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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (10 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 141. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his Department’s plans to streamline the process by which an Irish driving licence is issued following receipt of an Irish residence permit at the NDLS in order to reduce the current three-week timeline so that employees from overseas can enter the transport system workforce in a more timely manner; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (10 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plan to progress the recommendation in the School Transport 2030 Review of the School Transport Scheme - Phase 3 Report to rewrite the published mainstream schemes to reflect the amended eligibility criteria, with regard to distance, ethos, terminology for non-eligible applicants, minimum numbers criteria and nearest school criteria; the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (10 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 224. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the mean, maximum and minimum timeframe for physical Irish residence permits being issued following immigration residence permit appointments over the past six months at each location, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40788/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (10 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 225. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current mean, maximum and minimum processing times, for the processing of minor applicants for Irish citizenship through naturalised Irish parents since 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40789/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Environmental Impact Assessments (10 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 242. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the Environmental Impact Assessment (Agriculture) Regulations review in relation to hedgerows; its planned timeline for publication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40755/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Environmental Impact Assessments (10 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 243. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the outcome of the public consultation on retention of landscape features and the Environmental Impact Assessment (Agriculture) Regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40756/24]

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Chair. I will not repeat my opening statement from last week in full. I will say to the committee and the witnesses, however, that I am quite honest about the provisions of this Bill. It is a commission to set up a commission. It is limited in its scope. It sets out a piece of research work that would be needed if we thought it was a good idea to transpose a version of the...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: There are just two things I would like to draw out from what Ms Ní Bhuachalla and Senator Clonan said. First, neoliberal capitalism was rightfully identified as the kind of ideology within which we live. Something Professor Peter Doran of Queen's University Belfast said to me once has really stuck me since. He said that the most successful ideologies were invisible. Very often, we...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is a super question. It is a tough one. It is very difficult to answer because we are all a product of our context. As for whoever fulfils that role, we can point to the examples that we have had in Wales where we have had the likes of Sophie Howe and Derek Walker, who have been in posts. Of course, we are all products of our context and our environment. A strength is that they are...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I love the idea of effective disruptors and will see how that fits on an election poster. I would not mind it as a manifesto. The issue of youth work and community development is a really good lens through which to look at this Bill. If there is antisocial behaviour on the corner of a street, the short-term response is to lock somebody up, to incarcerate them. The long-term response is...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the committee for being so generous with its time. It is not always the case that a Private Members' Bill gets two sessions. I thank all the witnesses who have appeared before the committee. It has been fantastic to get that level of insight. To be very political about how the nuts and bolts of how Leinster House work, the further a Private Members' Bill goes, the greater a...

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We have five speakers in the next Sinn Féin slot.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (15 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 52. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to help achieve a timeframed process for the delivery of climate finance to communities most in need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41336/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (15 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: This question relates to climate finance. COP29 is being termed in some quarters as the finance COP. We have big work to do in terms of setting the new collective quantified goal. I ask for a sense of the direction our climate finance will be taking domestically and how we propose to direct it to communities most in need as well as how we propose to influence the direction travel of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (15 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I congratulate the Minister on his appointment to a very key role at COP29, namely a senior COP presidency role co-leading negotiations on climate adaptation. While that is somewhat tangential to what we are discussing here, it is also very closely related. One of my key concerns relates to how we treat climate finance, the €225 million that we are making available and the need to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (15 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am sure we can amiably agree to disagree on this point. I want to chase that 0.7% goal that we have set out. I know we are chasing a moving target in that our GDP is increasing and we have substantially, in real numbers, very much increased the type of funding we are making available through overseas development aid and climate finance. That said, I would like to keep the accounting...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: There are three items of real importance in my constituency of Waterford that should come across the Minister's desk in the Department of public expenditure. The first concerns the PPP project and engineering building that was promised for SETU in Waterford. We have been awaiting a decision on it for months. The second issue also concerns the technological university sector, namely the...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (16 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Apologies have been received from Deputy Naughten, An Cathaoirleach, and Deputy Ó Laoghaire. Members are required to participate in a meeting remotely from within the Leinster House complex only. I remind all those in attendance to make sure their mobile phones are switched off or on silent mode. Members are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they...