Results 2,021-2,040 of 6,541 for speaker:Ruairí Ó Murchú

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The other issue, which I believe I raised with the Minister before and which I definitely raised with others, concerns the mobile phone and broadband task force, which falls between the Departments of the Environment, Climate and Communications and Rural and Community Development. Despite the best of intentions, several areas will not see broadband rolled out for some years. There may be...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We are all in agreement on that. In some cases, there are plenty of people who will have the capacity and ability and who will do the due diligence work and research. What we are talking about is just engaging with those stakeholders that might provide interim solutions for those who will be waiting several years. Could the mobile phone and broadband task force be the body that could do...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I am not referring to an alternative.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: In fairness, the committee has spoken about engaging with the mobile phone and broadband task force. We want it to consider this work and the idea of getting the State to do it, probably resulting in better engagement between constituents and Deputies on broadband provision. This is an alternative to our submitting requests to telecommunications companies on the basis of what they cannot...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I get it. In the medium term, we need to put in place those technological solutions. I was going to refer to clicking tickets.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is all fine. In the medium term, we need to find the technological solutions. I am not trying to be funny here. Is it not possible in the short term to go back to something that is almost prehistoric, such as the practice of clicking tickets? Is there not a viable short-term solution?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We have no notion about a timeline; that is the problem.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I accept that. There is an onus on the Minister to engage with those concerned. It is probably work that we have to facilitate.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We did the all-Ireland rail review. The Minister will not die of shock if I speak about electrification, particularly in respect of the Enterprise line. We are still talking about 2027 as the date for delivery on that. I am working on the basis, whatever the outworkings of this review, that the resources will be in place to deliver it, with all the caveats surrounding planning, etc.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Anybody who has ever looked at that map will see there is no rail in the north west.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I completely agree. We will have a level of engagement regarding it. It is interesting what the Minister said about local authorities, EV infrastructure and the fact that there has probably not been a sufficient amount of work done. That is something we probably need to butt into, for want of a better term.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: In fairness, somebody came to me from the other perspective. He is a mechanic and a car salesperson who was clear in saying to me that he has an agenda in that he wants to sell more cars. I know he had approached the local authority. I assume a greater number of those conversations need to happen, but they have to go beyond that and towards putting operational projects in place wherever we...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Where is the process and the piece of work that the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, was drawing together?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It was the review of the post office-----

National Retrofitting Scheme: Statements (17 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I have been interested in the significant number of over-and-back exchanges and the conversation in respect of this issue. Even from Government benches, there has been an acceptance that there is a need to look at this scheme. As is the case with every scheme, it is about seeing what works and what does not. I echo what my colleagues said in that what we wanted was a scheme that was more...

Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I was. I would be more than happy to------

Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I stopped but then kept going for another two minutes. Part of me was wondering whether to take a chance on it today, but I will not do so.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I would like to raise the issue of Carlinn Hall in Dundalk, where approximately 200 houses are in a group heating scheme. This was meant to be renewable energy initially, using biofuel or something, but it ended up being gas. Gas is supplied by Energia at the front line. Gas prices have gone through the roof and are not capped as the group heating scheme is seen as commercial. There is an...

Citizens' Assemblies: Motion (22 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Citizens' assemblies have proven themselves as being sometimes more useful at delivering action and seeing viable solutions than in here and beyond. With many others I am utterly disappointed a citizens' assembly on drugs has not been timed properly. The Taoiseach spoke about the end of 2022 but the Department of Health and the Minister of State, Deputy Feighan, state it will be 2023. We...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (22 Feb 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 17. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of his plans to address the rising cost of and limited access to public liability insurance; the detail of his recent engagements with an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9473/22]