Local radio stations in Waterford have been given reason to celebrate as the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport, and Media, Catherine Martin TD, unveiled a €2.4 million financial boost for 32 radio stations nationwide through the Broadcasting Fund Sound and Vision Scheme. The award distribution, which varies from €35,000 to a maximum of…
Full Transcript: Deputy Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am going to stick with housing in the broad sense butchange focus. I want to ask about local authority retrofit of social housing. My understandingof it is that the target the Department set is to retrofit all social homes by 2050. By implication,that means by 2049 there will…
Full Transcript: This is a welcome opportunity to discuss another in a series of excellent reports from the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, detailing our water quality. The latest is titled, Urban Waste Water Treatment in 2022. Broadly-speaking, the EPA has been doing an excellent job in assessing the quality of water in our rivers, lakes,…
Full Transcript:The last time I was knocked down, I was dressed as Big Bird. I do not quite mean that literally but I am 6 ft 1 in. and I was dressed from head to toe in bright yellow. I was going through a roundabout when a driver came in, ploughed into the side of…
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…
