Results 161-180 of 3,234 for speaker:Marc Ó Cathasaigh
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Our Rural Future and Town Centre First Policies: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank Mr. Tiernan. I think he is the first man I have ever seen to round €14.988 million down to €14 million. I think you would have been on safe enough footing to round that up to €15 million and I do not think we will object too much. Finally, I call Mr. Doyle of the Heritage Council to make his opening statement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Our Rural Future and Town Centre First Policies: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the witnesses for their detailed opening statements. I invite members to discuss and remind any members participating online to use the raise hand feature to indicate if they wish to contribute.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Our Rural Future and Town Centre First Policies: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: There are a number of questions. I will start with the Department.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Our Rural Future and Town Centre First Policies: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Does Mr. Tiernan want to give the local authority perspective in response to Deputy Ó Laoghaire's comments?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Our Rural Future and Town Centre First Policies: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Mr. Doyle, would you like to give us the perspective of the Heritage Council?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Our Rural Future and Town Centre First Policies: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Senator Murphy is next.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Our Rural Future and Town Centre First Policies: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I do not know if either the Heritage Council or the Department wanted to come in on Senator Murphy's contribution?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Our Rural Future and Town Centre First Policies: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Does someone from the Heritage Council wish to make a comment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Our Rural Future and Town Centre First Policies: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I feel brainwashed at this stage. I am quite confident that by the end of the week I will have a two-night stay booked in Strokestown without me realising.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Our Rural Future and Town Centre First Policies: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Google has probably listened to the discussion and already pre-booked. I will be subjected to a barrage of ads. I thank the witnesses for their contributions. This is an area of pivotal importance. In the discussion of the divide between rural Ireland and urban Ireland, people are often pitched at the two opposite ends of the scale. People are told their two options are Dublin 4 or a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Our Rural Future and Town Centre First Policies: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Will Mr. Doyle come in on the tracking question? I always get the abbreviation wrong. It is the collaborative town centre health check, CTCHC. Will Mr. Doyle comment on how it is mapped with the town teams now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Our Rural Future and Town Centre First Policies: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: In relation to local authority empowerment, I am interested in hearing from Mr. Tiernan about the council's PPN.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Our Rural Future and Town Centre First Policies: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Does Mr. Nicholson wish to come in?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Our Rural Future and Town Centre First Policies: Discussion (1 May 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It goes to the contributory principle around taxation. People feel much more positively disposed towards spending their taxation if they can see the effects of it in their local environment. Local authorities have a crucial role to play in this. Collaboration is very important to avoid creating a structure where it feels like it is where good ideas go to die. There are plenty of examples...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (30 Apr 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am also asking this question on behalf of Deputy Leddin. There has been huge progress in the amount of family leave that is available and things like work-life balance, in particular working from home. I think of the difference between when I had my first young fella versus my third. I had three days leave for the first. By the time it rolled around to the third fella, it was two weeks'...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (30 Apr 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: There is a lot there that I welcome, but what the Minister has said on deferred leave is important. The Irish Cancer Society has been in touch with me and several other Members of the House to get that point across. That is something we would certainly like to see. The domestic violence leave is a superb piece of work and I congratulate the Minister on it. Neither the Minister not I are...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (30 Apr 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I would not underestimate the cultural handbrake that is also there. There is definitely a societal pressure, in particular on men, to get that fit of child rearing done and get back to work. That is the thinking on it. I do not subscribe to that view. I think that time you put into your child at home is incredibly valuable and, to speak to our earlier question, gives that best start and...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 Apr 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 89. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he expects to announce further details of the proposed equal participation model; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19261/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 Apr 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am smiling wryly at the Minister's previous answer. Teachers are very protective of their classrooms: "If they come into mine, they better not mess up the copies or anything else." As regards the fourth strand of the together for better programme, we have ECCE, the access and inclusion model and the national childcare scheme. The first three I understand quite well, but we have a...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 Apr 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I believe passionately in this and that we should not confuse equality of outcome with the equality of opportunity we often get in a meritocracy, whereby you start from 50 m and I start from 100 m, we say the finish line is in the same place and we say, "Was it not great we all got to run in the same race?" That is not really how society works. Well, it is how society works but it is not...