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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The SDG were referenced and this committee has done a lot of work on them. If we are making this transition, we have to reach those who are furthest behind first. These are inseparable. I have oodles more questions but I am conscious of other members wanting to come in, so I will come back in-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I think Irish Rural Link pointed out last week that the credit unions may be locked out of that low interest rate loan scheme. That could be addressed. Does Senator Wall have any follow-up questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank Mr. Hession for his appearances morning. It is better that we are getting more than our relevant departmental information. Mr. Hession often appears before the committee but we have had the Department of housing and the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications appear before our committee also. It illustrates the fact that this is a cross-departmental problem and needs...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Mr. Hession will tell me that would be an ecumenical matter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I have a number of housing questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: What are the figures for year-on-year retrofitting?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank Ms Stapleton.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the witnesses for the opening statement and, indeed, for this report, which covers this issue very comprehensively. Questions were asked in last week's committee meeting about identifying the push and pull factors in this context. I refer in particular to those four A levels, for example, the timing of offers, etc. I do not wish to rehash that debate because it was well rehearsed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I wonder what is driving it. Is it a sense that I will go to a certain city to have my college experience and that is why I decide to go away from home or is it that a course is not offered in my region and therefore I have to go elsewhere?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: This was the question I wanted to ask. I refer to our sense of where the baseline should be if we were to remove the institutional barriers. I know, though, that it is probably very difficult to quantify.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is really only a handful of students. The figures from 2020-21 show that 1,170 students from Ireland went to study in Northern Ireland and there has not been a great deal of change since then. Do we have figures for people travelling to other jurisdictions? How many Irish kids are going to England and Scotland? Do we have many students going to Europe?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Okay. In terms of students in Northern Ireland, many of them have to make the choice to go away, similar to the situation for students in the south east, because there is a cap on courses and there is not the same level of choice. Substantially more of them, however, go to the UK. Geographically, the Republic of Ireland is close and it would be possible for students to get a train as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Is there any sense of a class-based system, a scourge we can be thankful to be more or less free from in the Republic of Ireland? Dr. Darmody spoke about Oxbridge and certain families having certain expectations. While I am not saying that there are not families in Ireland that have certain expectations about where their children are going to end up, I think the class system is more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: That was very interesting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: No, I am good.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (27 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 9. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking in 2024, the European Year of Skills, to increase the uptake of lifelong learning; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9084/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Private Partnerships (27 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 49. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding progress on the public private partnership, bundle 2, specifically with reference to the funding of the engineering building in the Waterford Campus SETU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9083/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (27 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 476. To ask the Minister for Health for the steps his Department is taking regarding the provision of a dedicated diabetes care unit in University Hospital Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8661/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (27 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 477. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dedicated whole-time equivalent consultant endocrinologists, dietitians, advanced nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, staff nurses, podiatrists and administrative support posts currently dedicated to the outpatient adult diabetes clinic in University Hospital Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8662/24]