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Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (10 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 2. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his attendance at the recent European Council. [22206/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Disability Services (10 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Disability will next meet. [23471/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 24. To ask the Taoiseach to provide an update on the shared island initiative. [23472/25]

Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I do not know how many times I have come in here and spoken about housing. It is almost a single transferable speech although previously I might have said that things were not getting better but now it is very obvious for anyone to see that things are getting a lot worse. I have no doubt that the Minister and his Government colleagues have the same types of cases as those coming to my...

Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: ------and pushing back because they do not have the facilities and the tools but that would be a far longer conversation.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 112. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the preparation of the business case seeking to establish future State funding, from 2026 to 2030, to support efficient district heating projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30338/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Will the Minister of State provide an update on the preparation of the business case seeking to establish future State funding to support efficient district heating projects? I have spoken to the Minister of State before about the wider issue of district heating. Stakeholders in the industry say the support scheme for renewable heat, for example, needs to be looked at to make it more fit...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It would be good to have a timeline for when the Minister of State sees that business case being in place. I think we all agree on the necessity of renewables and decarbonisation. We have seen some district heating projects that make complete sense where waste energy, rather than remaining waste, is piped in and used as a means of providing heat. We need as much as possible of this done as...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Policy (10 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I ask him the Minister of State to come back to me in writing on where that is. Obviously it is very positive. We all want to have schemes that are fit for purpose. We want to see we can actually deliver district heating systems at scale. I return to the Achilles' heel that exists with communal heating systems. I spoke to the Minister before about Carlinn Hall and I spoke to the previous...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Before I turn to my main issue, but on the basis that this is health-related, I commend the staff in Our Lady of Lourdes hospital where I had to undergo a testing procedure. All is very well but I must say the staff there were incredibly professional and made something that should not be enjoyable in any way as enjoyable as it could be and definitely as painless as it could be. I just want...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I welcome what the Minister of State said at the end. I will provide the information explicitly because it is absolutely necessary. While all this is commendable with regard to cancer care, it does not deal with the issue at hand, which is this child who was diagnosed with hyperinsulinism, and the fact that we have the machine here to carry out this PET-CT scan. There is an issue with...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: There is also the issue with regard to the payment. Our own health service, the HSE, should have played a better role in ensuring those bits could be dealt with.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I appreciate the flexibility the Chair has offered me, but I will need an answer. We need a solution with regard to this. I do not think this is good enough for this family or any other family that finds themselves in these circumstances. The only good news is that the child was seen and dealt with and is thriving at the moment.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: And deliver the service.

Ending the Central Bank’s Facilitation of the Sale of Israel Bonds: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is hard to believe that we are having this debate. There is absolute acceptance that Israel is an apartheid state that is engaged in genocidal action in Gaza. Another 25 people were killed at a so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid station. I do not know what defence there can be for what Israel is doing on a day-by-day basis. At least 55,000 people have been slaughtered and there...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I imagine everybody in here to speak on this has dealt with those who have not been able to avail of mental health supports on the basis of addiction to alcohol or drugs, or both. We are talking about incredibly complex cases. I would welcome the tenor of what the Minister of State is saying, but we are dealing with too many cases where there has been an inability to provide people with the...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Many of the circumstances we are discussing we encounter in our work as TDs. I have gone to the Minister of State previously to discuss such circumstances, in which families, the Garda and others who become involved have looked for someone to be involuntarily admitted, generally on the basis that the person has some form of psychosis. Unfortunately, sometimes when GPs are called out, even...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We are talking about a very small number of people. An involuntary admission should be the last thing we look for, but there are cases where it is absolutely necessary. I will not get into the details of another case I recall, but we were dealing with somebody who had become a danger to himself and others. He had been well beyond a nuisance for a considerable time and had caused a huge...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I am not wedded to the amendment but I am wedded to the idea that there is a problem. I assume the Minister of State accepts there is a problem. I am not sure that what is proposed in the Bill will deal with that problem. It is the small number of cases where somebody needs support and a mental health practitioner will not sign, as the practitioner is not allowed, and the Garda cannot get...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I accept a considerable amount of what the Minister of State said. There is a significant issue in terms of getting a certain cohort committed in the first place. What will be the solution? Others and I have been dealing with people who need care and, because they were not making a direct threat to themselves or others, even following an arrest by gardaí who thought they needed to be...