Results 2,301-2,320 of 3,777 for speaker:Marc Ó Cathasaigh
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Local authorities are doing an awful lot of this work during their Part 8s or the section 38s.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I want to come back to the flip side of the coin I spoke about earlier in terms of septic tanks. I have a figure around small private supply. Leaving aside the group water schemes, things Deputy Dillon spoke about and the bigger infrastructural pieces, for small private supplies, which is the private well, I have a figure of 1,700 of these being registered with local authorities. When I...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am sorry; Mr. Towey gave me a percentage. We are mixing apples and oranges again in terms of the measures. Mr. Towey gave me a figure on how many households are dependent on a well. What was that figure again?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Okay. I have 1,700 as an absolute figure. How many households does that translate to?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The figure is 210,000 from which we have 1,700 of these wells.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Does that essentially mean we have no picture at all in terms of the water quality of a lot of private wells?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Household wells.
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 29. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the work undertaken to include nature-based solutions as an integral part of flood relief schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47030/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Meteorological Services (26 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 31. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline the collaboration work between the OPW and Met Éireann in relation to the flooding early warning systems; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47029/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Action Plan (26 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 88. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline his Department’s ambitions for climate action addressing the food system; if he will outline his Department’s priorities as this year’s climate COP approaches; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46835/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Expenditure (26 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 112. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of his Department’s direct financial contribution to the UN Committee on World Food Security, the foremost inclusive international intergovernmental platform on food security and nutrition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46834/23]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Green Paper on Disability Reform: Department of Social Protection (25 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Apologies have been received from An Cathaoirleach, Deputy Naughten. I remind members participating in the meeting remotely that they are required to do so from within the precincts of Leinster House only. I remind all those in attendance to make sure their mobile phones are switched off or on silent mode. I welcome the witnesses from the Department of Social Protection. They are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Green Paper on Disability Reform: Department of Social Protection (25 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: In that case I will move to the next member offering, Deputy Ó Cuív.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Green Paper on Disability Reform: Department of Social Protection (25 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: A number of questions have been asked and Mr. Hession might want to delegate some to his colleagues.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Green Paper on Disability Reform: Department of Social Protection (25 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: This is what is termed a bio-psycho-social assessment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Green Paper on Disability Reform: Department of Social Protection (25 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: For my own part, I will put a few questions. I think a lot of the ground has been covered already so I will try not to duplicate questions. For Dr. Waters, I might put a couple of specific questions first that I have received from AsIAm, particularly on the consultation process. A lot of these will be straightforward to answer, and it might put people's minds at rest with regard to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Green Paper on Disability Reform: Department of Social Protection (25 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Essentially the Department would encourage people to make submissions if they have something to say and their data will be safeguarded.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Green Paper on Disability Reform: Department of Social Protection (25 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: And it will have no implication for their own claims.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Green Paper on Disability Reform: Department of Social Protection (25 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is important for this to be stated as simply and succinctly as possible. I have another question on the employment and education statistics we are using. Are we confident that we are comparing like with like? When we set ourselves in an OECD context I want to make sure we are speaking about the same thing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Green Paper on Disability Reform: Department of Social Protection (25 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The question changed from what it was in 2016.