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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank Deputy McAuliffe for doing a very valuable piece of work where he worked through that business of people arriving undocumented. His work was very forensic and it was a very good use of the committee's time. Deputy Murphy focused on one person who was paid €77,138 in overtime in the one year. That is one example. It is hard to get one's head around that amount of overtime....
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is a long working week when one has put in an extra 360 hours.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: My next question is on the impacts of the lack of staffing. Is Ms McCaffrey confident that the Prison Service is adhering to the Organisation of Working Time Act?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: As I said, I am going to turn to another issue where resources come into play. I am addressing a letter from Ms McCaffrey to the Chairperson of the joint Oireachtas committee on education. As she knows, we visited Mountjoy. She pointed to some of the increased investment that has been made in the educational budget. It is difficult to pick out the educational budget. I can see the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I know, and I am going to ask a question about recidivism and where we sit internationally. I would like to be given a ball-park understanding of the closures. I will take the Mountjoy example because that is where the committee visited. In an average month how many days is the library closed when we would like it to be open or for how many days is the school closed when we would like it...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Another issue I wish to flag, which was raised within the committee's report, is there is no access to educational psychologists for inmates if they have a learning difficulty. In a lot of cases an unidentified learning difficulty distances somebody from their education system. If they become distanced from their education system their likelihood of ending up in prison is far higher. It is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The ten minutes always seems like it is going to be long and then when you are in it is incredibly short, but I will move to another issue. There was inspection report oversight monitoring visit during the Covid-19 pandemic at the Dóchas Centre, which was published in August 2020. A significant section of that report is redacted. Ms McCaffrey may correct me if I am wrong on this, but...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: They are not outstanding though. They are-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Okay, I thank Ms McPhillips for that. I want to talk through a specific issue my office has been dealing with. We have been banging our heads against the wall for a long time. It might be a niche issue, but if we addressed it we could get a good result for people in a short space of time. It is around qualified bus drivers coming in from South Africa. There are people who are English...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Their documentation has already been cleared in order to get the work permit in the first place. That is the penultimate step, because then the National Driver Licence Service requires a PPS number, proof of PPS, proof of address and all these things. That takes a further 20 days. There are bits in this process that are adding on time, like the two to three weeks waiting around for an...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Very good.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I know the Department of Transport also has a role to play in this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The times have improved in Dublin, but outside Dublin they have slipped. They were four to five weeks and now they are out to two or three months.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I raised bus drivers because I have been dealing with the issue quite a bit-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
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Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: -----but I am sure it applies across the board for people who are arriving for work permits.
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Policies (15 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 52. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has considered the potential inclusion of a standalone indicator on language and culture in our Well-being Framework, using either the Welsh or the New Zealand model as an exemplar; if she has discussed same with the Department of the Taoiseach; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6747/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (15 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 56. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for an update on the latest round of the sports capital and equipment programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6735/24]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is a bitter disappointment that witnesses from the Department of Social Protection are not here. The reason is that it would be very interesting to have witnesses from both Departments in the same room. Do both Departments often get into the same room to discuss energy poverty given that we are talking about two sides of the same coin? The Department of the Environment, Climate and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am heartened to hear that. Is the seniority of the officials attending those meetings sufficient to make things happen?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Very good. When I am thinking about the green and digital transitions, I think of the words of William Gibson, which I have used here before. He said: "The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed". That is very true and retrofit is a good example of it. I know the many programmes outlined by the witnesses are very welcome but it will take a long time before...