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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: While Ms Campion said there is nothing to change the previous stated position of the IFI, she is also saying that there is nothing to support the previous position of the IFI.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is a heavy load to lay at the door of Mr. Gorman when we have no written documentary evidence to prove that that decision was ever made by him. We have a statement from the previous head of HR.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Okay. In the time remaining, I want to have a look at the EY report. In his opening statement, Dr. Gallagher stated that he accepts all of the recommendations and that he is happy. I think it is a good piece of work. He is accepting all of the recommendations. Five of the detailed findings and recommendations, or five of the subheadings, from 2.1 to 2.5, inclusive, are to happen within...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The headings are: clear definition and agreement of the strategic remit of Inland Fisheries Ireland; realignment of board and committee structures and membership; refresh of supporting governance documents and provision of training; 2.4 is training and induction of board; and, probably critically, 2.5, relationship between the CEO and board chair. There is a number of sub-recommendations...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: You are doing pre-board meetings.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Very good.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: What of the strategic remit because some of the items identified in the IFI's own reporting are at variance with its statutory obligations?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: With the Chairperson's indulgence, one of the very last recommendations on 2.1 is "Arrangements should be formally established between IFI and the Department to ensure that IFI’s ongoing performance against these deliverables, be subject to appropriate monitoring and review." That is a question both for IFI and for the Department-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: -----in terms of discharging this key recommendation. Has that formal relationship been established?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Chair.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (24 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 36. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has received the submission from a body (details supplied) regarding a VAT exemption for counsellors and psychotherapists; if a VAT exemption will be forthcoming; the measures put in place by his Department to support counsellors and psychotherapists and to improve access to mental health supports for the public; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (24 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 62. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department's ICT grant monies will be paid to schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18200/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (24 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 63. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department minor works grant monies will be paid to schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18201/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (24 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 99. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware that children with coeliac disease, which has an incidence rate of 1 in 100 people in Ireland, are unable to avail of the hot school meals programme; the steps her Department can take to address this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18163/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: There is a huge amount in what the witnesses have presented this morning and then there are reading lists accompanying most of the submissions. There is a considerable amount to take in. I am going to torture a couple of metaphors to death by way of opening. When Dr. Griffin said our welfare system is a "perpetual calibration", it made me think of a bicycle. People will say I am a Green...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: There are so many things hanging off the back of the horse that maybe there is a need for a reset. Of course, that is what the Department is doing by examining the means tests. I agree with the point about universalism. That is where we should be going. I also agree on the point that there should be grace when a person has to interact with the social protection system. It is important to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: My reservation about participation income relates to the slightly paternalistic idea that people should be doing something useful. It involves somebody making a judgment on what is useful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I know that the Chair is interested, in the context of science but also in this area, in how we tie up research and policymaking, given we are in the business of policymaking. It was rightly identified that one aspect of the meat and drink of a TD's constituency office is people coming through the door, and there is a certain element of clientelism in that regard. It is about how we make...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Yes, it is to break up the list into small pieces for us.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: As a few of those questions were directed at Dr. Griffin, we will begin with him.