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- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank Deputy Paul Murphy for his work in this area, for co-ordinating the briefing in the AV room and for co-ordinating this Topical Issue debate. People living with long Covid do not feel heard. They do not feel supported or believed. I have been open about the fact that I meet a person with long Covid every day as I live with one. These people look fine and healthy. When they report...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will pick up where Deputy Murphy left off. If our health provision for long Covid is hit and miss, then it is substantially more miss than hit. The actual services provided in the long Covid clinics that exist are uneven at best. There absolutely needs to be an underpinning in terms of social protection for those people suffering in the long term. The reliance on PCR diagnosis misses...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Yes. The Cathaoirleach and Deputy Ó Cuív have been around the houses so I will not try to retread the path or touch on all of the different issues. I will focus on three specific issues. The first issue is the hot school meals. I tabled a parliamentary question to the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, in November of last year and we were looking at a figure of €2.90 per hot...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I might have honed the questions slightly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: What are the figures at, approximately?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Is the Department getting far above the 65% target?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Roughly a third-----
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 25. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to ensure that the Climate Programme by the schools buildings unit will take cognisance of the impact of emissions generated from the siting of new schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45095/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (17 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 31. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to address the barriers to the take-up of funding for and delivery of solar panels on schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45096/23]
- Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I understand I am sharing with the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, who is doing his best to get here on time.
- Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Yes. Five and a half minutes each.
- Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Very good. The first test I run on any budget is a progressivity test. I feel strongly that a budget should do the best to provide the most benefit to those who need it most, so that the money goes to least well-off, rather than the well-heeled. In that respect, rather than taking either my word for it, as a Government backbencher who will surely say it is the best budget ever, or that of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: That was the first question I was going to ask. The Cathaoirleach took the words out of my mouth there. I will return to the metaphor to which Deputy Murphy was alluding, in that we are trying to build a picture here. We have key pieces of the jigsaw that were hidden down the back of the couch for a while but we are still missing central pieces. We have Breda O'Keeffe who has never...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is a decision not to waive that confidentiality.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I understand that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Mr Lynch has doubled down on the fact that this was the key moment where the tripartite agreement is finally underwritten. This is the point at which, indirectly to some extent, the taxpayer is put on the hook for €225,000. It happens in this meeting and we are blind to what happened in that meeting, notwithstanding Mr. Bakhurst saying we have one side of the account.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: How long was the meeting? Was it a ten-minute meeting or a three-hour meeting? Did we have multiple-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I find that difficult to comprehend.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am gobsmacked by that, if I am honest. The frustration is that the minuting of the meeting has not been separated out from the legal advice part of it. Whatever legal sidebars have happened in terms of RTÉ getting legal advice within that meeting, I am not sure if the committee has an interest in that or not, but I certainly have an interest in is the timeline of the over and back...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: What I wanted to know was whether it was possible to separate out whatever those legal sidebars were from the blow by blow - what I would expect to see minuted in a regular meeting. Even to meet us halfway in that regard, we could be provided with a redacted version that would give us a blow-by-blow account. However, Mr. Bakhurst is saying he has not read the note. We cannot tell a start...