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Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Deputy Ó Ríordáin should please not interrupt.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Deputy.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Could Deputy Danny Healy-Rae resume his seat?

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Could Deputy Danny Healy-Rae resume his seat?

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Could Deputy Danny Healy-Rae resume his seat?

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: As the Ceann Comhairle often reminds us, the public are looking in and asking the people elected to this House to provide leadership.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Let us now move on, without interruption, to the Independent group.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (28 Mar 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 148. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps her Department is taking to improve access to the free travel scheme for people with epilepsy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15182/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (28 Mar 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 111. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 263 of 2 March 2023, if she has completed the review of the final report from the evaluation of the school meals programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15174/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (28 Mar 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 416. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review a case (details supplied) in relation to a PhD postgraduate allowance entitlement anomaly; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15271/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (30 Mar 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for this opportunity. This is an issue that has been consistently raised at the committees on education and autism. The staffing issues are a big problem. Does the Minister have the pertinent statistics for CHO5 where I am? As Deputy McAuliffe said, it is not just per CHO. There are individual areas within each CHO, such as west Waterford, where it has...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education and Training Provision (30 Mar 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 61. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans his Department has to celebrate the European Year of Skills this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15560/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education and Training Provision (30 Mar 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Picking up on what the Minister said in his last contribution, it has been extremely valuable that a stand-alone Department was created for further and higher education due in particular to the emphasis it has allowed us to put on further education, apprenticeships and skills. We find ourselves in the European Year of Skills. It is something that slightly surprised the Joint Committee on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education and Training Provision (30 Mar 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: All of those measures are extremely welcome. We should do anything we can to bring people's attention to the central nature of skills in the development we need in our economy. It was said at the education committee that there is a cultural handbrake at play here that means parents are less likely to support their children going towards a life of apprenticeships, for example. We need to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education and Training Provision (30 Mar 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The Minister made a very pertinent last point. I have just come from the launch of World Autism Month, which was very close to us here in Kildare Street. As we know, many people with autism are locked out of the workforce. A very pertinent point was made as well on lifelong learning. We have to stop considering our education journey as being finished at 22 or 23. We have to look at that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Chair and thank those on the panel for their presentations. I am taken by the idea that we need to drive STEM all the way back to primary school, which is where I started out. Everybody started out in primary school but I started my working life in primary schools. I am not sure that we are equipping our primary school teachers to the point where they are confident to deliver...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: A positive development I have heard reported, particularly from Enterprise Ireland, is that we are getting increasing numbers of people from a STEM background who also have that entrepreneurial spirit and the fear of failure that might have plagued people of my generation is not there. If IDA Ireland client companies want top-quality graduates, they had better get their hooks into them...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I have an eye to the clock as I am under time pressure. It is the European Year of Skills. One of the recurring themes of this committee is a focus on further education, and particularly apprentices. We have discussed that cultural handbrake there has been on apprenticeships and that idea of lifelong learning that people are not finished their educational journey at 22, 23 or whatever....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Chair.

Irish Sheep Sector: Statements (30 Mar 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will begin by asking a straightforward and fundamental question: who is this sector currently working for? Who is it working for socially, economically or environmentally? It is difficult to answer that question. In considering the social aspect, people have pointed out the importance of sheep farming and upland farming within our communities. I was at a meeting of the Comeragh Uplands...