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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick
Special Report No. 117 of the Comptroller Auditor General: University of Limerick Property Acquisitions in Limerick City (3 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Okay. We have a long way to go with it. In his opening statement, the Comptroller and Auditor General identified some issues regarding calculation of remuneration for senior staff. Has this been resolved or is it a continuing practice? Has this issue been unpicked or do we still have this legacy?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick
Special Report No. 117 of the Comptroller Auditor General: University of Limerick Property Acquisitions in Limerick City (3 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am referring to the higher than normal awards of professional added years for professional purposes. Has this been addressed?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick
Special Report No. 117 of the Comptroller Auditor General: University of Limerick Property Acquisitions in Limerick City (3 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Do we have any legacy issues? Are payments still being made under the old system?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (3 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 177. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the development of a role of ‘enhanced practitioner’ grade in radiation therapy, a level of practice after ‘clinical specialist radiation therapist’ and before ‘advanced practice radiation therapist’, as is the case in other jurisdictions, and as recommended by the Radiation Therapist Review Working...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Qualifications (3 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 179. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the processing time for registration of radiation therapists, the current average processing time, and his Department’s target registration processing time by the end of quarter 4 2024 and the end of quarter 4 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39514/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Qualifications (3 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 180. To ask the Minister for Health his Department’s target processing time for the recognition of qualifications awarded outside the State for radiation therapists, in advance of their registration, given the inclusion of radiation therapists on the critical skills list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39515/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (3 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the provision of funding for full-time practice tutors in the area of radiation therapy to ensure adequate tutor-to-student ratios in the relevant universities, as recommended in the Radiation Therapist Review Working Group report of July 2024, to help address the staffing deficits and service provision in radiation oncology...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (3 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase places for radiation therapists in universities, given their inclusion on the critical skills list, and to help address the staffing deficits and service provision challenges in radiation oncology centres across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39520/24]

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I congratulate the Chairperson on her ascension to the role. I thank the committee members for the opportunity to address them regarding my Private Member's Bill, the Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023. I acknowledge the important work this committee has done over the course of this Dáil term and thank committee members for taking the time in their work schedule to consider...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Senator for his positive comments. It does say in the section he referenced "including but not limited to". I was very conscious that I was bringing a particular perspective to the Bill I was writing, and that by bringing my perspective, I was surely missing other people's perspective. If that makes it as far as Committee Stage, and if Senator Clonan's suggestion were to be...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: This goes to the heart of the matter. Some very good work is being done in the Department of the Taoiseach on the well-being framework. I acknowledge that. Ms Bourke and Ms Jacobs will know that I have particular views around the inclusion of language and culture and never pass up an opportunity to bring that up. It is a question of where that work goes and how much it influences the...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will be brief because I will have a final word again next week and I do not want to repeat myself too much. What motivated me and drove me towards this approach is that there are larger problems we will face as a society and as a species that cannot be solved in a five-year time horizon. Dr. O’Mahony said to me a number of years ago that we might all disagree and be at each...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (8 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 15. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the engineering building in SETU, and progress of the bundle 2 procurement process; his plans to ensure a timely commencement of the construction of the new engineering building; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39802/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (8 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 18. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the assignment of a new pharmacy school to applicant universities to address the significant shortfall of pharmacists working in the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39801/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (8 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 25. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether a person who was born in the UK to an Irish mother, and was subsequently adopted by a UK family, is eligible for an Irish passport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39921/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (8 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 82. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the reopening of the Waterford to Rosslare rail line, given its inclusion in the All-Island Strategic Rail Review, and the positive potential economic impact on the south east region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39916/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (8 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 126. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide a response to Parliamentary Question Nos. 98 and 99 of 20 June 2024 with regard to the OPW preferred contractors list, following two granted requests for additional time to reply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39624/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Charges (8 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 574. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the abolition of the €100 accident and emergency charge for children with severe epilepsy, including Dravet syndrome, who may require frequent accident and emergency visits to treat acute seizures. [39942/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (8 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 575. To ask the Minister for Health his views on publicly funding the drug fenfluramine in the treatment of severe seizures as experienced by infants and children with Dravet syndrome who have and develop a high resistance to other anti-seizure medication, given the impact on the seizures on the children in both in the acute stage and as they develop in later years, and given that the drug is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (8 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 583. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant posts, under active recruitment, broken down across disciplines, including, but not restricted to, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, psychology, radiation therapy and social work, across units in CHO5, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39954/24]