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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I ask for the Taoiseach for an update on the Covid-19 inquiry, its terms of reference and its individual modules. I am incredibly interested in the families that lost loved ones in Dealgan House Nursing Home at the beginning of Covid-19. I think the Taoiseach met with one of the family members when he was recently in Dundalk. At least 22 lost their lives in a really desperate set of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [23653/24]

Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I think people understand where the Irish people are on the idea of neutrality. We know our own history. It is a history of colonisation and of resistance and struggle against it. That is part of the reason why we have a shared relationship with the Palestinians. It is partly a shared history of oppression and resistance to that. It has been a good week for this State in its recognition...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Public Transport (29 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: If we want more people on buses then we must provide the service. We all know the environmental benefits but we also know all the other benefits that can be provided.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Public Transport (29 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I have previously raised the issue of the 100X route with the Minister. This is the Expressway service from Dundalk to Dublin and obviously back again. For many people it is the means by which to get to and from Dublin Airport. Some issues we bring up here have an impact on and relate to many people. In the period since I brought this up previously, I have been inundated. I acknowledge...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Public Transport (29 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: When I raised the issue before, my supplementary question related to the recruitment of mechanics for bus services. That is something that definitely needs to be addressed. I understand that Expressway is a commercial operation but if we are talking about trying to get people out of cars and making sure we are not putting undue pressure on car park services in the airport, we need to make...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Movement Ireland EU Poll 2024 - Ireland and Northern Ireland: Discussion (29 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: As Deputy Howlin said, it is worth having some sort of information in front of us. In the last question-and-answer session, the witnesses dealt with some of this. They could probably do a deep dive on any of the individual issues raised. There are probably 14 supplementary questions, but I do not know whether someone is going to sit and do that work for three hours. I would really...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Movement Ireland EU Poll 2024 - Ireland and Northern Ireland: Discussion (29 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I know. Should Ireland invest more in its security and defence co-operation with the EU? We have not invested sufficiently in our Defence Forces at the minute, no matter what people think, so the answer to that is "Yes". People in the Defence Forces have not been paid enough in recent years. There are definite issues with the European Union and the European project at the minute and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Movement Ireland EU Poll 2024 - Ireland and Northern Ireland: Discussion (29 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: Here is my question. It is a lot more complex. As was said earlier, the witnesses have been provided with some anecdotal or added information. As difficult as it is, every one of these needs a subheading so-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: The important issue relates to the school building programme and ensuring that the planned extension will happen as soon as possible. Obviously, it would have been better if it had happened earlier, but it would be good to get a timeline for when we think it can be delivered. If it was in train, we would not have the issues we have been facing recently, whereby parents were told that there...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: Do we have no time left?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 23. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the progress being made to open a second autism unit class at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23650/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: Does the Minister have an answer for this one? It is one of these strange questions where I can probably answer the question myself to some degree.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: The issue with the autism unit at De La Salle is that it was operating out of a classroom made available by a teacher, which then had to be returned to them. There is a plan for a building that would deal with two units. The issue was that a modular unit is going in that will only fit one class, but a huge amount of work has been done by the principal and the NCSE. I got good news last...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: Many of my colleagues have already spoken about the fact that some councils' best tenants, those who have been in houses the longest, are dealing with mould, the cold and an absolutely brutal circumstances. Like everyone else, I am sure the Minister of State has people coming to him saying that they have never looked for anything and they cannot get a window or door fixed. The biggest issue...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 26. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the ongoing review of SET teaching hours at primary schools; the number of additional hours allocated, if any; the number of schools involved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23651/24]

Business Support Package: Statements (23 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: It was never off it. The Minister of State is just not very good at finding it.

Business Support Package: Statements (23 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: We will probably have a fair amount of agreement, at least on this side of the House, on the issues out there at the minute, among them the cost-of-living crisis that workers and everybody else are going through. I have no doubt that, as people are hitting the doors, they are getting it in the neck, for want of a better term, on the pressure businesses are under also. There is a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: A number of businesses in the Clanbrassil Street, St. Nicholas Quarter, Church Street and York Street areas of Dundalk received a text message at 10 a.m. today from Irish Water, telling them essential maintenance works would be taking place between 8 o'clock tomorrow and 8 o'clock on Monday and that this may cause disruption. I would be calling for a different intervention had I not managed...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (23 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: This is absolutely vital work that needs to be done. We constantly talk about how we have to move beyond reasonable accommodations and in the context of universal design, facilitate all sorts of people. It is fair to say that major work has been done in new pathways and route maps for people as regards education. I visited the Advanced Manufacturing Training Centre of Excellence yesterday...