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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The law of the land, however, does not. It is completely silent on the definition of "community garden" in any legislation I can find. "Allotment" is well set out. "Community garden" is not. For that reason, I prepared a Private Members' Bill that sets out the definition of "community garden" and provides for a number of other measures, particularly around the obligations we could...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: As I understand it, that is the Cathaoirleach's amendment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I have not joined in on that. It is very simply where we are referring to allotments. The position regarding allotments is well set out in law and is well understood. It is to include, side by side with that, a definition of "community garden". In practice, very often these community spaces have an element of both happening together. There will be an area that is managed by a community...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Yes, I am withdrawing it on that basis.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (27 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 9. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking in 2024, the European Year of Skills, to increase the uptake of lifelong learning; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9084/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Private Partnerships (27 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 49. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding progress on the public private partnership, bundle 2, specifically with reference to the funding of the engineering building in the Waterford Campus SETU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9083/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (27 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 476. To ask the Minister for Health for the steps his Department is taking regarding the provision of a dedicated diabetes care unit in University Hospital Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8661/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (27 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 477. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dedicated whole-time equivalent consultant endocrinologists, dietitians, advanced nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, staff nurses, podiatrists and administrative support posts currently dedicated to the outpatient adult diabetes clinic in University Hospital Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8662/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (27 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 478. To ask the Minister for Health the steps his Department is taking regarding the recruitment of a dedicated diabetes physiologist for all with type 1 diabetes in University Hospital Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8663/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff^ (27 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 479. To ask the Minister for Health the steps his Department is taking to ensure the HSE has the necessary funding and support for recruitment to ensure that University Hospital Waterford has the minimum members of staff required to manage the diabetes unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8664/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (27 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 480. To ask the Minister for Health if contingency plans are in place for staffing of the diabetes unit in University Hospital Waterford, as a model 4 hospital, to ensure adequate cover in the event of staff illness or leave; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8665/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (27 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 481. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults attending University Hospital Waterford with type 1 diabetes who have requested insulin pump therapy and when those patients can expect to avail of said diabetes technology; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8666/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (27 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 482. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with diabetes who are awaiting an appointment to see an endocrinologist over the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8667/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (27 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 483. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new insulin pump starts done in all hospitals within the RCSI Hospitals Group in people aged between zero to 17 years and those aged 18 years or more for 2019, 2020, 2021 2022 and 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8668/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (27 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 484. To ask the Minister for Health when the Sláintecare project on the development of a national diabetes register will recommence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8669/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (27 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 485. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital admissions that occurred through the University Hospital Waterford accident and emergency or the acute medical assessment units due to diabetic ketoacidosis in people aged between zero to 17 years and those aged 18 years or more in each of the years 2017 to 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8670/24]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I welcome the Minister of State's response. It makes common sense to include it. I have been doing this work with Community Gardens Ireland and we identified this lacuna in the law. It has been a barrier for community groups and a barrier in ensuring that local authorities provide really valuable services in all sorts of ways, including things like addressing climate change, reducing food...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Mar 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social affairs and public services will next meet. [8696/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (5 Mar 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, a statutory agency operating under the aegis of his Department. [8697/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the witnesses. I hope the witnesses from Friends of the Earth do not mind that I particularly thank the representatives of the Irish Cancer Society. I attended the launch of its report last week and I was moved by the testimony of John Joyce, who described with great bravery and dignity some of the challenges that people face towards the end of their lives. My first question is...