Results 1,741-1,760 of 3,777 for speaker:Marc Ó Cathasaigh
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: This was raised at the end of a three-hour meeting. We are three hours in the room, I am a member of the governing body and someone suddenly says "By the way, we want to buy a site for 8 million quid". Am I understanding the scenario correctly?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I know there was unanimous support for the decision. Did no one question the wisdom of making such a serious decision right there and then because of fears that someone else would swoop in and pay €5 million over and above the last valuation of the site? Did no one raise concerns about the speed and alacrity with which this decision was being made?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: This is extraordinary. We have not even got to the issue of the student centre yet. We have not had time to get into it. We have not gone after the student records yet because we have not had the time. It is quite extraordinary. Regarding the engineering reports, Mr. O'Connor used the phrases "some engineering reports" and "early engineering assessments". I presume he cannot tell me...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Who made these assessments? Were they done internally or externally?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: In these early engineering reports, assessments or whatever they are - prepared by whomever - was the issue of asbestos identified?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Was the presence of asbestos within the building so difficult to ascertain that the engineers preparing these advices, reports or assessments could not identify that it was present? The substantial remediation cost of the removal of the asbestos was not factored into the cost, and the asbestos was removed in two separate operations. Should the taxpayer not have been indemnified against an...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Regarding the student centre, the proposed cost has ballooned from €20 million to €34 million. Once the €20 million threshold is breached, the public spending code states that a cost-benefit analysis must be provided for a project. Has such an analysis been proposed as per the public spending code on this expanded budget for the student centre?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am sure it is.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: In line with the public spending code.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It has gone to €34 million now.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: University of Limerick (18 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Is Ms Fogarty happy to state that there has been no breach of the public spending code in moving to €34 million for a project originally costed at under €20 million, and this only coming to light in December? Is she happy to state that, in her opinion, there has been no breach of the public code because that cost-benefit analysis has not been completed?
- Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Ceannteidil an Bhille um Údarás na Gaeltachta (Leasú), 2022: Grinnscrúdú Réamhreachtach (Atógáil) (17 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Gabhaim buíochas leis na finnéithe as a gcur i láthair agus as a taithí shaibhir a roinnt linn. Is iomaí taithí atá acu ar an ábhar seo. Tá na ceisteanna céanna ag teacht aníos seachtain i ndiaidh seachtaine. Tá inniúlacht sa Ghaelainn i gceartlár na ceiste. Chuir an tAire, an Teachta Harris, dúshlán roimh...
- Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Ceannteidil an Bhille um Údarás na Gaeltachta (Leasú), 2022: Grinnscrúdú Réamhreachtach (Atógáil) (17 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Is cinnte go mbeadh.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister of State for her opening statement. I want to sound a note of frustration from the off. This committee has been time-bound and we have been very conscious of trying to get through a substantial amount of work in a short space of time. I just want to note a frustration with the timeline. The announcement the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, made on the autism...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: But is phase 1 of the pilot complete?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The report has produced recommendations, has it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Will those recommendations be made public in any way? Will members of this committee, for example, have sight of the recommendations that were produced in phase 1?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It would be important for us to have sight of it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I apologise for interrupting but I am conscious that the Chair will shut me down after five minutes and I have a few more bits and pieces to get through. The Minister of State indicated average vacancy rates for CDNTs were 34% throughout the CHOs. Are there significant variations within this figure? Are there CHOs that are well below 34% or well above it? Within that figure, are there...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will put another question to the Minister of State and while I do so perhaps Mr. O'Connor will be able to dig them out. The Minister of State has responsibility for older people as well as mental health. There is a specific difficulty in dealing with autism and the diagnosis rate of autism among older people because our awareness of autism has only developed in recent years. Has the...