Results 761-780 of 3,777 for speaker:Marc Ó Cathasaigh

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: -----in terms of discharging this key recommendation. Has that formal relationship been established?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Chair.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I again raise a long-term and ongoing issue at Heilbhic Pier in Gaeltacht na nDéise just outside Dungarvan. For a number of days each month when the tide is at its lowest, the RNLI boat cannot launch. It cannot exit the slipway. The harbour is silted up. I have been around the houses on this. It has been a case of pass the parcel. I have put questions to the Department of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (24 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 36. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has received the submission from a body (details supplied) regarding a VAT exemption for counsellors and psychotherapists; if a VAT exemption will be forthcoming; the measures put in place by his Department to support counsellors and psychotherapists and to improve access to mental health supports for the public; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (24 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 62. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department's ICT grant monies will be paid to schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18200/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (24 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 63. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department minor works grant monies will be paid to schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18201/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (24 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 99. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware that children with coeliac disease, which has an incidence rate of 1 in 100 people in Ireland, are unable to avail of the hot school meals programme; the steps her Department can take to address this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18163/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: There is a huge amount in what the witnesses have presented this morning and then there are reading lists accompanying most of the submissions. There is a considerable amount to take in. I am going to torture a couple of metaphors to death by way of opening. When Dr. Griffin said our welfare system is a "perpetual calibration", it made me think of a bicycle. People will say I am a Green...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: There are so many things hanging off the back of the horse that maybe there is a need for a reset. Of course, that is what the Department is doing by examining the means tests. I agree with the point about universalism. That is where we should be going. I also agree on the point that there should be grace when a person has to interact with the social protection system. It is important to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: My reservation about participation income relates to the slightly paternalistic idea that people should be doing something useful. It involves somebody making a judgment on what is useful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I know that the Chair is interested, in the context of science but also in this area, in how we tie up research and policymaking, given we are in the business of policymaking. It was rightly identified that one aspect of the meat and drink of a TD's constituency office is people coming through the door, and there is a certain element of clientelism in that regard. It is about how we make...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Yes, it is to break up the list into small pieces for us.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: As a few of those questions were directed at Dr. Griffin, we will begin with him.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Does Dr. Whelan wish to comment on any of the questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am just looking at the graph. Is it that expenditure is rising overall, or does the graph show us that the percentage of expenditure related to social assistance is rising?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: There is not only an expenditure increase because the percentage of the expenditure that is means tested is also rising. It is a compounding factor. I am sorry for interrupting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I have a final question, a general one. There has been much discussion on participation income and UBI. As was identified, UBI can be viewed differently from the right and the left. From the left, you can portray it as the safety net to catch all, whereas, from a right-wing perspective, you can offer the money so as to purchase services. The flip side of the coin is universal basic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (23 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The time is very short for what is a very important discussion. I find this proposal deeply concerning. It is not the direction in which Horizon Europe should be moving. It would create a competitive disadvantage in Ireland if we had to competitively tender in this sort of dual-use area, quite apart from the moral implications. I recommend that the Chair and committee consider making a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (23 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The Department had a previous Minister who has now moved upwards. Was it discussed with the previous Minister, now Taoiseach, and, if so, did he make his position on the matter explicit?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (23 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: If it was not discussed with either Minister, how is Mr. Moore in a position to state that Ireland has favoured retaining the civilian status? Is that based on historical precedent?