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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is really only a handful of students. The figures from 2020-21 show that 1,170 students from Ireland went to study in Northern Ireland and there has not been a great deal of change since then. Do we have figures for people travelling to other jurisdictions? How many Irish kids are going to England and Scotland? Do we have many students going to Europe?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Okay. In terms of students in Northern Ireland, many of them have to make the choice to go away, similar to the situation for students in the south east, because there is a cap on courses and there is not the same level of choice. Substantially more of them, however, go to the UK. Geographically, the Republic of Ireland is close and it would be possible for students to get a train as...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Is there any sense of a class-based system, a scourge we can be thankful to be more or less free from in the Republic of Ireland? Dr. Darmody spoke about Oxbridge and certain families having certain expectations. While I am not saying that there are not families in Ireland that have certain expectations about where their children are going to end up, I think the class system is more...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: That was very interesting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: No, I am good.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (27 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 9. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking in 2024, the European Year of Skills, to increase the uptake of lifelong learning; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9084/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Private Partnerships (27 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 49. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding progress on the public private partnership, bundle 2, specifically with reference to the funding of the engineering building in the Waterford Campus SETU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9083/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (27 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 476. To ask the Minister for Health for the steps his Department is taking regarding the provision of a dedicated diabetes care unit in University Hospital Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8661/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (27 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 477. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dedicated whole-time equivalent consultant endocrinologists, dietitians, advanced nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, staff nurses, podiatrists and administrative support posts currently dedicated to the outpatient adult diabetes clinic in University Hospital Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8662/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (27 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 478. To ask the Minister for Health the steps his Department is taking regarding the recruitment of a dedicated diabetes physiologist for all with type 1 diabetes in University Hospital Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8663/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff^ (27 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 479. To ask the Minister for Health the steps his Department is taking to ensure the HSE has the necessary funding and support for recruitment to ensure that University Hospital Waterford has the minimum members of staff required to manage the diabetes unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8664/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (27 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 480. To ask the Minister for Health if contingency plans are in place for staffing of the diabetes unit in University Hospital Waterford, as a model 4 hospital, to ensure adequate cover in the event of staff illness or leave; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8665/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (27 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 481. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults attending University Hospital Waterford with type 1 diabetes who have requested insulin pump therapy and when those patients can expect to avail of said diabetes technology; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8666/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (27 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 482. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with diabetes who are awaiting an appointment to see an endocrinologist over the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8667/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (27 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 483. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new insulin pump starts done in all hospitals within the RCSI Hospitals Group in people aged between zero to 17 years and those aged 18 years or more for 2019, 2020, 2021 2022 and 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8668/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (27 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 484. To ask the Minister for Health when the Sláintecare project on the development of a national diabetes register will recommence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8669/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (27 Feb 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 485. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital admissions that occurred through the University Hospital Waterford accident and emergency or the acute medical assessment units due to diabetic ketoacidosis in people aged between zero to 17 years and those aged 18 years or more in each of the years 2017 to 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8670/24]
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank all of the witnesses for appearing this morning. I suggest it is probably a good morning for the Department and for Sport Ireland in that a lot of time is being devoted to the FAI. Hard questions should be put on the spending of large-scale sports capital infrastructure and perhaps we will not reach them because of other issues. I welcome Mr. Ó Coigligh to his new position....
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: That would put him on a salary of €230,780. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: That is very good. He will understand why I am asking that question.