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

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The point still stands with regard to an organisation of this size. Will RTÉ give a commitment here and now that these structures, which should have caught all of this carry-on, will be properly resourced from here on out?

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

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: With regard to future governance, I had hoped there would be a future focus today. I will go back to the issue of the register of interests, which is something Mr. Bakhurst has committed to. As I have said before, there is clear blue water between the programmes and ad breaks. People understand that ads are paid for. That is quite different from commercial sponsorship and very different...

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

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: But people sell porridge and car ads as well.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (11 Jul 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether the remit to set the secondary schools geographical catchment area for its admissions policy always rests with the board of management of the schools, even in the case of a school (details supplied) which was established as a regional solution for a lack of capacity across two school planning areas; and if she will make a statement on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Rural and Community Development (12 Jul 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Chair. I have a couple of reasonably straightforward questions. I think we all forget that 2022 was a Covid-19 pandemic year, and about the impact there was on capital projects. We kind of wiped the memory banks on that. I wanted to ask about the walks scheme in particular, and the uptake. Any reaction I am getting from it on the ground is really positive. The landowners...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Child Maintenance and Liable Relatives) Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is a rare example of a review and a report being acted on and implemented. It is heartening to see it. It is relatively straightforward. I am very pleased to see it. We know from various Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, reports that one of the areas where we find consistent poverty most often is among lone parents and children who grow up in those families. Anything that...

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...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (21 Sep 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 9. To ask the Minister for Health if, in light of the opening of the second cath lab in University Hospital Waterford, he will outline the anticipated timeline for moving to a cardiac care service operating 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., seven days a week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40037/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (21 Sep 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: After many years of campaigning by local campaign groups and, to be fair, due to a consistent cross-party effort by Oireachtas Members here in the Dáil and elsewhere we finally have the bricks and mortar of the second cath lab delivered on the site of University Hospital Waterford, commissioned and up and running. The people of Waterford are now asking for an expansion of the services...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (21 Sep 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister of State. As she said, any of the Members here from Waterford could have written that response. The Minister, Deputy Donnelly, was down with us relatively recently when he opened the state-of-the-art palliative care facility on the University Hospital Waterford site. The Minister gave a commitment then that in a short frame of time we were going to move to a seven day...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (21 Sep 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: While none of us would think it is the cardiologists alone who are required for the staffing, they are absolutely pivotal and we know they are like hens' teeth. We need to get those posts approved and we also need to run the recruitment campaigns for those cardiologists because without that we cannot provide the service and we cannot roster for that expanded service, which is exactly what we...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Sep 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 17. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding dedicated services to address long Covid in each of the regions; the steps his Department is taking to provide services and supports for those affected by long Covid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40036/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Sep 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Covid is still with us and we are still learning about the virus all the time. We are learning about how it is turning up in people's heart muscle and how it is crossing the body-brain barrier. If you have met somebody with long Covid, as I am sure the Ministers of State have, you will know they look absolutely the same. They look in the full of their health. Despite this, they are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Sep 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: As the Minister of State read through that list of hospitals, she knew that as a Waterford Deputy, I was going to get up and point out that 600,000 people live within one hour of University Hospital Waterford, and yet no long Covid services are provided there. I have been dealing with a number of people through my constituency office and, to be quite honest about it, with a number of people...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Sep 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: While you should never base policy on anecdote, I was speaking to my local GP, who said that one in six of the people turning up to his GP service are there because they are suffering from long Covid. People do not have a fixed diagnosis or sheet of paper saying they are suffering from long Covid. There is a need for that piece around self-reporting, and maybe even a public awareness...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Technological Universities (21 Sep 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to report on his engagements with the management at SETU in relation to the university-enterprise quarter planned for the Waterford Crystal site; when it can be expected to see detailed capital plans for the development of the site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40035/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Technological Universities (21 Sep 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I have the South East Technological University's, SETU, strategic plan for 2023 to 2028 in front of me. There are ten individual references in that plan to the enterprise quarter, which was being co-developed on the old Waterford Crystal site, as the Minister knows. What engagements has the Minister had with SETU about the development of that enterprise quarter? When can we expect to see...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Technological Universities (21 Sep 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister. I know he has a very developed understanding of just how totemic and important that site is for telling the tale of Waterford and for the rejuvenation and revitalisation of Waterford. It is extremely important that we see this site signed, sealed and delivered. We will then begin to see serious capital investment flowing on it. We want to see things like student...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Technological Universities (21 Sep 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I referred to the fact that it is referenced on ten specific occasions in the strategic plan. Strategic objective 3.1 is to "Establish the new and dynamic University-Enterprise Quarter on the Waterford Crystal site as a focal point for the SE Innovation Region." It is of critical importance. I will cast the net a little wider, since I have the opportunity. Enabler A in the strategic plan...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Operation and Effect of National and Local Policy on Island Communities: Discussion (22 Sep 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I dtosach báire, gabhaim buíochas as ucht na fáilte croíúla atá faighte againn anseo ó mhuintir Árainn Mhór. Gabhaim buíochas leis an bhfoireann uilig freisin. Tá an-chuid oibre teicniúla déanta ag an bhfoireann chun gur féidir linn a bheith anseo inniu. Is lá stairiúil é. Táimid go léir mar...