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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Overseas Development Aid (24 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: That draws attention to the fact that we need to have a short-term and immediate response to this crisis in terms of getting food to the most vulnerable. However, we also need to have a long-term response to food sovereignty and food security in developing countries. There is a reference in the programme for Government to vulnerability to climate shocks. We know we are going to see it...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Parental Leave (24 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 38. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when parental leave will be expanded in 2022; if the leave will be granted retrospectively; the full entitlement to the leave ultimately and the timeline for the implementation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15456/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Climate Change Policy (24 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 159. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding a strategy to increase climate finance for developing countries under growing pressure from both climate crisis and conflict; the position regarding the development of a unit within his Department dedicated to working on Ireland’s response to the global climate crisis as committed to within the Programme for...

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

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. My notes are a bit all over the shop, but that speaks to the quality of the submissions we received. If it is all right, I will focus my questions on Dr. Doris because what she presented is probably the most challenging to my own world view. I mean that in a good way. Option 1, as she sets out, is that State funding is regressive. That...

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

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Are we confident in standing over the idea of regressive versus progressive when we talk about the overall distributive effect, which is where I would try to understand progressivity versus regressivity? We do know that a greater amount of the tax take is taken from higher income people and there is also the corporation take intake and VAT receipts, which are different in context and that...

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

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Is Dr. Doris confident to stand over that?

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

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Very good. Does Dr. Doris have any comment on the idea of social capital and-----

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

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I had any number of other questions for other witnesses presenting. However, that was very valuable use of my eight minutes. The Chair might be flexible and allow other witnesses to contribute on that same question.

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

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The Chair has given me flashbacks of the smell of lasagne on the Waterford to Cork bus on a Sunday night. I plead the Fifth on whether it was me. This brings me to my first point. We were talking about the impact that working has on students' grades. The south-east and north-west regions have traditionally suffered from many students travelling outside those areas to access third level...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will give the Taoiseach a quick geography lesson. Kerry, Carlow, Wicklow, Dublin, Sligo and the Mourne Mountains are locations where firefighters were called out to tackle wildfires in the past couple of weeks. It is the time of year when we see a spate of upland burnings, even though the legal season ends on 1 March. There have been none, thankfully, so far in the Comeraghs in my county...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Local Community Safety Partnerships (29 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 96. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the evaluation process of the three local community safety partnerships pilots which are currently run in the north inner city of Dublin and in counties Longford and Waterford; if there are interim findings from the evaluation process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16225/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (29 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 145. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the development of a citizen reporting portal for road traffic offences to enable persons to upload photographic and video evidence including of drivers illegal parking on paths, in cycle lanes and close passing of persons cycling in order that An Garda Síochána can investigate in line with the Vision...

Government Response to Situation in Ukraine: Statements (30 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will begin by referencing the Taoiseach's opening remarks, which addressed the wider global context. In the face of the humanitarian tragedy playing out in front of us, there is a need in both the short term and longer term to have a look at the global systems that underpin much of this conflict, including with regard to energy security and our reliance on fossil fuels, which needs to be...

Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I attended a Wellbeing Economy Alliance, WEALL, event at the weekend. A comment made by Dr. Peter Doran of Queen's University Belfast stuck with me. He said the most successful ideologies are invisible. Sometimes when our friends across the House are successful, they are successful in making visible the ideology that is often invisible to us, namely, the neo-capitalist model. They are...

Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is all right. I will send the Deputy some membership forms. The transfer season might be open soon. The circular economy Bill moves in the right direction. It contains measures which move us away from the idea of take, make, waste, which follows a slavish idea of GDP and economic throughput as being the good we always chase after. It is moving us towards a more circular economy...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (31 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 82. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the CORU Counsellors and Psychotherapists Registration Board to open for applications; the length of time the transitional period to allow existing practitioners to register will last; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16784/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Road Traffic Accidents (31 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 96. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the reporting of anonymised data on minor and serious injuries from road traffic collisions by the health system, particularly those not captured by Garda reports, and the provision of those statistics to the Road Safety Authority in order to obtain a fuller picture of the impact of road traffic collisions on the health service; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulations (31 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 142. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the detail of his forward planning to allocate resources and capacity within his Department to ensure timely and effective delivery and implementation of the forthcoming EU nature restoration regulation; if provisions made through CAP will assist in accomplishing the goals set out in that regulation; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Issues (31 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 185. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of programme for Government commitments to complete a land use review ahead of the drafting of a land use strategy and a national soil strategy; if these will be consistent with achieving the objectives of the anticipated EU nature restoration law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16854/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Act 2018 (Section 36) (Appointed Day) (No. 2) Order 2022: Motion (24 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: This is a very welcome day and another extremely important step along the road in providing a university of scale and substance, as it has been referred to, in the south east. The technological university of the south east will now be known as the South East Technological University, SETU. It has been important in terms of balanced regional development and is twice referenced in the...