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Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: How can I adjudicate on the question of the value for money of what was built unless Mr. O'Connor can tell me, roughly, what it cost to build these units and what value, approximately, they would realise if there was an attempt to trade them? I acknowledge all the provisos concerning the free market not necessarily being the greatest judge of value and blah blah blah. How am I supposed to...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: That is great. Mr. O'Connor is the specialist. Do the equation and give me an answer.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Great. I subsidised the private sector. That is fantastic. I am running out of time but I had questions around the fact that these units were developed in conjunction with the Construction Industry Federation. When these are rapid-build units and modern methods of construction are in use all over the world, why could we not find an off-the-peg solution to suit the sites we were using? We...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I just wanted that information for background because I want to talk about nature-based solutions and soft engineering. We are very late to the table on this. The briefing documentation supplied to us the OPW says that the development of flood relief schemes under the OPW's capital programme now involves a specific requirement to assess the potential for nature-based solutions as part of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: How many flood relief schemes have within their planning a significant component of soft engineering or nature-based solutions?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: How does the OPW do a cost-benefit analysis of nature-based or soft engineering solutions versus hard engineering solutions? This is a complicated question in several parts. How does the OPW do the cost-benefit analysis? How does it do the natural capital accounting, whereby the cost-benefit analysis takes account not just of flood prevention but also biodiversity benefits, carbon...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Is there any natural capital accounting element at all, whereby the OPW also includes the attendant benefits of biodiversity pay-off, carbon sequestration, water attenuation within the landscape and so on?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The OPW is looking into it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: There is very good work happening in Trinity College on it. The OPW would not have to go far.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Is the OPW talking to the people who are developing the national biodiversity action plan, which is on a statutory footing and which would include provision for these types of metrics? Does the OPW have an eye to the nature restoration law? It is on the rocks at the minute but there is a commitment from the Government to proceed on nature restoration. Are these things factoring into the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We are still at a fairly embryonic stage in that. Is that what Mr. Casey is telling me?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Allotments Provision (13 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 95. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 221 of 18 April 2024, for an update on the publication date for a guide to the provision of allotments and community gardens by local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25851/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I suppose I had better say something nice about Eamon Ryan, seeing as how others have. Eamon was the reason I joined the party in 2015. Many of us in the House can describe a problem, but few people put a solution to that problem afterwards. I have got to know Eamon since 2020. He is a great politician, but he is a better man.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I wish to raise the issue of post offices. They are a vital piece of community infrastructure. Postmasters are falling between two stools at the moment. They are suffering from cost-of-living increases. Many of them have missed out on the increased cost of business scheme, ICOB. As many as 50% cannot avail of it. They have funding out to 2025 but will have to negotiate a new seven-year...

Hospitality and Tourism Sector: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Tá an t-am istigh. Your time has elapsed.

Hospitality and Tourism Sector: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Deputy. Deputy Doherty is sharing time with a number of other speakers. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Hospitality and Tourism Sector: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Deputies Canney and Tóibín of the Regional Group are sharing time.

Hospitality and Tourism Sector: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I welcome to the Visitors Gallery the retired gardaí from Clonmel who are visiting Leinster House today. They are very welcome. I call the Minister of State, Deputy Byrne, to reply to the debate, after which there will be a response from the Rural Independent Group. As we are up against the clock, I ask speakers to be economical with their time.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (18 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 325. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the recent ESRI report entitled "Changes and challenges facing the Irish long-term residential care sector since COVID-19"; his plans to address the disparity between funding for public and private nursing home providers; his plans for Budget 2025; if increases to Fair Deal funding are needed to match inflation; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (18 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 340. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the requirement of an individual’s eye report for each application for reimbursement for low vision aids and the change in support for one magnifier and one pair of cocoons every year to every three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25971/24]