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Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The Minister has contributed three times on the amendment. We are a little out of order.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (1 Feb 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she could provide an update on the plans for the site recently acquired at the school (details supplied); if the site will be used to expand play areas for the children in the school; if part of the site will be used for additional classrooms including an ASD class; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5051/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Defective Building Materials (1 Feb 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the pyrite remedial works at the school (details supplied); when they are due to commence; if they will involve the full removal of all pyrite from the foundations of the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5052/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Feb 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the extension to a school (details supplied) which her Department previously committed to building, is proceeding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5053/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Feb 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I raise the issue of cohabiting couples, on which a number of constituents have been in contact with me. Very often at a time of bereavement, people who have made a decision not to get married or enter into a more formal arrangement and who may have lived together for many years and have property or children together often find themselves dealing with complicated legal issues relating to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the witnesses for their presentation and for the appendices, which I believe are very useful, in that they go into detail around the specific questions the committee may have wanted to put. I will pick up on a point already made by Deputy Jim O’Callaghan to ask one specific question. A point there talks about it being open to existing secondary schools to look at the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Are we talking less than ten, or between ten and 100?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is a consideration that I am aware affects Deputy O’Callaghan's constituency and south Dublin in particular, which are not constituencies I should be talking about, but there we are. I have a specific question for Mr. Dolan on the Government commitment to roll out solar rooftops on schools. This is a very welcome and visual commitment to climate action and the schools will tend...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am not sure I got a great deal of information there. Are we also considering putting batteries into schools and is that part of the planning?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Is that likely to be payable to the Department or to individual schools?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will ask a wider question on the provision of special classrooms, which are a standard feature of new school buildings. We all accept that it is less challenging that they are planned for new school buildings, which are usually configured around considerations of things like universal design and so on, which will make those schools more fit for purpose in terms of providing for special...

Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Deputy Devlin is first.

Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I have limited time to contribute. I welcome the many provisions in the Bill that will support the work of An Garda Síochána and the essential duty it performs in this State. We are lucky to live in a democracy where there is policing by consent and the police force is, in general, held in such high regard. It is, of course, imperative that the State provides all the safeguards...

Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I would prefer it if the Deputy did not mention specific names.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Is the feed-in tariff likely to be payable to the board of management or will it be centralised? Has that detail been worked out?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I have more questions but I will wait until the next round.

Report on the Summer Programme 2023: Motion [Private Members] (2 Feb 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am delighted to have an opportunity to contribute to the debate. I thank the chair of the committee, Senator Carrigy, and I thank Deputy Buckley for moving the motion. The committee took the decision to issue an interim report because it was important that enough lead-in time be given for the recommendations laid out in the report to be implemented ahead of this summer. I echo what...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Pension Provisions (2 Feb 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 168. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to facilitate those who wish to work beyond mandatory employment age under their current contract until such time as they become eligible for the State pension; if this is a matter that will need to be addressed through legislation; the timeline for this issue to be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister and her officials for the very comprehensive briefing document, which runs to 101 pages. I wish to follow up on the point Deputy Kerrane made about the mandatory retirement age. I know it is a continuing sore point for many people who are made to retire at 65 and then do not have access to the State pension until 66. I would appreciate if we could move on that. On...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister.