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Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: First Stage (31 Jan 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jan 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The Business Committee agreed this yesterday.

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...

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.

Interim Report on Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: In common with probably every Deputy in the House, I have a reading list as long as my arm and I wish I had more time to devote to reading what comes across my desk every day. While this report does not strictly fall within my bailiwick as a party spokesperson, I felt compelled to read it. When I started reading the report I had to get to the end of it and having read through it, I felt...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sport and Recreational Development (26 Jan 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Speaking of the summer ahead, Question No. 13 is in the name of Deputy Andrews.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (26 Jan 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The Deputy will have the opportunity to ask a further question.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (26 Jan 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: There is a question of order here. I understand the Deputy asked an earlier, related question. It is fair to the Minister to have answered this one.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla (26 Jan 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 50. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht conas atá sé i gceist aici tacú le gealltanas fostaíochta fiche faoin gcéad laistigh d’Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla (Leasú), 2021 chun a chinntiú go gcuirfear seirbhísí ar fáil i nGaeilge; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [3447/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: An Teanga Gaeilge (26 Jan 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 72. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cad iad na bearta a dhéanfar chun rochtain níos fearr a chinntiú do phobail faoi mhíbhuntáiste agus do phobail faoi ghannionadaíocht ar an nGaeilge agus ar na ceantair Ghaeltachta; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [3446/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Official Engagements (26 Jan 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 99. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on his trip to COP15; the pledges and commitments that were made on behalf of the Government at that conference; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3472/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (26 Jan 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 110. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on any work that is happening in his Department and the National Parks and Wildlife Service in relation to management of Ireland's uplands, including issues around degradation of blanket bog coverage, upland burning, invasive species management and overgrazing; if the National Parks and Wildlife Service is...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (25 Jan 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 70. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the anticipated timeline for the assessment of stage 1 applications and for applicants to be invited to move to stage 2 of the process with respect to the local hackney pilot scheme, notwithstanding the final acceptance date of 28 February 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3468/23]