Results 181-200 of 2,989 for speaker:Marc Ó Cathasaigh
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs will next meet. [6208/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (20 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: For a long time, we have traded on the fact that we are physically very remote, and that insulates us from the kind of cross-border aggression we have seen in eastern Europe. However, cyberwarfare does not know boundaries in the same way. I would like to see that we are adequately supporting and resourcing the National Cyber Security Centre. I know it is difficult for the Taoiseach to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (20 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will develop a national security strategy and functioning security agency to deal with future security events. [6207/24]
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The Minister spoke to this in the general but I will ask him a specific question. The chair of the Climate Change Advisory Council, Marie Donnelly, confirms we are in danger of missing our 2025 targets with all of the attendant consequences, including a lost to the Exchequer of some €8 billion as outlined by the Minister for public expenditure, Deputy Paschal Donohoe, last week. We...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Legislative Programme (20 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 47. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the legislative programme. [6209/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Bodies (20 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 101. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to report on the latest meeting of the Smart Energy Steering Group; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7856/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (20 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 438. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on a residence permit renewal application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8079/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (20 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 439. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on a naturalisation certificate application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8080/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (20 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 464. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for a review of the allocation of government funding to animal charities in tabular form over the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8081/24]
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank Deputy McAuliffe for doing a very valuable piece of work where he worked through that business of people arriving undocumented. His work was very forensic and it was a very good use of the committee's time. Deputy Murphy focused on one person who was paid €77,138 in overtime in the one year. That is one example. It is hard to get one's head around that amount of overtime....
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is a long working week when one has put in an extra 360 hours.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: My next question is on the impacts of the lack of staffing. Is Ms McCaffrey confident that the Prison Service is adhering to the Organisation of Working Time Act?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: As I said, I am going to turn to another issue where resources come into play. I am addressing a letter from Ms McCaffrey to the Chairperson of the joint Oireachtas committee on education. As she knows, we visited Mountjoy. She pointed to some of the increased investment that has been made in the educational budget. It is difficult to pick out the educational budget. I can see the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I know, and I am going to ask a question about recidivism and where we sit internationally. I would like to be given a ball-park understanding of the closures. I will take the Mountjoy example because that is where the committee visited. In an average month how many days is the library closed when we would like it to be open or for how many days is the school closed when we would like it...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Another issue I wish to flag, which was raised within the committee's report, is there is no access to educational psychologists for inmates if they have a learning difficulty. In a lot of cases an unidentified learning difficulty distances somebody from their education system. If they become distanced from their education system their likelihood of ending up in prison is far higher. It is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The ten minutes always seems like it is going to be long and then when you are in it is incredibly short, but I will move to another issue. There was inspection report oversight monitoring visit during the Covid-19 pandemic at the Dóchas Centre, which was published in August 2020. A significant section of that report is redacted. Ms McCaffrey may correct me if I am wrong on this, but...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: They are not outstanding though. They are-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Okay, I thank Ms McPhillips for that. I want to talk through a specific issue my office has been dealing with. We have been banging our heads against the wall for a long time. It might be a niche issue, but if we addressed it we could get a good result for people in a short space of time. It is around qualified bus drivers coming in from South Africa. There are people who are English...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Their documentation has already been cleared in order to get the work permit in the first place. That is the penultimate step, because then the National Driver Licence Service requires a PPS number, proof of PPS, proof of address and all these things. That takes a further 20 days. There are bits in this process that are adding on time, like the two to three weeks waiting around for an...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Very good.