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

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I have a number of questions to put and they are a little bit all over the map, so I will keep my prefacing comments to a minimum. I echo what Senator Malcolm Byrne said earlier in welcoming the appointment of Patrick Prendergast to the board of the governing authority in what will now be the South East Technological University, SETU. It is a clear indication of the ambition for that...

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

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I would like to drill into that further. If we are the second worst in overall funding based on GNI* when we have those high levels of participation, I suppose the logical outworking of that is the cost may be subsumed into the increased pupil-teacher ratio that Mr. Miley mentioned. I absolutely agree with him that 23:1 is much too high to provide the level of education we need. The other...

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

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: With the UK stepping out of the EU, are we not very much an EU outlier? I wish to ask Dr. Ryan about the cost rental model he suggested. For a long time, cost rental has been a core Green Party housing policy. I was a member of the policy group that wrote it in for the first time, possibly going back to 2016. It strikes me now as that type of a jumper that is being worn by many people....

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

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I worry about that term now having been used in so many contexts that the meaning is beginning to slide. For cost rental to be really effective within the housing market, we need a specific definition of what it should do and should not do. I will turn briefly to Professor Hegarty. In broad terms, I agree with his observation that random selection is an obscenity. What that throws up,...

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

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Dr. Ryan is looking to come in.

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

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: That is good. There is a differentiation in focus between technological universities and the other universities in that regard. Traditionally, the institutes of technology had a closer working relationship with industry and were guided in course development and so on, whereas the universities may have a wider remit. I am heartened that there is an eye to where people will go after their...

National Retrofitting Scheme: Statements (17 Feb 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I often think when I am here about The Frames' song, "Star Star" and this lyric: Cause I don't understand these people Who say the hill's too steep Well they talk and talk forever But they just never climb The hill is steep. The targeted emissions reduction that we have is as steep a hill as anyone has ever faced. This retrofit scheme is part of us climbing that hill. Rather than...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Feb 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I have a question regarding the well-being framework that is under development at the moment. We are quite closely shadowing the OECD framework, Better Life, which is welcome in many respects. It is a good model to follow. However, one of the issues it omits is a measurement around linguistic and cultural outputs, an element that is included, for example, in the New Zealand model. I take...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Feb 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: -----and does he think we will get a well-being budget by the end of this year?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (16 Feb 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: To build from Deputy Kerrane’s question, I want to raise a question that I have asked at previous meetings of the committee. Have we information on who remains on the pandemic unemployment payment and what sectors are most affected? If we have that information, do we have a specific plan? For example, if we know it concerns people within hospitality or the arts, do we have specifics...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (16 Feb 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am not going to labour the point on employment services. It has been well made by Deputies Carey and Kerrane and I broadly agree with them. I have the same concern that we are marketising social services. I fully accept and take the Minister at her word on the legal advice she received but this is a concern for the future. It is welcome that this committee has taken an ongoing watching...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (16 Feb 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: As there are no further questions on this programme, I will turn to chapter 6 and the programme dealing with children. As there are no questions on this I will turn to chapter 7 and the programme dealing with supplementary payments, agencies and miscellaneous services. Do Deputies wish to pose questions to the Minister on this? As there are no questions we will move on to chapter 8 dealing...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (16 Feb 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Would the Minister like to respond to this?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (16 Feb 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: That concludes chapter 8. We will turn to chapter 9, which is the programme dealing with administration. Is it agreed? Agreed Next is performance outputs and targets. Is that agreed? Agreed. Does the Minister wish to make any closing remarks?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (15 Feb 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The Minister does not have to take all of it. He would have that much if he wished.

Tackling the Cost of Living - Institutional Investors in the Residential Property Market: Motion (15 Feb 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: In accordance with Standing Order 80(2), the division is postponed until the weekly division time tomorrow evening.

Tackling the Cost of Living - Institutional Investors in the Residential Property Market: Motion (15 Feb 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It cannot be disposed of until we dispose of the amendment from the Minister for Finance.

Tackling the Cost of Living - Institutional Investors in the Residential Property Market: Motion (15 Feb 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Tomorrow evening.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (15 Feb 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 89. To ask the Minister for Health the status of development of disease-specific registries as part of Ireland’s health information strategy; if work has commenced on registries for any diseases; when the first registry will be launched; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7694/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (15 Feb 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 92. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the site selection for the adult acute mental health unit at University Hospital Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7695/22]