Results 3,081-3,100 of 3,777 for speaker:Marc Ó Cathasaigh
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (1 Feb 2022)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment advisory report on senior cycle reform; when she will publish the report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4621/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (1 Feb 2022)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the qualification required to become a special needs assistant which has not changed in the past 42 years under the QQI national framework of qualifications despite the level of complexity the job brings with it and the need for structured continuous professional development available to SNAs; and if she will make a statement on...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (1 Feb 2022)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 485. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the installation of a lift to facilitate a disabled student will be completed at a school (details supplied) following approved funding under the emergency works scheme in September 2021 and a contractor already being appointed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4834/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Food Poverty (1 Feb 2022)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 560. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress of the food poverty working group; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5082/22]
- Report on Bogus Self-Employment: Motion (27 Jan 2022)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I call again on the Cathaoirleach of the Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development, Deputy Naughten, to close the debate.
- Report on Bogus Self-Employment: Motion (27 Jan 2022)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the committee Chairman, Deputy Naughten, who agreed to share time with me this evening. I thank him also for taking on the job of putting this report together. Much of the preparatory work was undertaken in the Thirty-second Dáil and would have been lost but for the decision made by Deputy Naughten to use our Covid time, when we could do little else, to bring together the work...
- Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Jan 2022)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Like other colleagues in the House, I welcome this draft legislation, which fulfils a number of commitments from the programme for Government. There have been a number of references to the 1971 Act. We will all agree it is long overdue and in need of an overhaul. It demonstrates the value of having a senior ministry devoted to the area of higher education and research to bring that focus...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (27 Jan 2022)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 76. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress made on establishing a process to ensure that all Irish aid is spent in a way that is in full compliance with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as committed to in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3837/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Climate Change Policy (27 Jan 2022)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 82. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the setting up of a unit within his Department dedicated to working on Ireland’s response to the global climate crisis and tasked with devising a strategy to scale up Ireland’s climate finance contributions as committed to within the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3836/22]
- Youth Mental Health: Statements (26 Jan 2022)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is important and timely to have this debate on youth mental health, particularly as we emerge from the Covid pandemic. It is a tough time to be a young person. I made what I hope are the majority of my mistakes at a time before social media and before digital cameras were ubiquitous. How difficult it must be now growing up when young people are constantly trying to compare themselves...
- Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Tithíocht agus Cúrsaí Pleanála Fisiciúla sa Ghaeltacht: Plé (Atógáil) (26 Jan 2022)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire agus a oifigigh as a bheith linn inniu. Ba mhaith liom cur leis an méid a dúirt an Teachta Calleary. Seo an chéad deis atá agam mo bhuíochas a ghabháil le hAodhán Mac Cormaic as an obair ollmhór a rinne sé ar an mBille teanga, nó an tAcht teanga mar atá sé anois. Go raibh maith agat as ucht na...
- Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Tithíocht agus Cúrsaí Pleanála Fisiciúla sa Ghaeltacht: Plé (Atógáil) (26 Jan 2022)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Chun díriú isteach ar chúpla ceann de na moltaí atá ann, is é moladh 4 ná go n-úsáidfeadh gach údarás áitiúil modh deimhnithe náisiúnta chun inniúlacht teanga a mheas, modh ar nós Teastas Eorpach na Gaeilge a luaigh Dr. Mac Cormaic níos luaithe. Fáiltím roimh an dea-scéal go mbeidh an TEG...
- Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Tithíocht agus Cúrsaí Pleanála Fisiciúla sa Ghaeltacht: Plé (Atógáil) (26 Jan 2022)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Cén céatadán a bhfuilimid ag caint faoi maidir leis an tithíocht? An mbeidh an TEG ar leibhéal B2 ag teastáil ó 100% de na daoine sin?
- Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Tithíocht agus Cúrsaí Pleanála Fisiciúla sa Ghaeltacht: Plé (Atógáil) (26 Jan 2022)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Nach gcruthaíonn sé sin an fhadhb chéanna atá againn i gcónaí, is é sin, nach bhfuil treoirlínte ann? Tóg, mar shampla, breac-Ghaeltacht nó Gaeltacht ina bhfuil an teanga beagáinín níos laige ná i gceantair eile. Nach gcaithfear treoirlínte a bheith ann do gach Gaeltacht seachas rialacha éagsúla a bheith...
- Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Tithíocht agus Cúrsaí Pleanála Fisiciúla sa Ghaeltacht: Plé (Atógáil) (26 Jan 2022)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Caithfimid é sin a shoiléiriú agus treoirlínte a leagan amach. Má táimid ag iarraidh an leibhéal B2 sin a chur i bhfeidhm, tiocfaidh brú orainn chun an céatadán sin a laghdú.
- Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Tithíocht agus Cúrsaí Pleanála Fisiciúla sa Ghaeltacht: Plé (Atógáil) (26 Jan 2022)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Tá ceist eile agam. Deireann moladh 8 gur chóir bearta inacmhainne faoi leith a thabhairt isteach do cheantair Ghaeltachta a chabhróidh le pobail labhartha Gaeilge. Táim ag smaoineamh anois ar Chomhlucht Forbartha na nDéise agus an tionscadal atá idir lámha aige faoi láthair. An bhfuil sé d'intinn ag an Aire tacaíocht phraiticiúil a...
- Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Tithíocht agus Cúrsaí Pleanála Fisiciúla sa Ghaeltacht: Plé (Atógáil) (26 Jan 2022)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Táimid ag caint faoi approved housing bodies, AHBs-----
- Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Tithíocht agus Cúrsaí Pleanála Fisiciúla sa Ghaeltacht: Plé (Atógáil) (26 Jan 2022)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: -----do mhuintir na Gaeltachta nó do mhuintir na Gaeltachta seo.
- Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Tithíocht agus Cúrsaí Pleanála Fisiciúla sa Ghaeltacht: Plé (Atógáil) (26 Jan 2022)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Gabhaim buíochas as an freagra cuimsitheach sin.
- Leaving Certificate: Motion (25 Jan 2022)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: In accordance with Standing Order 80(2), the division is postponed until the weekly division time on Wednesday, 26 January 2022.