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Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Taking the two issues together, are we talking about a total payment of approximately €15,000?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is difficult for us to tease through those issues, particularly when we got the documentation at such short notice. In its opening statement, Sport Ireland outlined that corrective actions were taken afterwards. Was repayment of the excess part of the corrective action?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: That money has been recouped by the FAI. That, at the very least, is good to hear. I have some questions for the representatives of Sport Ireland. We seem to have sporting organisations before the committee more often than I would like. We have a line of sight on the departmental funding and how it comes to be with Sport Ireland. We see how it is disbursed among the national governing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the witnesses for the opening statement and, indeed, for this report, which covers this issue very comprehensively. Questions were asked in last week's committee meeting about identifying the push and pull factors in this context. I refer in particular to those four A levels, for example, the timing of offers, etc. I do not wish to rehash that debate because it was well rehearsed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I wonder what is driving it. Is it a sense that I will go to a certain city to have my college experience and that is why I decide to go away from home or is it that a course is not offered in my region and therefore I have to go elsewhere?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: This was the question I wanted to ask. I refer to our sense of where the baseline should be if we were to remove the institutional barriers. I know, though, that it is probably very difficult to quantify.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is really only a handful of students. The figures from 2020-21 show that 1,170 students from Ireland went to study in Northern Ireland and there has not been a great deal of change since then. Do we have figures for people travelling to other jurisdictions? How many Irish kids are going to England and Scotland? Do we have many students going to Europe?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Okay. In terms of students in Northern Ireland, many of them have to make the choice to go away, similar to the situation for students in the south east, because there is a cap on courses and there is not the same level of choice. Substantially more of them, however, go to the UK. Geographically, the Republic of Ireland is close and it would be possible for students to get a train as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Is there any sense of a class-based system, a scourge we can be thankful to be more or less free from in the Republic of Ireland? Dr. Darmody spoke about Oxbridge and certain families having certain expectations. While I am not saying that there are not families in Ireland that have certain expectations about where their children are going to end up, I think the class system is more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: That was very interesting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: No, I am good.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Does Deputy Sherlock wish to reply?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Amendments Nos. 50 to 59, inclusive, are related and will be discussed together.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is duly noted. Pursuant to Standing Order 187(3), the clerk to the committee will report specially to the Dáil that the committee has amended the Title. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Message to Dáíl (28 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Clerk of the Dáil: The Select Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science has completed its consideration of the Research and Innovation Bill 2024 and has made amendments thereto and has amended the Title.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: How can I make the distinction? Are these Irish children? I do not want to distinguish.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Okay. I said I wanted to put that to one side as I absolutely accept-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: -----it would have need to impossible to predict that. I am asking about what modelling we do based on population whereby we anticipate services rather than respond.