Results 1-20 of 50 for cork speaker:Marc Ó Cathasaigh

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Our Rural Future and Town Centre First Policies: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...people live in towns of between 6,000 and 25,000 people. The population living in those medium-sized urban environments is greater than our four regional cities combined. Take the population of Cork, Galway, Waterford and Limerick, add them together and 780,000 is not reached. I live in one of those towns myself, Tramore, which has approximately 12,000 people. We have Dungarvan, with a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...It is exactly the same for Northern Ireland. Let us compare this situation with that of the Dublin population, where a full suite of courses is available in the area. When I went to college in Cork, I did not hear a lot of Dublin accents down there. I wonder what the outcome would be if we were to undertake that kind of comparison. Do we have a baseline in this regard? In all...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (20 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...to form a cluster for the purpose of combining principal release hours with SET hours to form a SET post. Deputy David Stanton - To discuss funding for the repair of storm-damaged roads in east Cork. Deputy Joe McHugh - To discuss the conditions of the mica redress scheme. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan - To discuss the need to ban the sale of HHC vapes in Ireland Deputy Martin Browne -...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service (8 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...the decommissioned vessels LÉ Eithne, LÉ Ciara and LÉ Orla by the Irish Coastguard or the Irish Naval Reserve for training purposes or as a maritime museum ship located at Haulbowline Island in Cork Harbour, as noted in a scoping study (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5952/24]

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ..., the better. Under the reconfiguration, however, Limerick hospital anchors the mid-west, which has the smallest population by far among the regions, Galway hospital anchors the north west, Cork hospital anchors the south west but in the south east, we have to refer all the way to St. Vincent's hospital in Dublin. I know the decision was made in 2019 but we have a model for a hospital in...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Historically, we have suffered through the link with Cork, and there is concern in the region, which is well founded, that we are going to suffer----- Deputy Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Historically, we have suffered with the liunk with Cork, and there ius concenr in the region

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We are going to be separate from Cork now.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (25 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...has so far been on a tour of the country. He has been in the Shannon Callows and he has been in Celbridge. I will bring him to west Waterford and Deputy Buckley will shortly take him across the Cork-Waterford border to east Cork. I will bring him to a number of places in west Waterford, but I will begin with Tallow, County Waterford. There are just over 1,000 people in the town itself....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...Anybody who wants to engage in teacher training – I was one of those and I had to go to the Marino Institute in Dublin in order to do my teacher training - must go either to Dublin, Limerick or Cork if they want to become a secondary teacher. We have a perfectly functioning education department in SETU but it cannot provide teacher training. Is this something the Department is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Transport Policy (23 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 363. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding his Departments study on Transit-oriented Development on Waterford, Galway, Limerick and Cork, its publication date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2957/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (17 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 209. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current project stages and project deliverable timelines for each of the remaining two sections of the Cork to Waterford Inter-Urban Demonstrator Pathfinder, for completion in 2024 and 2025, as indicated in the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 48 of 30 November 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57051/23]

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites (14 Dec 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ..., I believe one fifth of the properties probably does not correspond with one fifth of the expenditure because the preponderance of those properties probably is in the likes of Dublin and Cork, where the average rent is probably higher. If we hone in on the large landlords, do we know how many individuals or institutions we are giving money to? If I divide the expenditure by five, I get...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (14 Nov 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...in Galway and the damage it has caused to homes and businesses. Deputy Pat Buckley - To discuss the progress in delivering emergency relief and supports to those affected by flooding in east Cork in recent weeks. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire - To discuss the need to provide funding for a permanent youth diversion project building in Carrigaline. Deputies Gino Kenny, Bríd Smith -...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: A massive part of Wicklow, much of Clare and large swathes of west Cork are in these catchment areas, and those are only the ones that come to mind from looking at the issue. There is no uptake.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (25 Oct 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...if spent in urban environments. It provides outcomes around health, quality of life, the liveability of our urban environment, and things like sustainable drainage, which we recently saw the need for in east Cork and west Waterford, which is my part of the world. It is important we push back on some of the rhetoric we see developing across the EU in terms of, I suppose, political...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...that a little bit? The time horizon for decision-making in politics is the next election. If you are running a large corporate business, it is the next reporting quarter. Those people in east Cork and west Waterford who were flooded out of it want to see something now. There is a political imperative to act quickly, which can be entirely necessary, but things like nature-based...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 Oct 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...in Waterford city that provides health services for 600,000 people in the wider region has no long Covid clinic available. For those struggling with their energy the idea of travelling to Dublin, Cork, Limerick or Galway to access services is untenable. We do not have a clear picture of what this issue actually looks like. The Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (11 Oct 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 125. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes built in Cork city and county in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44262/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (11 Oct 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 126. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of cost rental and affordable homes built in Cork city and county in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44263/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Active Travel (5 Oct 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...Deputy Leddin will adequately speak about Limerick. I will focus on a Waterford example, specifically the IDA Business Park there. There are a number of bus routes that drop people off at the Cork Road and the quality of the service is pretty good. However, if a person is headed to the premises of Sun Life, which is a massive employer, or Teva or Bausch + Lomb, or to Waterford and...