Results 1-16 of 16 for ("irish language" gaeilge) speaker:Marc Ó Cathasaigh

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Closures (7 Mar 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...reason this man is interested in getting involved is because he knows the importance of these services within the Gaeltacht community. He can do without this headache but he is committed to providing Irish-language services within Gaeltacht na nDéise. There will be knock-on impacts if these Irish-language services are not provided. If people drive into Abbeyside to get their...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Closures (7 Mar 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...reatha ag dul ar scor agus tá ceisteanna tromchúiseacha faoi todhchaí sheirbhísí oifig an phoist sa phobal. Ní cinneadh eacnamaíochta amháin é seo, i mo thuairim féin ar aon nós. Tá tionchar aige seo a théann i bhfad níos faide ná dúnadh oifig phoist tuaithe, cé gur buille tubaisteach é sin do...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...regard. Amendment No. 1036 has to do with planning and, more specifically, oral hearings. It affords native Irish speakers the right to have their oral hearing presided over by a chairperson who is competent in the Irish language and for it to be heard through Irish if the development is within the Gaeltacht. If the development is partly within the Gaeltacht, it provides for the hearing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...a level 8 public services course that is done through Irish. Maynooth University is doing very good work setting out the teastas Eorpach na Gaeilge, TEG, which is the common European framework, for the Irish language. I would like to see that being rolled out to more locations so that more people place themselves on the common European framework as a matter of course, as is the case with...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Conradh na Gaeilge, endorsed by a myriad of Irish language groups, today launched its plean fáis, which is an investment plan for the future of the Irish language out to 2030. Something that might be of particular interest to the Minister is an aspect of that plan that is designed to unlock and create some 9,000 jobs in Gaeltacht areas chiefly through investment in Údarás na...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: .... Tá a fhios agam go bhfuil an cathaoirleach tiomanta don Ghaeilge. Cuirfidh mé ceist faoin athbhreithniú a rinne Willis Towers Watson. Mr. Bakhurst, there is a review in place to consider the remuneration of Irish-language workers at Raidió na Gaeltachta in comparison to their colleagues. I think there is also an open question about the funding of programming in...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funding (22 Jun 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...na finnéithe as a bheith linn agus as ucht na cuir i láthair. Ba mhaith liom díriú isteach, i dtosach báire, ar na sonraí ar chaiteachas ar chúrsaí Gaeilge. I want to look at some of the Irish-language spending. In the first instance, it is very welcome that funding for the Irish language has largely recovered to pre-recession levels, as that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Irish Language (1 Jun 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...forget that the South East Technological University, SETU, is a Gaeltacht university. We have a Gaeltacht in Port Láirge and SETU stands ready to provide those courses for public services and the Irish language. I will also turn to the other part of the equation, which is a great untapped resource. According to the census, 1.874 million people report that they can speak Irish...

European Year of Skills: Statements (10 May 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...work on keepy-uppies as his skill, although that might not be the most appropriate one. It is not just workforce skills; it might be that someone wishes to engage with Conradh na Gaeilge to brush up on the Irish language, for example. That might not be for any sort of workforce-related reason and could instead be for personal development. There is an impediment for technological...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Operation of the Social Welfare Appeals Office: Department of Social Protection (9 Nov 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...become used to MS Teams. However, I am not sure, as the Chair outlined, that everybody who is availing of the appeals system will be equally comfortable with that. On the oral hearings from an Irish language perspective, we hear the availability of services through the Irish language is not always as consistent as we like. Is there a facility within the Department if somebody wants...

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: From the Seanad (5 Oct 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...process, with those concerns making it into the final piece of work. That is important and much to the good. We saw this happening throughout the legislation's passage. The Minister referenced how the Irish language community had an opportunity to influence the Bill. Important and impactful amendments were made in order to legislate for the Irish language within this Bill. Similarly,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Supports Provision for Displaced Ukrainian Students: Discussion (14 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...where they want to be. The Gaeilge exemption kind of goes to the heart of the matter on this. Are we considering this medium-term to long-term approach? I am very much an advocate of teaching the Irish language within our primary and secondary schools but is it a good use of these children's time? If my child was dislocated and arrived somewhere I would hope that they would have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...discussed the matter at this committee and we have discussed it in detail at meetings of the Comhchoiste na Gaeilge, na Gaeltachta agus Phobal Labhartha na Gaeilge, of which I am also a member. The Irish-language community has spoken with one voice on the issue. We have received very good evidence and suggestions, particularly from Maynooth University, about possible alternative...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...; ó thaobh an Ghaeilge and the work that has been ongoing in that regard, we have heard, at meetings of the education committee and Comhchoiste na Gaeilge, na Gaeltachta, agus Phobal Labhartha na Gaeilge, the Irish language community speaking with one voice on the specifications for T1 and T2 schools. I would like the Minister to be cognisant of the worries of the Irish language...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Tithíocht agus Cúrsaí Pleanála sa Ghaeltacht: Plé (1 Dec 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...é mhéad dóibh a ghlacadh leis agus cé mhéad a dhiúltaíodh dóibh? Aithním go raibh an chéad dréacht de phlean forbartha Chontae Phort Láirge lag i leith na Gaeilge. Chuir mé aighneacht isteach ina leith sin. Tá an dara dréacht i bhfad níos fearr. Ba mhaith liom aird an choiste a tharraingt ar rud amháin...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Hubs, Broadband and Mobile Phone Coverage in Rural Ireland: Department of Rural and Community Development (2 Dec 2020)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: .... These are not questions but comments. Another idea we discussed at the coiste Gaeilge is using moil dhigiteachta or digital hubs and remote working to help us achieve the recruitment figures in the Irish language that we are hoping to do on foot of the Bille teanga that is coming through. Dr. Stjohn O'Connor referred to the SSID. Are the moil dhigiteachta designed to the same...