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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (4 Jul 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 105. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if consideration is being given during the process ahead of Budget 24 to the issues of wages and job progression in the childcare sector; if consideration is being given as to how costs can be reduced for parents in the same context; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32457/23]

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (5 Jul 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We need a nature restoration law but like all laws, it needs to be workable. There were significant issues relating to this in its inception. I accept that considerable work has been done. That is the idea of negotiation and politics. We get to something that works. I would like to think that nobody is going to stand up and say that we are not in the middle of a biodiversity crisis. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Jul 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [32455/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Jul 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I again raise the issue of Louth County Council and housing adaptation grants. Louth County Council has a request in for €570,000 but even if it gets that, it will need match funding of €114,000 and that will not even begin to cover the list, which currently stands at 580 people. I have spoken to the Minister of State, Deputy O’Donnell, about the fact the review needs...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (5 Jul 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Necessary interventions have to be taken, whether we are talking about the north-east inner city or elsewhere. Similar interventions were laid out for Drogheda following the feud. We had the Guerin report and the Drogheda implementation plan and a board was put in place. I would bring up the issue again of the family addiction support network, which is an absolutely vital cog that provides...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (5 Jul 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We all accept that remote working is a real positive for many people. I have brought up the issue before with regard to cross-Border remote workers who are not facilitated at present. I use the example of PayPal in Dundalk, when it closed its premises and everyone was put on remote working, that those in the North needed to be transferred to PayPal UK. Obviously, a large international...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Priorities of the Spanish EU Presidency: Discussion with Spanish Ambassador (5 Jul 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Go raibh maith agat agus gracias, ambassador. I apologise if I repeat anything that has already been said. I needed to speak in the Dáil on the nature restoration law. As Deputy Howlin would say, I need to speak on everything. I made the point that we are dealing with multiple crises. Work on many of these issues is only possible on the basis of co-operation. I liked that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Priorities of the Spanish EU Presidency: Discussion with Spanish Ambassador (5 Jul 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Apologies, there was something I should have mentioned as well. It was unfair of me. Spain has its particular issues with Britain due to Gibraltar. There are a lot of things we would like to see resolved across the board. It was unfair not to mention that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Priorities of the Spanish EU Presidency: Discussion with Spanish Ambassador (5 Jul 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Go raibh maith agat. The ambassador need not worry, it is not a question. I put my Spanish connection-to-be on record. The fiancée of my stepson is from Madrid so most likely next year at some point he will be getting married there and I assume I will have to go.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Priorities of the Spanish EU Presidency: Discussion with Spanish Ambassador (5 Jul 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I am looking forward to it. I just need to make sure it is not at a time of election or anything else.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Water Services (6 Jul 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I will keep this generalised. There are huge issues. We have very old housing estates with, in some cases, legacy sewerage systems, both the public line and the individual run of houses, too many houses on the one line, the wrong types of piping and so on. In my estate there is a huge number of issues and sometimes the responsibility lies literally with the person who owns the house....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Planning Issues (6 Jul 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Can we have a timeline for when we will see the guidelines for rural housing? We know about the issue. When somebody comes with a planning issue the worst element is that there is no consistency either in the local authority, among local authorities or from planner to planner. We are speaking about landowners who cannot understand why they cannot get planning permission on their land for a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (6 Jul 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 42. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has given consideration to the use of 3D printing technology and its possible benefits to the current problems with housing construction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33036/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (6 Jul 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Has the Minister given consideration to the use of 3D concrete printing and its possible benefits in the context of the current problems with housing construction? Obviously, he has engaged with the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Coveney. Louth and Meath Education and Training Board, LMETB, had a printing operation in Drogheda. Are there plans in this regard? It is...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): State Pensions (6 Jul 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 110. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to extending the number of home-caring periods a foster carer can accrue throughout the years they foster in order for them to be able to claim a State pension (contributory); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33074/23]

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): State Pensions (6 Jul 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Has the Minister given any consideration to extending the number of home caring periods a foster carer can accrue throughout the year as he or she fosters in order to be able to claim a contributory State pension? We all know of the great contribution made by foster carers who take children, who sometimes are coming from incredibly difficult situations, into their homes. I had an...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): State Pensions (6 Jul 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I welcome what the Minister of State has said. We need this enacted as soon as possible. When I dealt earlier with the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, it was particularly in relation to the foster carer allowance, which has not been increased since 2009. It related to the travel expenses, and there is obviously an onus on foster carers to maintain that...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): State Pensions (6 Jul 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I should allow the Minister of State to respond. That would be fair.

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): State Pensions (6 Jul 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I welcome what the Minister of State has said. It is an acceptance that we do not have enough foster carers. We need a lot more, so we need to deal with all of these issues. I accept that the Minister of State's Department deals with a particular part of this, but the main play is with the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. I assume all of the necessary...