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Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (21 Feb 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I will bring up the 14 other issues later.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cybersecurity Policy (22 Feb 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We all get that online and phone fraud and scams are activities that are everywhere and unavoidable. Cybercrime, as we have seen, is at its height. I was aware at one stage that ComReg was involved in a working group concerning phone scams and this type of field. How stands this initiative? I also remember Dr. Richard Browne of the NCSC dealt with the issue of directed spyware. We are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cybersecurity Policy (22 Feb 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Go raibh maith agat.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Alcohol Sales (22 Feb 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Alcohol Action Ireland along with, I believe, 80 other social, health and community organisations, and academics, have been on to a considerable number of people, including the Minister. They have presented international evidence showing that extending opening times by one hour results in a 16% increase in alcohol-related crime, a 30% increase in traffic collisions in rural areas and a 34%...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (22 Feb 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Deputy Gould has a short supplementary question.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Agriculture Schemes (22 Feb 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Is Deputy Kerrane agreeable to Deputy Cairns coming in with a supplementary question?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (22 Feb 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We will return now to Question No. 47 in the name of Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh but which will be taken by Deputy Claire Kerrane.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (22 Feb 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Apologies. I missed a supplementary. My mistake.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Legislative Programme (20 Feb 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 46. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the legislative programme. [6306/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (20 Feb 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 69. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the work to operationalise the recommendations in the review of the reasonable accommodation fund and the disability awareness support scheme, and the plans to launch a reformed scheme this year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7230/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Adult Education Provision (27 Feb 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 13. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to include courses for adults with intellectual disabilities such as the level 3 certificate in skills for independent living at Dundalk IT under the SUSI grant scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8724/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Adult Education Provision (27 Feb 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Are there any plans to include in the SUSI grant scheme courses for adults with intellectual disabilities, such as the level 3 certificate in skills for independent living which I was lucky enough to visit in Dundalk Institute of Technology recently? Obviously that is one of the courses included in the new funding streams for educational disability, which is very welcome. It is a very...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Adult Education Provision (27 Feb 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I welcome the fact the Minister is talking about dealing with some of the inadequacies that exist in the SUSI Act. I wonder how the parameters of some of the supports will work for these students, which is something we have to look at. We are talking about fairness across the board and ensuring as many people as possible can engage with regard to disabilities. When I spoke to those...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Adult Education Provision (27 Feb 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: There is a piece that needs to be done even beyond the Minister's Department in the sense of engaging with those in the Department of Social Protection with regard to working towards having people with disabilities engage with business and industry, which is a necessity. The Minister would be shocked if I did not bring up the case we have been dealing with for a long time and that he...

Protection of Employees (Trade Union Subscriptions) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I thank Deputy Joan Collins for introducing this sensible legislation. Deputy Ó Laoghaire put it perfectly in explaining how easy it was for him to pay his union subscriptions. We have all read the history books and we all know the story of what happened in 1913. We know how bad things would be if we did not have the power of unions and collective bargaining. We are talking about...

Protection of Employees (Trade Union Subscriptions) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I would like to think the Minister of State would look at this issue and address how we will deal with it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Discussion (28 Feb 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Gabhaim buíochas le gach duine anseo. I was here and listened to the rest as I pretended to be in another meeting while paying attention. Our guests have dealt with a great deal of it. We are talking about a roadway, pathway and inclusion across the board. I am talking about those who are facilitated right through to, for example, Dundalk Institute of Technology, DkIT, where there is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Discussion (28 Feb 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: To some degree, the witnesses have dealt with the SET issue. Scoil Mhuire na nGael came to me nearly straightaway, as did Scoil Naomh Lorcan. One of those is a school in Dundalk near the estate in which I live and the other is out in Omeath. I have also had contact from Scoil Dairbhre national school. I would be afraid to talk to anymore principals on the basis of what it is. They are...