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Mental Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 May 2017)

Catherine Martin: Tá an Comhaontas Glas fíor-shásta tacaíocht a thabhairt don Bhille seo. This Bill put before us today is a welcome step towards creating a modern and patient-focused mental health care system. By changing the definition of consent in the Mental Health Act, we would be changing the provision of services radically. It would be an important step in destigmatising the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2017)

Catherine Martin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I come from the position that we must stop viewing education as a cost but as the investment it is. I wish to delve more into the potential impact of these income-contingent loans on emigration. We are a country that suffers from emigration and with a youth unemployment rate of 14%, are we not at huge risk of shedding our talented graduates?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Higher Education Funding: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2017)

Catherine Martin: If a person starts repaying and then becomes a parent, can repayments stop?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (2 May 2017)

Catherine Martin: I wholeheartedly agree with Deputy Byrne and echo his call on the Minister. It would be very helpful at this stage if the Minister would commit to the principle of equal pay for equal work. It is no longer a matter of newly qualified teachers, NQTs, but lesser-paid teachers, LPTs. If we are truly to value education and the job primary school teachers do, in particular in shaping our young...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (2 May 2017)

Catherine Martin: On the money that is available to the Minister for the provision of salary increases for TUI and INTO members, what moneys are available to him should the ASTI come on board? I am sure the Minister is watching the call for the special convention within the ASTI. Who knows what could happen there. Something could happen sooner than we think. Is the money there if the ASTI comes on board? ...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (2 May 2017)

Catherine Martin: I am glad the Minister is carrying out a review but it is really at crisis level. The Minister knows how vulnerable many children in these schools are. I am aware of one DEIS school where the principal has had to take on the role of student council liaison teacher, traditionally a B post. The same principal now holds, due to retirement, the A post of first year head. He is dealing with...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (2 May 2017)

Catherine Martin: I have a comment on what I said earlier and on what Deputies Byrne and Nolan have brought up. I would welcome the restoration of ex-quota guidance counsellors. I would be appalled if there is a play on words happening because those involved are playing with students and children who need this support as it was before the 2012 cuts.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (2 May 2017)

Catherine Martin: I wish to comment on the same issue. The Minister has said that he would expect them to be professionally equipped but earlier he spoke about best practice and said in the same breath that there is nothing wrong with a science teacher giving guidance to a student. One could, however, have an excellent science teacher who has no idea what courses are available out there because the truth is...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Revised) (2 May 2017)

Catherine Martin: I brought this subject up before. I do not know if the Minister of State spoke to the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, about the vision for transport and the possibility of biofuel or looking at a greener way of running school buses.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (2 May 2017)

Catherine Martin: 506. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if planning authorities, under the planning Act or lobbying Act, are required to record details of consultations or discussions with landowners, developers or public representatives in respect of proposals to zone lands in relation to which the discussions happen separately​ to the process of written...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Sites (2 May 2017)

Catherine Martin: 770. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on "The Moore Street Report - Securing History", presented to her by a group (details supplied) on 29 March 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20824/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beekeeping Industry (2 May 2017)

Catherine Martin: 1140. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the grant aids, incentives and other supports which are currently available to persons and organisations (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19714/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (2 May 2017)

Catherine Martin: 1170. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of prosecutions initiated under the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 since its introduction in March 2014 by category (details supplied); and the number of these initiated prosecutions which have been finalised in court with respect to the categories. [19495/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (2 May 2017)

Catherine Martin: 1171. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide sufficient funding to an organisation (details supplied) to recruit enough inspectors to cover all 26 counties as recommended by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine in its report on the welfare of equines in January 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19496/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports (2 May 2017)

Catherine Martin: 1172. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will suspend the export of live cattle to countries outside the European Union until such time as an investigation can be carried out into the recent revelations of poor conditions and cruel treatment of cattle at the final destination in view of animal welfare and disease control concerns; his views on whether instituting...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Provision (2 May 2017)

Catherine Martin: 1430. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to provide funding for the construction or assistance of new community creches for the Clonskeagh area, in view of the changing demographics and the current pressure on childcare services in the area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19366/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (13 Apr 2017)

Catherine Martin: 5. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way the fiscal and policy context section of the capital development plan incorporates environmental sustainability in addition to fiscal sustainability as an underlying policy goal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19114/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (13 Apr 2017)

Catherine Martin: This question relates to the capital plan 2016-21 and its use of the word "sustainability". It is often the case that despite the prolific use of the word "sustainability" throughout the document and particularly in the fiscal and policy context section, it seems to primarily and solely incorporate what could be termed fiscal sustainability rather than a wider definition which might include...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (13 Apr 2017)

Catherine Martin: While I appreciate that the capital plan features a number of measures to tackle climate change and deal with environmental sustainability, regrettably, environment is still considered a "selected driver" of long-term public investment requirements. The importance of climate change within the Government's capital plan is currently considered as only requiring intervention in respect of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (13 Apr 2017)

Catherine Martin: With respect, the report today from the EPA would suggest there is a huge gulf between the Government's words and the Government's action when it comes to climate change. It appears to me that the Government has reached a crossroads. It can accept the fact that, without a major turnaround in policy, we will not meet our emissions targets, which needless to say, for the sake of our children...