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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The context includes the fact that we have a huge housing issue in general and that we need more, quicker and better.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It will never be perfect.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the progress being made to open additional units for children for September 2023 with autism at primary and second level schools in County Louth; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22883/23]

Control of Exports Bill 2023: Second Stage (11 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is very close to the topic. It relates to taxation from the point of view of remote working, North and South. The matter relates to PayPal. Some 120 staff of the latter had to be transferred to PayPal UK lately because they are remote working and it is no longer possible for them to continue to be paid in the South. There are obviously particular conditions around that. However, we...

Control of Exports Bill 2023: Second Stage (11 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: What we see in the Bill is the laying down of the necessary legislative framework. We are speaking about the export of items that can be used for civil or military purposes and for the control of the provision of brokering services and technical assistance and of the transit of those items. We all have big worries about the sale of weapons. We are especially worried about weapons of mass...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (11 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 19. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress being made in relation to flood risk management at Annagassan and Termonfeckin, County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21491/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Climate Change Policy (11 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 24. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline the targets for 2023 for the climate division of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21492/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Foreign Direct Investment (11 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 87. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will outline the work being carried out in his Department to promote the Border counties North and South as a destination for foreign direct investment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21790/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Flexible Work Practices (11 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 89. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will outline any engagement his Department has had with other Departments in relation to the tax implications for workers who live in the North and wish to work remotely for Southern-based companies and the tax implications for the firms who wish to recruit them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21791/23]

Civil Defence Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (10 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Bhí sé sin deacair.

European Year of Skills: Statements (10 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I apologise for any repetition from the last time we spoke on these particular issues. I agree that the debate is timely. We have the OECD report on skills. We also have the beginning of the European Year of Skills. We had Europe Day yesterday. We all know the positives from the solidarity that Europe has shown to Ireland particularly during the time of Covid and through the entire...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It has been said here that we are laggards as to where we need to be as regards the delivery of offshore wind. Many of us have spoken about the fact that we could be a wind superpower. I have heard experts state we could change the entire energy map of Europe, but that matters only if we have the capacity. What are the Government's plans to ensure we have the auctions, planning framework,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Yesterday, I brought up the issue of housing adaptation grants for older and disabled people and I need the Taoiseach to revert to me on that. Carlinn Hall is a large housing estate in Dundalk with a communal heating system that is gas-fed having previously been biomass-fed. A feasibility study was carried out on the use of geothermal heating. I ask that the results of that study be...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I add my voice to the call to look at the re-municipalisation of waste collection services. We all know about the issue of costs in that regard, which have spiralled, and that of people who cannot afford to take out services, in addition to those who abuse their neighbours and others by dumping. This is an issue that needs a greater amount of resourcing, whether it is through local...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with the circular economy will next meet. [21452/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the environment and climate change will meet next. [21453/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Accession Progress of North Macedonia: Engagement with Foreign Minister of North Macedonia (10 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The witnesses are all very welcome. It is all very positive that the necessary moves are being made and that North Macedonia is assuaging any difficulties there may be. I also add my voice to what Deputy Howlin has said in that it has been a long road. Not to mix analogies or metaphors but we have all been down this road before in the sense - and it is not the first time I have said this -...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Accession Progress of North Macedonia: Engagement with Foreign Minister of North Macedonia (10 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: My apologies for interrupting but I accept that North Macedonia has come a great distance if we are talking about the 1990s and the fact that a great number of these countries were at war with each other, in a particularly horrible genocidal war. We have all seen, however, that there are particular issues if one is looking at Republika Srpska now, and while North Macedonia is most definitely...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Accession Progress of North Macedonia: Engagement with Foreign Minister of North Macedonia (10 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We can go in the same order again.