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Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 5: Vote Accounting and Budget Management (16 Nov 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...Act was in place at that stage. There have been several climate action plans. Why am I not seeing climate in the key principles if this next piece of work is right there? When is this going to land?

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (8 Nov 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...been very little mention or discussion. I have spoken before about the need to underpin the European Green Deal with commensurate funding. If we are moving in the direction of decarbonisation and the rededication of our lands to fight climate change and biodiversity loss, measures such as the EU's nature restoration law need to be adequately underpinned by an appropriate funding...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (25 Oct 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...the complex history Germany has in this regard. It carries a generational guilt for the atrocities done under the German flag during the Second World War. I do not think it is any harm that Ireland has traditionally been sympathetic to the cause of Palestine. Notwithstanding the context that exists, that voice will be needed within the European Union. I hope we will be the voice to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Green Paper on Disability Reform: Department of Social Protection (25 Oct 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...ran the rule over 1,000 preliminary cases when sorting them into three categories. I assume they were randomly selected so that they would give an indicative measure of where we are likely to land. What was the percentage outcome in terms of the different years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...would look like if rural people, rural livelihoods and nature were at the centre of what we did, as opposed to the status quo. One of my issues is that we do not do that vision piece, even in the land use review or land use policy. I still do not have a sense of what the landscape will look like in 2050, something that would enable me to work backwards. Will Dr. O'Mahony comment on...

Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is important because we very much rely on the Comptroller and Auditor General's expertise to do the job that is in front of us. I will go back to this programme, which is landing us at 29 October 2024. The poor employer's representative has been kept incredibly busy by this job. There is a line that states the programme is currently being evaluated by the employer's representative....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Air Quality (27 Sep 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...the other. We know the implications of burning fossil fuels in general, be it to power our cars or to heat our homes, and the impact it has on air quality. It was timely when I saw the EPA report land on Monday morning. It tells us that in 2022, air monitoring results from EPA stations across Ireland showed that fine particulate matter, mainly from the burning of solid fuel in homes, and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Operation and Effect of National and Local Policy on Island Communities: Discussion (22 Sep 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We do not have islands in Waterford but we have very similar pressures in our Gaeltacht community, Gaeltacht na nDéise, where there are those kinds of competing demands and many properties being used as second properties or holiday homes. There is a situation where people who want to live and work within their own Gaeltacht community find it extremely difficult to access housing because...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Rural and Community Development (12 Jul 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: .... We kind of wiped the memory banks on that. I wanted to ask about the walks scheme in particular, and the uptake. Any reaction I am getting from it on the ground is really positive. The landowners are quite happy with how it is working, and they are talking to other landowners and saying if the walks scheme is proposed on their land, it is not a bad idea. It is working out. That...

Progress on the National Parks and Wildlife Service: Statements (6 Jul 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...positives in it as well. She said there is more and more need for people with these skills. She said she has to turn down work, that she is absolutely flat out. However, there is no place in Ireland that trains for those skills. I think Birmingham is the closest place where you can get that specific skill set. We are going to need those skills not just in the NPWS but across society,...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (28 Jun 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...up against the treatment of the 750 migrants who lost their lives in the Mediterranean and the people who try to intervene on their behalf. It is difficult not to think of our own history on this island, from which people made difficult journeys on what were termed "coffin ships". We are now seeing a similar dynamic play across the Mediterranean. The issue of migration is not going...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funding (22 Jun 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...and role of Údarás na Gaeltachta, particularly in the development of affordable community housing and taking a partnership stake in the development of that. Údarás na Gaeltachta owns a lot of land, particularly within our Gaeltacht communities. Does the Department have a view on allowing it the flexibility to engage in that kind of change in its remit and role?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is absolutely critical to have those boots on the ground. Mr. Ó Donnchú mentioned that 14% of land mass is designated in one shape or form. A total of 85% of our EU protected habitats are in unfavourable condition. The problem is particularly acute in our SACs. Will Mr. Doyle comment on the European Court of Justice case that is referred to here regarding the State’s...

Nature Restoration Law and Irish Agriculture: Statements (31 May 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...of the impact we as humans are having on the natural world that sustains us. The nature restoration law represents a last best hope to try to remediate some of that damage, to try to restore our landscapes that have sustained us for so long and to put a halt to the steep decline we have seen in biodiversity right across the European Union and right across the entire world. There is also...

Biodiversity Action: Statements (25 May 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...and in its first recommendation was an unequivocal message; that the State must take prompt, decisive and urgent action to address biodiversity loss and restoration and must provide leadership in protecting Ireland’s biodiversity for future generations. The Children and Young People’s Assembly on Biodiversity Loss was equally clear in its views, asking us, the legislators...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Impact Assessments (25 May 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 62. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when his Department's review of the EIA agriculture regulations will commence; if he will require screening of all hedgerow removal, land drainage and conversion of land to agricultural use, regardless of the scale of such operations, while such a review is ongoing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25216/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Impact Assessments (25 May 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: When will the Department's review of the environmental impact assessment, EIA, agriculture regulations commence? Once it commences, will the Minister require screening of all hedgerow removal, land drainage and conversion of land to agricultural use, regardless of the scale of such operations, while such a review is ongoing?

Irish Sheep Sector: Statements (30 Mar 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...it working for socially, economically or environmentally? It is difficult to answer that question. In considering the social aspect, people have pointed out the importance of sheep farming and upland farming within our communities. I was at a meeting of the Comeragh Uplands and Communities EIP Project recently. I was not quite the youngest person in the room but I was not far from it....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education and Training Provision (30 Mar 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ..., for example, is to build more housing. To do that, we need more people with the correct skills. Similarly, to fulfil the retrofitting agenda, we need people to retrain in that area. On changing land uses, there will be massive opportunities for people around forestry and nature restoration. The Minister mentioned early years education. That is critical, particularly for allowing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (21 Mar 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...to contribute. It is a positive that committees have begun to step up when it comes to SDG implementation. The Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands had a session on it and the Joint Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, of which Senator O'Reilly and I are members, has it on its work...