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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report on Participation Income for Family Carers: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Does Deputy Donnelly have further questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report on Participation Income for Family Carers: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I ask Maynooth University to respond first.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report on Participation Income for Family Carers: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am going to move along. The next member indicating is Senator Wall.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report on Participation Income for Family Carers: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I second that. It is a positive move. It is great to see forward progress because Family Carers Ireland have had to fight a long time for what seems to everybody at this committee to be the right thing. I found the presentations really interesting and I apologise that I am going to be a little bit all over the map, because I have noted points along the way. I found a lot of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report on Participation Income for Family Carers: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Does anybody from Maynooth University want to contribute?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report on Participation Income for Family Carers: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank Professor Murphy. Do any members wish to put further questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report on Participation Income for Family Carers: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the witnesses for what has been a wide-ranging and thought-provoking discussion. I certainly learned a lot and it has made a significant contribution to the wider debate about where we go, especially in the run-up to a referendum we hope will help air these issues in a more public format. I thank Professor Murphy, Dr. Cullen and Mr. Gough of Maynooth University and Dr. Dunne, Ms...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 Oct 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank Deputy Paul Murphy for his work in this area, for co-ordinating the briefing in the AV room and for co-ordinating this Topical Issue debate. People living with long Covid do not feel heard. They do not feel supported or believed. I have been open about the fact that I meet a person with long Covid every day as I live with one. These people look fine and healthy. When they report...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 Oct 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will pick up where Deputy Murphy left off. If our health provision for long Covid is hit and miss, then it is substantially more miss than hit. The actual services provided in the long Covid clinics that exist are uneven at best. There absolutely needs to be an underpinning in terms of social protection for those people suffering in the long term. The reliance on PCR diagnosis misses...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Oct 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 26. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent visit to the UN as it relates to the sustainable development goals, SDGs, declaration. [41929/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Oct 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 25. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to ensure that the Climate Programme by the schools buildings unit will take cognisance of the impact of emissions generated from the siting of new schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45095/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (17 Oct 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 31. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to address the barriers to the take-up of funding for and delivery of solar panels on schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45096/23]

Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We very recently marked the centenary of Ireland's accession to the League of Nations, our first faltering steps as a newly formed nation on the international stage and our first subscription to the idea of an international rules-based order. This was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace, founded in the aftermath of the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (19 Oct 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress in the assigning of new schools of veterinary medicine and pharmacy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45218/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (19 Oct 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I wish to ask a question about the plans to formulate new schools for veterinary medicine and pharmacy within our third level sector. The Minister will know I have a strong regional interest in this in that South East Technological University has strong bids for both courses. It is one of the things the university sector is very much looking forward to. There are a number of institutions,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (19 Oct 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We will not be unhappy with the idea of increased capital funding or increased capital costs because the university that has been founded in the south east to serve the needs of the region is crying out for capital investment. I know it has acquired the Waterford Crystal site and is acquiring another site in Wexford, but it will have to develop on it. Kildalton college stands ready to be a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (19 Oct 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am not at all surprised that the likes of SETU has provided something that has proved to be independently viable. Waterford Institute of Technology, as it was, had to punch above its weight for years. It was forced to do so and to behave as though it was the university for the south east because it effectively was. I am delighted to see that ambition remaining under the new configuration...

Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We are both Whips but I will let Deputy Devlin have this slot.

Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the witnesses for what has been a fairly forthright and honest discussion today. I might be going over old ground, so I apologise if I ask questions or restate points that have already been covered. I want to start with claims. Looking at the opening statement, it is a bit apples and oranges in terms of how it is expressed. According to the statement, 2,379 claims have been raised...