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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: What is the title of the European Commission report?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will surely find it from that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will stick with the theme of smart technology and smart meters, in particular. Small meters could be installed in the short term rather than the medium term. The installation of smart meters has been rolled out and the penetration is very good at this point. Trying to understand the best energy package to suit someone's data is not straightforward. It is something that could be very...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: If there was an officer in every county council whose role was to advise people in social housing or with HAP tenancies on their best electricity usage and what plan was best for them, such an initiative would be incredibly powerful as it does not involve the building of infrastructure and a lot of good jobs would be created but they would take time. I wish to ask one last question and I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Has uptake of that tax relief been really poor?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Am I correct that loan scheme will be available at the end of next month?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Has Ms McPhillips any sense of a timeline whereby that process might be dealt with and the public gets to see the reports they paid for?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will pick up where we left off. I wanted to ask earlier about recidivism rates. To have any prisoner find himself back in prison is a failure in terms of how we are setting up our Prison Service, or perhaps not our Prison Service but all of society. There are a number of reasons to choose to incarcerate somebody, such as punishment or the safety of wider society, but we need to have a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We are at 81% and they are such young lives. The more resources we put into that, the better. It can be approached from whatever perspective. It is fantastic value for money to use a very simplistic metric, but it is possible to make a significant impact on a life. There is another issue I want to raise.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I want to raise a specific issue. This committee heard private testimony from a whistleblower in the Prison Service in late 2018 and officials from the Prison Service appeared before the Committee on Public Accounts in early 2019 - it was before I was a member of the committee - to answer the issues raised. The Department of Justice then commissioned an investigative report in October 2019...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: That is why I asked a generalised question.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I have a final succinct question about the naturalisation process for minors. It is taking ages. Adults are getting through the naturalisation process and it is taking longer for some of their children.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am conscious I miss a number of these afternoon meetings but the Office of Public Works, OPW, was listed on the work programme at one stage and has slipped off it. Would the Chair be able to tell me what-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: There are a number of issues but I will come back to the committee on those.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Am I correct in saying that amendment No. 391 is included in this group?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Very good. I welcome some of the things the Minister has said. Fáiltím go bhfoilseofar na dréacht-treoirlínte go luath. Tá muintir na Gaeltachta agus muintir na Gaeilge ag fanacht ar na treoirlínte sin le fada an lá. Mar sin, fáiltím roimh an méid sin. I also welcome what the Minister has said about affordable housing in the Gaeltacht....
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: "Tithíocht ar phraghas réasúnta" might be a better way of going about it. This is really exciting. I know this is a difficult issue to tease through but we need coinníollacha teanga so that if we are making affordable housing available within Gaeltacht communities, it benefits the Gaeltacht as an area as opposed to undermining it. I am little nonplussed as to why...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am also named on amendment No. 8 so I might as well speak to it. The first thing I would note is something Deputy Ó Broin touched on. I have a level of disappointment that these are all grouped. It was a decision made somewhere along the line. It was decided that these are all the Gaeilge amendments so we will deal with them all in one go. As Deputy Ó Broin has said, what the...