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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (Resumed) (19 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: And then the capacity to build up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (Resumed) (19 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: If we could get that letter that would be the shooting match. There is no point in me rehashing what I am sure everyone has been over and back on. It is going in the right direction. Mr. McGarry is not too worried. He will do his piece with regard to the port being fit for purpose. The worry that we have and the issues are being dealt with. We just need to do it better in a more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Accession Progress of North Macedonia: Engagement with Foreign Minister of North Macedonia (10 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: My apologies for interrupting but I accept that North Macedonia has come a great distance if we are talking about the 1990s and the fact that a great number of these countries were at war with each other, in a particularly horrible genocidal war. We have all seen, however, that there are particular issues if one is looking at Republika Srpska now, and while North Macedonia is most definitely...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Accession Progress of North Macedonia: Engagement with Foreign Minister of North Macedonia (10 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We can go in the same order again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Accession Progress of North Macedonia: Engagement with Foreign Minister of North Macedonia (10 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I accept the difficulty relating to 130 votes and having to keep 27 member states on board at all times. Dr. Osmani stated that there have been successful moves in the past year. From that, I take it that North Macedonia is finding the EU to be more receptive than it was previously. He believes North Macedonia has gone above and beyond from the point of view of settling Bulgaria. Nothing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Accession Progress of North Macedonia: Engagement with Foreign Minister of North Macedonia (10 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: As Dr. Osmani stated, as North Macedonia is so interlocked anyway, it makes sense, but, beyond that, it is almost a starting point to entering the wider Single Market and so on. I have no doubt North Macedonia is dealing with a cost-of-living crisis, the significant level of inflation and so on. Since the war in Ukraine in particular, all countries have experienced an energy crisis. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Accession Progress of North Macedonia: Engagement with Foreign Minister of North Macedonia (10 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I asked three questions in one.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Accession Progress of North Macedonia: Engagement with Foreign Minister of North Macedonia (10 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Is North Macedonia dealing with a significant amount of disinformation and cyber threats?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Accession Progress of North Macedonia: Engagement with Foreign Minister of North Macedonia (10 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: This is the last time I will interrupt. Has North Macedonia engaged with social media companies? The time is right. They are set up perfectly to almost provide malign actors with a weaponised system.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (9 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 79. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the work being carried out in his Department to fix the anomaly whereby many workers who live in the North and who work in the South are precluded from working from home due to the significant Revenue implications for their employers; if he will detail any contacts his Department has had on the matter with the equivalent...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (9 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 108. To ask the Minister for Finance if he can outline the short- to medium-term plans by the Government to ensure reductions in premiums for customers for insurance products, particularly public liability insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21475/23]

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Ceannteidil an Bhille um Údarás na Gaeltachta (Leasú), 2022: Grinnscrúdú Réamhreachtach (Atógáil) (10 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Cuirim fáilte roimh an bhfinné. Tá brón orm go mbeidh orm rith tríd seo. An bhfuil mórán cainte faoin údarás agus toghcháin i measc an ghnáthphobail? Cad iad na cumhachtaí uile breise a bhfuiltear ag lorg faoi choinne an údaráis? Tá sé ráite go bhfuil an cheist seo an-tábhachtach, ach tá jabanna...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Ceannteidil an Bhille um Údarás na Gaeltachta (Leasú), 2022: Grinnscrúdú Réamhreachtach (Atógáil) (10 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Cad é tuairim ár n-aoi faoi sin? Tá go leor ceisteanna ann.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Ceannteidil an Bhille um Údarás na Gaeltachta (Leasú), 2022: Grinnscrúdú Réamhreachtach (Atógáil) (10 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Gabhaim buíochas le Sorcha Ní Chéilleachair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I apologise for being late. I heard everything that was said in the meeting while I travelled in the car on my way here. To say I did more than hear it would be madness. I managed to take some notes when I was stopped at red lights. I have spoken to Mr. Harris before about these issues. A huge amount of work has been done by members of the committee. Fair play to the Chairman, who has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I am fairly sure Mr. Harris answered. That was a lot more coherent than the questions he was asked. I imagine the Cathaoirleach will deal with this. In my garble, what I managed not to see until now is the issue of augmentative and alternative communication, AAC. Specifically we saw rapid prompting method, RPM, working with Fiacre Ryan, but at some level, we are not too worried. Whatever...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I am curious. Will Dr. Craddock further explain the issue of the off-ramp and the 60 km/h? I get some of what he talked about regarding the difficulties with shared spaces. I am tangent-ing on this, not for the first time. When I was on the transport committee, we dealt with a huge piece on e-scooters. We heard from the National Council for the Blind and a number of organisations...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Louth County Council attempted to do it but with one of the pieces of work we all gave out that it was going to slow traffic. I will not get into the rights and wrongs of how it worked out but it was that idea. Where there was insufficient room to put a cycle lane it became a shared space. The idea was that it would work on the basis that one slowed everything down. I am not sure if it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It was not going to work.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is the problem. We are in the age where context does not exist.