Results 141-160 of 3,777 for speaker:Marc Ó Cathasaigh

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (22 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 124. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of the issue around legacy ghost estates now being reactivated, where the building work was completed long before December 2020, but where an MRPN only issued subsequently, resulting in people being locked out of grants available for the installation of solar panels; if his Department has any plans to...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (22 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 185. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to confirm that no verification of non-EEA driver licenses is required by the foreign driving license authority to exchange the license for an Irish driver’s license, if the applicant has received a work permit as a professional driver within the previous three months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42705/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (22 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 186. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current waiting time to receive an appointment with the NDLS for an exchange of a non-EEA driver license for an Irish license; the current waiting time for the processing and delivery time for the new Irish license to be issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42706/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 268. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 98 and 99 of 20 June 2024, when a reply will issue; the criteria by which contractors are removed from the list; the number of contractors listed on the OPW’s contractors list over the past five years; the number of applications, the number of additions and the number of removals to the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (22 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 557. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on lengthy waiting lists for Irish residence permits (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42514/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (22 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 568. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on an application (details supplied) for leave to remain under the international protection programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42734/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (22 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 587. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the complementary income support for young farmers scheme is limited to one recipient per herd number; whether a spouse who is a partner in the company may also avail of the support under the herd number; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42428/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (22 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 597. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether his Department carries out random auditing checks of the CC t/a Micro Dog ID database to ensure that owners are informing the database of any change of ownership, controller, location, death of greyhound, loss of greyhound or return of greyhound; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42671/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (22 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 615. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of an underpayment of core funding (details supplied); if the shortfall can be made good; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42651/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (22 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 699. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to make the drug fenfluramine (Fintepla), used in the treatment of Dravet syndrome, available for reimbursement through the HSE in line with the recommendations made by the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42603/24]

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority (17 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: To pick up on Ms Delaney's final point, it highlights the importance of the Charities Regulator and its role. When people donate to a charity, they understand that there are administrative costs and staffing costs but they like to think that the money, or a large percentage of it, is doing what it says on the tin. The Charities Regulator is incredibly important in that. We have had a...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority (17 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is the one thing that jumped out from the Comptroller and Auditor General's report. I would like to be able to see that money a little more clearly. I am not making any suggestion that there is anything untoward there, but we have seen at this committee other funds that were maybe less than transparent being used for all sorts of interesting items like flip-flops and so on. I do not...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority (17 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank Ms Drinan. I was involved in the Charities (Amendment) Act, which was passed by the select committee on rural and community development, of which I am a member. Ms Delaney said that some parts of this important Act are not commenced yet. I was going to say "Bill", but it was signed into law on, I think, 10 July. There were earlier questions about staffing and resourcing for the...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority (17 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Are the ICT system changes likely to be contracted out in the way Ms Delaney was describing earlier?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority (17 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Very good. I suppose that is more a future-facing question so perhaps it is not really properly a question for this committee. The atomic bomb the regulator can deploy is to have somebody removed from the charities register. Is that a power that is often invoked?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority (17 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Are many more charities being considered? Are there more prosecutions on the way?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority (17 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: This is an unusual question for the committee but is the regulator under-resourced in that area? I am surprised the regulator has only one dedicated staff member working on this.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority (17 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: That is very good. I will ask a very big question in two minutes and I do not suppose we will get to the bottom of it. Approved housing bodies are becoming a bigger part of housing provision and they are going to become difficult. There are encumbered assets with loans against them. There are unencumbered assets where some of these houses are being bought through fund-raising and have no...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority (17 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Is it open to AHBs to change from charitable status? One of my concerns is that AHBs with charitable status may decide to change their status, which would lead to a complicated question about assets.