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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: If there was an officer in every county council whose role was to advise people in social housing or with HAP tenancies on their best electricity usage and what plan was best for them, such an initiative would be incredibly powerful as it does not involve the building of infrastructure and a lot of good jobs would be created but they would take time. I wish to ask one last question and I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Has uptake of that tax relief been really poor?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Am I correct that loan scheme will be available at the end of next month?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Teaching Qualifications (13 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The autonomy of the universities is one thing but this gateway around designation as a centre of excellence has effectively locked the likes of SETU out of this sector. Another aspect I draw the Minister's attention to is SETU's capacity to be a Gaeltacht university. We have a Gaeltacht in Waterford and an area where there is a real need is teachers teaching subjects through the medium...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Teaching Qualifications (13 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has considered designating any further universities, including technological universities, as centres of excellence for the purposes of teacher training education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6340/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Teaching Qualifications (13 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I have put this question to the Minister, Deputy Harris, on a number of occasions in his role as Minister for further and higher education. It relates to the designation of universities or technological universities as centres of excellence for the purposes of teacher training education. As it stands, only a certain number of universities are sanctioned as centres of excellence. It means...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Teaching Qualifications (13 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister for her response. I am hearing a status quoresponse as opposed to the opportunity to change. The Minister will know this landscape well. For primary teacher education, you will be looking at the three colleges in Dublin or at Limerick. It is a little more open in terms of secondary school education. To be parochial about it - not parochial but regional - there are...

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is not his Bill.

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is Minister Chamber's Bill.

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is the Minister of State's Bill.

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I very much welcome the provisions of the Bill. My children at home, three lads, are at a point where we are trying to give them a little more independence and let them go to the shop by themselves to pick up sweets or whatever it is. We are trying to drum into them road safety and how they should be safe on the roads. While I was thinking about the Bill, I realised the language I am using...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (13 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has considered the reintroduction of the qualifications allowance for teachers at primary level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6341/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Sector Pay (13 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 428. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 889 of 17 January 2024, if her Department has taken steps to engage with all stakeholders including the Citizens Information Board (CIS), the employer and staff CIS representatives and the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan and Reform in relation to the WRC pay...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (13 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 433. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current number of schools and students enrolled in the free hot school lunches primary schools programme, broken down by county; anticipated additional schools and students to be added with the expansion of the scheme in April 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6172/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (13 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 434. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether there is an evaluation of the packaging and food waste impacts of the free hot school lunches programme; the percentage of packaging that can be and is recycled; the percentage of full lunches left over each day; if there is a Departmental plan to reduce the amount of waste generated as the scheme expands to provide...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (13 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 435. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether delivery miles and transport emissions involved in distribution of the free hot school lunches programme is being assessed and evaluated; if there is a Departmental plan to address this for the long-term implementation of the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6174/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (13 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 573. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the regulation of CAMHS under the Mental Health Act 2001; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6184/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (13 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 614. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address the scenario in which a college student changes course or repeats a year due to adverse personal circumstances and subsequently has to pay higher fees, and is doubly disadvantaged by not being able to avail of the €1,000 Government credit as announced by Budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I remind members to please ensure their mobile phones are switched off for the duration of this meeting because they interfere with the broadcasting equipment, even when on silent mode. Are the minutes of the meeting on 24 January 2024 agreed? Agreed. On behalf of the committee, I welcome: Mr. Bryan O’Mahony, deputy president of the Union of Students in Ireland; Mr. Shari Irfan,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank Mr. O'Mahony. I will move next to Mr. Irfan for your opening statement.