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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (22 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: What work is being carried out to examine how best a person-centred support model for learners with disabilities can be developed across further and higher education? I do not think the Minister will be particularly shocked at me asking this question. An element of this question relates to personal assistants, a topic I have spoken about many times. I refer particularly to personal...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (22 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Obviously, we all welcome the likes of PATH 4 funding. I suppose this is the whole idea in relation to course creation. From a capital perspective, too, there is the idea of making those reasonable accommodations that facilitate more people to be able to access further and higher education. Much work needs to be done. I visited several times the likes of some of the courses being funded....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (22 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 56. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the plans to enhance disability supports for students at further and higher education centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25307/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (22 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 97. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will provide an update on the provision of the second round of funding for the Community Recognition Fund for County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25309/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Control of Dogs (22 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 116. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will provide an update on the work of the Stakeholder Group on Dog Control; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25308/25]

Biodiversity Week: Statements (21 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Tá a fhios agam go bhfuil an-suim ag an Aire Stáit san ábhar seo. Everyone has recognised it is an issue the Minister of State has great interest in. There is a need for him to have a great interest in it because we are not exactly where we need to be. In 2019 a biodiversity emergency was declared in this State and across this island, so it is an absolute necessity that we...

Committee on European Union Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (21 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Ádh mór ort agus comhghairdeachas. It goes without saying, we are in a world that is very much changing. We do not know exactly how things are going to work out regarding geopolitics. We obviously have a huge number of issues to deal with that have a huge impact here and internationally. I like to think we will be able to deal with a considerable number of issues and we can do...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (21 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 31. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the report that has been received by his Department that was produced the sub-group convened to progress NDIS proposals for needs-based, grant-aided, modern vehicle adaptation supports to replace the DDS; and when it will be published. [26250/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Agricultural Policy (20 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I recently had a meeting with IFA officials, as I stated previously. A line I used before is that the organisation is very good at keeping the Minister’s feet to the fire in relation to issues. The officials had recently been at a meeting in Brussels and obviously spoke about their fear of cuts to CAP under Pillar 2. They spoke about the whole conversation as regards ReArm Europe,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Trade Promotion (20 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: There is another supplementary question.

Assessment of Need: Motion [Private Members] (20 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Many people have said that it is particularly sad that Cara Darmody has to carry out a 50-hour sit-out outside Leinster House. Many of us have met her over several years. This is not the first time she has been up here or the first time she has been out protesting alongside her father Mark, on behalf of her brothers John and Neil, who have been abjectly failed by the State, and on behalf of...

Assessment of Need: Motion [Private Members] (20 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Hear, hear.

Assessment of Need: Motion [Private Members] (20 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Hear, hear.

Assessment of Need: Statements (20 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We are all here and having this discussion because 14-year-old Cara Darmody and her dad Mark are outside on a 50-hour sleepout. It is nothing short of scandalous. Obviously she is doing this on behalf of her brothers, Neil and John, and all the other Neils and Johns. The figures were spoken about earlier. At this point, we are talking about 15,296 children who have been failed. That...

Assessment of Need: Statements (20 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: He is very unreliable.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: After that, I should commend the Louth ladies and the under-20s, who are through to the all-Ireland final. It was unfortunate that our minors could not do it in a really great game against Offaly. Rural housing is a major issue. Last summer, we were told that the draft guidelines on one-off rural housing were with the Attorney General for legal review. Given that we will be considering...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 21. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with rural affairs and community development will next meet. [20901/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (20 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 15. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent discussions with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. [20900/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (20 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We have all stood here many times before and spoken of the disgraceful attack by Russia on Ukraine and its continued policy which is just nouveau imperialism. It is no different from what has happened many times before in Russian history and the history of many other states beyond that, unfortunately, as we know too well. We need to stand with Ukraine and against Russia but at some time...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (20 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: In the context of engagement and what President Zelenskyy has said, how can we engage in facilitating peace, both as a state and as part of the wider European Union?