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- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister and her officials for assisting the committee with its consideration of the Bill.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Message to Dáil (29 Nov 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Clerk of the Dáil: The Select Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands has completed its consideration of the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023 and has made amendments thereto. Under Standing Order 100(2), this shall be deemed to be the report of...
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Special Educational Needs (29 Nov 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 61. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the ASD special class will open in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52671/23]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (28 Nov 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Perhaps the Deputy will correspond with the Minister of State in writing, as our time for oral questions has elapsed.
- Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (28 Nov 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 37 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Alan Dillon - To discuss Ireland's indigenous gas supply and energy security. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore - To discuss the lack of secondary school places for Greystones, County Wicklow. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan - To discuss the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (28 Nov 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 31. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the revised and increased carbon pricing will be published; if there is a particular barrier to its publication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52341/23]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (28 Nov 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: A number of parameters are set out in our public spending code as to how the State makes decisions about spending money on behalf of our citizens. One deficiency in that code, which I raised recently at the Committee of Public Accounts, relates to how we factor in greenhouse gas emissions. When will the revised and increased carbon pricing be published? Is there any barrier to its timely...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (28 Nov 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: That was an interesting history lesson on how and when we might arrive at something but I did not quite get a clear answer on when we actually will see it. One of the problems of dealing with pollution and its impact, be that carbon emissions or otherwise, is that while the benefits might be privatised, the costs are socialised. The use of our atmosphere is a classic case of tragedy of the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (28 Nov 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The following is supplemental, so the Minister of State might not have it to hand. His senior Minister recently said the public spending code will be replaced by a set of infrastructure guidelines. Will the Minister of State confirm whether we are talking about an amendment to the public spending code or a wholesale rewriting of it? Deputy Durkan’s comments were not about swans...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Policy (28 Nov 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Is it inquisitor? It sounds like being held over a building but translating that into a figure that makes sense on a balance sheet is important and could stand alongside the shadow pricing of carbon.
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (28 Nov 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 48. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the new infrastructure guidelines for the Public Sector Spending Code, to include consideration of climate and nature impacts, will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52342/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (28 Nov 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether her Department has allocated funding to a school (details supplied) for a permanent building to extend the school; and when it expects this work to be completed. [52107/23]
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (23 Nov 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I broadly welcome the provisions that are set out in this Bill. The social protection committee recently had a briefing from the Parliamentary Budget Office and it confirmed to me what I think is most important. The first thing I look for in any budget is if it is progressive. The Parliamentary Budget Office brought us through the various provisions and payments contained in the Bill,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I join with my colleagues in wishing the C and AG a happy birthday on the 100th anniversary of the establishment of his office. I also congratulate Dr. O'Reardon on his recent appointment. My first question is for the C and AG. I want an overview of the funding for the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science and the higher education sector. Vote 45...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Do they not have access to that type of funding at all?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I would be more concerned about direct research funding from outside institutions. I put the same question to Dr. O'Reardon. The State provides a significant proportion of funding for the higher education institutions but there is money that comes from elsewhere and, with money, values are very often attached. Is Dr. O'Reardon happy that his Department has adequate oversight of where the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I do not want to get into some of the examples and have made a general point.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We are obliged, when the State puts so much money into a sector, and there is other money, to know that our money is being spent in a way that is consistent with our values.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I understand that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I accept that they are autonomous institutions but they derive a lot of funding from the State.