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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fuel Poverty (23 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 8. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to tackle fuel poverty given the severe financial difficulties caused by recent price increases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15493/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (23 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 63. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Irish Water’s plan to eliminate trihalomethanes in public drinking water supplies by the end of 2021 has been successful; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15293/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (23 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that staff toilets and a secretarial office are excluded from recent works approved by her Department for a school (details supplied); if these necessary works will be included when the project reaches construction stage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15292/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (23 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Butlerstown to Tramore school bus route is included in the changed school bus guidelines announced recently as part of the recent cost of living package; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15294/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 140. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to offset the rising cost of living for persons on fixed incomes particularly pensions and welfare payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15494/22]

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (22 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will pick up on a couple of the points raised by Deputy Carthy, but will focus on them through a slightly different lens. I looked through the European Council agenda, which states that it "will continue its discussion on how to build a more robust economic base ... notably by reducing strategic dependencies in sensitive areas like critical raw materials, semi-conductors, health, digital...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. My notes are a bit all over the shop, but that speaks to the quality of the submissions we received. If it is all right, I will focus my questions on Dr. Doris because what she presented is probably the most challenging to my own world view. I mean that in a good way. Option 1, as she sets out, is that State funding is regressive. That...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Are we confident in standing over the idea of regressive versus progressive when we talk about the overall distributive effect, which is where I would try to understand progressivity versus regressivity? We do know that a greater amount of the tax take is taken from higher income people and there is also the corporation take intake and VAT receipts, which are different in context and that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Is Dr. Doris confident to stand over that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Very good. Does Dr. Doris have any comment on the idea of social capital and-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I had any number of other questions for other witnesses presenting. However, that was very valuable use of my eight minutes. The Chair might be flexible and allow other witnesses to contribute on that same question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The Chair has given me flashbacks of the smell of lasagne on the Waterford to Cork bus on a Sunday night. I plead the Fifth on whether it was me. This brings me to my first point. We were talking about the impact that working has on students' grades. The south-east and north-west regions have traditionally suffered from many students travelling outside those areas to access third level...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (10 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the views of the forward planning section in her Department on the projected education needs for Tramore, County Waterford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13453/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legislative Measures (10 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position with regard to progressing the Traveller Culture and History in Education Bill 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13452/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the need to accredit the first national training programme for special needs assistants in University College Dublin to ensure the professional development of special needs assistants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6254/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Ukraine War (9 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: What I understand from the answer is that we are talking about a default position where we fold these children into the general school population. If that is the considered position we arrive at with the best expert evidence, that is fine. I would be happy to support that. However, we have to acknowledge the huge additional pressures that would place on schoolteachers, staff and principals...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Ukraine War (9 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: If the Leas-Cheann Comhairle and Minister of State remain lawyers despite their current occupation, then I remain a primary school teacher, and I am very much proud to be one.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Ukraine War (9 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Then I will endeavour not to waste it. That is the lens I am bringing to the Ukrainian crisis that is unfolding at the moment, the scale of which is shocking. The total number of refugees fleeing Ukraine reached 2 million people this week. More than 1 million people arrived into Poland, almost 500,000 into Romania and more than 100,000 into both Hungary and Slovakia, the four EU neighbours...

Assessment of Needs for Children with Special Education Requirements: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Four and a half minutes for you----

Assessment of Needs for Children with Special Education Requirements: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Very well.