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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank all the guests for coming before the committee. I might take Ms Doyle up on that proposal about more questions on the leaving certificate subject. I welcome the fact that we are introducing climate action and sustainable development as a senior cycle course. As Ms Doyle said, however, the primary purpose of any course is to educate and to inform students about an area. I suppose...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Yes, go on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: It sounds like a very challenging and interesting curriculum.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: These are teachers who are already in schools teaching but, because of their expertise or qualifications, have an interest and an ability to teach this into the future.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Okay. It seems to me this is a course which has obviously been designed. That is a difficult thing to do. Was it similar to the way the politics and society subject was designed? Were there any learnings from that or was this something that had to be started from scratch?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank Ms Doyle. Does Ms Aoife Rush wish to take up the initiation to speak?

Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank Deputy Ó Cathasaigh for a very interesting debate. It is very appropriate for this particular time.

Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2024)

Question put and agreed to.

Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: The question has been carried and the Bill will be dealt with in the usual way in due course.

Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2024)

Cuireadh an Dáil ar athló ar 5.07 p.m. go dtí 2 p.m., Dé Máirt, an 11 Meitheamh 2024. The Dáil adjourned at at 5.07 p.m. until 2 p.m. on Tuesday, 11 June 2024.

Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I again thank Deputy Ó Cathasaigh for bringing this matter to the Dáil. I acknowledge, as Deputy Nash did, the range of contributions from across the House. We heard different but valuable perspectives, all of which pointed to the importance, significance and worthwhile nature of the proposal before us. Across the Oireachtas, we all come from different political backgrounds...

Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Before we go back to Deputy Ó Cathasaigh, I congratulate him for the futuristic nature, as it should be, and the thought-provoking nature of the debate. His proposal is important in the time in which we live. The Deputy has ten minutes.

Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach. I do not propose to hold all the long-suffering Members quite as long as that. I thank all the Members who have attended to make a contribution this evening. This is very much the graveyard shift, a Thursday evening before recess, and I know all Members would prefer to be out on doorsteps and making the case for future candidates in our local and...

Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2024)

Gerald Nash: Making the case for the current ones too.

Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I appreciate the time they have given to be here this evening. I have found the debate very constructive and interesting, and I am glad the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach found it so as well. I am glad there is, for the most part, a consensus developing around the idea that this could be a useful approach. The Minister spoke about the steps we, as a Government, have taken to move beyond...

Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2024)

Gerald Nash: I, too, join Members in praising Deputy Ó Cathasaigh for his farsightedness in developing and introducing this important legislation. If I have one regret, it is that I did not have the opportunity to do that myself. The Bill relates to an area I have been considering very closely in recent years. I have always taken an interest in the approach taken by our comrades in the Welsh...

Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2024)

Denis Naughten: I congratulate Deputy Ó Cathasaigh on bringing forward the Bill. I welcome the principle behind what it is the Deputy is trying to do here. I am not sure if it is the exactly correct mechanism but it is important that we here in this Parliament and globally look to the future and look at the impact of the decisions we make today not just over our term in politics but the impact it has...

Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: I thank Deputy Ó Cathasaigh for bringing forward the Bill. I am getting my head around it. I received the briefing note from Coalition 2030. It gives a context for this coming before the Oireachtas and says the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action in its report on the recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Biodiversity Loss recommends the establishment of...

Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I am really pleased to have the opportunity to speak to this Bill on Second Stage today. I thank Deputy Ó Cathasaigh and his team for their work on this legislation. I have not had the opportunity to meet the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales yet but, in my role, I have met a number of Welsh Ministers at various intergovernmental meetings over the last number of years. It has...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools of Music (30 May 2024)

James Browne: The Minister for Education, Deputy Foley, sends her apologies as she cannot be here. I will give the response on the Minister's behalf. I thank the Deputy for raising this matter as it gives me the opportunity to provide an update to the House on the current position and understanding regarding the recently announced closure of Newpark Academy of Music. Newpark Academy of Music is a...