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

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The Chairman may direct me if I am under the wrong heading. The Minister said that €363 million has been allocated to the working family payment. I presume the Department has modelled the projected demand for that. There has been significant expansion of the thresholds. Are all of those who are entitled to this payment aware of it, applying for it and receiving it, or is there an...

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

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: When Revenue and the Department were designing these increased thresholds, they must surely have had an idea of the number of people that would be brought into the net by that expansion. An awareness campaign is important, but do we have any indication of the number of people who have already activated their new entitlements?

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

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Yes, of course.

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

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I asked how many people can benefit from the change.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Arts Policy (8 Feb 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I wish to discuss the Youth Arts Now report commissioned by the local authority arts services of Kilkenny, Carlow, Wexford and Waterford, together with Creative Ireland Waterford, and facilitated by Waterford Youth Arts. It was launched this day last week in Smock Alley Theatre. It was fantastic to see so many young artists there doing exactly what young artists should, expressing...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Arts Policy (8 Feb 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I very much agree with that final sentiment. This has to be about facilitating children and young people and having that space to make art. Just in listening to the reply, however, we heard references to the Department of Education, the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, the...

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

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Do they receive non-contributory pensions?

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Anti-Racism Measures (9 Feb 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 108. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the anti-racism strategy will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6003/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (9 Feb 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 87. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the little book bag initiative; the number of books that have been distributed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6004/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I know the ESRI is going to talk about this as well. It is about the flexibility as people move through their working life and whether the auto-enrolment pension stays to one side as a kind of immovable object or whether they can use it to supplement or integrate with different pension provisions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I found this submission interesting. It challenged one of the central tenets that has been put across, which we have not heard challenged before, namely, the 25% top-up. The ESRI states fairly boldly that it does not seem to have a huge impact on people's decisions when you make it a default pension option. That is probably the most interesting point for the witnesses to expand on,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Does Dr. Roantree have anything to say about the cost to the State of moving away? Essentially we are proposing a flat rate of 25%. The relief would then follow at 20% or 40%. A lot of cases exist where the auto-enrolled income would actually be a second income in the house. Would moving to a standard taxation approach actually increase the State liability in terms of the pension...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Given where I am in regard to this discussion and the more general discussion, I will be synopsising in asking my questions and the witnesses can come back to me on this. The central themes in the presentation seem to be around the age limits and the income limits, which were addressed first, and then, by inference, the gender implications because it is suggested it will predominately be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank our guests for their submissions and for the discussion that has followed. My sole problem with this session is that I could spend my allotted time drilling down on each of the submissions rather than trying to cover all three. There was a huge volume of material in the submissions alone and much more has emerged in the discussions since the meeting began. Dr. Conaty spoke about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is the interesting perspective of long termism. Deputy Tully and I may not agree what is needed in the next six months or ahead of the next election but we would probably be very close on agreeing what we need ten years from now. If we looked at that and worked backwards, it is a way to build political consensus. As Dr. Muldoon said, Sláintecare is a great example, even though its...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I had asked about the annual reporting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Yes.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The Ombudsman and the Ombudsman for Children appeared before the Joint Committee on Autism this morning, as did representatives of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, IHREC. Among the many issues that were raised around the provision of services for autistic people, a recurring theme was the need to revisit the Disability Act 2005. The Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, recently...

Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Feb 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will make it a hat-trick of Tipperary Deputies.