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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank Ms Duffy. That was a very helpful answer. That tagging process is a really interesting idea. We do not want to end up in a situation where all these parallel reporting mechanisms are being done and it creates more regulatory burdens on the Department. Speaking as a Member of the Oireachtas trying to oversee spending, we are just getting this piecemeal picture. If that tagging...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is one of the areas because generally across the board in terms of education at both primary and secondary and tertiary level, Ireland performs really well. We have a track record of which we can be really proud. We would always like more investment and to have more places and future long-term funding and all those things, but we perform very well by an international comparison in terms...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Ms Duffy is telling me it is a function of the newness of her Department, essentially. I might be straying outside what we are supposed to be doing today but there is huge frustration with the National Training Fund, NTF. I acknowledge there has been a promise to look at the legislative provisions that surround the NTF but I know from talking to employers that they are very frustrated when...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: This is very much a spitballing question. However, if Ms McGarry was to indicate the amount of work she sees involved in that process of reviewing and then knowing the ability of the Civil Service to apply in an agile and timely manner, how long would the Department put on that? Is that an unfair question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: There is concern in that regard because the humanities feel silent within that legislation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will move on to programme C. This is coming from someone who has a background in humanities, which is what I studied at college. Programme C concerns research, innovation and science. I have a nagging concern in this regard. Many of the metrics are performing very well, apart from postdoctorates funded by Science Foundation Ireland, which is the one area that is lagging the most. I do...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (19 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am not at all surprised that the likes of SETU has provided something that has proved to be independently viable. Waterford Institute of Technology, as it was, had to punch above its weight for years. It was forced to do so and to behave as though it was the university for the south east because it effectively was. I am delighted to see that ambition remaining under the new configuration...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (19 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress in the assigning of new schools of veterinary medicine and pharmacy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45218/23]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (19 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I wish to ask a question about the plans to formulate new schools for veterinary medicine and pharmacy within our third level sector. The Minister will know I have a strong regional interest in this in that South East Technological University has strong bids for both courses. It is one of the things the university sector is very much looking forward to. There are a number of institutions,...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (19 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We will not be unhappy with the idea of increased capital funding or increased capital costs because the university that has been founded in the south east to serve the needs of the region is crying out for capital investment. I know it has acquired the Waterford Crystal site and is acquiring another site in Wexford, but it will have to develop on it. Kildalton college stands ready to be a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We are both Whips but I will let Deputy Devlin have this slot.
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the witnesses for what has been a fairly forthright and honest discussion today. I might be going over old ground, so I apologise if I ask questions or restate points that have already been covered. I want to start with claims. Looking at the opening statement, it is a bit apples and oranges in terms of how it is expressed. According to the statement, 2,379 claims have been raised...
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is not the easiest to decipher.
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We have 442 then yet to be substantiated.
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Have we-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Okay. That is what we are interested in in terms of the accountability of public money. Have we any sort of metric? Do we know how much the company has made that claim for? Have we any sort of metric?
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: However, there has been an enormous disparity between the size of the claim initially made and the figure that is finally settled on in settlements. Mr. Gunning gave that figure of €16.75 million-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: -----that had been settled on-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: -----but the nature of the claims submitted were in the order of being ten times larger. Am I right in saying that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Mr. Gunning might give me a context to understand that in terms of similar-sized projects. To go from €641 million to an actual figure of €16.75 million-----