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Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Of the one in six found to be non-compliant, how many of them came back into compliance subsequently after the engagement with the Department? Are these all faults that are quickly remedied, as in, there has been a misunderstanding here, the paperwork has been wrong and so on, or are there repercussions for people who continue in a state of non-compliance?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Ms Brooks was hoping to come in on it.

Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Motion (18 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will pick up where the Deputy left off in echoing his comments about the rights of nature and the establishment of the expert group. We do need that constitutional change to recognise people's right to a healthy environment on one hand and the rights of nature on the other. We know from very recent history that referenda are tricky. In the longer term and particularly as we look at the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Allotments Provision (18 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 221. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position of the publication date for a best-practice guide for the provision of allotments and community gardens by local authorities, as agreed in a meeting with an organisation (details supplied) in June 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17197/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (18 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 271. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if, with regard to the TAMS scheme, he will consider allowing farmhouse and farm bills to be linked in one bill, allow unused electricity sold to the grid to be offset at full price to electricity purchased from the grid or any other measure which would make the scheme more viable for farmers of all types regardless of the amount...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I do not think we will be at cross-purposes in this discussion. It looks like I would be lead questioner on that issue. We should flag active travel as it has been an area of huge growth in expenditure and I would be very interested in that issue. Active travel teams have been put into every council and they are supposed to recruit into those roles and build in-house capacity. I would be...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: They have all been given additional engineers. The problem is that many of those roles cannot be filled and they cannot find the competencies, because, whatever about engineers, behavioural change people are also needed who are experts at community engagement. We all know about active travel in our communities, that if we get out and explain it to people, there will be much better buy-in....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is in the programme for Government.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Active travel, certainly.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Flood relief schemes come under the remit of the OPW.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I imagine that this will be dealt with in correspondence next week. I wrote to the committee secretariat about the Road Safety Authority. This can be checked with the secretariat, but I believe the authority's representatives have not appeared before the committee since 2006. I know the matter is topical and that the Minister is doing a job of work in respect of it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thought we were not going to be taking it until next week.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The Comptroller and Auditor General will tell me which Vote the authority comes under, given that he has audited it previously.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I again raise a long-term and ongoing issue at Heilbhic Pier in Gaeltacht na nDéise just outside Dungarvan. For a number of days each month when the tide is at its lowest, the RNLI boat cannot launch. It cannot exit the slipway. The harbour is silted up. I have been around the houses on this. It has been a case of pass the parcel. I have put questions to the Department of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (23 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The time is very short for what is a very important discussion. I find this proposal deeply concerning. It is not the direction in which Horizon Europe should be moving. It would create a competitive disadvantage in Ireland if we had to competitively tender in this sort of dual-use area, quite apart from the moral implications. I recommend that the Chair and committee consider making a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (23 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The Department had a previous Minister who has now moved upwards. Was it discussed with the previous Minister, now Taoiseach, and, if so, did he make his position on the matter explicit?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (23 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: If it was not discussed with either Minister, how is Mr. Moore in a position to state that Ireland has favoured retaining the civilian status? Is that based on historical precedent?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (23 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: While I do not necessarily like to create work for the secretariat, I suggest a second action, namely, that we write to the Minister and ask him to make his position explicit.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: European Year of Skills 2023: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank all the organisations in attendance. They come from a wide range of areas, from pure research to employment upskilling, aimed at delivering excellence in skills and providing a place for people who find it difficult to get their education in other places. Both Ms Healy and Mr. McLoughlin have shown the strength of the organisations that have helped them get their education. They...