Results 201-220 of 6,987 for speaker:Ruairí Ó Murchú

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Yes.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Yes.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The pathfinder project was mentioned. Again, it is the communication piece that falls through. In fairness to Bernard Gloster, he spoke about another aspect. I will use it as an analogy rather than get into the issue around CDNTs. He said the people who had a better experience of CDNTs had a link worker.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Therefore, there is a communication-----

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: -----rather than just a frustration of running from one silo to another.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is definitely the piece that is missing. In terms of vulnerable children, eventually their situation could deteriorate into whether it is as children but later as adults into street homelessness. On the particular issues around mental health services, we have all had issues at times trying to deal with some of these vulnerable people and the services are not there. Certain protections...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: ----actually stop people from getting the care that they require.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is becoming a normality in several places.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I realise there has been an element of hogging the questions so will be very quick. I will follow up on what Dr. Muldoon said earlier about the idea of family supports, particularly in what he called DEIS areas. He was dealing with the fact that there is a huge issue of grooming by criminal gangs. Some young lad who sees the trappings of wealth can get a scooter, start doing 20 quid runs,...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Their system works.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I promise that this is my final question but I am not renowned for keeping to my word. I think Ms Ward spoke about kinship care. That wider family piece is absolutely necessary. We have already talked about what needs to be done and the added supports which are required for foster carers and making sure we have more. When you have those in a family unit, some of which do a lot of heavy...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is brilliant. I was just throwing that out as a comment. There was a worst-case scenario where somebody had been taken into care and given to one of the parent's siblings. The story I remember hearing said it all for me at times. This was probably Tusla's best attempt to maintain someone within a family unit. The uncle went around to say that the wee lad owed money for his drug...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Go raibh maith agat. I left 21 seconds on the clock.

Message from Select Committee (25 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The Select Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development has completed its consideration of the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2025, made amendments thereto and amended the Title to read as follows: An Act to amend and extend the Social Welfare Acts; to make consequential amendments to the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997, to amend the Family Courts Act 2024;...

Legislative and Structural Reforms to Accelerate Housing Delivery: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We are back here with the single transferable speech we can all take out. To a degree, at this stage I am boring myself. The problem is this issue is still impacting detrimentally on the people coming into all of our constituency offices and, I have no doubt, into the Minister of State's as well. We see from the new Daft.ie report that the average price for a new build in County Louth is...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: What is the timeline for the review of the CDNT service model?

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is good. There is a logic to the three parts. Correct me if I picked this up wrong, but we have approximately 414 positions that are unfilled in CDNTs at the moment. If those positions were filled, does Dr. Tamming have a view as to whether the CDNTs could do the work they are meant to be able to do?

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I agree. I really appreciate that answer because I have not been able to get a Minister to answer me on that particular question. I think that is where we all lie. We are asking how many positions are unfilled, but even if they were filled, we still would not have a system that was fit for purpose. As to what Dr. Tamming said about an assessment of need not being required to access a...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Long term.

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: A huge piece of work on what we actually need to deliver on this is required. We are probably throwing out these terms a bit too quickly when the due diligence needs to be done.