Results 3,681-3,700 of 3,777 for speaker:Marc Ó Cathasaigh

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (22 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 185. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to confirm that no verification of non-EEA driver licenses is required by the foreign driving license authority to exchange the license for an Irish driver’s license, if the applicant has received a work permit as a professional driver within the previous three months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42705/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (22 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 186. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current waiting time to receive an appointment with the NDLS for an exchange of a non-EEA driver license for an Irish license; the current waiting time for the processing and delivery time for the new Irish license to be issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42706/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 268. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 98 and 99 of 20 June 2024, when a reply will issue; the criteria by which contractors are removed from the list; the number of contractors listed on the OPW’s contractors list over the past five years; the number of applications, the number of additions and the number of removals to the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (22 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 557. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on lengthy waiting lists for Irish residence permits (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42514/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (22 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 568. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on an application (details supplied) for leave to remain under the international protection programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42734/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (22 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 587. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the complementary income support for young farmers scheme is limited to one recipient per herd number; whether a spouse who is a partner in the company may also avail of the support under the herd number; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42428/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (22 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 597. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether his Department carries out random auditing checks of the CC t/a Micro Dog ID database to ensure that owners are informing the database of any change of ownership, controller, location, death of greyhound, loss of greyhound or return of greyhound; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42671/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (22 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 615. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of an underpayment of core funding (details supplied); if the shortfall can be made good; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42651/24]

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive (24 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Comhghaideas leis an gCathaoirleach. I do not intend to dwell on this but I have one question about that high earner. Mr. Gloster used the word "abhorrent", with which I think most of us would agree. Are we going to face a similar scenario? He talked about the new consultant contracts and the employment of more consultants, which is the ultimate aim, but are legacy contracts in place such...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive (24 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Mr. Gloster is telling the committee he expects it to get better over time. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive (24 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: In the recent past, my family has been very glad to have access to consultants out of hours. I will touch on that. My father is 80 years of age. He still rides vintage motorcycles around the place, which is great for our collective family blood pressure. He gave us a bit of a scare recently. He came off the bike. We were in hospital with him. This goes back to Deputy Cannon's point...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive (24 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will ask one more quick question and I will then move on to non-compliance. We are lucky with UHW. There are fights to be had about the provision of health services in Waterford. People will know well about the fight for 24-7 and the second cath lab. That has been well documented, but we are very lucky in that ours is one of the model 4 hospitals that does not have people on trolleys....

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive (24 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I want to deal with non-compliant procurement in the short time remaining. We are talking about a spend of €4.2 billion. The HSE has put the estimate for non-compliant spending at 12%. We have difference there because, apparently, the exercise only covered 38% of the overall spend. Could Mr. Mulvany put a monetary value on it for me because I am making an assumption - it may be...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive (24 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I guess what I am trying to get at here is whether it is 12% of the cases or 12% of the procurement-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive (24 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It really is a significant amount. If that maps out to the €4.2 billion, we are talking about close on €500 million that will en up being non-compliant procurement.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive (24 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: If I map those trends onto the €4.2 billion, we could be talking about a sum of the order of €500 million.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive (24 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The number, which is staggering, troubles me. Something that worries me more is that one of the reasons we get back for not having that information, on the one hand, is the manager responsible for the expenditure could not be identified centrally. That would very much worry me. Then the flip side is that the identified managers failed to respond to the exercise. When they were asked about...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive (24 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: If I can focus the question specifically, if a local or regional manager does not engage with Mr. Mulvany when he asks the question about non-compliant procurement, is there a sanction that follows?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive (24 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: In the context of those two things - the manager responsible could not be identified which would be on the HSE versus the person did not respond - can Mr. Mulvany provide an indication of where the balance lies?