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National Social Enterprise Policy: Statements (25 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We are all happy that we are having a conversation about national social enterprise policy. However, it is the case that seeing is believing. Like my colleagues, I know there have been many successful but also some unsuccessful social enterprise operations within our constituencies. Some of that is due to the fact that supports and the framework have not necessarily been in place as we...

Committee on Drugs Use: Family Supports: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Go raibh maith agat, a Chathaoirligh. Cuirim fáilte roimh na finnéithe go léir. I would be a long time name-checking everyone that is here. The witnesses have laid it out straightforwardly. Mr. Slattery and Mr. O'Hara have spoken about everybody knowing what to do here. The best practice is known but has not ever been implemented to any degree. Ms Harris made the point...

Committee on Drugs Use: Family Supports: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: A lot of what I wanted to say has already been said. We have always had an issue with alcohol and we have never been serious around it. Cocaine crosses every strata but obviously it is the disadvantaged communities that suffer the most. I get the set-up has changed. However, the root cause still is poverty and multigenerational trauma. It is also a case of seeing the bad example. I mean...

Committee on Drugs Use: Family Supports: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It would be cheaper in the long run.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Relations (25 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 55. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the engagement there has been with his Department, other Government Departments, State agencies and industry, including pharma, technology and medtech, regarding changes to US tariffs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50113/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Regulation (25 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 69. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of collective notices of redundancy received by the Department from January 2024 to August 2025 from American companies or subsidiaries of US companies operating in the State, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50112/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (25 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 117. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline any plans there are for work activation and disability access to work, including any improvements or streamlining planned for schemes such as the reasonable accommodation scheme and the wage subsidy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50111/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (25 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 170. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number and types of oral hearings completed by the Appeals Office to date in 2025, in tabular form; to outline whether there are plans to increase the number of oral hearings carried out by the Appeals Office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50110/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rights of People with Disabilities (25 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 304. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the means by which, under the National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People, the cost of disability, and an increase in the employment rate among people with disabilities, will be achieved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50847/25]

Use of Vapes and Nicotine Products by Young People and Adolescents: Statements (24 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: This is another of these circumstances where we are going to have agreement there are absolute dangers with vapes. You do not ever have to go very far to find them. At times I probably do not even have to leave my own house, and that is the thing. We have seen the prevalence of vape use among young people, as well as other nicotine-related products such as nicotine pouches. We have also...

Auto-Enrolment: Statements (24 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Yes, but I think there were more people on the list to speak.

Auto-Enrolment: Statements (24 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Deputies O'Reilly and Bennett have laid out our particular issues with auto-enrolment. We would all like to be here in support of an idea my party has always been in support of, but the system the Government is talking about is not that. I do not know how many debates there have been since the resumption about the fact people out there are absolutely suffering in a cost-of-living crisis,...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Cuirim fáilte roimh na finnéithe go léir. Mr. O'Neill spoke about a general level of supports. He is obviously operating in an area of high deprivation. We know the particular issues that can be caused where poverty meets drugs and multigenerational trauma. There are particular periods and times. We have all seen the child protection issues in recent times whether we are...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I should say that Turlough does not have them at the moment.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I know every child is different. However, no different than a lot of the service Mr. Cronin is providing this is something that could, in a lot of cases, be dealt with in a school setting.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We could be talking about a psychologist, about dealing with parents, teachers or SNAs and then everyone gets best practice. That can be doubled up with assistive technology for reinforcement.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: In the long run this is all cheaper.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Is it also what the IASLT and the other organisations say? No-one has had a proper conversation with them on the best means of doing everything from assessments through to therapies. They still keep operating on a system that we set up, and which is creaking.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I would like that noted on the record.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Is that in respect of physical violence?