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Comóradh Sheachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (2 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Agus mé ag ullmhú do mo chuid cainte tráthnóna inniu, d'fhéach mé siar ar an óráid a rinne mé an bhliain seo caite ar an ábhar céanna. Dá mbeinn leisciúil agus mé ag ullmhú, d'fhéadfainn an óráid sin a phriontáil amach chun í a úsáid arís. Go deimhin, creideann na Glasaigh san...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (22 Feb 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I have a number of questions to put and they are a little bit all over the map, so I will keep my prefacing comments to a minimum. I echo what Senator Malcolm Byrne said earlier in welcoming the appointment of Patrick Prendergast to the board of the governing authority in what will now be the South East Technological University, SETU. It is a clear indication of the ambition for that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (22 Feb 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I would like to drill into that further. If we are the second worst in overall funding based on GNI* when we have those high levels of participation, I suppose the logical outworking of that is the cost may be subsumed into the increased pupil-teacher ratio that Mr. Miley mentioned. I absolutely agree with him that 23:1 is much too high to provide the level of education we need. The other...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (22 Feb 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: With the UK stepping out of the EU, are we not very much an EU outlier? I wish to ask Dr. Ryan about the cost rental model he suggested. For a long time, cost rental has been a core Green Party housing policy. I was a member of the policy group that wrote it in for the first time, possibly going back to 2016. It strikes me now as that type of a jumper that is being worn by many people....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (22 Feb 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I worry about that term now having been used in so many contexts that the meaning is beginning to slide. For cost rental to be really effective within the housing market, we need a specific definition of what it should do and should not do. I will turn briefly to Professor Hegarty. In broad terms, I agree with his observation that random selection is an obscenity. What that throws up,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (22 Feb 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Dr. Ryan is looking to come in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (22 Feb 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: That is good. There is a differentiation in focus between technological universities and the other universities in that regard. Traditionally, the institutes of technology had a closer working relationship with industry and were guided in course development and so on, whereas the universities may have a wider remit. I am heartened that there is an eye to where people will go after their...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Fossil Fuel Subsidies (2 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 35. To ask the Taoiseach the amount and value of fossil fuel subsidies paid by the State in 2020 and 2021; the proportion of that expenditure that applies to the exemption of jet kerosene used for commercial flights from excise duty; and the proportion resulting from other subsidies. [9450/22]

Committee Report on Key Issues Affecting the Traveller Community: Statements (3 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I very much welcome the opportunity to discuss the report. It is particularly timely and fitting that it is discussed in the week we celebrate the fifth anniversary of the declaration of Traveller ethnicity. It was extremely important, symbolically and otherwise, in the history of the State to officially recognise the contribution Travellers have made to our society. The report lays out...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (3 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 54. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the inconsistencies in public transport fares for 16- to 18- year-olds; the steps he will take to ensure that an appropriate fare is available to all young persons across all types of public transport in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12130/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (3 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 102. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the Sustainability Mobility Policy to help enable persons to choose healthy and sustainable modes of transport over private car journeys; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12129/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Schemes (3 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 162. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to improve biodiversity protection in Ireland in view of the launch of Heritage Ireland 2030 and in the context of 3 March 2022 being World Wildlife Day; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11579/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Apprentices and people engaging in further education are future front-line workers who will deal with a range of challenges facing our society. They will be on the front line against climate change in the context of the retrofitting programme and in combating biodiversity loss. They will clearly and obviously be needed to tackle the housing crisis in a meaningful way. There is a huge...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (3 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 188. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the strategic review of the National Parks and Wildlife Service report; the progress that has been made on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11578/22]

Assessment of Needs for Children with Special Education Requirements: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Four and a half minutes for you----

Assessment of Needs for Children with Special Education Requirements: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Very well.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Ukraine War (9 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: If the Leas-Cheann Comhairle and Minister of State remain lawyers despite their current occupation, then I remain a primary school teacher, and I am very much proud to be one.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Ukraine War (9 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Then I will endeavour not to waste it. That is the lens I am bringing to the Ukrainian crisis that is unfolding at the moment, the scale of which is shocking. The total number of refugees fleeing Ukraine reached 2 million people this week. More than 1 million people arrived into Poland, almost 500,000 into Romania and more than 100,000 into both Hungary and Slovakia, the four EU neighbours...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Ukraine War (9 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: What I understand from the answer is that we are talking about a default position where we fold these children into the general school population. If that is the considered position we arrive at with the best expert evidence, that is fine. I would be happy to support that. However, we have to acknowledge the huge additional pressures that would place on schoolteachers, staff and principals...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (8 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 70. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process and timeline for the appointment of the remaining members of the governing authority of the South East Technological University; the process and timeline for the appointment of the president of the university; the capital plans pertaining to the establishment of the new technological university; if the project remains on course to...