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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Crime Prevention (10 Sep 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 6. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of funding allocated to implementing the national drugs strategy in County Louth; and if there is scope to increase funding following the outcome of the recommendations presented in the Drogheda scoping exercise. [22994/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Crime Prevention (10 Sep 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 173. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to extend to other areas in County Louth the Drogheda scoping exercise that is due to be undertaken. [23176/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Crime Prevention (10 Sep 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: What amount of funding has been allocated to implementing the national drugs strategy in County Louth? I am also asking about the level of resources required and whether there is scope to increase funding following the outcome of the recommendations presented in the Drogheda scoping exercise. I have made a request that the exercise be escalated to involve major towns such as Dundalk in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Crime Prevention (10 Sep 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I welcome the Minister's response. The scoping exercise is absolutely necessary. She spoke about how this problem in Drogheda has seeped into other areas, including County Meath. Criminality is interconnected and any scoping exercise must at least look at the entire county and beyond, particularly where there are major connections to organised crime between Dundalk and Drogheda. We are...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (10 Sep 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 52. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the serious issue of drug-related intimidation and reporting in County Louth. [22993/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (10 Sep 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 174. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí assigned to the drugs and organised crime unit in County Louth in each of the years 2018 to 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form. [23178/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Sep 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 175. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the resources being allocated to An Garda Síochána to deal with the Covid-19 situation as restrictions ease. [23179/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We have had a huge tragedy in the nursing home sector. In my constituency-----

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I do not need to name that. All I will say is there is a large number of families that require answers.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I accept that.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I concur 100%. I accept the Chairman's assertion that modalities need to be found so that people can find justice and the answers required. I will follow up on what some of my colleagues have already said. I thank HIQA for being here. Based on what has been said earlier, there is a difficulty around the framework in which HIQA must operate. The questions I have would be specific to...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I recommend that the HIQA proposals be brought before the Oireachtas. I take from those comments that the authority needs a facility both in how it inquires into matters and also how it would, following a tragedy or some other occurrence, carry out either by itself or with another body an investigation that could happen in a timely manner and draw attention to problems so they could be...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Once we can get a notion of these powers required by HIQA, this committee or some other body can consider them to ensure they come about as quickly as possible. This committee could also make a determination relating to public inquiries as they are absolutely needed across the board in many nursing homes by many families.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Brexit Negotiations (8 Sep 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is absolutely unacceptable for the British Government to bandy about the idea that it is okay to breach international law. It is like playing poker with a guy who never keeps to the rules. It is an impossible and unacceptable position. It is almost a throwback to previous imperial times when British Governments did deals and reneged on them. Considering where we have come from, this...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Brexit Negotiations (8 Sep 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this Topical Issue matter. It does not shock me that several Deputies have decided to row in on this issue. Deputy O'Callaghan has already said that we are talking about a breach of "international law in a very specific and limited way". It is an utterly crazy term. Initially, we thought that this was sabre-rattling and the British Government...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (8 Sep 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I thank the Minister and I agree with him that there may be a possibility to short-circuit this and sort this problem. We were talking about sponsors and the people I have spoken to would say that if a problem could be circumvented without their having to deal with Tusla, that would be an advantage. I accept that parents can be iffy at times in dealing with Tusla and State agencies. We...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (8 Sep 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 39. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to put in place measures to ensure childcare providers servicing disadvantaged areas will not be forced into closure when transitioning from the community childcare subvention plus scheme to the national childcare scheme. [22373/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (8 Sep 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I think the Minister is aware of the issues I wish to deal with in this question. They relate to a number of childcare providers operating in Dundalk and Drogheda, namely, in Cox's Demesne, Muirhevnamor, Toberona and Moneymore. I know there is a short-term saver status - I am sorry if I have used the wrong terminology - but I do not think the referral solution the Minister was talking to me...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (8 Sep 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I appreciate that. First and foremost, the saver status has meant that these services have managed to continue with the quotient of service users already using the service. The problem is that this set of kids, if they were to apply now, probably would not meet the criteria. While there was a workaround for the services, whether it was Tusla, Louth County Council or a number of other...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services (8 Sep 2020)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 56. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to put in place supports to assist young persons in terms of their extracurricular development, namely youth centre supports. [22372/20]