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Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: What else can be said? We have the most expensive electricity prices across the European Union. They are two thirds higher than the average, with the typical Irish household paying nearly €700 more per year. That is really what it is all about. There is a certain acceptance of our being an island and at the end of a line, but there are some very specific solutions that my...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (26 Jun 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 2. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the legislative programme. [26827/24]

Pre-European Council: Statements (26 Jun 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Deputy Carthy has already spoken about accession. Whether we are talking about the western Balkans, Moldova, Ukraine or Georgia, the Copenhagen criteria need to be met. While countries must be engaged with and a route map must be provided for them to even meet them half way, the rule of law is absolutely necessary to maintain the sort of European Union we would like to see, which we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Department of Education (25 Jun 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is a widening of the school inclusion model given that it is not specifically in special schools.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Department of Education (25 Jun 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is a case of moving from the pilot and expanding the model piece by piece. It does not mean it will be in place everywhere straightaway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Department of Education (25 Jun 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: In relation to that, Mr. Doody is talking about more bespoke solutions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Department of Education (25 Jun 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: There has been a cut.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Department of Education (25 Jun 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: There has been a cut and the Minister of State is saying it is all being reviewed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Department of Education (25 Jun 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Department of Education (25 Jun 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I would be grateful if someone could come back to me on the De La Salle secondary school in Dundalk in respect of the actual building.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (25 Jun 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the progress of the Solas-commissioned independent evaluation of the specialist training provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26452/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (25 Jun 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the creation of terms of reference for the review of personal assistance services funded from the fund for students with disabilities across tertiary education settings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26451/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (25 Jun 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 107. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence how information on medical questionnaires, sent to GPs by the Defence Forces when people apply to join, is treated by the Defence Forces; if previous health conditions, such as depression, are a bar to the application continuing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26992/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (25 Jun 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 226. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the annual funding streams available for targeted sports schemes to subvent local authorities in the operation of loss-making facilities where these have a key role in increasing participation, and to support programmes to increase active participation, under action 23 of the National Sports Policy 2018-2027; and if she will...

Statutory Home Care: Statements (27 Jun 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: No Member will speak in this debate who is not in support of the provision of statutory home care as a right on an equal pegging with the provision of nursing home care. We have all dealt with many families who are seeking to get the right care package in place to ensure their loved one does not have to go into a nursing home any earlier than necessary. We need to ensure that what has been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Department of Education (25 Jun 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I would like to check a couple of things with the Minister of State. She indicated there were 44 new therapists. What type of schools will they work in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Department of Education (25 Jun 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Sometimes there is not always clarity about the school inclusion model. Everyone likes the idea of the school inclusion model because the therapies are provided where the need is and where the children are. Everybody can benefit from the teachers and SNAs in relation to best practice. The model is to move from pilot stage. What does that mean?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Department of Education (25 Jun 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: There was absolute logic to the decoupling. It is about having the occupational therapists and all the other therapists in place. We all agree that we need to see that quicker and better. I do not think anyone was shocked that the system worked. Will the Minister of State give an update on summer provision? There is a great deal about cuts in the public domain. The Minister of State...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Department of Education (25 Jun 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It would make sense to keep it under constant review. The school inclusion model seems to be the way to do it. Logic, intuition and everything else would say that, and the evidence backs that up. The big issue I have across the board is that we have never sat down properly and asked how we best use the resources we have as regards these therapists, of which we will not have all that we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Department of Education (25 Jun 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: These issues may have been brought up. I brought up an issue with the school building programme relating to autism classes with the Minister of State which has been sorted to a degree for next year. However, if the build had happened much earlier, we would not have had the issues because the plans had proposed two autism classes and some other facilities. Principals and others have...