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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Technological Universities (21 Sep 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I referred to the fact that it is referenced on ten specific occasions in the strategic plan. Strategic objective 3.1 is to "Establish the new and dynamic University-Enterprise Quarter on the Waterford Crystal site as a focal point for the SE Innovation Region." It is of critical importance. I will cast the net a little wider, since I have the opportunity. Enabler A in the strategic plan...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Sep 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 17. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding dedicated services to address long Covid in each of the regions; the steps his Department is taking to provide services and supports for those affected by long Covid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40036/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Sep 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Covid is still with us and we are still learning about the virus all the time. We are learning about how it is turning up in people's heart muscle and how it is crossing the body-brain barrier. If you have met somebody with long Covid, as I am sure the Ministers of State have, you will know they look absolutely the same. They look in the full of their health. Despite this, they are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Sep 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: As the Minister of State read through that list of hospitals, she knew that as a Waterford Deputy, I was going to get up and point out that 600,000 people live within one hour of University Hospital Waterford, and yet no long Covid services are provided there. I have been dealing with a number of people through my constituency office and, to be quite honest about it, with a number of people...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Sep 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: While you should never base policy on anecdote, I was speaking to my local GP, who said that one in six of the people turning up to his GP service are there because they are suffering from long Covid. People do not have a fixed diagnosis or sheet of paper saying they are suffering from long Covid. There is a need for that piece around self-reporting, and maybe even a public awareness...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (21 Sep 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 9. To ask the Minister for Health if, in light of the opening of the second cath lab in University Hospital Waterford, he will outline the anticipated timeline for moving to a cardiac care service operating 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., seven days a week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40037/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (21 Sep 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: After many years of campaigning by local campaign groups and, to be fair, due to a consistent cross-party effort by Oireachtas Members here in the Dáil and elsewhere we finally have the bricks and mortar of the second cath lab delivered on the site of University Hospital Waterford, commissioned and up and running. The people of Waterford are now asking for an expansion of the services...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (21 Sep 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister of State. As she said, any of the Members here from Waterford could have written that response. The Minister, Deputy Donnelly, was down with us relatively recently when he opened the state-of-the-art palliative care facility on the University Hospital Waterford site. The Minister gave a commitment then that in a short frame of time we were going to move to a seven day...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (21 Sep 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: While none of us would think it is the cardiologists alone who are required for the staffing, they are absolutely pivotal and we know they are like hens' teeth. We need to get those posts approved and we also need to run the recruitment campaigns for those cardiologists because without that we cannot provide the service and we cannot roster for that expanded service, which is exactly what we...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Information and Communications Technology (21 Sep 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his Department's plans to respond to and resource the Digital Inclusion Roadmap, particularly with respect to the 280,000 people over the age of 60 years who do not use the internet at all, according to CSO data, and cognisant of the Roadmap's high-level commitment to delivering the United Nations principle of "Leave No One Behind"; and if he...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Conradh na Gaeilge, endorsed by a myriad of Irish language groups, today launched its plean fáis, which is an investment plan for the future of the Irish language out to 2030. Something that might be of particular interest to the Minister is an aspect of that plan that is designed to unlock and create some 9,000 jobs in Gaeltacht areas chiefly through investment in Údarás na...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Child Maintenance and Liable Relatives) Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is a rare example of a review and a report being acted on and implemented. It is heartening to see it. It is relatively straightforward. I am very pleased to see it. We know from various Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, reports that one of the areas where we find consistent poverty most often is among lone parents and children who grow up in those families. Anything that...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the witnesses. I want to make a general point first. In terms of the opening statements we received, Mr. Bakhurst's was relatively straightforward and Ms Ní Raghallaigh's was similarly so. We received those last night in good time to be able to read and review them. Mr. Lynch's opening statement blew the door off the hinges. I thought I was coming here to actually talk about...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank Mr. Lynch.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank Mr. Lynch.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: That is the key one.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: And the opening statement, as I said. It was the third opening statement that contained new information and changed the whole context of this meeting. I received that as I walked in today. I do not want to waste any more of my time on it. Somebody very close to me is often heard to say, "There are three sides to every story - your side, my side and the truth." I think that rings very...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: No. On the two €75,000 invoices, Mr. Lynch said that RTÉ should never have paid those out. The taxpayer should never have been on the hook. I agree with that but the taxpayer was on the hook for it. The crux of this matter for me is that somebody, somewhere had a conversation. They said, "Flip it, lads, we have to pay out these invoices. Where will we get this money from?"....

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Is Mr. Lynch making the contention that Dee Forbes had a conversation with Geraldine O'Leary, and that is the conversation about the back of the couch money?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: This email from a junior person who will not be named says on it that there are to be no names on the invoices, etc. Ms O'Leary forwarded that to Noel Kelly. The only thing that the body of her email says, as she forwarded these instructions to Noel Kelly, are two words, "As discussed".