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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Jul 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [32455/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Jul 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I again raise the issue of Louth County Council and housing adaptation grants. Louth County Council has a request in for €570,000 but even if it gets that, it will need match funding of €114,000 and that will not even begin to cover the list, which currently stands at 580 people. I have spoken to the Minister of State, Deputy O’Donnell, about the fact the review needs...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (5 Jul 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We need a nature restoration law but like all laws, it needs to be workable. There were significant issues relating to this in its inception. I accept that considerable work has been done. That is the idea of negotiation and politics. We get to something that works. I would like to think that nobody is going to stand up and say that we are not in the middle of a biodiversity crisis. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Priorities of the Spanish EU Presidency: Discussion with Spanish Ambassador (5 Jul 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Go raibh maith agat agus gracias, ambassador. I apologise if I repeat anything that has already been said. I needed to speak in the Dáil on the nature restoration law. As Deputy Howlin would say, I need to speak on everything. I made the point that we are dealing with multiple crises. Work on many of these issues is only possible on the basis of co-operation. I liked that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Priorities of the Spanish EU Presidency: Discussion with Spanish Ambassador (5 Jul 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Apologies, there was something I should have mentioned as well. It was unfair of me. Spain has its particular issues with Britain due to Gibraltar. There are a lot of things we would like to see resolved across the board. It was unfair not to mention that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Priorities of the Spanish EU Presidency: Discussion with Spanish Ambassador (5 Jul 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Go raibh maith agat. The ambassador need not worry, it is not a question. I put my Spanish connection-to-be on record. The fiancée of my stepson is from Madrid so most likely next year at some point he will be getting married there and I assume I will have to go.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Priorities of the Spanish EU Presidency: Discussion with Spanish Ambassador (5 Jul 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I am looking forward to it. I just need to make sure it is not at a time of election or anything else.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Soláthar Seirbhís Dhátheangach ó Ranna Rialtais: Plé (5 Jul 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Tá ceist agam fá choinne na Roinne Iompair agus comharthaí bóithre dátheangacha agus cén fáth nach bhfuil an téacs an tomhas céanna. Dúirt cuid mhór daoine liom just inniu faoin gceist seo. Bheinn an-bhuíoch a fháil amach caidé an fhadhb.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Soláthar Seirbhís Dhátheangach ó Ranna Rialtais: Plé (5 Jul 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Tá brón orm faoi sin.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Soláthar Seirbhís Dhátheangach ó Ranna Rialtais: Plé (5 Jul 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Léigh, le do thoil.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Soláthar Seirbhís Dhátheangach ó Ranna Rialtais: Plé (5 Jul 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Tá an cheist seo don chuid is mó de na finnéithe. Maidir le daoine atá ag iarraidh ranganna Gaeilge a dhéanamh, an bhfuil orthu iad a dhéanamh ina n-am féin? Tá muid ag iarraidh muinín a chothú i measc an phobail chun gearán nó teagmháil a dhéanamh le Ranna trí Ghaeilge. Ní dhéanann cuid mhór daoine...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Soláthar Seirbhís Dhátheangach ó Ranna Rialtais: Plé (5 Jul 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Caithfimid an tacaíocht seo a thabhairt do dhaoine agus caithfimid amharc air agus an córas is fearr a chur i bhfeidhm mar tá sé an-tábhachtach ar fad. Is dócha go bhfuil cuid mhór tacaíochta de dhíth fosta. Cad faoi dhaoine atá ag iarraidh déileáil leis na Ranna ar an Idirlíon? Bhí cúpla duine i m’oifig ag...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Soláthar Seirbhís Dhátheangach ó Ranna Rialtais: Plé (5 Jul 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Cad faoi social media?

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Soláthar Seirbhís Dhátheangach ó Ranna Rialtais: Plé (5 Jul 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Tá brón orm faoi sin.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children in Care (4 Jul 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is all very positive. We need to see that paper and the recommendations in it and see them enacted, whether we are talking about pensions or whatever else. The Minister has dealt with the issue and he has been quite clear that the allowance issue will be dealt with, having not increased since 2009. We have to look at the travel expenses and all those other benefits that these parents...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children in Care (4 Jul 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 64. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if consideration is being given during the process ahead of budget 2024 to increase the rate of the foster carers’ allowance, which has not increased since 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32456/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children in Care (4 Jul 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: What consideration or plans are there for budget 2024? We are aware of myriad issues around foster carers’ payments and particular conditions. The Minister had said there were certain things he wanted to deliver on previously. I hope he will have an opportunity to deliver on these in this budget.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children in Care (4 Jul 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I appreciate that. First and foremost the allowance needs to be dealt with. What the Minister has said about his interaction with IFCA and Movement 4 Change in Fostercare is very positive. I have a list of issues I was going to bring up with him and he has dealt with some of them, including the pension. There have been issues with the contributory pension for foster carers and with child...

A5 Route Upgrade: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jul 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The A5 - enough is enough. That is the message that must be agreed across this House. We can talk about the fact that planning in the North has been disastrous. A small number of objectors have been able to hold up this project. We know the issues in relation to partition and underinvestment in the Border areas, particularly in the north west. We could talk about regional imbalance until...