Deputy Marc Ó Cathasaigh With the Citizens’ Assembly on Drugs Use completing its deliberations recently, it prompts two questions. First, how we can ensure that the very good work our citizens’ assemblies are producing are not just reports that are idly left on a shelf and that the recommendations are actually implemented in a meaningful…
Deputy Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I have lot of questions so I may have to save some for thesecond round. I want to start by picking up where Deputy Jim O’Callaghan left off. He mentioned equality budgeting, performance budgeting and well-being budgeting and I was struckby the fact that there was no specific reference to the…
Question: 87. Deputy Marc Ó Cathasaigh asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the progress in the assigning of new schools of veterinary medicine and pharmacy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45218/23] Deputy Marc Ó Cathasaigh I wish to ask a question about the plans to formulate new schools…
Full Transcript: Deputy Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I want to start with claims. Looking at theopening statement, it is a bit apples and oranges in terms of how it is expressed. According tothe statement, 2,379 claims have been raised and the employer’s representative has determined1,610 claims of €16.75 million. Then the language changes and it states…
We very recently marked the centenary of Ireland’s accession to the League of Nations, our first faltering steps as a newly formed nation on the international stage and our first subscription to the idea of an international rules-based order. This was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace, founded…
Deputy Marc Ó Cathasaigh: That was the first question I was going to ask. The Cathaoirleach took the words out of my mouth there.I will return to the metaphor to which Deputy Murphy was alluding, in that we are tryingto build a picture here. We have key pieces of the jigsaw that were hidden down…
Question: Deputy Marc Ó Cathasaigh asked the Minister for Transport his plans to enhance the impact of the work of smarter travel workplaces and campus programmes in relation to workplaces located in business parks on the outskirts of towns and cities where the planning and design of the parks have resulted in over-reliance on the private car; whether…
Question: 7. Deputy Marc Ó Cathasaigh asked the Minister for Transport his views on running a national communications campaign to address driving to, and engine idling at, school gates, to help improve education and awareness of the need for safe roads and clean air for children and to support the roll-out of the Green Schools Safe Routes to School…
Deputy Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the witnesses for appearing before the committee andfor their opening statements and briefing documents attached.I will begin on a very generalised issue. It is a gargantuan budget and it always seems to bespiralling. We know we are heading to a €1.2 billion overrun again this year. From the point…
Part 2 of Topical Issue on EPA Report on Air Quality in Ireland 2022 Full TranscriptI was at the national ploughing championships last week and I was challenged by a man. It was a very interesting discussion and proof that real humans are much nicer than Twitter humans, if we needed such proof. He challenged…
