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Insurance Reform: Statements (22 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The Deputy is well over time.

Insurance Reform: Statements (22 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It might work as a chairing technique as well. By agreement with the Independent Group, the next slot is being shared with the Rural Independent Group. I call Deputy Nolan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister of State for appearing before the committee and her opening statement. In preparing this morning, I had a look at Circular 30/14, which is still the central circular in terms of SNA allocation. It speaks a little to Deputy Ó Ríordáin's point, which is about the professionalisation of this workforce. I do not for a second question the professionalism of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: How long do they spend on the course?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Does the Minister of State have any information on the intake? What are the minimum criteria for people signing up to the course and how many people exceed it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: That issue of it being a scheme is of central importance. It goes to security of tenure. SNAs are often watching for care needs within their schools. As the care need graduates to secondary school or beyond, the job within the primary school evaporates. The Minister of State might comment on that. There is a need to establish it as a profession. It is about professionalism. There is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Revised Criteria for Qualifications of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Ms O'Sullivan put her finger on it when she said the role of SNA is a profession. In fact, it is not; it is a job that is done under a scheme. How can people plan for a mortgage, starting a family, developing career pathways or anything like that when they are on a scheme rather than being enrolled in a profession? I spent 15 years in a classroom and for approximately ten of those years,...

LGBTQI+ and Equality: Statements (23 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I start this contribution by saying that I fully agree with the points raised by Deputy Ó Ríordáin on the need to tackle this issue within our schools and in respect of employment equality. I have known teaching colleagues during my career who have not felt that that they could be open about their own identity. This is certainly something that needs to be addressed. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Supports Provision for Displaced Ukrainian Students: Discussion (14 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Cathaoirleach. I will endeavour to fill that minute well. This is the central challenge facing our education system at present. We are talking about 6,000 children arriving and presenting with a very specific, but complex, set of needs. In trying to get my head around it, I was trying to tease through what my central concerns were in terms of providing the most appropriate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Supports Provision for Displaced Ukrainian Students: Discussion (14 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: My next questions are for Ms Ward. One might be unfair because it is probably the NCCA which would have to be here to answer this. Is Ms Ward aware of any comparison in curriculums in order that we might identify gaps? Take the example I gave of the maths curriculum. She said a report from the ombudsman will be forthcoming on forward planning. The NEPs provision was not where it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Supports Provision for Displaced Ukrainian Students: Discussion (14 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I do not know if I have exhausted the Chair's indulgence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Supports Provision for Displaced Ukrainian Students: Discussion (14 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: This is a final question to everyone. The summer inclusion programme is a huge opportunity to get six weeks or so of very high quality education to a cohort which particularly needs it. I am thinking of English language. It is an opportunity to give a breathing space to parents who will need to find their feet as Ms Ryan outlined. What would the representatives here ideally like to see...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (23 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister of State for the opportunity to discuss this matter. I understand that neither the Minister for Education, Deputy Norma Foley, nor the Minister of State, Deputy Josepha Madigan, were able to take this matter. Tramore Educate Together National School has been in existence since 2014. It was mooted as far back as 2008. My first teaching post was in an educate...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (23 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: There is more information in the answer the Minister of State has given me than was made available to the school, so I thank him for that because the school has been kept in the dark on this. Something I find frustrating about this whole process is that one of the first things I asked for when the Government was formed was for the forward planning unit in the Department of Education to do a...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart Vótála ag Aois 16) 2021: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Vote at 16) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank Deputy Pringle for bringing this Bill to the House. He may be disappointed at the Government's approach. I accept that. However, I think it is useful for him to have sparked off the conversation and to have prompted a Government response on this. The Deputy will not be surprised to hear that I am inclined to agree with the approach of the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan. We are...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (23 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 17. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding progress on the appointment of biodiversity officers at a local authority level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33172/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (23 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 71. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will detail the planned recruitment to new posts within the National Parks and Wildlife Service; the way recruitment is progressing; if this is being planned with a view to improving enforcement on a geographical basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33173/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Climate Change Policy (23 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 106. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position of the Government in relation to the creation of a loss and damage facility to compensate countries in the developing world for the disproportionate effects of climate breakdown in those regions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33099/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (23 Jun 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 149. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps being taken by the Irish Government with respect to the crisis unfolding in the Horn of Africa; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33098/22]