Results 261-280 of 3,777 for speaker:Marc Ó Cathasaigh

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (2 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am taking this question on behalf of Deputy Steven Matthews. Under this Government we have seen significant funding put into childcare, particularly through the core funding model. What is the number of childcare services that have signed a core funding contract for the coming programme year, the number of partner services that have withdrawn in each programme year to date, and could...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (2 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 23. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to provide capital funding for the development of facilities for providers of early childhood care and education and afterschool care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38522/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (2 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 33. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the new measures he has implemented in the area of youth work and youth employability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38521/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (1 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 541. To ask the Minister for Health his Department’s plans to include the MRI pelvic gynae scan on MRIs covered by the medical card scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39112/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (19 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I know it is under assessment, as I have kicked up blue bloody murder to have it assessed. It is only a matter of time. One would want to see it to believe it. It is a main stretch of the N25, a single carriageway with a hard shoulder on either side. The cars do not have any place to pull up. There is a small privately owned car park. Many of the cars are pulling up on the hard...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (19 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will slightly recast the Topical Issue that I submitted, which was not to deal with school bus transport in west Waterford. It was specifically on a school transport issue arising between Ardmore and Dungarvan. If the Minister of State does not know that part of the world well, I remind him that Ardmore is the seat of St. Declan, who converted the Déise tribe to Christianity, which...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Marine Protected Areas (19 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 56. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the publication of the marine protected areas legislation, with an anticipated timeline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36076/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Marine Protected Areas (19 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I want to ask the Minister of State about the marine protected areas legislation. It is key unfinished work that we have in front of us as a Government. I would like to see it completed, not just from the point of view of the environmental NGOs, which are looking for progress on this, as is anybody with an interest in the marine, but, also, as we are developing our offshore wind, it is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Marine Protected Areas (19 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister of State. We are great friends, both inside and outside this Chamber, so I hope he does not mind if I put the boot in a little on this. That was not really much of an answer. The clock is ticking on this Government, whether we are talking about November, December, Valentine's Day, or March 2025. There is not a great deal of time and this is key legislation. Under...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Marine Protected Areas (19 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We have a range of competing interests that are looking at our offshore area. It should be mentioned that we do not have a senior Minister for the marine even though nine tenths of our actual territorial area is the marine. We do not want a Klondike situation here. We have huge growth in offshore renewables, which is welcome. We have that designated maritime area plan, DMAP, process,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: No, I am content enough. It is a good approach and I am glad we will be able to address other fairly serious issues at that point rather than just have a pogrom based on the bike shed.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Irish Language (19 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 42. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures that will be taken to meet the target of at least 20% of the staff recruited to public bodies being competent in Irish by December 2030, under the first National Plan for Irish Language Public Services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36879/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Vehicle Registration Tax (18 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 147. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on increasing the regulation of the sale of Irish vehicle number plates in order that the purchaser must present evidence of their vehicle registration certificate or vehicle licensing certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36366/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (18 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 207. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW has a full and complete audit of its estate portfolio, with properties mapped and detailed, including whether a formal rental agreement is in place for all properties let; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36071/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Community Development Projects (18 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 422. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 95 of 13 June 2024, for an update on the publication date for a guide to the provision of allotments and community gardens by local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36945/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Sector Pay (18 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 430. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plan to address the significant difference in earnings between those involved in the JI participation scheme and their section 39 community worker colleagues, who carry out the same duties, due to the latter’s higher starting rate of pay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36000/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (18 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 651. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the banning of the use of sunbeds, given the high incidence of skin cancer in Ireland, with over 13,000 new cases diagnosed each year, and an upward trajectory; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36047/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (18 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 667. To ask the Minister for Health his plans and timeline to improve the newborn screening programme in order to bring us in line with newborn screening in other EU countries, with an average of 18 conditions being screened at a minimum; the progress on screening since the establishment of the Newborn Screening Advisory Committee in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36133/24]