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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The Garda.

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I take on board what the Minister of State has said. We will put the amendment so we can amend our amendment. The big piece I want out of this is the code of practice, which would be provided to all the necessary stakeholders. Beyond that, I ask the Minister of State to look at the problem I am talking about and having something in the legislation. It could be just the need. That is...

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I do not think there will be disagreement about the Garda request for authorised officers. It is completely logical and makes sense. They will be best suited to delivering and will be utterly au fait with what is involved, which is not always the case. Some of the issues I spoke of earlier relate to the fact that not everyone is au fait with the law and with what is required. That is why...

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is probably too early to ask the Minister of State about the timeline, given that we are having a preliminary discussion on the structure. Can she give a general indication? I accept that this all depends on funding. What will the structure look like in comparison with the current structure, the difficulties with which I have spoken about previously? I imagine that other medical...

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: This amendment is an attempt to ensure we have a holistic means of assessment. We are talking about everything that impacts on mental health issues, including the environmental, the physical and the social. It is about the idea of ensuring we are assessing everything to make sure that we are dealing with all the issues impacting on a person. As Deputy Clarke said, it is then all about...

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The Minister of State should be well used to me using flexibility. I decided that I needed to mention the fact we need to put a certain emphasis on community services. That was already mentioned by Deputy Clarke, so I apologise. I did digress. I get that we are dealing with the issue of involuntary admissions, but we were trying to flesh out how to ensure we are talking about something...

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: In fairness, a considerable number of people were worried. As the Minister of State said, they were sufficiently worried to come to her on that basis. It was said to me that we could be looking at a case where someone was involuntarily admitted and then they could not get treatment. I still have a fear when we are talking about making applications to courts and to the High Court. We all...

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Is the Minister requesting further time?

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I know but I meant this evening.

Committee on Children and Equality: Priority Issues Facing the Department: Minister for Children, Disability and Equality (12 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I apologise; I had a couple of questions for the Ministry the Minister held previously. Tá fáilte romhaibh go léir. There is no shortage of issues. We had a meeting of the Committee on Disability Matters yesterday and Cara and Mark Darmody appeared before it. They have huge qualms about where the assessment of need, AON, process is going and they fear the only solution the...

Committee on Children and Equality: Priority Issues Facing the Department: Minister for Children, Disability and Equality (12 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Well, I thought-----

Committee on Children and Equality: Priority Issues Facing the Department: Minister for Children, Disability and Equality (12 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: All right. If the Minister was willing to give any information, I would be only too delighted. I would just like to see where the assessment of need process is going as regards delivery. The Minister has to play a huge part in that. In regard to foster care, again, the problem with some of these issues is that they cross many Departments. Sometimes we have the issue of guardianship and...

Committee on Children and Equality: Priority Issues Facing the Department: Minister for Children, Disability and Equality (12 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I appreciate that.

Committee on Children and Equality: Priority Issues Facing the Department: Minister for Children, Disability and Equality (12 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I am not allowed to ask questions about the CDNTs?

Committee on Children and Equality: Priority Issues Facing the Department: Minister for Children, Disability and Equality (12 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is dreadful. We will have to discuss that later. There is a specific piece of work when we are talking about early learning centres. A number of these centres probably have taken more children than others and are dealing with issues ranging from behaviour to other challenges. I agree with the Minister that there needs to be flexibility. It involves looking at how AIM involves the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Climate Action Plan (10 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 33. To ask the Taoiseach when the Climate Action Plan progress reports for the remainder of 2024 will be published. [23473/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Reports (10 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 42. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on his Department's interdepartmental group report on the Dublin City Taskforce recommendations. [25261/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: National Security (10 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 46. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the progress of the national security strategy. [25262/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 85. To ask the Taoiseach for an update in relation to his attendance at the Munich Security Conference. [25260/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Infrastructure (10 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 125. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide an update on the work of the centre of excellence supporting the development of a pipeline of potential district heating projects. [30339/25]