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Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I have been called worse, a Chathaoirligh.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: There was logic to it. We were talking about Limerick. People used to mark 1, 2 and then 3 and 4, but you could see the indication of the preference on that particular ballot. People only do this once every few of years. They do not exactly know. No one wants to ask. It was a hell of a lot better before that judgment. Not that I would case aspersions about what would be determined by a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: Is it misinformation or disinformation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: In fairness, some information on how to vote would be helpful. That is clear to anybody who has looked at spoiled ballots.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I recall that Louth County Council looked at duplicates a while ago. It was a case of removing all of them rather than just removing the duplications. If someone was down four times, all of the four entries were removed. In some cases the entries probably related to rental properties.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I am talking about something that happened ten or 15 years ago. In fairness, the council has been good. The fact we are now dealing with a rolling register is a real success. As regards the review of the register and automatic registration, I accept there are issues relating to GDPR. We must really get down to dealing with whether we can use PPS numbers and people leaving because that is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: Will Mr. O'Leary comment on Part 5?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (20 Feb 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I thank Deputy Healy-Rae.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (20 Feb 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: We all welcome the increase in payments and thresholds but we also understand that a significant number of people who are not on big money can be detrimentally impacted depending on where the thresholds are. I suppose that is why the Minister is looking at the interdepartmental working group. I understand that when people hear those sorts of terms, they think it is an excuse to do nothing...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (20 Feb 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: All right. Perhaps the Minister could give an update on the timeline. She said later in the year but perhaps we could have some sort of notion of roughly when the report from the interdepartmental working group might be available.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (20 Feb 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: It is positive that the interdepartmental working group is going to happen. In fairness, the Minister put it better than I would. Mothers and fathers are doing not only their families but also the State a significant service. We have all met people who have been forced to change the nature of their lives because of the enormous work they have to do in caring for family members who have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (20 Feb 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 56. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the establishment of an interdepartmental working group with the Department of Health to examine and review the system of means testing for carer payments and related schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7231/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (20 Feb 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: Will the Minister provide an update on the establishment of an interdepartmental working group with the Department of Health to examine and review the system for means testing for carer payments and related schemes? We dealt with this issue previously. We all know the issues around the thresholds. Anything that can be done to introduce some element of flexibility into the system and...

Paediatric Orthopaedic and Urology Services: Motion [Private Members] (20 Feb 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: To use the Minister's language, we are dealing with children who have been left in inhumane conditions. He also said that he will not say that everything that could be done has been done. Once again, therefore, we are accepting that there has been abject failure. We have absolutely failed to deliver for some of the most needy of our citizens. Everyone mentioned the promises that were made...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (20 Feb 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: We all welcome the €800 million in funding that has been announced. In my constituency, we want to see the Narrow Water bridge built. We know what is necessary for the projects relating to the A5, the Battle of the Boyne site and Casement Park. I even see proposals on educational disadvantage. Will the Tánaiste provide timelines? As I said, we all welcome the funding. We...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (20 Feb 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: However, when he dealt with a particular issue earlier, a proposal that was also brought to me by Alison McCabe was mentioned. It is for a reduction in the grant for post-mastectomy products for women who have been through breast care. This is an issue we need to look at. It is going to be highlighted by many people. Will the Taoiseach take a look at it? The grant is necessary.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (20 Feb 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: Will the Taoiseach look at the other issue?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Feb 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: UN agencies are warning of an explosion in child deaths in Gaza, on top of the situation we have seen already. This is an explosion on what has been already the unmitigated slaughter of the Palestinian people. We know Rafah is under threat as Israel makes its preparations. While we may welcome that the language of the United States has improved somewhat, I agree with many others that the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Feb 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs will next meet [5276/24]