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Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Na Seirbhísí Uisce agus Séarachais a chuireann Uisce Éireann ar fáil i gceantair Ghaeltachta: Plé. (21 Jun 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Dúirt Uisce Éireann go mbaineann an fhadhb leis an mangainéis seachas le iron oxide ag am seo.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Na Seirbhísí Uisce agus Séarachais a chuireann Uisce Éireann ar fáil i gceantair Ghaeltachta: Plé. (21 Jun 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Is dócha go bhfuil. Táim ag iarraidh an timeline a fháil amach. Más rud é go bhfuil duine éigin ábalta an t-eolas sin a thabhairt dúinn i ndiaidh seo-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I apologise that I was not able to be here earlier when the committee was dealing with this matter. A considerable amount has been said, and it was said previously. We all want to see a thriving film industry. Obviously, the budgetary proposal was that the €70 million cap on the section 481 credit would move to €125 million. That is a greater amount of money that the State...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We are pressing it. What we are talking about is trying to introduce some element of equality and workers' rights across the board for those people who work in the industry. I welcome what the Minister said in the sense of supporting the stakeholders forum. We have to deal with issues that we have all talked about that have been raised by many people around blacklisting and other such...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I thank the Electoral Commission for the large body of work it needed to do. We support this legislation and the enactment of the constituency review report. Boundary reviews are looked at by politicians with particular interest. Moving from 160 Deputies to 174 would be a difficult sell to the public and would never sit too well on Twitter, but we have to work within the constitutional...

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I understand that. It is just that it is a particular issue that I need an answer for. That is me done on that. In long term we have a monitoring issue. The people in the likes of Sheelagh, who are at the end of the line, are out of water at this point in time. We support the Bill. A greater piece of work needs to be done to ensure proportional representation. I think I have spoken...

Escalation of Violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: A week ago, António Guterres stated: Gaza is ... a graveyard for children. The nightmare in Gaza is more than a humanitarian crisis. It is a crisis of humanity. I think it is fair to say that the situation has drastically disimproved. I assume there is agreement across Government parties with the ministerial statement from earlier today that the Israeli onslaught on Gaza was a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (14 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The Minister was in the Cooley Peninsula and Carlingford recently. She saw some of the devastation there. We welcome the supports in the form of the humanitarian assistance fund and the emergency business flooding relief scheme. I hope there will be plenty of flexibility because sometimes we have more questions with every person we see. Antóin Watters and I were at a meeting...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (14 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I am delighted to hear it.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weather Events (14 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 385. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if, following the recent flooding in north Louth, he will outline the compensation and funding schemes available to farmers for loss of dry stock, damage to machinery and sheds, etc.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49631/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weather Events (14 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 386. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what work will be carried out by his Department to assess the damage done to farm land as a result of recent flooding in north Louth; if the Department will be working with Louth County Council or other agencies and departments on this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49632/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I want to draw the Taoiseach's attention to the statement by Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, on humanitarian pauses in Gaza. There is a particular line which reads: "The EU condemns the use of hospitals and civilians as human shields by Hamas." I want to know what involvement or engagement there was on this statement with the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Trade Missions (15 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Before I deal with this question, I accept and welcome the fact we had no part to play in this particular statement but I think there should be some element of a complaint about the language used regarding human shields. I have a real problem that that provides cover to this Israeli regime and the actions it is carrying out, particularly in attacking hospitals. When we talk about Germany...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Trade Missions (15 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: -----guilt, I do not think it is okay for the Palestinian people to pay for the crimes that were carried out everywhere from Babi Yar to Sobibor, Dachau, Treblinka and Auschwitz. I do not think that is okay. Beyond that, the Germans did not exactly rush-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Trade Missions (15 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: -----after Yom Kippur to help the Israelis or when NASA was engaging rocket scientists. In fairness to Deputy Haughey, he spoke about the Taoiseach's visit to the demilitarised zone. We have had a complete realignment of politics. We have seen what has happened across the world. We have to take into account the heightened relationship between Russia and North Korea and how this will...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (15 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Unfortunately we have had continued drift. We do not have the DUP making the determination to join the rest of us to form an Executive. What engagement has the Taoiseach had and where does he see it at this time? Obviously he is dealing with a British Government that has had plenty of change in the past while. I add my voice to those of everyone else with regard to the legacy Bill....

Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (15 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We welcome this necessary legislation. There will be a need to strengthen some of the weaknesses on Committee Stage, and I hope there will be some element of cross-party co-operation in that regard. In fairness to him, Deputy Ó Cathasaigh spoke about changing workforces and the changing nature of how things are. There is an awful lot of hope in this but we also have a large number...

Science Week: Statements (16 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Science Week is incredibly important. We recognise the huge potential we have as humans and the massive strides we have made through science. It is also fair enough to say huge difficulties have been created by certain aspects. Speaking as a constituency Teachta Dála, I have seen some of the positive work that has been done by the likes of SOLAS and the Louth-Meath Education and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Future Treaty Change in the European Union: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Well, I do not know, there is-----