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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pensions Council and Citizens Information Board: Chairpersons Designate (7 Jul 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am late coming in so many of my questions have been asked already. I thank our guests for their presentations. It can be fashionable to denigrate people who decide to work in the service of the public but the quality of the presentations by our guests shows there are good people who work in this sector and do so for all the right motivations. Very high-quality people are being attracted...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pensions Council and Citizens Information Board: Chairpersons Designate (7 Jul 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I was planning on being 25 forever, so I have no intention of thinking about my pension. I am not sure whether that merited being said a second time. Both our guests have very important jobs in terms trying to communicate complex ideas in a simple way, often on topics about which people do not wish to think. People do not necessarily wish to think about their pensions. In the case of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Reopening of Further and Higher Education Institutions: Discussion (22 Jul 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: One of the challenges of being so far down in the running order is that a great number of the questions I was going to ask have already been asked. There is a lot of optimism and good feeling on the committee this morning and I share that. The Minister and the Minister of State have announced many good things. I welcome the mental health aspect of their announcements in particular. That...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Higher Education Authority Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The Acting Chairman has pronounced it better than most people within my own family and I thank her very much. I also thank the witnesses for their presentations which have been very informative. Something that comes across again and again is how we measure value and worth and how perhaps a monetary definition of how we measure value does not do a great job in what we are looking for. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Higher Education Authority Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I always worry about something being called a calling or a vocation when it should in fact be a career. I also directed questions to Ms Dolan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Higher Education Authority Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Jul 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Higher Education Authority Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Jul 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. It is a day when few people would prefer to be in a committee room to being somewhere else. It is a testament to the amount of stakeholder consultation that has happened in preparation for this general scheme that nearly all of the feedback provided to this committee at the pre-legislative scrutiny stage has been positive. A few recurring...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Higher Education Authority Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Jul 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I asked about the provision that the CEO cannot express an opinion before either the Committee of Public Accounts or the wider committee structures. Does that apply to CEOs in this public service model in general or is it specific to this role?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Higher Education Authority Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Jul 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will ask an additional question if the Cathaoirleach will allow me the latitude. I would like to give the witnesses an opportunity to expand on the matter of the performance framework. The performance framework would be determined by the parameters by which success is defined. If our parameters are based around academic excellence, the adaptation of needs to industry standards, or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Higher Education Authority Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Jul 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is like the old adage that people care about what they measure and measure what they care about. Academic excellence is obviously extremely important but WIT, for example, which is the closest institution to me, is extremely and rightfully proud of the fact that many of its entrants are the first people in their families to go on to third level. That is an important outcome as well. I...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Seirbhísí Poiblí Dátheangacha na gComhlachtaí Poiblí agus Líon na Seirbhíseach Dátheangach: Plé (21 Jul 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach agus lenár n-aíonna as a n-aighneacht agus a gcur i láthair. I dtús báire aontaím leis an Teachta Ó Cuív maidir leis na hainmneacha atá ar an na painéil, is é sin an painéal dátheangach sin agus painéal Gaeilge agus tá sé sin mícheart. Tá painéal...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Seirbhísí Poiblí Dátheangacha na gComhlachtaí Poiblí agus Líon na Seirbhíseach Dátheangach: Plé (21 Jul 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Mar is eol do na finnéithe, má tá leibhéal B2 ag daoine - agus is é sin an leibhéal faoina bhfuilimid ag caint - is amhlaidh go mbeadh siad in ann labhairt le duine ar an teileafón, ach an mbeadh siad in ann dlíthe a scríobh? Déarfainn nach mbeadh. Tá an scrúdú TEG bunaithe go mór ar an gcreatlach comónta Eorpach um...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Seirbhísí Poiblí Dátheangacha na gComhlachtaí Poiblí agus Líon na Seirbhíseach Dátheangach: Plé (21 Jul 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Cuirfidh mé smaoineamh eile os comhair an choiste. Tá sé pléite agam ag an gComhchoiste um Choimirce Shóisialach, Forbairt Pobail agus Tuaithe agus na hOileáin. Táim i gcónaí ag caint faoi policy coherence. Tá deis againn maidir le ceithre rud atá luaite ag an Rialtas mar aidhmeanna ginearálta: líon na ndaoine a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Reopening of Further and Higher Education Institutions: Discussion (22 Jul 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister and Minister of State. In closing, I echo Deputy Ó Ríodáin's comments on how important it has been to see this Department set up and how well it has done during the year. It is really showing the complexity of issues, as has been outlined, and the level of planning involved. It shows the need for the Department and the worth of having it.

Select Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Bille na dTeangacha Oifigiúla (Leasú), 2019: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) (9 Feb 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Le linn dom a bheith ag smaoineamh ar an leasú seo, is é an nod cainte a rith liom ná an ceann a dhéanann tagairt do chóras iompair. Deir daoine nár chóir tomhas a dhéanamh ar thógáil droichid trí an mhéid daoine atá ag snámh trasna na habhann a chomhaireamh. Tá sé díreach mar an gcéanna maidir le...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 548. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the timeline for the reopening of indoor summer camps; if indoor camps will be able to operate during August 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40650/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Pollution (27 Jul 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 728. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the adverse water pollution off the County Waterford coast due to raw sewage discharge, dredging for the port of Waterford, use of chemicals in area and elevated levels of nitrogen at catchments in the Waterford estuary; the actions he plans to take to address the causes of water pollution;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Jul 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 1044. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the decision not to allocate a second SNA for a school (details supplied) in County Waterford through the exceptional review process given the significant care needs and early intervention requirements of a specific child; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40647/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Jul 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 1045. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the Summer Provision 2021; if the appointments process has met the needs of both staff and students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40648/21]

Confidence in Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence: Motion (15 Sep 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Last month the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change launched its landmark report setting out in clear terms the urgent need for radical climate action. It did so against the backdrop of the consequences of a climate-altered world being played out in real time, with heat records shattered in Italy, Canada and Northern Ireland, with Hurricane Ida crashing into the Louisiana coast and...