Results 2,701-2,720 of 3,777 for speaker:Marc Ó Cathasaigh

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

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 340. 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. [5130/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (7 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 341. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware of the case (details supplied); if there are plans to intervene on their behalf; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5138/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (8 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 144. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 116 of 12 December 2023, if his Department has funding options for community and voluntary organisations to lead on climate action including training and awareness raising. [5932/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service (8 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 151. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence whether his Department considered the use of the decommissioned vessels LÉ Eithne, LÉ Ciara and LÉ Orla by the Irish Coastguard or the Irish Naval Reserve for training purposes or as a maritime museum ship located at Haulbowline Island in Cork Harbour, as noted in a scoping study (details supplied); and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (8 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 191. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to review the key outcomes and key impacts for the LEO network in performance budgeting; his views on the introduction of key outcomes and impacts for green budgeting across all departmental programmes, as reported on in the annual Public Service Performance Report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5953/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (8 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 192. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to outline the targets for Green for Business take up in each county for 2024 and for an update, if available, on the applications approved, training attended or completed assessments broken down by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5954/24]

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

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The Minister may not have the information in front of her but I would be interested to know whether the Department has a breakdown by family size because the eligibility is dependent on family size. It would be interesting to me and the other members of the committee to have a sense of this. I assume it is people with larger families who tend to avail of the working family payment but I...

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I very much welcome the provisions of the Bill. My children at home, three lads, are at a point where we are trying to give them a little more independence and let them go to the shop by themselves to pick up sweets or whatever it is. We are trying to drum into them road safety and how they should be safe on the roads. While I was thinking about the Bill, I realised the language I am using...

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is Minister Chamber's Bill.

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is the Minister of State's Bill.

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is not his Bill.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Teaching Qualifications (13 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has considered designating any further universities, including technological universities, as centres of excellence for the purposes of teacher training education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6340/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Teaching Qualifications (13 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I have put this question to the Minister, Deputy Harris, on a number of occasions in his role as Minister for further and higher education. It relates to the designation of universities or technological universities as centres of excellence for the purposes of teacher training education. As it stands, only a certain number of universities are sanctioned as centres of excellence. It means...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Teaching Qualifications (13 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister for her response. I am hearing a status quoresponse as opposed to the opportunity to change. The Minister will know this landscape well. For primary teacher education, you will be looking at the three colleges in Dublin or at Limerick. It is a little more open in terms of secondary school education. To be parochial about it - not parochial but regional - there are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Teaching Qualifications (13 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The autonomy of the universities is one thing but this gateway around designation as a centre of excellence has effectively locked the likes of SETU out of this sector. Another aspect I draw the Minister's attention to is SETU's capacity to be a Gaeltacht university. We have a Gaeltacht in Waterford and an area where there is a real need is teachers teaching subjects through the medium...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (13 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has considered the reintroduction of the qualifications allowance for teachers at primary level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6341/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Sector Pay (13 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 428. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 889 of 17 January 2024, if her Department has taken steps to engage with all stakeholders including the Citizens Information Board (CIS), the employer and staff CIS representatives and the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan and Reform in relation to the WRC pay...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (13 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 433. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current number of schools and students enrolled in the free hot school lunches primary schools programme, broken down by county; anticipated additional schools and students to be added with the expansion of the scheme in April 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6172/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (13 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 434. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether there is an evaluation of the packaging and food waste impacts of the free hot school lunches programme; the percentage of packaging that can be and is recycled; the percentage of full lunches left over each day; if there is a Departmental plan to reduce the amount of waste generated as the scheme expands to provide...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (13 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 435. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether delivery miles and transport emissions involved in distribution of the free hot school lunches programme is being assessed and evaluated; if there is a Departmental plan to address this for the long-term implementation of the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6174/24]