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Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We have biosecurity as an island though. We can control the plant and animal species that are coming in.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Will Mr. Gleeson revert to us with a quantum of funding?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The old Joe Biden line is, "Show me the budget and I will be able to tell whether you care about it or not."

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The Chair has covered most of the ground but I want to pick up on the vaccination programme, particularly insofar as it relates to badgers. It sounds very much like we are going in the right direction. I am delighted to hear that and that our practice is underpinned by research that indicates vaccination is no less effective than culling. If you cull a badger, you create movement within...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I was going to ask about the flip side, namely the deer-management strategy. Maybe the officials will have the figures dug out afterwards. Am I correct that we have not implemented the deer management strategy yet and are still formulating it?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Does the Department of agriculture speak to the NPWS? Surely that will be a central plank of our deer management strategy.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Would Mr. Gleeson be aware of the number of deer culled? Has the Department spoken to the NPWS to get its hands on those figures?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Is there any differentiation between sika and red deer in that the red deer are native and sika are non-native. Would I be right in saying that the sika are much more problematic in terms of moving across landscape?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Let us say there is no specific instruction to the people who would be involved in deer culling to cull one but not the other.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Could we return to that wildlife element if Mr Blake has had the opportunity to pull the figures out?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is still less than one eighth of the compensation programme. It represents very good value for money if we can prevent paying out a compensation programme by investing more in our vaccination programme. That seems to me to represent good value for money.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Although "straightforward" may not be the word I would use to describe the management of a deer population, a deer population is managed through culling in an Irish context because the deer have no predators. Is it the Department of agriculture which is responsible for issuing licences for deer hunters? Where does that lie?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Citizens' Assembly (11 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on preparations being made towards the establishment of a citizens' assembly on education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30485/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: There are Members here who think representing Waterford consists of standing up and shouting the odds from the Opposition benches. There are other Members here who think it is not enough to describe a problem and that they have to be part of the solution. They roll up their sleeves and get stuck in. I could talk about the building of the second cath lab or the acquisition of the Waterford...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Funding (9 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 134. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be made available to Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) in order to reinstate funding for local authorities to tender pavement projects previously approved, given the request by TII to local authorities to place a hold on tendering pavement projects while an expenditure review is undertaken; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (9 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 650. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the provision of funding for the drug palforzia in Ireland being made available to help reduce allergic reactions to peanuts for children aged 4 to 17 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29087/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (9 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 673. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for a provision of a diabetes unit in University Hospital Waterford as the only level 4 hospital without such a unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29161/24]

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the witnesses for their presentation and for the briefing material. We are in high danger of a Paddy Kavanagh quote at some stage, but that can wait. I want to pick up on a number of points Deputy O'Connor made. I will move through them relatively quickly. On staffing costs, in the context of pay rates for directors, a top rate of €107,141 is listed on page 34 of the...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Very good. That is a more than satisfactory answer. I was not sure whether it included the CEO grade or not. I want to ask another question arising from the annual accounts. Waterways Ireland is running this €3.6 million deficit, but it has €10.7 million cash on the books. It just seems like a lot of cash. I would have an issue. I remember serving on a board of...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The witnesses get my point around having quite so much cash lying around. It is not something I would feel comfortable about, but if it is ring-fenced and set beside projects that are in the future then that answers my question in that sense. Another question I want to ask in this general financial space is about how 93% of Waterways Ireland's assets are these operational assets. These...