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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Drug Dealing (5 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 66. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the status of the work of her Department in tackling drug-related intimidation and reporting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35981/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (7 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I wish to raise the issue of workforce planning and how we are obviously lacking in certain skill sets. What is the input from the regional skills framework and from departmental heads in relation to filling those spaces? If we are talking about add-on courses for retrofit and whatever, could we look at apprenticeships from a point of view of fitting them into the actual base...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The Minister will probably get a great deal of agreement across the House that this process is very rushed. It is lastminute.com. We are dealing with planning. I think we could all accept that we started from a point of having very poor planning regulation in this State. We all know what the impact has been on regular people in that regard. Much of that has been in the public domain for...

Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Second Stage (7 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The Government will have a fair amount of agreement across this House on the absolute necessity of this legislation. It is difficult to think that anybody will get up and speak against it in the sense that what we are dealing with, as Deputy O'Reilly put well, is a situation whereby employers are robbing the wages of workers. That is abhorrent to most, if not all, right-thinking people. It...

Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We need to raise the roof. I am not the first Deputy to repeat the following figures: a 15% increase in rents, a 22% increase in house prices and a 19% increase in homelessness. We have all probably taken a look at Daft. Across Louth, there are 18 houses for rent. In Dundalk, the corresponding figure is nine. Anecdotally, in relation to issues I try to deal with, a number of my...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the American congressional delegation. [34230/22]

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (13 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I was not present for the beginning of the debate because the transport committee had the news that Aer Lingus was refusing to come before it next week to deal with the issues we are all hearing about left, right and centre regarding cancelled flights. We know they are issues throughout Europe and the world. We need to know the particular issues that relate to Aer Lingus as they impact on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cost of Living Issues (14 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 85. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the actions that she will take to urgently address spiralling coal costs to support families facing huge pressures taking into consideration the recently published report by an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34886/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cost of Living Issues (14 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: There will be repetition with many of these questions. A large number of people are under severe pressure whether it is because of the cost of home heating oil, solid fuel or the spike in electricity prices. They will need some detail soon. We cannot wait until the day before the budget to find out what necessary mitigations are proposed for the conditions we have now.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cost of Living Issues (14 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Specific mitigations will need to be introduced. We all hear this in our constituency offices and I have no doubt that the Minister of State does too. People are under incredible pressure. We are dealing with a 38-year high in inflation at 9.1% in June. It has also been the fastest increase. It is incredibly difficult to deal with. People have problems with their bills and in my part of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cost of Living Issues (14 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We could keep it to ourselves.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cost of Living Issues (14 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: A great deal needs to be done in the budget. It remains to be seen whether it will be but the pressure is on the Government. There is no doubt that people are under significant pressure. I agree with what the Minister of State has said about retrofitting. I would be delighted if people had alternatives that were not only environmentally better but also cheaper. We need to make sure that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cost of Living Issues (14 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The household benefits package looks for the GPRN. Some of the people in communal heating systems do not have a number.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cost of Living Issues (14 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I refer to the GPRN. We need to look at that facility. Anomalies will arise from time to time.

Summer Economic Statement: Statements (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Deputy Andrews, Deputy McGuinness and Deputy Kenny dealt with some of the realities of the world people are living in. It is a matter of the services that are not being dealt with. It is a matter of failures over many years, such as CervicalCheck, thalidomide and women dealing with the mesh issue. It is a matter of disability services and mental health services. We are all dealing with...

Summer Economic Statement: Statements (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We are waiting.

Green Hydrogen Strategy Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Anytime I have ever promised to hand time back I have made a liar of myself so I will not make that promise now. It is around this time that I make my apologies to the Leas-Cheann Comhairle, the Ceann Comhairle and the wider staff of Leinster House and thank them very much for how much they enable me. I have added my apologies for the times when I do possibly test people but these things...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 94. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will make the application for access to community welfare officers available online given the difficulties being experienced by persons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34885/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Measures (14 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 172. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the plans to implement the aspects of the EU Digital Services Act not included in the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39232/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (14 Jul 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 188. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will detail the future plans that the IDA has for County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39160/22]