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Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I move amendment No. 3: In page 12, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: “ “education for sustainable development” has the meaning assigned to it by UNESCO whereby Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) means empowering learners of all ages with the knowledge, skills, values and attitudes to address the interconnected global challenges we are facing,...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will speak briefly on it, if I may. I am happy the Minister is prepared to work with me in developing that definition in particular. It is one of these terms that can be almost universally applied and very often ill-understood. On the basis the Minister is happy to look at it between now and Report Stage, I am happy to withdraw the amendment at this time.

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Apr 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will pick up where Deputy Nash left off and congratulate the Minister on this Bill, which is a significant and overdue piece of work. I want to dwell briefly on something we take for granted, which is just how lucky we are to live in a parliamentary democracy. If one reckons across the whole of human history or even geographically, statistically one is very unlikely to have lived within a...

Childcare Fees: Motion [Private Members] (5 Apr 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It certainly is an important issue, but the clock is against us.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (5 Apr 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 37 and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Emer Higgins - to discuss expanding school capacity to accommodate Ukrainian children and providing access to a centralised register; (2) Deputy Michael McNamara - to discuss the threat to the continuation of the Spancilhill...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Island Communities (5 Apr 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Island Communities (5 Apr 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Island Communities (5 Apr 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Whatever about the concerns of the islanders, the poor Chair looking at the clock is concerned.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Island Communities (5 Apr 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister and Deputy. Our time for this question has elapsed.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Island Communities (5 Apr 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will return to Question No. 73; we are travelling backwards. I remind Deputies that in the event of substitutions, an email should be sent to the office of the Ceann Comhairle to update the House on it. Question No. 73 was originally in the name of Deputy Gould but it will be put by Deputy Ó Laoghaire.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (5 Apr 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Deputy Colm Burke wishes to come in on this as well.

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I ran my first marathon in 2009, which is many years and unfortunately many kilos ago. That might not-----

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It was not as funny as that. That might not seem in any way germane to what we are discussing, but I learned a really important lesson that day. I learned what happened when human excuses meet immutable, external realities. I bargained in my training. I told myself I was too tired or busy that day or that I probably had enough done and would catch it up later. I took my excuses out onto...

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will not sing it; I will spare Deputy McGrath. It reminds me of my responsibilities in this House, however. Deputy McGrath will know the song; he might join in. It goes: Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don’t stand in the doorway Don’t block up the hall [ ... ] The battle outside ragin’ Will soon shake your windows And rattle your walls For...

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: That is personal commentary.

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (5 Apr 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 91. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the steps that have been taken by her Department to ensure there is cross-departmental collaboration, so that new community-led projects can work efficiently to achieve the ambition of communities, particularly in coastal and island communities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18046/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Refugee Resettlement Programme (5 Apr 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 125. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the position regarding the measures taken by her Department to support the community integration of persons fleeing from Ukraine as a result of the Russian invasion; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18045/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Construction Industry (7 Apr 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment is working with Enterprise Ireland to establish a construction technology centre this year to bring together research, expertise and industry to look at innovation in the built environment. The urgency of this cannot be overstated. We very much need to move towards sustainable materials and construction practices. I wish to ask the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Construction Industry (7 Apr 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister of State. On the timeline for establishment, at the outset of his contribution the Minister of State used the term "very soon" and midway through it he referred to the end of this year. He might be able to give me some additional, hard and fast timelines on that. It strikes me that a suite of Government measures to do with housing hangs together on this. One is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Construction Industry (7 Apr 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I very much welcome that additional detail. Everybody in this House acknowledges the need to begin delivering housing at speed and scale but also in a manner that is sustainable. The three have to go together. The construction technology centre should be considering things like next-generation easy assembly and, in respect of housing units, research supporting modular construction. We...