Results 781-800 of 3,777 for speaker:Marc Ó Cathasaigh
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (23 Apr 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: While I do not necessarily like to create work for the secretariat, I suggest a second action, namely, that we write to the Minister and ask him to make his position explicit.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: European Year of Skills 2023: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank all the organisations in attendance. They come from a wide range of areas, from pure research to employment upskilling, aimed at delivering excellence in skills and providing a place for people who find it difficult to get their education in other places. Both Ms Healy and Mr. McLoughlin have shown the strength of the organisations that have helped them get their education. They...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (23 Apr 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 491. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has considered approaches to resolving the ongoing issues at Helvick Pier in An Rinn, where the silting up of the harbour prevents the launch of the RNLI boat at periods of very low tide, with obvious consequent safety concerns; if the small fisheries harbour scheme could be amended in order to include works of this kind; and...
- Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Motion (18 Apr 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will pick up where the Deputy left off in echoing his comments about the rights of nature and the establishment of the expert group. We do need that constitutional change to recognise people's right to a healthy environment on one hand and the rights of nature on the other. We know from very recent history that referenda are tricky. In the longer term and particularly as we look at the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: First, I want to take the opportunity, which other members have not taken as yet, to acknowledge the scale of the challenge that the Department has faced, particularly since 2022. There has been an unprecedented influx of people, which, as Mr. McCarthy said, is probably the largest in the history of the State. I commend the action taken by the Department to accommodate 100,000 people who...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: In terms of specific competencies, Mr. McCarthy's Department was asked to contract accommodation on a scale it would never have been asked to do before. Currently, the Department is trying to reconfigure that accommodation in terms of the temporary protection applicants who are increasingly leaving that accommodation. The Department is trying to consolidate and ensure we are increasing...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will cut across Mr. McCarthy as I have two minutes remaining. The discussion so far has understandably been dominated by our response in terms of temporary protection and international protection. I want to ask a question about the national childcare scheme. The Department has not let the grass grow under its feet in that regard. There has been significant movement on driving down...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: That is good.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank Mr. McCarthy.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I want clarification of something the Taoiseach said in the Dáil yesterday. I want to fact-check the figures with the witnesses. I think the Taoiseach said 15 Ukrainian people coming here under the temporary protection directive are arriving per day and 45 leave State-provided accommodation. This gives a net figure of 175 fewer people per week in State-provided accommodation. Is that...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Of course it does.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Where are we at then with the overall number of beneficiaries of temporary protection in State-provided accommodation? Where did it top out at and where is it currently?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: One of the issues that makes the provision of long-term accommodation under the temporary protection directive more challenging is the fact we do not really have clear sight of what is going to happen beyond March 2025 when the directive falls out of force. Looking at some of the long-term solutions, my local authority has been looking at projects that would not deliver within 12 months....
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: No, but things like the right to work-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The right to work and the right to remain will come into play and be a big issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I want to touch on another issue. I apologise if it has been raised. I was following the meeting in my office, but I may have missed it. It is about the inspection at ECCE level. Some 16% were found to be major non-compliant when inspected, which is a worry. With the community childcare subvention plus saver scheme 20% were found to major non-compliant. What is the repercussion if a...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Is sufficient.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Okay, but translate that into language-----