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Housing and Homeless Prevention: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Deputies will have ample opportunity to make their contributions.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (23 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 178. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress made in respect of the safe routes to school scheme, the completed and in-progress projects by end-2023; the associated costs of the programme, per county; the anticipated timeframe for the completion of projects at all schools under Round 1 and 2; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2702/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Transport Policy (23 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 363. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding his Departments study on Transit-oriented Development on Waterford, Galway, Limerick and Cork, its publication date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2957/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Transport Policy (23 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 364. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on using the transport-oriented development principle approach for spatial equity-proofing strategic planning in Ireland, in order to achieve true balanced regional development and alleviate pressure on the east coast; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2958/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (23 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 486. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps his Department will take domestically and internationally to meet the commitments outlined in the UAE Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Food Systems and Climate Action, to which Ireland signed up to at COP28; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2930/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (23 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 606. To ask the Minister for Health the level of collaboration between his Department and the HSE to streamline the process whereby aids and appliances provided through HSE resource allocation groups for children with disabilities in order to avoid and remove barriers as outlined in the case of a child (details supplied), to ensure they have timely access to mobility aids to optimise their...

Charities (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (25 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: There will be a large amount of repetition of the contributions made by the Minister of State and members of the main Opposition party. I echo what Deputy Paul Donnelly said about the PLS process in which the committee engaged. It was useful. One of the aspects that was most useful had to do with how there was a fair amount of anxiety when the heads of the Bill were produced. The session...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Heritage Sites (25 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: A Mexican stand-off on Main Street in Celbridge. What is the Minister of State going to do to solve it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister and his officials for being here this evening. It is always a very useful session. I have six points that I want to touch on and a limited amount of time to do so. I will get straight to it. I wish to refer to the number one issue that is raised with me by the technological universities in particular. As the Minister knows, Waterford Institute of Technology operated...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: That is very good. The second issue I want to raise is centres of excellence in terms of teacher training education. I think a number of centres of excellence were prescribed as far back as the 1970s. An educational facility could not put on a teacher training course unless it was nominated as a centre of excellence. I am again coming at this from a regional perspective. Some 600,000...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The third question I will put to the Minister is something we have spoken about before. He referred to horizon planning. I have spoken about the Acht na dteangacha and the fact that it has very ambitious targets for recruitment into the public service, whereby 20% of new entrants from 2030 are supposed to have a certain required level of Irish. An Coimisinéir Teanga has spoken about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will roll the final three points into one because they have been touched on by other speakers. There was great news for three universities in terms of student-specific accommodation. I know the TU sector has been a little bit further behind, but within the sector Waterford is ahead, in that it has a track record of providing student-specific accommodation. The Minister might just give me...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Does the Minister have any more definite timeline than just "this year".

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: On the timeline with regard to pharmacy, the Minister said that the Department of agriculture would have to look at the veterinary aspect. We would like a particular result out of that but that would be pre-empting the process. Where are we with regard to pharmacy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Chair and the Minister.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (25 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The Minister of State has so far been on a tour of the country. He has been in the Shannon Callows and he has been in Celbridge. I will bring him to west Waterford and Deputy Buckley will shortly take him across the Cork-Waterford border to east Cork. I will bring him to a number of places in west Waterford, but I will begin with Tallow, County Waterford. There are just over 1,000 people...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (25 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister of State. I know responsibility lies with Irish Water. However, as we have all experienced, we can make the necessary representations through the Oireachtas liaison channels but sometimes the focus of the Dáil on the issue helps to sharpen attention and that is what I hope to do this evening. The Minister of State did more or less what I did in my initial...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Chair for the opportunity because I am not an ordinary member of this committee. I have been very strict with myself in that I have restricted myself to only eight issues.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It was not on my list. It is one of the items that did not make it. I will start with the North Quays. We have the integrated transport hub, which is due to move from the current location at Plunkett Station to a location further up the quay. It will be the linchpin of the development and where the new sustainable transport bridge crossing the River Suir will land. I have been talking to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: What of the later trains?