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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Safety (22 Jun 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 6. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the review of the framework for setting of speed limits, with specific consideration of the introduction of a 30 km/h default speed limit in urban areas to improve road safety and take-up of active travel, as outlined in the RSA Action Plan 2021–2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30186/23]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Safety (22 Jun 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: As I understand it, a review of the framework for setting speed limits is under way. I ask about the specific consideration of introducing a 30 km/h default speed limit in urban areas. This would improve road safety, the uptake of active travel and reduce road deaths. It also has an emissions impact. It is one of the measures outlined in the RSA Action Plan 2021-2024. Where do we stand...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funding (22 Jun 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Gabhaim buíochas leis na finnéithe as a bheith linn agus as ucht na cuir i láthair. Ba mhaith liom díriú isteach, i dtosach báire, ar na sonraí ar chaiteachas ar chúrsaí Gaeilge. I want to look at some of the Irish-language spending. In the first instance, it is very welcome that funding for the Irish language has largely recovered to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funding (22 Jun 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: In fairness, a language programme and something like Údarás are not as capital intensive. I understand that we had a long shutdown of large capital projects, but I would have liked to see an ability to pivot funding to provide supports, particularly for parents who are raising their children trí mheán na Gaeilge. Would it have been possible for us to pivot supports so we...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funding (22 Jun 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Will Dr. Mac Cormaic give an indication of, or quantify, how far the Covid period set us back? There was good and bad in the figures that came from the census. In some Gaeltacht areas, Gaeltacht na nDéise, mar shampla, we managed to achieve many of the key performance indicators as regards language strategy. It may be a little unusual in that. How far has the 20-year process been set...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funding (22 Jun 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am keeping an eye on the clock. This might be, as Fr. Jack would describe, an ecumenical matter. I will ask about the conversations that are happening around possibly expanding the remit and role of Údarás na Gaeltachta, particularly in the development of affordable community housing and taking a partnership stake in the development of that. Údarás na Gaeltachta owns...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funding (22 Jun 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: There is a significant opportunity. If you are from a Gaeltacht area, the cost of accessing housing in Gaeltacht areas is prohibitive because a lot of people are moving in from outside. I will turn to a completely separate issue relating to the virement that happened in December 2021. It involved a significant amount of money, an €8 million transfer, or some 48% of the original...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funding (22 Jun 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is large in relation to the original provision. It was some 48% of the original provision.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funding (22 Jun 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Whatever about "more austerely", what jumps out at me is the proximity as regards time. The Supplementary Estimate was made within days of this. Did we not have sight of the request for the virement such that it could be included within the Supplementary Estimate and have everything shipshape and above aboard?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funding (22 Jun 2023) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We have a remit of almost retrospective oversight of spending whereas the sectoral committees can do that in real time. That is where the Supplementary Estimates come in. It just gives a transparency to the Oireachtas. We all accept how difficult and rapidly changing the environment was, particularly as regards broadcasting. However, as a member of other Oireachtas committees, I would...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (22 Jun 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 114. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider a reduction in VAT to zero on heat pumps, similar to the treatment of VAT on solar panels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29886/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Policies (22 Jun 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 153. To ask the Minister for Finance if, in light of the Taoiseach’s plans to organise a half-day seminar to review the outcome of the Wellbeing Framework, led by the Department of the Taoiseach, his Department has considered creating an additional dimension within the Wellbeing Framework dealing with language and culture, as has been done in New Zealand and Wales; and if he will make...
- Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Engagement with An Taoiseach (22 Jun 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am representing the Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands. The Cathaoirleach, Deputy Naughten, is not available today and I am delighted to appear on his behalf and on behalf of the committee. I will start first by referencing the long-awaited policy on the islands that was released recently. It is a substantial piece of work that was...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Jun 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: There are potentially 12 Deputies offering on this topic. I ask Members to keep as tight as possible in their questionings.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (21 Jun 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the first progress report for the first quarter of 2023 of the climate action plan. [29515/23]
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Jun 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The announcement from the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Deputy Harris, earlier today regarding Higher Education Authority plans to expand college courses in a range of areas was very welcome. It is very good news for the South East Technological University, which has been deemed to have viable proposals for establishing a veterinary course of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues in Higher and Further Education: Discussion (21 Jun 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister. The piece of business he had to do in the Department of Justice was very short.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues in Higher and Further Education: Discussion (21 Jun 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Other Ministers may have used the opportunity to escape thereafter. I am glad he has taken the time to do an "ask me anything" session with committee members. I appreciate that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues in Higher and Further Education: Discussion (21 Jun 2023)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I have a list of questions as long as my arm and I do not think I will get through all of them. I am going to start with the news of the day, as the Minister described it, about the HEA expression of interest process. Like others on the committee, I turned to my own region and was delighted to see that the three bids from the South East Technological University, SETU, had been judged viable...