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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: European Year of Skills 2023: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...the dial. Ms Donnery spoke about some of the events that Skillnet Ireland hosted. I was very excited about the European Year of Skills in May last year when it was announced but I am not sure it landed in the way I had hoped. I am not sure it has permeated in to the national consciousness in the way I thought it would, but I hope I am wrong. Maybe I have just been looking in the wrong...

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...that cannot be allowed to dominate. There will have to be human intervention in preventing overgrazing and preventing the spread of invasive species. He is absolutely right when he says that the people best placed to engage in that restoration process are the people who know the land best, the people who have worked that land for many years. I want to mention other articles that get...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I move amendment No. 121: In page 58, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following: “ “community garden” means an area of land made available to members of the community for collective gardening purposes for personal or local consumption of produce and is operated otherwise than with a view to making profit, to be prescribed in regulations as “community...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The law of the land, however, does not. It is completely silent on the definition of "community garden" in any legislation I can find. "Allotment" is well set out. "Community garden" is not. For that reason, I prepared a Private Members' Bill that sets out the definition of "community garden" and provides for a number of other measures, particularly around the obligations we could...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ..., but we would all like to see the outputs on the warmth and well-being scheme, as I am sure the Department of housing would also. Has the Department a sense as to when that research is going to land in front of us and how it is going to be implemented once it arrives?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Meals Programme (20 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...policy, that when the State has them, we should feed them. It has a huge impact in areas of disadvantage. It is right and proper that we focus on those schools first but I want to see every school in the land having a hot school meal available. When will the next round be for schools to apply?

Second Anniversary of War in Ukraine: Statements (20 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: .... Two years ago, just on the eve of the war, we all watched Russia's troops amassing on the border with a sense of foreboding and, I think, a sense of disbelief that we were going to again see a land war on continental Europe. I doubt many of us would have predicted that we would still be in that state of conflict some two years later. I acknowledge the solidarity of peoples all across...

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

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...timeframe was money and we made energy credits available. That was the correct response. I have some distributional questions around those. In the long term, we want to retrofit every property in the land so that everyone is living in a B1-rated property or higher. Are there medium-term measures in place? I worry about people being left behind? What I want is for people to feel that...

Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...which was an excellent and much-needed piece of work. The same applies to this legislation. We hope it will stand the test of time and it is worth reflecting on the pace of change in the research landscape. The first document I ever typed on a computer was my master's thesis. Before that, all of the papers I submitted to college were handwritten. It is hard to think, even at this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...the current location at Plunkett Station to a location further up the quay. It will be the linchpin of the development and where the new sustainable transport bridge crossing the River Suir will land. I have been talking to the contractors and the council. They believe everything is moving as anticipated according to their timeline. I want an indication from Irish Rail as to when it...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...ICJ. I welcome the commitment in the motion to consider strongly an intervention once the judgment is made. It is difficult to escape the conclusion, when one witnesses the obliteration of agricultural land, the flattening of schools, the elision of entire families, the destruction of historical records and the genocidal pronouncements of senior Israeli politicians, that the goal of at...

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: ...for the meeting. There is still a large volume of documentation, which is difficult to get through, but it made a big difference to get it so early in the day. I will concentrate first on the land aggregation scheme, LAGS, which we referenced. I might circle around to a concern I have in respect of the Housing Finance Agency and issues such as the approved housing bodies, AHBs, and...

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: The phrase here is that local authorities could only transfer a land that had a reasonable residential development potential. I will begin with that because it is a very hazy phrase. Can the witnesses give me more detail on the metrics? First, the Department approved or rejected the inclusion of sites into the LAGS. How many were rejected? How many did we buy and how many did we say...

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: We will incur a certain amount of liability under the residential zoned land tax.

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: ...of that part of west Waterford I was thinking there is no way there is a demand for social housing that will fill 4.3 ha in that part of Waterford. At what point do we draw a line, dezone the land and try to move it on or whatever?

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: ...to talk about LIHAF. The estimated provision was €32 million and the outturn was €17 million. This is all about trying to unlock infrastructure. We touched on this when talking about the land aggregation scheme and the fact that some sites are difficult to develop because of infrastructural blockages. The fund is aimed at trying to explode the bottlenecks, and we are...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: International Programmes (14 Dec 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 6. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to report on his attendance at the food, agriculture, nature and land use thematic days of COP28; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55710/23]

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...Technological University, SETU. I am going to ask about the second bundle of the public private partnership, PPP. We heard details about the first bundle. When is the second bundle likely to land? I ask that from the perspective of the engineering building for which the Waterford campus of the SETU has been crying out. Is there any timeline for that?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Negotiations (16 Nov 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...I hosted them in the audiovisual room on Tuesday where they presented their report. I thank the Minister for attending that briefing. I acknowledge the central role the Minister played at COP27 in landing this loss and damage facility, flawed and all as it might. I praise the work of Irish officials at the transitional committee, particularly Dr. Sinead Walsh. I hope Dr. Walsh does...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 5: Vote Accounting and Budget Management (16 Nov 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...Act was in place at that stage. There have been several climate action plans. Why am I not seeing climate in the key principles if this next piece of work is right there? When is this going to land?