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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Foreign Direct Investment (11 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 87. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will outline the work being carried out in his Department to promote the Border counties North and South as a destination for foreign direct investment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21790/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Flexible Work Practices (11 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 89. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will outline any engagement his Department has had with other Departments in relation to the tax implications for workers who live in the North and wish to work remotely for Southern-based companies and the tax implications for the firms who wish to recruit them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21791/23]

Civil Defence Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (10 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Bhí sé sin deacair.

European Year of Skills: Statements (10 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I apologise for any repetition from the last time we spoke on these particular issues. I agree that the debate is timely. We have the OECD report on skills. We also have the beginning of the European Year of Skills. We had Europe Day yesterday. We all know the positives from the solidarity that Europe has shown to Ireland particularly during the time of Covid and through the entire...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It has been said here that we are laggards as to where we need to be as regards the delivery of offshore wind. Many of us have spoken about the fact that we could be a wind superpower. I have heard experts state we could change the entire energy map of Europe, but that matters only if we have the capacity. What are the Government's plans to ensure we have the auctions, planning framework,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Yesterday, I brought up the issue of housing adaptation grants for older and disabled people and I need the Taoiseach to revert to me on that. Carlinn Hall is a large housing estate in Dundalk with a communal heating system that is gas-fed having previously been biomass-fed. A feasibility study was carried out on the use of geothermal heating. I ask that the results of that study be...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I add my voice to the call to look at the re-municipalisation of waste collection services. We all know about the issue of costs in that regard, which have spiralled, and that of people who cannot afford to take out services, in addition to those who abuse their neighbours and others by dumping. This is an issue that needs a greater amount of resourcing, whether it is through local...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with the circular economy will next meet. [21452/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the environment and climate change will meet next. [21453/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Accession Progress of North Macedonia: Engagement with Foreign Minister of North Macedonia (10 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The witnesses are all very welcome. It is all very positive that the necessary moves are being made and that North Macedonia is assuaging any difficulties there may be. I also add my voice to what Deputy Howlin has said in that it has been a long road. Not to mix analogies or metaphors but we have all been down this road before in the sense - and it is not the first time I have said this -...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Accession Progress of North Macedonia: Engagement with Foreign Minister of North Macedonia (10 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: My apologies for interrupting but I accept that North Macedonia has come a great distance if we are talking about the 1990s and the fact that a great number of these countries were at war with each other, in a particularly horrible genocidal war. We have all seen, however, that there are particular issues if one is looking at Republika Srpska now, and while North Macedonia is most definitely...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Accession Progress of North Macedonia: Engagement with Foreign Minister of North Macedonia (10 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We can go in the same order again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Accession Progress of North Macedonia: Engagement with Foreign Minister of North Macedonia (10 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I accept the difficulty relating to 130 votes and having to keep 27 member states on board at all times. Dr. Osmani stated that there have been successful moves in the past year. From that, I take it that North Macedonia is finding the EU to be more receptive than it was previously. He believes North Macedonia has gone above and beyond from the point of view of settling Bulgaria. Nothing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Accession Progress of North Macedonia: Engagement with Foreign Minister of North Macedonia (10 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: As Dr. Osmani stated, as North Macedonia is so interlocked anyway, it makes sense, but, beyond that, it is almost a starting point to entering the wider Single Market and so on. I have no doubt North Macedonia is dealing with a cost-of-living crisis, the significant level of inflation and so on. Since the war in Ukraine in particular, all countries have experienced an energy crisis. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Accession Progress of North Macedonia: Engagement with Foreign Minister of North Macedonia (10 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I asked three questions in one.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Accession Progress of North Macedonia: Engagement with Foreign Minister of North Macedonia (10 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Is North Macedonia dealing with a significant amount of disinformation and cyber threats?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Accession Progress of North Macedonia: Engagement with Foreign Minister of North Macedonia (10 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: This is the last time I will interrupt. Has North Macedonia engaged with social media companies? The time is right. They are set up perfectly to almost provide malign actors with a weaponised system.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Ceannteidil an Bhille um Údarás na Gaeltachta (Leasú), 2022: Grinnscrúdú Réamhreachtach (Atógáil) (10 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Cuirim fáilte roimh an bhfinné. Tá brón orm go mbeidh orm rith tríd seo. An bhfuil mórán cainte faoin údarás agus toghcháin i measc an ghnáthphobail? Cad iad na cumhachtaí uile breise a bhfuiltear ag lorg faoi choinne an údaráis? Tá sé ráite go bhfuil an cheist seo an-tábhachtach, ach tá jabanna...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Ceannteidil an Bhille um Údarás na Gaeltachta (Leasú), 2022: Grinnscrúdú Réamhreachtach (Atógáil) (10 May 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Cad é tuairim ár n-aoi faoi sin? Tá go leor ceisteanna ann.