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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Mar 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I want to raise with the Tánaiste the reconfiguration of services in the children's disability network. I have met a number of parents from Tramore and the outskirts of Waterford city who have been recently informed that their children's services, for example, occupational and speech and language therapies, have been moved from Waterford city to Dungarvan. The Tánaiste knows the...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Most of my questions concern detail and the lack of thereof. I know the Parliamentary Budget Office has previously recommended that we should have a better breakdown into individual programmes. Analysing the specific headings, I find it difficult to get at the detail, which in turn makes it difficult for me to do my job of scrutinising the figures before us. I ask the Minister to drill down...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I wish to follow up on the previous comments on school transport. We all understand the reasons for the 31% increase in line with the health restrictions that pertain. However, it is a significant amount of money. Does Bus Éireann have a mechanism for feeding back to us to allow us to ensure value for money for the taxpayer? Does Bus Éireann provide us with information on how...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Ministers and Ministers of State for being with us. I have a lot of questions and a short amount of time. I will rattle through them as quickly as I possibly can. My first point is on equality budgeting. I am delighted to see the detail in the Revised Estimates on equality budgeting but would love if we had more time to really drill down into it. I see there is progress....

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 26 — Education (Revised)
Vote 45 — Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised) (23 Mar 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will take the opportunity, if I may. I do not blame the Minister at all as I batted about 15 questions at him in short order. I asked a question about the teacher training colleges and what Department they will ultimately end up in. I also asked if there are any plans to establish an Irish-language teacher training college, which was mooted previously for the Muskerry Gaeltacht because...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roadmap to Social Inclusion: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Deputy Kerrane is getting as bad as Deputy Ó Laoghaire on the education committee in terms of having asked all of the questions I had written down, but I will forge on. We were asking about the specific commitments in the roadmap. In his introductory remarks, the Minister of State spoke about these being front-loaded. He gave some details to Deputy Kerrane. Would his Department be...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Mar 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I would like to speak to an item on the European Council agenda dealing with Covid-19 vaccination. I want to pivot away from speaking about this in just the European context and to talk about the moral imperative that rests on us to show solidarity with low and middle-income countries. In the words of Dr. Tedros, the head of the WHO: I need to be blunt: the world is on the brink of a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (24 Mar 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 2023. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider banning industrial fishing for sprat similar to that for herring and mackerel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15526/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Apr 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Apr 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Does the remote working strategy offer an opportunity to fulfil the recruitment targets that will be set out in Bille na dTeangacha Oifigiúla (Leasú) 2019 in terms of 20% of recruits to the Civil Service being competent in Gaeilge? Is there an opportunity within the remote working strategy to relocate some of that work to Gaeltacht areas? I refer to Gaeltacht na Rinne in my...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Compensation Schemes (1 Apr 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 20. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to compensate drift and draft net fishers affected by the 2007 ban on commercial salmon fishing; his views on whether the hardship scheme introduced following the ban should be reopened to relevant fishers who did not avail of it at the time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18061/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (1 Apr 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 161. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of times calls were placed to the fire service in cases in which the closest retained fire service was unavailable to attend due to unavailability of personnel in which alternative tenders had to attend instead by county over the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18063/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (1 Apr 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 162. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of fire service callouts that have been responded to by the retained fire service nationwide by county; the number that have been responded to by the permanent fire service by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18064/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (1 Apr 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 163. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of retained firefighters in the fire service; the number of permanent firefighters in the service; the age breakdown of both groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18065/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (1 Apr 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 164. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has reviewed the recommendations of a report (details supplied); his plans to implement the recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18066/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (1 Apr 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 165. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures in place to ensure retention, upskilling and promotion of retained firefighters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18067/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Registration of Births (1 Apr 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 233. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans for the inclusion of babies who are stillborn before 24 weeks and or under 500g in weight to be included on the still birth register; her plans for those babies to receive a certificate of life (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18070/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Apr 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 373. To ask the Minister for Health if mandatory hotel quarantine or home quarantine concessions will be available for incoming travellers who have received a vaccine approved by the European Medicines Agency, EMA, and have had a negative PCR test within 72 hours of arrival; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18062/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (1 Apr 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 374. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time for cataract treatment, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18068/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (1 Apr 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 375. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the nationwide roll-out of the shared care cataract treatment model, which is already in operation in the Sligo region, known as the Sligo scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18069/21]