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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: That is very good. The second issue I want to raise is centres of excellence in terms of teacher training education. I think a number of centres of excellence were prescribed as far back as the 1970s. An educational facility could not put on a teacher training course unless it was nominated as a centre of excellence. I am again coming at this from a regional perspective. Some 600,000...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The third question I will put to the Minister is something we have spoken about before. He referred to horizon planning. I have spoken about the Acht na dteangacha and the fact that it has very ambitious targets for recruitment into the public service, whereby 20% of new entrants from 2030 are supposed to have a certain required level of Irish. An Coimisinéir Teanga has spoken about...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will roll the final three points into one because they have been touched on by other speakers. There was great news for three universities in terms of student-specific accommodation. I know the TU sector has been a little bit further behind, but within the sector Waterford is ahead, in that it has a track record of providing student-specific accommodation. The Minister might just give me...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Does the Minister have any more definite timeline than just "this year".
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: On the timeline with regard to pharmacy, the Minister said that the Department of agriculture would have to look at the veterinary aspect. We would like a particular result out of that but that would be pre-empting the process. Where are we with regard to pharmacy?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Chair and the Minister.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Chair for the opportunity because I am not an ordinary member of this committee. I have been very strict with myself in that I have restricted myself to only eight issues.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It was not on my list. It is one of the items that did not make it. I will start with the North Quays. We have the integrated transport hub, which is due to move from the current location at Plunkett Station to a location further up the quay. It will be the linchpin of the development and where the new sustainable transport bridge crossing the River Suir will land. I have been talking to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: What of the later trains?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Irish Rail has a three-carriage set that sits in Waterford once the last Limerick train comes in. Could Irish Rail not run it up to Carlow and run it back down again for me?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Very good. I thank Mr. Meade.
- Housing and Homeless Prevention: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Jan 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Thank you, Deputy.
- Housing and Homeless Prevention: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Jan 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We will have the Minister without interruption.
- Housing and Homeless Prevention: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Jan 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Sinn Féin has ample speaking time on its own motion.
- Housing and Homeless Prevention: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Jan 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The party will have ample opportunity.
- Housing and Homeless Prevention: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Jan 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Thank you, Deputies.
- Housing and Homeless Prevention: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Jan 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It would be better for the conduct of the debate in general if Members could make their contributions without interruption.
- Housing and Homeless Prevention: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Jan 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Deputies will have ample opportunity to make their contributions.
- Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the motion and I commend the Tánaiste for bringing it before the House. It is a strong motion highlighting in explicit terms the scale of the violence, barbarity and inhumanity we see being played out before our eyes in real time in Gaza. The direct and indirect consequences on the lives of people who bear no blame for the atrocities commenced by...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (23 Jan 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 178. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress made in respect of the safe routes to school scheme, the completed and in-progress projects by end-2023; the associated costs of the programme, per county; the anticipated timeframe for the completion of projects at all schools under Round 1 and 2; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2702/24]