Results 6,461-6,480 of 6,595 for speaker:Ruairí Ó Murchú

Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I know but the daughter involved has undergone two surgeries. The week before the story broke, the surgery, for which she had been waiting for three years, was cancelled with 24 hours' notice. Dealing with Temple Street is like dealing with a sheet in the wind. Everything is a sort of vague response.

Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Meanwhile, the girl's father is left wondering if she even needs the surgery. I will provide the Minister with the information. That is the issue with all of this.

Unnecessary Hip Surgeries at Children's Health Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (29 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I had an opportunity earlier to discuss this issue and I discussed my constituent, who luckily got a second opinion for his daughter who was at that stage three years and three months old. She had been engaged with Temple Street since 2016 when she was 14 months old. I put some of this information on the record earlier. At the end of 2018, the doctor recommended proceeding with a Salter...

Unnecessary Hip Surgeries at Children's Health Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (29 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: This relates to 1970 and 1973. The man was kept there for a considerable amount of time-----

Unnecessary Hip Surgeries at Children's Health Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (29 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: -----and it relates to those particular issues. I will pass the information to the Minister.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (29 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 85. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of vacant-unfilled positions across each CDNT in the State; if she will provide the figures from the CDNT workforce report, carried out in October 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21200/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (29 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I am looking for the figures on unfilled positions within each CDNT in the State. Obviously, we had the workforce report from last October and that has since been published. The big question concerns the numbers that were outstanding. At one time, it was almost 530 positions. Even if those positions are filled, are we able to provide the service that is required through the CDNT system?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (29 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We all welcome increased recruitment but the fact is that whatever the figures say, we have all been inundated with requests from parents who cannot get assessments or therapies for their children. We all know the issue. We have all had an over-and-back in regard to the fact school-based therapies could deal with some of this issue. However, if we look at the recruitment levels on the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (29 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We all know the issues with regard to recruitment and retention but we also know the absolute need that is out there and the abject failure there has been for many years, which continues at this point in time. Everyone would say it is beyond doubt that we need to engage in domestic and international initiatives, and we should be looking at every sort of pipeline to ensure we can get as many...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (29 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I will restate the question I asked earlier. We all know there is a huge amount of vacancy. Even if there have been improvements, when this workforce report was carried out there were, I think, 529.72 whole-time equivalent positions. We need to really ensure that is dealt with. Even if we fill those positions, though, does that mean we have a CDNT system that is actually able to deliver...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (29 Apr 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 Michael Cahill - To discuss the scheduling of apprenticeship carpenters, electricians and other trades for off-site training. Deputy James O'Connor - To discuss school transport issues in the Kilcredan National School catchment...

Report of the Farrelly Commission: Statements (1 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: This is not the first time we have been in here in respect of the State's abject and absolute failure of the most vulnerable in society. We have a report and my colleagues and others have stated eloquently how it has not done the business it was required to do. The report has a massive cost of €13.6 million and makes the finding of an absence of oversight and monitoring of Grace. We...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I take this opportunity to commend the Louth under-20s and Fergal Reel, their manager, on what was obviously a fabulous win in the Leinster final against Meath. The minors are playing in the quarter finals tonight against Westmeath in Hunterstown and I hope that goes well. We obviously have an historic injustice that needs to be dealt with at the Leinster senior final on 11 May.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I would think that most right-thinking people will offer support. Let me refer to a very serious issue. It concerns one of my constituents who contacted me. She had been working for Liberty IT as part of Liberty Mutual. She believes that in her section, which is in Dublin but with an awful lot of remote working, about 100 jobs are gone, and possibly another 20 in Cavan. She would have...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (30 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the implementation of the recommendations of the Report of the Scoping Inquiry into Historical Sexual Abuse in Day and Boarding Schools Run by Religious Orders will happen; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21509/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Weather Events (1 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 27. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on the creation of an extreme weather event assistance scheme relevant to the business sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21630/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Relations (1 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 72. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the engagement that has taken place between his Department, relevant Government agencies and companies regarding the threat of trade tariffs and the economic instability created as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21629/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Funding (1 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 114. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide an update on the operation of the funding schemes operated by his Department that offer ‘reasonable accommodation’ for employers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21653/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (1 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 138. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to clarify how the new pay-linked jobseeker's benefit will be applied to someone who is working in the North of Ireland and is made redundant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21654/25]

Childcare: Motion (7 May 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We do not have a fit-for-purpose childcare provision system in this State. It is failing and I will provide examples of how that works in the real world. One person told me: Regarding the ongoing struggle we are facing in securing childcare for our 12 month old son, his name has been on multiple waiting lists since November 2023 while my partner was still pregnant. Despite regular...