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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I have an eye on the clock so I ask Ms Kelly to concentrate on the metrics the RSA is trying to include on, say, the driver's side in respect of an asymmetric collision involving a vulnerable road user.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Perhaps the RSA can furnish us with a note. I do not mean to be rude but I only have one minute and 40 seconds to raise a couple of other issues. I am very interested in finding out what data fields are reported, what are the GDPR issues and how we can anonymise that information to better understand, particularly with an asymmetric collision, the movements of the person driving the two...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I want to return to the sharing of collision data. The issue arose in 2020. Did Mr. Walsh say a ministerial order was signed last week?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is amazing the things that happen the week before a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am sure there was. The coincidence always astounds me. The interim period lasted four years. When did the RSA bring this issue to the attention of the Department? In respect of the legal process, we are talking about ministerial orders but there is a need for legislation. We have had several Bills brought through the Department of Transport, including a miscellaneous provisions Bill....

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: With the indulgence of the Chair, I would like to ask a final question. Members would be interested in seeing a timeline for the interactions around moving from establishing the problem to resolving it. In respect of serious collision data, we had relied on the Garda Síochána and now, because of recommendations made by the European Commission, we are starting to take the serious...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Will Mr. Rowland put a percentage figure on that in terms of the difference in reporting using An Garda Síochána's figures and hospital figures? Are we talking about 20% or 50%?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: So the figure of €1.39 billion could be a serious underestimate.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It could as much as twice as many.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The RSA's briefing note is very good and detailed but I could not see that information anywhere.

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

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 244. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that the sexual health clinic in Waterford is effectively non-operational and local health services are unable to offer PrEP services, for which people have to travel to Cork or Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27673/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2024: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank Ms Lucey for the opening presentation and the briefing material. As the Chair said, it is very useful and has certainly educated me on the provisions of the Bill. It is worth noting that the Department's quick response to the decision of the Supreme Court is welcome. Along with many others, I welcomed the decision of the Supreme Court. It addressed a very important issue, but I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2024: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: My second question refers to levelling down. Is this the levelling down that Ms Lucey is speaking of?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2024: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Could she walk me through a practical example of that, so that I have a better grasp on it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2024: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: In the first instance, I reiterate what I said to the previous witnesses that the Department is to be praised for turning this legislation around so quickly after the Supreme Court judgment that gave rise to it. That judgment clearly created a need for us to respond in a legislative fashion and the Department has done so very quickly. I will make a number of points, some of which are in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2024: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is. The Cathaoirleach explained it better than I did.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2024: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: My question was about taking the commencement date from the date of the judgment, and whether we can stand over that.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the witnesses for their presentation and for the briefing material. We are in high danger of a Paddy Kavanagh quote at some stage, but that can wait. I want to pick up on a number of points Deputy O'Connor made. I will move through them relatively quickly. On staffing costs, in the context of pay rates for directors, a top rate of €107,141 is listed on page 34 of the...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Very good. That is a more than satisfactory answer. I was not sure whether it included the CEO grade or not. I want to ask another question arising from the annual accounts. Waterways Ireland is running this €3.6 million deficit, but it has €10.7 million cash on the books. It just seems like a lot of cash. I would have an issue. I remember serving on a board of...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The witnesses get my point around having quite so much cash lying around. It is not something I would feel comfortable about, but if it is ring-fenced and set beside projects that are in the future then that answers my question in that sense. Another question I want to ask in this general financial space is about how 93% of Waterways Ireland's assets are these operational assets. These...