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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I need to bring up an issue that relates to Dunleer fire station and John Molloy, who is the retained fire station officer and who is about to turn 60 on 24 May. The problem is that the legislation has not yet been amended to increase the mandatory retirement age from 60 to 62. I initially dealt with the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien. It has now gone to the Department of Public...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is to happen before the summer. It is just that 24 May is the deadline?

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: There will be much agreement about the State's dreadful history of institutional abuse. As my colleagues and many others have said, an enormous number of people were put into institutions against their will. Those institutions include mother and baby homes, institutional schools and all those places where this State has a dark history and where people were very badly treated. We all know...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (2 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: What are the Minister's plans to expand public dentistry services? I have spoken to the Minister previously about orthodontic care. I refer in particular to the hundreds of under-18s who are on the waiting lists for orthodontic treatment. In my area, I refer to the centre based in Louth County Hospital. Category four cases are being dealt with privately and huge amounts are being spent on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (2 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We all welcome the moves relating to preventative care. As part of a perfect solution, we would eventually have a sufficient level of public dentistry to provide what is required. I am glad that some people are getting necessary dental care through the private sector. The numbers have obviously jumped. In 2021, in the Louth-Meath area, 77 patients were accepted at a cost of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (2 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I would appreciate that. The parents are very worried and probably a bit perturbed when they are contacted the HSE, not with a date but to ask whether they have already taken action by going to the North. As much as we want public provision, we need to find a solution for these patients similar to category four patients. I ask for that note as soon as possible. It would really make a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medical Aids and Appliances (2 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 11. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the review under way into the funding and provision of post-mastectomy products; when the review will be completed; if stakeholders, including cancer survivors and post-mastectomy product fitters, will be consulted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19294/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medical Aids and Appliances (2 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I ask the Minister to provide an update on the review underway into the funding and provision of post-mastectomy products, when the review will be completed and if stakeholders, including cancer survivors and post-mastectomy product fitters, will be consulted? We all know the issue that blew up inside this Chamber and on the Joe Duffy show on radio. I was contacted by Alison McCabe from...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medical Aids and Appliances (2 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Hopefully, that will be done as soon as possible. The Leas-Cheann Comhairle allowed a breach of protocol and I thought it was very useful when the Minister got up and explained that this was not going to happen. There is a need to deal with protocols regarding how stuff like this happens. More important, we need to ensure this review involves engagement with consultants, breast care...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (2 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Sin é.

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (2 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I concur with my party colleagues. We support much of what is in the legislation and we all want the Defence Forces to be fit for purpose, but issues have been laid out by Deputies Cronin and Ward, the latter of whom spoke about his family’s connection to the Defence Forces and the fact pay and conditions have always been an issue. It is dreadful that we have not yet dealt with that,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: UN Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I apologise as I had to head to another committee and then somebody else came and took my spot, but that is life.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: UN Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I have to be careful; I do not like handing it over to anybody. The issue we are dealing with, depending on who is speaking at what particular time, leaves you either hopeful, hopeless or lacking all hope altogether. We all know we are talking about sustainability and that for the SDGs to mean anything they have to be built into every aspect of what we do. That is obviously at every level,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: UN Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I know, I am bringing it to a point. Why do you always stop me, a Chathaoirligh? You just elongate the process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: UN Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is a fact, and I get it, that there is a shift because of changed circumstances around defence and security. How does that play into what the institutions do? I get that after Covid-19 and the war in Ukraine strategic autonomy now actually means something as opposed to just being two words that were bandied around. Mr. Donoghue said the institutions were weak and the individual states...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: UN Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: My wife was listening too.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I apologise; I was at another committee meeting earlier so I did not hear all the back and forth. I do not think anyone would be shocked to realise that there has not been a solution with regard to the dental treatment service scheme, DTSS, and dental care for people on medical cards. It is an ongoing issue. We keep hearing about interaction and interventions by the Department and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Yes, but we have to get answers about whether the capacity exists in the private sector. We have no choice but to utilise all services that are available, be they private or public. While the cross-border health directive is imperfect, for many people it is the only solution, particularly those in my constituency who would find it a bit easier than those who come from further afield. Dr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: What would the timeframe be on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We have made the representation at this point. We would direct one set of questions to Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown as a possible solution, but that would need to happen fast. It cannot be beyond the scope of the HSE to find a solution. I understand that it deals with many issues and has many moving parts, but we are going around in circles. We thought we had a workaround using the...