7 qualification, is there any prescription around what area that level 7 would be in? Is there any requirement for it to have a linguistic element? Can someone have a level 7 in whatever it is, take a month-long course and they are then a qualified English-language teacher?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Regulation of the English Language Sector: Discussion (Resumed). (21 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I remember the terror of being asked for the first time the difference between a transitive and an intransitive verb, and I was coming from a language background and had a language degree - I had studied English and had done components of other languages as well. I am not at all sure that somebody who comes from, say, an engineering degree arrives with the required level of linguistic...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Regulation of the English Language Sector: Discussion (Resumed). (21 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Is there a structured CPD element? There certainly was not in the past, although I know my experience of this is very much out of date. I assume a lot of this is still summertime work; for example, courses being run out of the local secondary school, where the Italian and Spanish students are dropping in. I did several years of this before I went back to train as a primary school teacher....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Regulation of the English Language Sector: Discussion (Resumed). (21 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: How many of the people who are teaching ESL are working all year round as opposed to people who teach in the summer? How long are people staying within the profession? If we are serious about CPD, then we are talking about people who are making this a long-term career. However, if we are talking about the students from UCD doing three months during the summer, then we may throw our hat at...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Regulation of the English Language Sector: Discussion (Resumed). (21 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: However, there is not an incremental scale as such for the classroom teacher. Most of these are private operators and so would be paid an hourly wage. I understand that those looking for career progression will move into management or something like that. However, it does create concerns. I am aware that I am well over time but I want to come back to Mr. Moynes on the protection issue...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Regulation of the English Language Sector: Discussion (Resumed). (21 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Mr. Moynes does understand that a lot of this is happening in a grey area.