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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...

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...

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.

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.

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Deputy Cullinane and my other colleagues have dealt with the gamut of failure in respect of scoliosis operations, the lack of such operations, the time children lost and the great impact this had. We have also heard about the significant capacity issues there have been and the non-medical grade springs that ended up in three children and the untold impact that had. However, I will deal...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (29 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: This is not the first time I have given out about the divisional structure. I have said many times that I am not sure the most sensible solution was combining Louth and Cavan-Monaghan into one area with a single superintendent. We all get the idea of streamlining, but the issue, as Deputy Carthy said, is that the number of gardaí to operate the system is insufficient. There is a major...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (29 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 25. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the work of the policing reform implementation programme office in his Department. [16859/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Artificial Intelligence (29 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 15. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his attendance at the AI Action Summit. [15163/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Artificial Intelligence (29 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The AI Action Summit issued the Statement on Inclusive and Sustainable Artificial Intelligence for People and the Planet. That sounds wonderful. It is how we deliver it and what our plan is in this State in that regard. We all know the dangers of artificial intelligence in the sense that it is the garnering of information and machine learning on a huge level, or on steroids for want of a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The tenant in situ purchase scheme was a means of saving people from homelessness. It is frightening that Louth County Council, which was provided €18.884 million last year for social housing acquisitions, has only been provided €12 million this year. That is a reduction of 36%. The previous Deputy spoke about the tighter constraints and conditions. In my engagement with...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [15162/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child Safety (29 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 103. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the development of protocols for the safeguarding of children and vulnerable people; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20931/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (29 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 147. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide an update on the waiting times for assessment of needs across the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20930/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Medical Cards (29 Apr 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 2471. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review and revise the medical card means-testing system to assess income after deduction of essential disability-related expenses, in order to more accurately reflect disposable income and improve fairness in eligibility decisions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21215/25]