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Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The witnesses dealt with a significant amount around foster carers and those pieces that have been done and need to be done, because we need to attract as many people as possible. I will talk about something that is historical and was brought to my attention after the fact. I get that Tusla will go out to family settings. Sometimes that is suitable for putting somebody into care. I am...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: What is safety? I sometimes think that safety is the absence of imminent physical danger. Something else could be terrible in the long term.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I get that. I spoke earlier about the tragic case of Kyran Durnin. If we had a specialist public health nurse, home visiting service and whatever else, we would catch some of that. In the reorientation, I would like to think that protocols will be changed. Without getting into the detail of an individual case, I hope the protocols around such cases and the instances that arose are...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Will Ms Duggan comment briefly on the Kyran Durnin case and the protocols?

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 40. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his discussions with the new Canadian Prime Minister. [30341/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 65. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the President of the European Commission in Brussels. [26978/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 70. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his call with Prime Minister Starmer on 13 May 2025. [26979/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Economic Growth (8 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 72. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the response to Ireland's Competitiveness Challenge 2024, published by his Department in November 2024. [30340/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 75. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on water quality will next meet. [32139/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Climate Change Policy (8 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 78. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the new climate investment clearing house. [32140/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (8 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the plans there are to reduce third level student fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37555/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (8 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 259. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given to legislation that would make it mandatory for all vehicle drivers to use dipped headlights during the daytime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37296/25]

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (8 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Cuirim fáilte roimh na finnéithe. I apologise for running in and out. The difficulty with this place is that everything is on at the same time. I will deal specifically with the NDA and disability. The opening statement is very short but, in fairness, there is a huge amount in it. We all want to have equality legislation that can vindicate rights and provide a buffer and even,...

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (8 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: There is a cost of disability.

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (8 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is straightforward. Mr. Finlay is saying that, as much as possible within the legal framework, we should provide the tools whereby somebody can take these cases and then ensure it is explicit about what is persecution, for want of a better term, or a failure to deliver on what everyone else has a right to have. That is sound and straightforward. I will ask a very specific question....

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (8 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: This is while accepting there are serious charges that will always be taken into account relating to employment.

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (8 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Ms Bayliss has gone into some of this and I am aware I missed some of the meeting. We dealt previously with some of these issues with regard to equality legislation, and it is about how we deal with the issue of equality for people so they are not impacted detrimentally by socioeconomic disadvantage. It is how we build this into the framework in a way that works and is reasonable. I will...

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (8 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I get that disadvantage and deprivation are big issues that have a large impact on those families, and are wider issues for society. When we do not deal with these issues, we will deal with the outworkings in the criminal justice system and everywhere else, where we continue to fail miserably.

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (8 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: This question is to IHREC. Regarding political ex-prisoners, the argument could be made on some level that some of this legislation might have been required previously. I am talking about those who were released under the Good Friday Agreement and had encountered issues with, for example, insurance and the right to adopt. At one stage, many of them had issues related to work. I remember a...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (10 Jul 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 36. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans, and the international engagement there has been, on the issue of the Middle East, particularly on the genocide in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37592/25]