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

Ruairí 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)

Ruairí 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)

Ruairí 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)

Ruairí 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)

Ruairí 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)

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

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Feb 2024)

Ruairí 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)

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

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (20 Feb 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Yes. I apologise, Leas Cheann-Comhairle, if I did not indicate properly.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (20 Feb 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We obviously need an infrastructure to be able to make a determination with regard to the threats that we face. Again, we are talking about hybrid and cyberthreats, and we are talking right down to what was mentioned earlier with regard to the plague that is organised drug crime in the State. We are also dealing with the fact that we have a genocidal slaughter in Gaza and the escalation...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Legislative Programme (20 Feb 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 46. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the legislative programme. [6306/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (20 Feb 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 69. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the work to operationalise the recommendations in the review of the reasonable accommodation fund and the disability awareness support scheme, and the plans to launch a reformed scheme this year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7230/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (15 Feb 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is it. We could all name parents and multiple schools - I am afraid to ring any more of them - who think they will be detrimentally affected by the hours that they require to provide the supports for children with special educational needs. I know engagement has started with some of the officials in the Department, and I welcome that. However, on the basis of what the INTO and others...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (15 Feb 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: This is straightforward. We have had an over and back. Like Deputy Ó Ríordáin, I brought it up with the Taoiseach and the Minister of State. As I told her recently, I happened to meet representatives of Scoil Mhuire na nGael in this House and they said they initially thought they may lose two teaching positions and they will definitely lose one. Fiona Mhic Chonchoille of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (15 Feb 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I raise the issue of adding County Louth to the defective blocks scheme. I spoke to the Minister about this previously.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (15 Feb 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Unfortunately, I am aware of a number of properties where the owners found cracks and had the work done, but then had reports done which showed, unfortunately, that the problem is pyrite. I will not name the townland other than to say it is in mid-Louth. Obviously we have given this information to Louth County Council. One of the properties was previously a council house that was bought...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (15 Feb 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: This is very good news. I suppose we only need to get the date and the terms of reference and make sure people have enough time. I have spoken to the Minister of State previously regarding the League of Ireland. It is flying on some level, but sustainability is all about stadium. Obviously, I am talking particularly about Dundalk FC at this point in time. It is a matter of making sure...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Television Licence Fee (15 Feb 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I am asking this question on behalf of Deputy Munster who is dealing with a constituency matter. The Minister previously expressed a preference for direct Exchequer funding to replace the television licence. Will she provide an update on any correspondence, communications or meetings she has had with Government colleagues in this regard and will she make a statement on the matter? The...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Television Licence Fee (15 Feb 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The Minister stated that a decision will be taken in the summer on how we will fund RTÉ and others. We all realise the spectacular work that was done, especially during the Covid-19 period, by some of our local radio stations and other local media. It is a matter of ensuring we have public sector media in this age of disinformation. It goes without saying, given what has come into the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Television Licence Fee (15 Feb 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The decision will be taken before the summer, but we are awaiting the two expert reports. Does the Minister have any notion of the timeline for that? Does it mean that no conversations or communications are taking place at Government level about a decision? Many of us believe there is enough information in the public domain to make the decision. I welcome the Minister's statement that...