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Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (26 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I imagine in some of these cases, and know from people who have come to me, that if people had these supports we might not necessarily get some of the hospitalisations that occur.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (26 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We are all familiar with issues with not having enough OTs and speech and language therapists, SLTs. Taking only the OTs in these neurorehabilitation teams, some will need very specific skill sets. How do we ensure we get these people with the acute skills and get them trained up, as is necessary? I am aware of times when people have been able to access occupational therapy but it has not...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (26 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Okay. Talking in general about disability services, at times someone makes a determination about how severe a person's disability is, for want of a better term. With children, that might mean they fall into the CDNT system or primary care. How does that work with the changeover into this particular Department?

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (26 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I imagine the Minister of State is going to say something about the silos.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (26 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Exactly. An example I was going to use, and we have discussed this before, was a lady who was older than me and therefore fell into primary care. The family basically said they could not take her back into the family home, that her dad was in his 80s and not fit to look after her and that she required some type of assisted-living scenario. However, the only options that seemed available to...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (26 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Families are doing the heavy lifting here and saving the State a huge amount of money. We cannot break them by failing to provide them with any element of respite.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised) (26 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I was going to say that there is a difficulty even when we try to get home help at the moment. It is not happening.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Control of Dogs (25 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Everyone would welcome a considerable number of those moves. Like I said, enforcement and on-the spot-fines can be difficult to put in place. We want to see a greater level of microchipping. Many of us have often spoken in this Chamber about the maintenance of databases. Some of this would need to happen on an all-Ireland basis. In the Minister's constituency and in my own, there are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Control of Dogs (25 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 58. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development for an update in relation to work being done by Government and local authorities to combat dog attacks on sheep; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18576/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Control of Dogs (25 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I ask for an update regarding any work being done, or any proposals, relating to the Government or local authorities combating the issue of dog attacks on sheep.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Control of Dogs (25 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Can we get some information regarding the timeline for those statutory instruments? When will we see them in operation? Are any changes proposed from a legislative point of view? I have never been exactly sure what "in effectual control" means. I accept we are creating a set of rules regarding irresponsible dog owners. Where we have good dog owners, responsible people and good manners,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy and investment will meet next. [18117/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I spoke to the Taoiseach previously about the tech sector. Obviously, there have been a number of difficulties owing to job losses. Is the Taoiseach still assured that the sector is absolutely strong, given the State's significant reliance on it? Could I raise an issue I brought up previously, namely the difficulty whereby remote workers are not allowed to work for employees across the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I believe the Irish people are very much committed to non-alignment and neutrality. We see what is happening in Sudan and we hope the evacuation of Irish citizens is going as well as it can be. Questions about our capacity will need to be answered. We are also talking about cyber and hybrid threats. There is talk of the telecommunications cables. I want to know what has been done as...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will outline the current situation in regard to the development of a national security strategy. [19261/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy (Resumed): Discussion. (25 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: In fairness, a significant number of questions have been asked about what can be done to improve these circumstances. This is part of autistic people being the experts and, therefore, giving testimony about their own lives and circumstances, as they perceive them. I ask Ms Dada to go into more detail about that. We all get the idea that the assessment system is not what it should be and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy (Resumed): Discussion. (25 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Yes, I am very good at confusing people. What can be done to improve the situation where parents do not necessarily buy in to the fact that someone may have autism? Whatever about how difficult it is to access services, what can people do when they are not getting familial buy-in? Obviously, we would like the school and whatever else to kick into action but there will be the issue of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy (Resumed): Discussion. (25 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Gabhaim buíochas le Ms Dada.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy (Resumed): Discussion. (25 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I thank Nem for being so straight-talking in their view that the DSS will not be resourced. That is half the problem. We can have all the good legislation and best practice in the world but if we do not providing proper resourcing, there is an issue. In this instance, unfortunately, it is probably not absolutely shocking that this is the case. A number of themes come across in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy (Resumed): Discussion. (25 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Some of that is best practice, and even in some cases that is going to be simpler to operate, even from an administrative point of view. One does not need somebody at the end of a phone; they can literally have a system. That is the wider question, when we talk about assessment therapies and whatever. If we could actually get the right people into the room from the point of view of saying,...