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Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank Deputy Ó Cathasaigh for a very interesting debate. It is very appropriate for this particular time.

Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2024)

Question put and agreed to.

Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: The question has been carried and the Bill will be dealt with in the usual way in due course.

Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2024)

Cuireadh an Dáil ar athló ar 5.07 p.m. go dtí 2 p.m., Dé Máirt, an 11 Meitheamh 2024. The Dáil adjourned at at 5.07 p.m. until 2 p.m. on Tuesday, 11 June 2024.

Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I again thank Deputy Ó Cathasaigh for bringing this matter to the Dáil. I acknowledge, as Deputy Nash did, the range of contributions from across the House. We heard different but valuable perspectives, all of which pointed to the importance, significance and worthwhile nature of the proposal before us. Across the Oireachtas, we all come from different political backgrounds...

Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Before we go back to Deputy Ó Cathasaigh, I congratulate him for the futuristic nature, as it should be, and the thought-provoking nature of the debate. His proposal is important in the time in which we live. The Deputy has ten minutes.

Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach. I do not propose to hold all the long-suffering Members quite as long as that. I thank all the Members who have attended to make a contribution this evening. This is very much the graveyard shift, a Thursday evening before recess, and I know all Members would prefer to be out on doorsteps and making the case for future candidates in our local and...

Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2024)

Gerald Nash: Making the case for the current ones too.

Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I appreciate the time they have given to be here this evening. I have found the debate very constructive and interesting, and I am glad the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach found it so as well. I am glad there is, for the most part, a consensus developing around the idea that this could be a useful approach. The Minister spoke about the steps we, as a Government, have taken to move beyond...

Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2024)

Gerald Nash: I, too, join Members in praising Deputy Ó Cathasaigh for his farsightedness in developing and introducing this important legislation. If I have one regret, it is that I did not have the opportunity to do that myself. The Bill relates to an area I have been considering very closely in recent years. I have always taken an interest in the approach taken by our comrades in the Welsh...

Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2024)

Denis Naughten: I congratulate Deputy Ó Cathasaigh on bringing forward the Bill. I welcome the principle behind what it is the Deputy is trying to do here. I am not sure if it is the exactly correct mechanism but it is important that we here in this Parliament and globally look to the future and look at the impact of the decisions we make today not just over our term in politics but the impact it has...

Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: I thank Deputy Ó Cathasaigh for bringing forward the Bill. I am getting my head around it. I received the briefing note from Coalition 2030. It gives a context for this coming before the Oireachtas and says the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action in its report on the recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Biodiversity Loss recommends the establishment of...

Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I am really pleased to have the opportunity to speak to this Bill on Second Stage today. I thank Deputy Ó Cathasaigh and his team for their work on this legislation. I have not had the opportunity to meet the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales yet but, in my role, I have met a number of Welsh Ministers at various intergovernmental meetings over the last number of years. It has...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools of Music (30 May 2024)

James Browne: The Minister for Education, Deputy Foley, sends her apologies as she cannot be here. I will give the response on the Minister's behalf. I thank the Deputy for raising this matter as it gives me the opportunity to provide an update to the House on the current position and understanding regarding the recently announced closure of Newpark Academy of Music. Newpark Academy of Music is a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools of Music (30 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have to be honest. That is a shocking response. It is a case of "Pass the buck; it has nothing to do with us." It is a pity the senior Minister is not here. As I said, this is also about arts and culture and the commitment of the Government to ensure access for young people to those things. The Minister said the school is a private entity. It is a not-for-profit registered charity...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools of Music (30 May 2024)

James Browne: I fully understand and appreciate the concern raised in relation to the decision to close Newpark Academy of Music. No disrespect was shown. I was simply setting out the factual position that the academy does not come under the Department of Education's remit. I have no doubt the decision has been devastating for all of those involved. That said, the role of the Department of Education is...

Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2024)

Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 May 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." In doing so, I am moving that the Bill, entitled an Act to provide for the establishment of a body to be known in the Irish language as an Coimisiún um Ghlúnta sa Todhchaí or in the English language as the Commission for Future Generations for the purpose of reporting to the Government in relation to the establishment of an...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Education Policy (30 May 2024)

James Browne: I thank Deputy very much for raising this very important issue of the extension of access to the junior certificate school programme digital libraries to those schools that joined DEIS after 2022. The junior certificate school programme is a national programme sponsored by the Department of Education and National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, NCCA. Introduced in 1996, it is a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Education Policy (30 May 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the Minister of State very much. It is safe to say there was nothing in that reply that will send me home with the wind in my sails this evening. Notwithstanding that, I note there are probably young secondary school teachers who will tell me they were in junior cycle when it was agreed to carry out a review of the JCSP as part of the implementation of the framework for junior...