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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Action Plan on the Development of the Islands: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I wish to ask a wider question. Tá brón orm nach raibh mé anseo nuair a thosnaigh sibh amach. Bhí mé as láthair toisc go raibh an tUachtarán Zelenskyy istigh linn sa Dáil. Gabhaim buíochas leis na finnéithe as a gcur i láthair. It is interesting that sometimes a delay can play into one's favour because had an island strategy been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: National Action Plan on the Development of the Islands: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Apr 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The Chair is very committed to the sustainable development goals and I have made the following argument at this committee before. The SDGs are often viewed here in Ireland as something that happens in developing countries but I think that they are particularly applicable although I am not sure that we vindicate all of the SDG subtargets within communities on our islands. It is a tool that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Island Communities (5 Apr 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister and Deputy. Our time for this question has elapsed.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Island Communities (5 Apr 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will return to Question No. 73; we are travelling backwards. I remind Deputies that in the event of substitutions, an email should be sent to the office of the Ceann Comhairle to update the House on it. Question No. 73 was originally in the name of Deputy Gould but it will be put by Deputy Ó Laoghaire.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (5 Apr 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Deputy Colm Burke wishes to come in on this as well.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Island Communities (5 Apr 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Island Communities (5 Apr 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Island Communities (5 Apr 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Whatever about the concerns of the islanders, the poor Chair looking at the clock is concerned.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (5 Apr 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 37 and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Emer Higgins - to discuss expanding school capacity to accommodate Ukrainian children and providing access to a centralised register; (2) Deputy Michael McNamara - to discuss the threat to the continuation of the Spancilhill...

Childcare Fees: Motion [Private Members] (5 Apr 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It certainly is an important issue, but the clock is against us.

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Apr 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will pick up where Deputy Nash left off and congratulate the Minister on this Bill, which is a significant and overdue piece of work. I want to dwell briefly on something we take for granted, which is just how lucky we are to live in a parliamentary democracy. If one reckons across the whole of human history or even geographically, statistically one is very unlikely to have lived within a...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (5 Apr 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 91. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the steps that have been taken by her Department to ensure there is cross-departmental collaboration, so that new community-led projects can work efficiently to achieve the ambition of communities, particularly in coastal and island communities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18046/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Refugee Resettlement Programme (5 Apr 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 125. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the position regarding the measures taken by her Department to support the community integration of persons fleeing from Ukraine as a result of the Russian invasion; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18045/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (31 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 82. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the CORU Counsellors and Psychotherapists Registration Board to open for applications; the length of time the transitional period to allow existing practitioners to register will last; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16784/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Road Traffic Accidents (31 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 96. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the reporting of anonymised data on minor and serious injuries from road traffic collisions by the health system, particularly those not captured by Garda reports, and the provision of those statistics to the Road Safety Authority in order to obtain a fuller picture of the impact of road traffic collisions on the health service; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulations (31 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 142. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the detail of his forward planning to allocate resources and capacity within his Department to ensure timely and effective delivery and implementation of the forthcoming EU nature restoration regulation; if provisions made through CAP will assist in accomplishing the goals set out in that regulation; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Issues (31 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 185. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of programme for Government commitments to complete a land use review ahead of the drafting of a land use strategy and a national soil strategy; if these will be consistent with achieving the objectives of the anticipated EU nature restoration law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16854/22]

Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I attended a Wellbeing Economy Alliance, WEALL, event at the weekend. A comment made by Dr. Peter Doran of Queen's University Belfast stuck with me. He said the most successful ideologies are invisible. Sometimes when our friends across the House are successful, they are successful in making visible the ideology that is often invisible to us, namely, the neo-capitalist model. They are...

Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is all right. I will send the Deputy some membership forms. The transfer season might be open soon. The circular economy Bill moves in the right direction. It contains measures which move us away from the idea of take, make, waste, which follows a slavish idea of GDP and economic throughput as being the good we always chase after. It is moving us towards a more circular economy...

Government Response to Situation in Ukraine: Statements (30 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will begin by referencing the Taoiseach's opening remarks, which addressed the wider global context. In the face of the humanitarian tragedy playing out in front of us, there is a need in both the short term and longer term to have a look at the global systems that underpin much of this conflict, including with regard to energy security and our reliance on fossil fuels, which needs to be...