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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (3 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 101. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the engagement there have been between his Department and other Departments in 2025 on the delivery of necessary flood protection schemes in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16111/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (3 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I wish to ask the Minister about the Department's engagements on the delivery of necessary flood protection schemes in the State. This is a follow-up to the two parliamentary questions I asked him previously to which I received written answers. It is that whole idea of everything from the minor flood mitigations, the works that are being done regarding coastal protections and the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (3 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I would appreciate that. The interdepartmental group has responsibility for delivering on policy and we saying we cannot have enough protections and mitigations. We know we are dealing with rising sea levels. When we talk about the likes of Dundalk, we are talking about a significant amount of redeemed land. Therefore, we were under pressure from the beginning. There are many houses...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (3 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is necessary to make these interventions. All these schemes are very important because we have seen the huge issue with flooding in the last while. We are talking about better preparations for extreme weather conditions. It is absolutely vital we see delivery of these particular projects. I did not expect the Minister of State to come back with specifics. The Dundalk-Blackrock south...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (1 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 451. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the grants or financial support schemes available via local authorities to householders to specifically provide a sensory room or area in their homes for a family member with autism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14989/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services Waiting Lists (1 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 752. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting list time for counselling in the HSE national counselling service in the Louth/Meath area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15313/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (3 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 78. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the work being carried out in his Department to fix the anomaly where many workers who live in the North and who work in the South are precluded from working from home because of the significant revenue implications for their employers; if he will detail any contacts his Department has had on the matter with the equivalent...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (3 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 79. To ask the Minister for Finance his Department’s latest engagement with insurance companies and new insurance companies regarding the high cost of public liability insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16110/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (8 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 6. To ask the Taoiseach the progress made by his Department in reducing child poverty and promoting well-being. [13487/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (8 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We all wish Deputy Boyd Barrett the best of luck. It is apt to do this during Questions to the Taoiseach because if ever there was a Deputy who made very great use of Questions to the Taoiseach, it was Deputy Boyd Barrett. When we talk about child poverty, we are all aware of the added costs of dealing with children with additional needs. The issue of special school places and the fact...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 17. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on infrastructure will meet next. [15161/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Many of us have brought up the infrastructural deficits we are talking about here, namely housing, Uisce Éireann, the electricity grid and communications. The recent Storm Éowyn showed serious pressures and the need to deal with this. Housing is just a crisis that has, in no way, improved for those who are impacted. We also know we are under severe pressure in respect of...

Employment (Contractual Retirement Ages) Bill 2025: Second Stage (8 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: This is one of those Bills on which there will be a large degree of agreement. It is work that needs to be dealt with. I do not think anyone agrees with the fact that people have been forced into retirement. Deputy O'Reilly stated that on some level this is about restoring the State pension to the age of 65. She was not the only one, but she stated that has always been her view, as it has...

Employment (Contractual Retirement Ages) Bill 2025: Second Stage (8 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: -----those with disabilities and additional needs to stay in further education. An interdepartmental review is needed to inform this. I spoke to the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science who said that he would follow up with a meeting-----

Employment (Contractual Retirement Ages) Bill 2025: Second Stage (8 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: -----with personal assistants and that needs to be delivered on.

Water Services (Repeal of Water Charges) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It has already been straightforwardly put to the Minister by my colleagues that if he has no intention whatsoever of introducing water charges, then it would make sense for him just to agree with us. We should agree the Bill and then create a scenario where there is absolutely no doubt with regard to introducing water charges and it becomes an impossibility to do so. We all know it was of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (8 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I raise the issue of Scoil Bhríde, Sheelagh. It relates to an application it made at the end of 2023 for additional school accommodation, which was submitted to the planning and building unit. This was put in mothballs. It was sanctioned for two ASD classes and is afraid it will not be able to deliver on the second class. There seems to be a communication issue with the Department as...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (8 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: There is absolute logic for school-based therapies. That is where the need is. It is about providing the service and assessment where the need is. I am aware the Minister has had engagement with the parents of Senan Maguire. That child is out of school at the moment. We need to ensure there is a solution for primary school-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (8 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: ------and also a solution for secondary school. I will also bring up the issue of Tallanstown National School, which is facing the fact-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (8 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Very briefly, the school could be dealing with one class that might have 37 children, including one with Down's syndrome, next year because it will lose-----