Results 6,361-6,380 of 6,595 for speaker:Ruairí Ó Murchú

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commemorative Events (19 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 30. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent attendance at the commemoration for the liberation of Auschwitz. [12371/25]

Social Housing Tenant In Situ Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Iarraim ar pháirtí an Lucht Oibre labhairt anois agus beidh 15 bomaite aige ag tosú leis an Teachta Sheehan.

Social Housing Tenant In Situ Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Cuirfear an vótáil siar go dtí an am vótála an tseachtain seo chugainn.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (19 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 39 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Paula Butterly - To discuss the proposed 17% increase in personal injury awards. Deputy Michael Cahill - To discuss the national roads programme for County Kerry. Deputy Barry Ward - To discuss the need to reintroduce the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Funding (19 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I concur with what Deputy Duncan Smith said about all the Ministers showing up. We did not see this before and I think it is very beneficial.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rental Sector (20 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The tenant in situ scheme has been one of those successes with regard to preventing homelessness. We need that circular or the criteria to issue as soon as possible and, obviously, the funding to be provided to local authorities. We have had a huge number of cases. Louth County Council made a large number of purchases that saved an awful lot of people from dreadful circumstances, but a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (20 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: In the context of what I said earlier, we all get that the tenant in situ scheme absolutely worked and saved people from homelessness. We are very worried about the tighter criteria. I am specifically asking for some flexibility where local authorities have for the past while been almost only looking at brand-new purchases, or close to that, because they were afraid of getting caught, for...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Water Charges (20 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We are dealing with major infrastructural issues with regard to Uisce Éireann. There are housing developments in respect of which there are plans to put in initial water treatments schemes on the basis that there is not capacity in the rest of the system. In the part of Dundalk I live in, we have an issue in removing wastewater. We have had near flooding incidents on multiple...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Drug Dealing (20 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We have to be absolutely straight in the sense that Ireland at the minute is absolutely awash with cocaine and when we are dealing with addicts who would previously have had an issue with heroin. We are probably talking about crack cocaine and that obviously leads to a particular set of issues particularly as regards crime and the impact on the wider community. I agree with Deputy Smith....

International Security and International Trade: Statements (20 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Unfortunately we are in a very scary world where might is right. It can seem like reading the history of imperial power plays from the 1700s. There is slaughter in Sudan and Gaza and Russian attempts to make major military inroads to deliver a one-sided peace. There has been engagement by the US Administration which can at very best be described as unhelpful, although I have many other...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (20 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 31. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the planned provision of disability-specific housing to include all schemes such as second-hand acquisitions programme, housing adaptation grants funding and new builds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12879/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (20 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the second-hand acquisitions programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12878/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (20 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 178. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the plans to operationalise community safety partnerships-joint policing committees; if he will advise how they will be formulated; if consideration will be given to allow joint policing committee meetings to take place while partnerships are operationalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12904/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Drug Dealing (20 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 186. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current Government plans to deal with the scourge of drugs and drug dealing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12903/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (4 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 141. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to deal with the driving test backlog; if these plans include the opening of a new driving test centre in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9411/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (4 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 160. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to increase funding to Louth County Council in 2025 to deal with specific issues such as road safety works and road repairs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9412/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Emergency Planning (25 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 8. To ask the Taoiseach the engagements he had with the National Emergency Coordination Group in the days before, during and after Storm Éowyn. [13484/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I want to raise the shocking case of 13-year-old Senan Maguire from my constituency, who is autistic. His case was covered by the Sunday Independent, which referenced the absolute failure of the State to provide services for Senan, his mother and father, Tina and David, and the wider family. I could talk about major issues regarding community disability network teams, CDNTs. The child is...

Post European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: On CETA, a number of us across all parties have an issue in respect of the investment court system. We have seen in other countries that there has been a chilling effect in those sort of scenarios where a Legislature can leave itself open to actions by major industries if it were to change the laws to its own benefit. There is a bit more complexity to the issue around CETA. I am not sure...

Statute Law Revision Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Mar 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: This is an interesting piece of legislation. We are repealing the spent and obsolete secondary instruments enacted on or after 1 January 1821 and before 1 January 1861, as well as those instruments enacted before 1821 that have not been previously repealed. I suspect that many Deputies did not anticipate they would be speaking on this issue but, in fairness, it is not only a decent piece...