Full Transcript: This is a welcome opportunity to debate these issues in the context of what was a very happy day for all of us looking north, with the return of the Assembly, the restoration of the Executive and the decision of the DUP to re-enter power-sharing. It is fitting to congratulate Michelle O’Neill and…
I very much welcome the provisions of the Bill. My children at home, three lads, are at a point where we are trying to give them a little more independence and let them go to the shop by themselves to pick up sweets or whatever it is. We are trying to drum into them road…
Deputy Marc Ó Cathasaigh asked the Minister for Education if she has considered designating any further universities, including technological universities, as centres of excellence for the purposes of teacher training education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6340/24] Transcript: Deputy Marc Ó Cathasaigh I have put this question to the Minister, Deputy Harris, on…
Full Transcript: Deputy Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the witnesses. I have a number of issues but I wantto pick up on something other Deputies raised, relating to the CDNTs and CAMHS. As a member of the autism committee, I know there is a huge issue whereby, when someone arrives withan autism diagnosis, they are…
Full Transcript An Ceann Comhairle I call on Deputy Ó Cathasaigh, the Leas-Chathaoirleach of the Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands. Deputy Marc Ó Cathasaigh I move: That Dáil Éireann shall take note of the Report of the Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the…
Transcript of Dáil debate contribution from Dep. Ó Cathasaigh: I will pick up on a couple of the points made by Deputies Cullinane and Sherlock. This is welcome legislation. The Minister, in a relatively new Department, has made a habit of producing substantial and consequential pieces of legislation. I think back to the Higher Education…
Deputy Marc Ó Cathasaigh Over the course of the weekend a number of allegations surfaced relating to a small number of workers with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA. The allegations are serious in nature and I am in no way well placed to make an adjudication on whether they are well founded…
Waterford TD believes that the SETU campus in Waterford could become a “centre of excellence for teacher training education” in an exchange with Simon Harris, Minister for Further and Higher Education. Deputy Ó Cathasaigh was questioning the Minister in the Joint Oireachtas Committee of Education on issues around SETU and regional balance in the context…
“Quarter 2, 2026” is when we can expect to see trains start to use the new Waterford’s new train station on the North Quays, according to Irish Rail CEO Jim Meade in response to questions raised by Green Party TD for Waterford Marc Ó Cathasaigh. Mr Meade was speaking at the Joint Oireachtas Committee on…
