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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: To be clear, lots of them will have gone through the rigmarole and would have come up with an address and will have come up with the southern licence and all of that. Once again, it is a bit of an Irish solution. I was wondering if any of the witnesses had ever come across the issue. It is something I will be putting to the NTA.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I was only checking whether the matter had ever come across the witnesses' radar.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: No. That is not what I am asking. On some levels it is an unfair question but-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I will tell the witnesses what I am talking about. I like introducing a level of chaos. I am talking about Dundalk for example. Obviously there is a huge number of people in south Down and south Armagh who work in Dundalk. A number of people have approached me who live in the North, have Northern Ireland licences-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is a Northern Ireland driver's licence. They are looking to do the PSV for the South to operate a car in Dundalk, being facilitated by someone who-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The difficulty is that the NTA will not allow them to sit the test but will not give me a straight answer. The witnesses have referred to bad communication or lack of communication with the NTA. I have had plenty of that over the summer in relation to this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: They are allowed to use certain other licences.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Energy Prices (15 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 41. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will outline the assistance that the Government plans to give to small businesses that are struggling due to increased costs such as energy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44729/22]

National Retrofit Plan: Motion [Private Members] (20 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Regarding the better energy warmer homes scheme, it has already been said that we have 9,000 households awaiting works and an average wait time of approximately 27 months. That should tell the Minister straight out that this is not working. We all accept that we need to make huge inroads on climate action. I think everyone would accept that we are in a very different world now and we need...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Prices (20 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: On the European solidarity windfall tax, who would be liable within the State in that regard? The Minister has spoken about how difficult it is to reform energy markets but we could all make the argument that perhaps we should have started this conversation earlier. We must do whatever we can at this time, however. The Minister has raised the fact that we are dealing with a wartime...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (20 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 62. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the roll-out of the national broadband plan; the number of premises that have been passed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45632/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (20 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: What is the status of the roll-out of the national broadband plan and what is the number of premises that have been passed? Are we are likely to make the target of 102,000 premises, realising we are much behind where we thought we would have been? In further questioning I will speak about acceleration.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (20 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We all get the importance of remote working, especially in the circumstances in which we find ourselves, where it may be beneficial for people to reduce the amount of commuting they are doing - for multiple reasons at this stage. Those figures are definitely heading in a better direction than they have been. We just need to ensure that it is acceleration, acceleration, acceleration. I know...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (20 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I welcome the fact that the Minister of State has an interaction with Eir from the point of view of delivering more at its end and the fact that NBI obviously has a serious capacity but, at the end of the day, this is all about ensuring that we accelerate this as much as possible, especially to reach areas that have been and will be waiting for broadband for a considerable length of time....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Natural Resources (20 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Always take the opportunity.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (20 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 120. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the engagements that he has had in recent weeks regarding the security and cost of the State’s energy supply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45631/22]

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is a line I have used before. Sometimes when everyone else has spoken, you are just repeating what they have said, only not quite as eloquently. It has all been said. We have seen an abject failure to ensure we have sufficient capacity to generate the electricity we will require. A huge number of people became scared over the summer when they heard of amber alerts and that we had not...

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: When the Minister of State has an opportunity, he can explain exactly what the reason is. Yes, the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, has spoken about-----

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: -----the difficulty with reconfiguring the market, but that is it. We all get it. There is a limited supply. There are links along that supply chain. I get it. If the Government and the European Union do not take action, there will be people who will try to make money at every level-----

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: -----and across the board and we will face companies being closed and families being put under severe pressure. We know the Government has not done the work on ensuring we have the generation capacity. We know it has not done the work on renewables. We know the planning mess there is. We know we cannot deliver what we need to deliver in respect of offshore wind. The Government should...