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Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (20 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: For a long time, we have traded on the fact that we are physically very remote, and that insulates us from the kind of cross-border aggression we have seen in eastern Europe. However, cyberwarfare does not know boundaries in the same way. I would like to see that we are adequately supporting and resourcing the National Cyber Security Centre. I know it is difficult for the Taoiseach to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (20 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will develop a national security strategy and functioning security agency to deal with future security events. [6207/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The Minister spoke to this in the general but I will ask him a specific question. The chair of the Climate Change Advisory Council, Marie Donnelly, confirms we are in danger of missing our 2025 targets with all of the attendant consequences, including a lost to the Exchequer of some €8 billion as outlined by the Minister for public expenditure, Deputy Paschal Donohoe, last week. We...

Recent Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (14 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: This is a welcome opportunity to debate these issues in the context of what was a very happy day for all of us looking north, with the return of the Assembly, the restoration of the Executive and the decision of the DUP to re-enter power-sharing. It is fitting to congratulate Michelle O'Neill and Emma Little-Pengelly on their appointments as First Minister and deputy First Minister,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 20. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to the western Balkans. [6212/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 14. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent engagement with Chinese Premier Li Qiang. [6211/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 8. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his engagements at the World Economic Forum. [6210/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Teaching Qualifications (13 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The autonomy of the universities is one thing but this gateway around designation as a centre of excellence has effectively locked the likes of SETU out of this sector. Another aspect I draw the Minister's attention to is SETU's capacity to be a Gaeltacht university. We have a Gaeltacht in Waterford and an area where there is a real need is teachers teaching subjects through the medium...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Teaching Qualifications (13 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has considered designating any further universities, including technological universities, as centres of excellence for the purposes of teacher training education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6340/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Teaching Qualifications (13 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I have put this question to the Minister, Deputy Harris, on a number of occasions in his role as Minister for further and higher education. It relates to the designation of universities or technological universities as centres of excellence for the purposes of teacher training education. As it stands, only a certain number of universities are sanctioned as centres of excellence. It means...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Teaching Qualifications (13 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister for her response. I am hearing a status quoresponse as opposed to the opportunity to change. The Minister will know this landscape well. For primary teacher education, you will be looking at the three colleges in Dublin or at Limerick. It is a little more open in terms of secondary school education. To be parochial about it - not parochial but regional - there are...

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is not his Bill.

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is Minister Chamber's Bill.

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is the Minister of State's Bill.

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I very much welcome the provisions of the Bill. My children at home, three lads, are at a point where we are trying to give them a little more independence and let them go to the shop by themselves to pick up sweets or whatever it is. We are trying to drum into them road safety and how they should be safe on the roads. While I was thinking about the Bill, I realised the language I am using...

Report of Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands: Motion (1 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I move: That Dáil Éireann shall take note of the Report of the Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands entitled "Report on the progress of the Sustainable Development Goals 2023", copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 7th December, 2023. I thank the Cathaoirleach of the Joint Committee on Social Protection,...

Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will pick up on a couple of the points made by Deputies Cullinane and Sherlock. This is welcome legislation. The Minister, in a relatively new Department, has made a habit of producing substantial and consequential pieces of legislation. I think back to the Higher Education Authority Act, which was an excellent and much-needed piece of work. The same applies to this legislation. We...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Over the course of the weekend a number of allegations surfaced relating to a small number of workers with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA. The allegations are serious in nature and I am in no way well placed to make an adjudication on whether they are well founded or otherwise but one thing of which I am absolutely certain – a view I share with Oxfam and 19 other...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (25 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister of State. I know responsibility lies with Irish Water. However, as we have all experienced, we can make the necessary representations through the Oireachtas liaison channels but sometimes the focus of the Dáil on the issue helps to sharpen attention and that is what I hope to do this evening. The Minister of State did more or less what I did in my initial...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (25 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The Minister of State has so far been on a tour of the country. He has been in the Shannon Callows and he has been in Celbridge. I will bring him to west Waterford and Deputy Buckley will shortly take him across the Cork-Waterford border to east Cork. I will bring him to a number of places in west Waterford, but I will begin with Tallow, County Waterford. There are just over 1,000 people...