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- Matters Arising in RTÉ: Statements (4 Jul 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: This had and still has all the ingredients of a good scandal. There are public personas, a public fall from grace, and some messy payments being made, which would be a generous description of how these transactions were conducted. It has dragged out over the course of weeks as we get the continual drip-feed of information. It has been messy and, at times, acrimonious and difficult for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will say to Mr. Lennon that I have seen FM technology in use in the classroom. It gives rise to all those funny stories that one has to remember when to turn it off. I see absolutely no good reason to not extend it to parents. As Mr Lennon said, once a child is sitting up in a highchair, that is when their language experience begins at home. My first question is for Mr. Hamilton. He...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am sure he has deaf friends in mainstream schools, and I am sure they talk. How would Mr. Hamilton compare the two experiences, between his experience in the Holy Family School for the Deaf versus the mainstream experience? Which does he think is better?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: May I ask Mr. Hamilton a stupid question? I hope he will forgive me. I am thinking about leaving certificate subject choices. Can he study a language, such as Spanish, for the leaving certificate?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I have a question for Mr. Lennon on geographic spread. He stated there are 33 visiting teachers countrywide, which does not seem like a great number of teachers to get to approximately 5,400 students. What is the geographic spread in that regard? Is there provision to deaf students throughout the country or are there blackspots?
- Progress on the National Parks and Wildlife Service: Statements (6 Jul 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: No flies on Gino but the odd midge, apparently.
- Progress on the National Parks and Wildlife Service: Statements (6 Jul 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: No ticks or flies around here.
- Progress on the National Parks and Wildlife Service: Statements (6 Jul 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I met recently with an ecologist I know who works very closely with developers as part of her role. She gave me a very simple message, and I think it is one the Minister of State will appreciate. We are just gone three years in government. We spend a lot of time up against the coalface and sometimes we do not get to see the road we have travelled. The ecologist gave me a very simple...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I have a related question for Ms O'Rourke. Holy Family is a small school, with 135 students across primary and post-primary levels. How does it cope in terms of offering subject choices for its post-primary students in particular?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the witnesses for appearing today and I thank Mr. O'Donnell for the opening statement. It is unfortunate that no board members are here today, but that is where we find ourselves. This organisation is receiving €27 million in Exchequer funding but does not have a functioning board in place. The witnesses have come to the Committee of Public Accounts today to ask for an...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Could Mr. O'Donnell not have set up a secure system in Dublin? As a case in point, my staff did not travel to Dublin during the pandemic but I did.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will just point out that the statement of internal control does not detail any of this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: And there are no contemporaneous written accounts.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The decision to revert back to the Dublin headquarters only happened when the Minister made the section 18 appointees.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Could I ask Ms Campion about the financial implications of the move? How much did it cost the taxpayer?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The figure I have in front of me is up to €5,400. Is that accurate? A total of €1,000 of it has been repaid.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Okay. I want to move on to the issue of protection teams in general but the protection team in Ballyshannon, County Donegal in particular. A difficulty was identified with the activity of that protection team. It might be a question for Mr. O'Donnell, but Mr. Fox might wish to respond also.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Was there an investigation into one particular team?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Was there not an internal process whereby this was checked?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Inland Fisheries Ireland (6 Jul 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Have I made an error there? Was there a performance investigation into a team in a different area?