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Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: That is very good. It is the clarity that I need. I want to raise a couple of issues across two heads. In B.1, there are two items jumping out at me where we did not hit the spend we would like. Women's health research and mother and baby homes research. Under E.1 developmental, consultative, supervisory, regulatory and advisory bodies, there was an underspend or postponement to...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: You can see, though, in the specific ones that I picked that there is a trend there. It is all around women's health.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (1 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 12. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department is advising further education campuses to engage with the TFI Smarter Travel Programme for Third Level Campuses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1546/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Pay-Related Social Insurance and Jobseeker’s Pay-Related Benefit Provisions) Bill 2024: Department of Social Protection (31 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will keep it relatively brief and tight. First, I welcome this legislation. We discussed it well at this committee. I welcome the straw man approach, which is very good and gives us something to respond to. People are increasingly beginning to understand that the straw man approach is not necessarily the fixed item but it gives you something to respond to. In a perfect case in point...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Pay-Related Social Insurance and Jobseeker’s Pay-Related Benefit Provisions) Bill 2024: Department of Social Protection (31 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is a difficult question to answer of course but whether that will be enough is the issue. The Department has costed this at €130 million in the present environment. I acknowledge that Ms Harrington said that on average, if you look over 23 years, buoyancy is more present than shocks but the current period is unusual. In terms of labour force participation, we are practically at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Pay-Related Social Insurance and Jobseeker’s Pay-Related Benefit Provisions) Bill 2024: Department of Social Protection (31 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Tell me this-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Pay-Related Social Insurance and Jobseeker’s Pay-Related Benefit Provisions) Bill 2024: Department of Social Protection (31 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Is this still being paid into the Social Insurance Fund, SIF?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Pay-Related Social Insurance and Jobseeker’s Pay-Related Benefit Provisions) Bill 2024: Department of Social Protection (31 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: While the SIF is looking fairly healthy right now, the actuarial reviews and forecasts for it are not as ebullient. Was any wider analysis done? This scheme is front-loaded in that the first three months will be the most expensive because of the tapered nature of it. One of the things that interests me about the scheme, if implemented, is the counter-cyclical nature and response within the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Pay-Related Social Insurance and Jobseeker’s Pay-Related Benefit Provisions) Bill 2024: Department of Social Protection (31 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I hope Ms Harrington is correct. I have nothing further to add. I thank the Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Pay-Related Social Insurance and Jobseeker’s Pay-Related Benefit Provisions) Bill 2024: Department of Social Protection (31 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: If any members participating online wish to make a contribution, now would be the time to indicate. Unfortunately, Deputy Ó Laoghaire, who had a good number of questions he wanted to put, has been pulled away for speaking time in the Dáil but he said he will correspond directly with the witnesses to put the questions. It is not ideal but it is just a function of busy people trying...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Pay-Related Social Insurance and Jobseeker’s Pay-Related Benefit Provisions) Bill 2024: Department of Social Protection (31 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank Ms Harrington, in that case. I thank all the witnesses. This does conclude the committee's business in public session for today. I propose the committee now goes into private session to consider other business.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: First, I want to be associated with the comments the Cathaoirleach made at the start. As I was in my office, I remembered how I sat my leaving certificate in 1994. The rainbow coalition was the first government I was aware of, and I am not sure that I would be sitting here if it were not for the rainbow coalition, particularly given its interventions around college fees. I do not think my...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I wanted to ask the Minister about the expansion of bands for working family payments. Has that translated into a larger uptake among people? Have the wage inflation or wage increases within our economy counterbalanced the changes we have made? Are we seeing many more people availing of the working family payment? Has expanding those bands been a success? Do we have a sense of the...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Do we know how many people are availing of the scheme and the expansion in numbers over successive budgets?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (7 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 333. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application by (details supplied) for a short-stay visa in Ireland in order that they can leave Gaza for their own personal safety and survival, and reside with and be financially supported by their family member in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5115/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (7 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 334. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for a status update on the application (details supplied) for a short-stay visa in Ireland in order that they can leave Gaza for their own personal safety and survival, and reside with and be financially supported by their family member in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5118/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (7 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 335. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for a status update on the application (details supplied) for a short-stay visa in Ireland in order that they can leave Gaza for their own personal safety and survival, and reside with and be financially supported by their family member in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5119/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (7 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 337. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on an application of a person (details supplied) for a short-stay visa in Ireland in order that they can leave Gaza for their own personal safety and survival, and reside with and be financially supported by their family member in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5123/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (7 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 338. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for a status update on the application (details supplied) for a short-stay visa in Ireland in order that they can leave Gaza for their own personal safety and survival, and reside with and be financially supported by their family member in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5124/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (7 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 339. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for a status update on the application (details supplied) for a short-stay visa in Ireland in order that they can leave Gaza for their own personal safety and survival, and reside with and be financially supported by their family member in Ireland,; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5127/24]