Results 701-720 of 3,777 for speaker:Marc Ó Cathasaigh
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Our Rural Future and Town Centre First Policies: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: There are a number of questions. I will start with the Department.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Our Rural Future and Town Centre First Policies: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Does Mr. Tiernan want to give the local authority perspective in response to Deputy Ó Laoghaire's comments?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Our Rural Future and Town Centre First Policies: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Mr. Doyle, would you like to give us the perspective of the Heritage Council?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Our Rural Future and Town Centre First Policies: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Senator Murphy is next.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Our Rural Future and Town Centre First Policies: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I do not know if either the Heritage Council or the Department wanted to come in on Senator Murphy's contribution?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Our Rural Future and Town Centre First Policies: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Does someone from the Heritage Council wish to make a comment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Our Rural Future and Town Centre First Policies: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I feel brainwashed at this stage. I am quite confident that by the end of the week I will have a two-night stay booked in Strokestown without me realising.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Our Rural Future and Town Centre First Policies: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Google has probably listened to the discussion and already pre-booked. I will be subjected to a barrage of ads. I thank the witnesses for their contributions. This is an area of pivotal importance. In the discussion of the divide between rural Ireland and urban Ireland, people are often pitched at the two opposite ends of the scale. People are told their two options are Dublin 4 or a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Our Rural Future and Town Centre First Policies: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Will Mr. Doyle come in on the tracking question? I always get the abbreviation wrong. It is the collaborative town centre health check, CTCHC. Will Mr. Doyle comment on how it is mapped with the town teams now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Our Rural Future and Town Centre First Policies: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: In relation to local authority empowerment, I am interested in hearing from Mr. Tiernan about the council's PPN.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Our Rural Future and Town Centre First Policies: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Does Mr. Nicholson wish to come in?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Our Rural Future and Town Centre First Policies: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It goes to the contributory principle around taxation. People feel much more positively disposed towards spending their taxation if they can see the effects of it in their local environment. Local authorities have a crucial role to play in this. Collaboration is very important to avoid creating a structure where it feels like it is where good ideas go to die. There are plenty of examples...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (30 Apr 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am also asking this question on behalf of Deputy Leddin. There has been huge progress in the amount of family leave that is available and things like work-life balance, in particular working from home. I think of the difference between when I had my first young fella versus my third. I had three days leave for the first. By the time it rolled around to the third fella, it was two weeks'...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (30 Apr 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: There is a lot there that I welcome, but what the Minister has said on deferred leave is important. The Irish Cancer Society has been in touch with me and several other Members of the House to get that point across. That is something we would certainly like to see. The domestic violence leave is a superb piece of work and I congratulate the Minister on it. Neither the Minister not I are...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (30 Apr 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I would not underestimate the cultural handbrake that is also there. There is definitely a societal pressure, in particular on men, to get that fit of child rearing done and get back to work. That is the thinking on it. I do not subscribe to that view. I think that time you put into your child at home is incredibly valuable and, to speak to our earlier question, gives that best start and...