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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is more the former than the latter. In Mr. Owens's assessment, there is a real demand for a green bond, or whatever the term might be, or some sort of mechanisms whereby those large corporates can actively invest in nature and biodiversity.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The other part of the equation is the smaller and personalised green bonds. As I said earlier, I know Hong Kong was moderately successful in that regard and the UK was less successful because of the interest rate attaching. It might be small beans in the grander scheme of things but I think there is an importance in terms of the sense of agency, or the lack of it, that people have and which...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: If we were to throw that money into the general economy at a point where the economy is already at capacity, it could be inflationary.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: That could be a strength, as we heard earlier, because it could involve the reporting back to individual citizens that their money has been spent in a green way, like we see with the national lottery. I am not making a direct analogy in any way, shape or form but there would be a citizen engagement piece. I know it would create extra work-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Has the Department been asked to report under the well-being framework as part of that preparation for the summer economic statement?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: However, at the moment it is keeping that separate from this performance reporting mechanism.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I understand that. My related question refers to the sustainable development goals, SDGs. Has the Department received instruction from the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to begin reporting under that framework as well? I put the same question to the representatives from the Department of Social Protection last week at the respective...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: One of the things that was aired last week was that we get a performance report on the one hand and then we have this separate mechanism for reporting on the well-being framework and a separate mechanism to report on the sustainable development goals. As a committee member trying to analyse performance reporting, it would make eminent sense if one process spoke more coherently to the other....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is one of the things the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform requests from the Department of Education as indicators, is it not?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform asks Departments for metric that need to be clear and simple, without sector-specific jargon and initialisms. I note school transport is listed on that as some of the key outputs from the public service performance report. There is No. 4, for example, and No. 6 at post-primary. Thus, it appears within the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The programme for Government was written in 2020. I remember being in the room for it. Now we are in 2023.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will pick up on that last point. I raised the point at a previous meeting that I am not sure the Department is keying into the idea of what the industry would call scope 3 emissions, which are the emissions external to the school. We are focused on solar panels and the energy efficiency of the build stock, and that is entirely appropriate, but we are not looking, particularly in new...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Does Mr. Mac Fhlannchadha accept that teachers often feel a pressure from the textbook?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Are we taking into consideration that the benefit of this measure is concentrated on large suppliers and publishers in particular?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Are they hearing the same things? I am hearing that the smaller suppliers are getting squeezed out by the bigger suppliers even in terms of the volume of books they have to store and arrange for the schools but particularly because of how the payment scheme works; they have to take on a large debt to receive it back from the Department. The parents used to come in and buy on a more...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: When are we likely to see the outcome of that evaluation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am looking for a ballpark date. Are we talking about this year or next?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The evaluation will be completed before February or March next year.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: With the Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use completing its deliberations recently, it prompts two questions. First, how we can ensure that the very good work our citizens' assemblies are producing are not just reports that are idly left on a shelf and that the recommendations are actually implemented in a meaningful way? Second, another citizens' assembly promised in the programme for...