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Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The Minister gave a clear indication of her view of the underspend on RRDF and I share her view. The rural regeneration and development fund exists for a reason. It does some outstanding work. The Minister visited Cappoquin and saw how that money can be put to good use if it is really focused and people are moving on with the plans. Are we seeing an underspend across the board or are some...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I invite the Minister to the Witches Lane, which is where I grew up, but she should make sure she is in the 4 x 4. She should not bring the-----

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: He might have heard similar concerns in terms of footpaths around my county as well.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (23 Nov 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 59. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the take-up of the green for business programme for small businesses, broken down by LEO offices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51401/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (23 Nov 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 74. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the take-up of the climate planning fund for business and the enterprise emissions reduction investment fund, the two streams of the green transition fund run by Enterprise Ireland; whether there will be an evaluation of progress in the effectiveness of the fund on decarbonisation at an interim point in the five years of the fund;...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (28 Nov 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 31. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the revised and increased carbon pricing will be published; if there is a particular barrier to its publication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52341/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (28 Nov 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: A number of parameters are set out in our public spending code as to how the State makes decisions about spending money on behalf of our citizens. One deficiency in that code, which I raised recently at the Committee of Public Accounts, relates to how we factor in greenhouse gas emissions. When will the revised and increased carbon pricing be published? Is there any barrier to its timely...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (28 Nov 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: That was an interesting history lesson on how and when we might arrive at something but I did not quite get a clear answer on when we actually will see it. One of the problems of dealing with pollution and its impact, be that carbon emissions or otherwise, is that while the benefits might be privatised, the costs are socialised. The use of our atmosphere is a classic case of tragedy of the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (28 Nov 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The following is supplemental, so the Minister of State might not have it to hand. His senior Minister recently said the public spending code will be replaced by a set of infrastructure guidelines. Will the Minister of State confirm whether we are talking about an amendment to the public spending code or a wholesale rewriting of it? Deputy Durkan’s comments were not about swans...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (28 Nov 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Is it inquisitor? It sounds like being held over a building but translating that into a figure that makes sense on a balance sheet is important and could stand alongside the shadow pricing of carbon.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (28 Nov 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Perhaps the Deputy will correspond with the Minister of State in writing, as our time for oral questions has elapsed.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (28 Nov 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 37 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Alan Dillon - To discuss Ireland's indigenous gas supply and energy security. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore - To discuss the lack of secondary school places for Greystones, County Wicklow. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan - To discuss the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (28 Nov 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 48. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the new infrastructure guidelines for the Public Sector Spending Code, to include consideration of climate and nature impacts, will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52342/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (28 Nov 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether her Department has allocated funding to a school (details supplied) for a permanent building to extend the school; and when it expects this work to be completed. [52107/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Nov 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We have had quite a while now without a major election in this country, the last one being in February 2020, but 2024 will be a year of elections, between local, European and directly elected mayoral, as well as a referendum and Lord knows what else. Four years might seem a short timeframe, but there have been profound shifts in that time in how we do politics and elections, particularly...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister and the officials for being here today. Like Deputy O'Sullivan, there are five issues I would like to raise, so I will rattle through them in what is a very constrained timeframe. The first is the issue of pay. Clearly, the most valuable resource within our education area is our children, but the second most valuable one is our educators. Has the Minister given...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Their reuse and value for money. There is curricular pressure. A parent might have an expectation concerning a school textbook, but an educator might have decided to go a different way in delivering the topic.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is discontinued.