Like other colleagues in the House, I welcome this draft legislation, which fulfils a number of commitments from the programme for Government. There have been a number of references to the 1971 Act. We will all agree it is long overdue and in need of an overhaul. It demonstrates the value of having a senior…
Bhí Comhchoiste na Gaeilge, na Gaeltachta agus Phobal Labhartha na Gaeilge ag plé cúrsaí tithíochta sa Ghaeltacht leis an Aire Tithíochta, Oidhreachta agus Rialtais Áitiúil ag cruinniú an Chomhchoiste, Dé Céadaoin, an 26 Eanáir 2022. Thug an tAire Tithíochta, Darragh O’Brien, cuairt an-fháilte ar an gCoiste Gaeilge an tseachtain seo le plé a dhéanamh ar…
It is important and timely to have this debate on youth mental health, particularly as we emerge from the Covid pandemic. It is a tough time to be a young person. I made what I hope are the majority of my mistakes at a time before social media and before digital cameras were ubiquitous. How difficult it must…
Waterford TD Marc Ó Cathasaigh welcomes €24million funding allocated to Waterford City & County Council for walking and cycling infrastructure in 2022. The funding was announced by The Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan T.D. as part of a broader package of €289million allocated by the National Transport Authority (NTA) to local authorities throughout the country.…
Two seemingly innocuous sections in the Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, which passed Second Stage late last year, are likely to have outsized impact on our roads and on the cars and drivers using them into the future. While they are an instance of the law trying to keep pace or catch up with…
Establishing a Commission on Taxation and Welfare was one of the little heralded but very important commitments set out in the Programme for Government. Ireland has what is, on the whole, quite a progressive and redistributive system, but there are issues that should be examined – for instance, are we over-reliant on Corporate Tax revenues,…
It’s been a long while since I read any Plato, and over 20 years since I read his Dialogues and much water has passed under many bridges since then. But despite the passing of time and the enormous change in context, particularly the technological context, listening to Melvin Bragg’s ever informative In Our Time podcast…
Green Party TD for Waterford, Marc Ó Cathasaigh, has welcomed this morning’s announcement that Dungarvan is to receive almost €1.4m under the Government’s Rural Regeneration Fund. The project, to develop a Digital Transformation Hub, providing 90 co-working spaces and an incubation, innovation and commercialisation hub, was one of 27 landmark regeneration projects selected under funding…
