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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the witnesses for coming here and sharing their knowledge and expertise in a fairly truncated session. We could have expanded and gone into a great deal more detail had the format allowed. The discussion has been very informative and will go towards informing our report on pre-legislative scrutiny.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank all of the witnesses for their adherence to the timeframe. They were all very punctual.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Thank you for your brevity. I call Senator O'Loughlin.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Very good. I thank all our guests for their submissions, but I single out Ms Dolan's submission for the detailed way it goes through the different heads providing amendments. It gives me something concrete to respond to in my own head. I found it very helpful. General themes are coming across from today's session and from what I am receiving in my inbox, as I imagine other members are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: On behalf of the committee, I thank all of the witnesses for attending today and providing us with the benefit of their knowledge and insight in this area. It has been a very productive discussion, which I think will go some way to informing our final report on pre-legislative scrutiny of this Bill.
- European Year of Skills: Statements (10 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The Minister, Deputy Harris, informed me on my way into the Chamber that I might be at least partially to blame for this debate because I asked for it during oral questions in the Chamber earlier this year. If I am partially to blame, I am happy to bear that blame because this is a valuable debate to have, especially at the start of the European Year of Skills and in light of the launch of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. They were thought-provoking. The need for definition and clarity are absolutely pivotal. We need legislation that we hope will stand the test of time. I will first deal with the idea of fundamental versus applied research. I share many of the concerns raised by Deputy O'Callaghan. As it stands, the Bill reads as something that may be a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: On behalf of the committee, I welcome Mr. Frank Jones, spokesperson for the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, ICTU; Dr. John Walsh, the Trinity convenor from the Irish Federation of University Teachers, IFUT; Dr. Richard Vance, chair of the Irish Research Staff Association, IRSA; Mr. Waqar Ahmed, vice president for postgraduate affairs, Union of Students in Ireland, USI; and Ms Annette Dolan,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I ask Deputy Clarke to be very brief.
- Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (10 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Amendment No. 2 in the name of Deputy Shortall arises out of committee proceedings.
- Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (10 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I think the Minister was concluding.
- Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (10 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is the role of the Chair to manage the time. We have probably lost more time in the debate by not allowing the Minister to conclude. Is the Minister happy to conclude at this point?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Consultations (11 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 9. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps his Department is taking to progress Ireland's open government national action plan 2023-2025 following the public consultation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21384/23]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Consultations (11 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We recently had a public call for submissions on Ireland's fourth open government national action plan under four thematic areas: transparency and accountability in public office; citizen decision-making; public access to Government data; and strengthening public trust in Government. I want to ask about the follow-up steps we are taking, how we will implement those and when we are likely to...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Consultations (11 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I mention the OECD better life initiative, which closely shadows what our well-being indices will look like here. Under that initiative it is the civic engagement score that we rank lowest on. For some reason Irish people feel quite distant from their Government and I suspect that is to do with the under-empowering of local government for a number of years. That needs to be remediated,...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Consultations (11 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The Minister of State specifically referenced the citizens' assemblies and I was going to reference them. That is a great model of participative and deliberative democracy but we need to see that transformed into action. We need to have some sort of process whereby recommendations of citizens' assemblies are put in place. We ask these 99 citizens to give of their time and they generally...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Summer Economic Statement (11 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: That is understood. President Joe Biden, who visited us last month, is famous for saying, "Don't tell me what you ... [care about]. Show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you ... [care about]". That very much applies to the ongoing work on the wellbeing framework in the Department. It is an important piece work in breaking out of that siloed thinking we see inhibiting progress across...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Summer Economic Statement (11 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The Minister of State referenced that we will integrate the wellbeing framework into key points in the budgetary process. The logical key point in the budgetary process is the summer economic statement, which really begins to set out the parameters for the following budget in October. I would like an explicit statement based on the wellbeing framework to be included in that process.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the many officials for attending and for their opening statements. While I know other Deputies have done so already, it is worth thinking back to the context for this. We were faced with an unprecedented global pandemic and the political landscape was such that we were in an interregnum. We had held a general election but a new government had not been formed. That is probably...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It took some time to figure out that the information was available in some format, somewhere. Is that right? It was not immediately at the HSE's fingertips when the executive went to procure.