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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and Family Carers Ireland (5 May 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I have a couple of questions, one of which is for Family Carers Ireland. We have mentioned the lifetime family carer's pension. Do the witnesses have figures on how many people would be affected? I have a question for the Society of St. Vincent de Paul on fuel poverty. Does the society have any research or evidence on the energy ratings of the houses of the people we are talking about?...

Europe Day: Statements (11 May 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I have always considered myself a European. From early on, it was part of my self-definition. I was an Irish citizen first and foremost and within that, there are local and tribal loyalties like the address lines on an envelope marking townland, parish, county but in the wider frame, I am a European, a member of the European Economic Community as it was and, now, of the European Union. I...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Agreements (11 May 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 135. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the economic and sustainability impact assessment of the EU-Mercosur trade agreement which is being conducted by his Department; the expected publication date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24152/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (11 May 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the witnesses for their presentations and I wish we had more time to delve into them. It feels very rushed for topics on which we could spend an awful lot more time. I want to quickly mention some of the recurring themes that I am seeing appear between this week and last week, which are around revisiting the anti-bullying procedures, which clearly needs to be done; the collection of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (11 May 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Thank you. I have two questions which I hope Mr. Arneill and Mr. Holmes can answer quickly. There is so much I could ask Mr. Arneill but I have one specific question. Is there a role for the social media platforms? I am looking at the fact that 65% of eight to 12-year-olds have a social media account and I am quite sure many of those social media accounts require children to be over 13. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Business of Joint Committee (12 May 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I welcome all members of the joint committee to the meeting and remind them that for a duly constituted meeting to proceed, members are required to join the meeting remotely from within the defined precincts of Leinster House only. We have received apologies from Deputies Naughten and Ó Cuív and from Senators Gavan and Garvey. I ask members and witnesses to turn off their mobile...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submisssions and Considerations: Discussion (12 May 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We resume our meeting now and I apologise for the technical issues that delayed us. We now turn to the main item on our agenda which is our second discussion on the parliamentary budget cycle and the committee’s considerations for submitting our own prebudget submissions to the Ministers for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform in advance of next autumn’s budget. In...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submisssions and Considerations: Discussion (12 May 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank Mr. Cooper and Ms Garvey for their excellent presentations. I will turn now to Community Gardens Ireland. Mr. Donal McCormack will present to us.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submisssions and Considerations: Discussion (12 May 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Thank you, Mr. McCormack, for your presentation. I am deeply envious of Ms Foreman's community garden in Mulhuddart. The people in the Tramore Allotments Association have been banging their heads against that particular wall for almost a decade. I am dying to see it rolled out in my community. We will turn to the question-and-answer section now. I call on members to confine their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submisssions and Considerations: Discussion (12 May 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Not to cut across Deputy Donnelly but, with one eye to the clock, could he keep it as brief as possible?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submisssions and Considerations: Discussion (12 May 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: A representative of Community Gardens Ireland might like to address the Deputy's first couple of points.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submisssions and Considerations: Discussion (12 May 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I ask a representative from The Wheel to speak briefly. I have an eye on the clock.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submisssions and Considerations: Discussion (12 May 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank Mr. Cooper. I am conscious that other committee members may have questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submisssions and Considerations: Discussion (12 May 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The Deputy has gone on mute.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submisssions and Considerations: Discussion (12 May 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Senator Wall is indicating. If other members of the committee wish to follow him, I ask them to indicate via the raise hand function.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submisssions and Considerations: Discussion (12 May 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Mr. Cooper might come back to it. I will turn to Community Gardens Ireland and give them an opportunity to respond to the questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submisssions and Considerations: Discussion (12 May 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I welcome the presentations, particularly that from The Wheel. One of the values of having an umbrella organisation like The Wheel is that everyone in the community and voluntary sector must be involved in that day-to-day nitty-gritty and grind but The Wheel is taking a big picture view. That is essential. One of the things the pandemic has done is made us take stock and take a step back,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submisssions and Considerations: Discussion (12 May 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I have a brief question for Community Gardens Ireland. Before that, I wish to give an honourable mention to Grow It Yourself, GIY, Ireland Limited, which is based in Waterford. Tramore has the second oldest GIY branch in the country. I wish to mention the Grow It Forward scheme it is running this year, recognising that so many people have turned to their gardens. GIY has always been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submisssions and Considerations: Discussion (12 May 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank Mr. McCormack. I will mention one of my personal hobby horses, which is school gardens. I ran a school garden in my previous career for many years. I firmly believe, and if one gardens with one's children one knows this, that if they grow it they will eat it. I want to give them the opportunity to grow it. It opens their minds, and their palates as well. I call Senator Murphy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submisssions and Considerations: Discussion (12 May 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is certainly the first three-legged stool I have heard of with two half-legs, but I enjoyed the analogy. I will ask Community Gardens Ireland to give a brief comment with an eye to the clock.