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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Oct 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education will meet next. [46320/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Oct 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We have spoken before about autism and the lack of services we have concerning speech and language therapists, SLTs, occupational therapists, OTs, psychologists, physiotherapists and all that is required in this regard. Could I get an update concerning the school inclusion model pilot that was being operated? The idea of this is to put the service where the need is. Could we see about...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Oct 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 15. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs will next meet. [46321/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Oct 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The Israeli onslaught on Gaza continues. What Israel offers is bombs and starvation. We have all heard the figures at this stage - 5,791 Palestinians killed, including 2,360 children, and 704 Palestinians killed in the last 24 hours. There is nothing else this can be called but a war crime and forced displacement. It can be called ethnic cleansing. We dread to think what a land invasion...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (24 Oct 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I accept that some countries have a different starting place on the basis of what has been a disgraceful history of pogroms, expulsion and extermination of the Jewish people, but we must deal with the Israeli regime that is in existence at this point in time. We can judge the people in that regime by their own words and deeds. They are involved in maintaining an apartheid state and in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (24 Oct 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: What about ISIF and the divestment Bill?

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We have already had a significant, but I would not say sufficient, conversation in the public domain on the underfunding of our health services and the belief that the amount of money being allocated is not even sufficient to maintain the existing level of service. Let us imagine what this will lead to. We all have our worries regarding the moratorium on recruitment. We all know the issues...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The Minister of State had to leave to deal with a personal issue.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Application Forms (24 Oct 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 89. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if personal assistants, who work with those with disabilities at third-level institutes and who have to sign on for jobseeker’s allowance during term breaks, including the summer, can have a streamlined application process due to the nature of their work contracts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46188/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Oct 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 105. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the current processing times for disability allowance, carers allowance and social welfare appeals; if she will compare these waiting times to this time last year; her views on the increase in processing times for these applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46189/23]

Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Ireland has a long history of neutrality, of being non-aligned and of independent foreign policy. Like many who have spoken before me and to whose voice I will add mine, the reason I will do this is because it is our history. We are not a colonial power like many others. We were the colonised. We had a history of trying to find a roadmap towards self-determination. We have had great...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Oct 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The Changing Lives Initiative is a community-based, cross-Border project creating a better understanding of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, ADHD, and providing an intervention programme for families with children between three and seven years of age experiencing behaviours consistent with ADHD. Since 2023, it has been available in Louth and Meath, and I know there are further...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (25 Oct 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I will not be shocked if a huge number of Deputies concentrate in whatever short time they have for speeches before the EU Council meeting on the importance that needs to be given to Gaza at this time. The fact is Gaza is facing obliteration. We have not had the courage we would like from EU leaders. We have all been, at best, deeply unhappy and, at times, deeply shamed by the...

Road Safety: Statements (26 Oct 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We all know the seriousness of the accidents with which we have been dealing lately and the tragedies for the families involved. On the M1, which is close to where I live, we lost Chris Bradley and Wayne Lynch. In August, a young man who was originally from Algeria lost his life on an e-scooter. I do not think there is anyone who does not realise the importance of the issue with which we...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Educational Disadvantage (26 Oct 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Richmond, for taking this matter. I was contacted by the office of the Minister of State, Deputy Madigan, earlier. I will take a wild guess that I might not be particularly impressed with the reply that is given, but I do thank the Minister of State for being here. From my point of view-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Educational Disadvantage (26 Oct 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Well, I am going to take a wild guess. I have a reply to a parliamentary question that provided me with some information prior to this. This matter relates to Scoil Bhríde Lann Léire. I visited the school and the relevant issues were pointed out to me. Rather than repeating how I responded to those issues, I will put on record the letter that was sent to me initially. It...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Educational Disadvantage (26 Oct 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is the answer I anticipated. Dealing with the wider issue of DEIS, we all know that there are lies, damned lies and statistics. There will always be anomalies. I often think of Dundalk, where there is absolute deprivation side by side with people who are in a different socioeconomic bracket. The average, therefore, does not necessarily reflect the reality on the ground for some...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 18. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress to date in 2023 on to the delivery of the CFRAM scheme for County Louth; the current timelines for the delivery of the projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47004/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 39. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform what engagement there has been between his Department and other Departments this year in relation to the delivery of necessary flood protection schemes in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47005/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Renewable Energy Generation (26 Oct 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 94. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline the supports and grants available to farmers who wish to provide renewable energy and electricity generation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46995/23]