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Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (21 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 39 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Joe Neville - To discuss issues concerning the Ryevale House IPAS centre in Leixlip, County Kildare. Deputy Malcolm Byrne - To discuss ongoing human rights abuses against the Uyghurs. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan - To...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ukraine War (21 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Tá Ceist Uimh. 97 in ainm an Teachta Cleere ach tá an Teachta Lahart á thógáil ar a shon.

Irish Unity: Motion [Private Members] (21 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Partition has been a failure. It has a been failure for those communities, North and South. It has been a failure for unionists, nationalists and others. The Minister of State would agree with me in relation to that. Let us be absolutely clear, there has been an abject failure by this Government in relation to the necessary work as regards planning. Even for people who do not believe...

Finance Bill 2025: Second Stage (21 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: This budget and this Finance Bill are beyond disappointing. It is straightforward. It is a budget that abandons working people to look after those at the very top. The Finance Bill is nothing but a huge level of broken promises, including on income tax and renter's tax credit. There are no changes to income tax for workers in the middle of what is a cost-of-living crisis that I assume...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (21 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: No.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (21 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The Taoiseach is just running down the clock in order that he will not have to answer the question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (21 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We support Ukraine in the context of the absolutely brutal invasion by Russia. We would like to see proper development of a peace process and to do anything we can to facilitate that. We all know that communications from the White House are, at times, not necessarily things we can absolutely stand by. There is talk of a Trump-Putin summit in Budapest. The Taoiseach has had engagement on...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (21 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 19. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his participation in meetings of the coalition of the willing in support of Ukraine. [51664/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on infrastructure will next meet. [51663/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We have to see delivery of the catchment flood risk assessment and management, CFRAM, programme on flood protections, even in the short term. In estates like the one I am from, Bay Estate, there are issues with people trying to get flood insurance. Some who have bought houses recently are looking for letters of comfort which people used to get from the local authority, but are no longer...

Education (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I do not doubt the Minister of State's sincerity. We have dealt with many issues many times and, in fairness, he has always made his best attempt to deal with those issues. On some level, we are dealing with a system that is far from perfect at this point. I will make a defence of this legislation. I thank Deputy Cummins for speaking on it and I reiterate what she said. A two-year run-in...

Education (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." Where do I start?

Education (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I could not say I was shocked but I was not particularly happy, obviously, when I saw the Government's response to this. This is not the first time the Minister of State and I have had a conversation, never mind the legislation, on the issues regarding those seeking places for their children, and the rights of those children, whether in primary or secondary school. I would state quite...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Employment Support Services (16 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That the programme for Government "commits to further review the minimum hours requirement under the wage subsidy scheme" is an absolute necessity. It goes without saying that we need "to examine an increase to the payment rate". One of the fears is with the three-year review mechanism. There will be other factors that will impact the costs faced by the Rehab Group and some of these other...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Employment Support Services (16 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Sinn Féin introduced Private Members’ business this week in relation to the lack of a cost-of-disability payment. There were many organisations in Leinster House on the day, including Rehab, the Irish Wheelchair Association and the Disability Federation of Ireland and a number of its constituent organisations. There is a point that needs to be repeated. Everyone accepts what...

National Training Fund (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: This is not the first time the Minister and I have had an interaction on this matter this week. It is all the better for doing it in Ireland as opposed to over in Surrey, at-----

National Training Fund (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Yes. We are always here.

National Training Fund (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is it, and at some point there will be no need, when all the issues are dealt with. I await that day.

National Training Fund (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Utopia. I am going to agree with Deputies McGettigan and Conway-Walsh - I do not think there will be any shock about that - and we reserve the right to make a determination around this. That answer will be determined by what the Minister intends to use the unlocked moneys for. If there is any detail that could be provided on that in the follow-up statements, it would be an absolute...

National Training Fund (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Oct 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is it, and I would like to see the Minister have conversations with those within his party and his Government from a point of view of making sure those necessary pieces of work are done to make things better now and to prepare for that because there has been a lack of work done there.