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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (3 Dec 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am preaching to the converted, but I note we are fully half an hour ahead of our anticipated time. Questions are now being reached, which the Deputies who tabled them would have reasonably expected not to be reached, given the timeframe. Deputy Ó Murchú is first up. I will give the Minister of State a little time to get organised. We are skipping ahead to Question No. 112.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vaccination Programme (3 Dec 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Thank you, Minister.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vaccination Programme (3 Dec 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We are right up against the clock. Go ahead.

Social Welfare Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: At the outset I welcome the Minister's announcement on the PUP. It is a measure of how quickly this Covid-19 position changes that we have had the Revised Estimates before the committee this week but the situation has already changed. I echo Deputy Duncan Smith's comments about the arts industry in particular and I have already been contacted by people from theatres and concert organisers...

Dublin Fire Brigade: Motion [Private Members] (7 Dec 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister. We will return to Sinn Féin and Deputy Sorca Clarke.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Digital Hubs (7 Dec 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I agree with the Minister in that remote working has the capacity to be game changing. We have seen it during the pandemic. I am thinking of Dungarvan, Lismore and west Waterford, where people had the opportunity to move down. These three questions are complementary. It was interesting to see them grouped. Deputy Ó Muimhneacháin is asking about the roll-out of the technology....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Digital Hubs (7 Dec 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is difficult because the Minister is being pulled in three different directions by the questions. As well as giving nudges to workers to move down the country, which is vital, the Irish word that stands out to me is "fite fuaite", which rolls off the tongue better than "policy coherence". We need individual policy actors to work together. If we look to get people into our rural towns...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Island Communities (7 Dec 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 75. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the new ten-year cross-departmental policy for island development and associated action plans to ensure delivery of the policy, as outlined in Our Rural Future; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60217/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Island Communities (7 Dec 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I was not expecting this question to be reached. Perhaps the Minister was not either. The one thing Waterford does not have is an island. Perhaps the Minister of State, Deputy O'Brien, would like to donate one of the Cork ones; I somehow doubt it. Can the Minister imagine being on an island tonight? It is a precarious existence out there and it needs our support. What is the status of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Island Communities (7 Dec 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The committee on social protection, of which I am a member, also covers this part of the Minister's brief, that is, community and rural affairs and the islands. Islanders often feel they have been tagged on to the end of the departmental line. One of the representatives who spoke to our committee referenced a programme that was on TG4 Player, "Inis Airc: Bás Oileáin", which is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Island Communities (7 Dec 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The Minister has acknowledged that the policy's development has to be interdepartmental because it must cover housing, education and the Gaeltacht. The islanders deserve the House's attention and I welcome her comments.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report of the Commission on Pensions: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the witnesses for the presentation and for the enormous amount of work that went into the development of this document. I very much agree with the values underpinning it - the idea, as Ms Burke set out, that having an ageing population who are living longer is not a bad thing, but providing for that into the future must be underpinned by values of social solidarity and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report of the Commission on Pensions: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I think that bar chart is reproduced on page 13 of the full report as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report of the Commission on Pensions: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I wonder if those figures include income smoothing as part of the modelling.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report of the Commission on Pensions: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank Mr. Flynn. Regarding the final-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report of the Commission on Pensions: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report of the Commission on Pensions: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Ms Burke talked about forewarned being forearmed and that is important. I made the point last week that people of my age or a bit younger are often so busy in their lives they may not be thinking ahead to pension age. Having communication on what people's PRSI entitlements will amount to, done clearly and in a personalised way, as Ms Burke said, is key. It is also a huge factor in the idea...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report of the Commission on Pensions: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the witnesses for attending and for their constructive and positive engagement. The committee will consider today's proceedings as part of our continued deliberations on the report of the Pensions Commission. Go raibh maith agaibh go léir. The joint committee will proceed in private session, and remain so until it adjourns.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Dec 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The town centre first approach is writ large across the programme for Government. It has since been put at the heart of the Our Rural Future document and Housing for All. Our towns and villages offer a serious quality of life proposition, but only if supported with good public services, a proper public realm and attractive housing solutions. The Minister for Rural and Community...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Funding (9 Dec 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 74. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the involvement his Department has in European Union LIFE Projects; if there are plans for future projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60680/21]