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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (20 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 253. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable housing units delivered via the cost rental equity loan, the affordable housing fund and project Tosaigh in County Louth in each of the years, 2016 to 2022; and the number planned to be delivered in 2023 with a breakdown of units per scheme and average price of units by unit size, in tabular form....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (20 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 359. To ask the Minister for Health the plans to improve therapeutic and other services, and access to services, for under-18s with a diagnosis of ADHD; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15101/23]

Courts Bill 2023: Second Stage (19 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I concur with an awful lot of what has been said. We will all be supportive of this. We are all aware of backlogged court systems. It is a trite statement on some level to say justice delayed is justice denied but it is very true. I remember doing jury duty and dealing with an assault case. I will not go into the ins and outs of it but the fact is we were dealing with something that had...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (Resumed) (19 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: He is very welcome. It is a kind of congratulations. I missed a considerable amount of this meeting. I read through Mr. McGarry's opening statement and probably missed all the important parts. However, the fact is that this is all about the port from a point of view of delivering offshore wind and renewables. Mr. McGarry's over-and-back with the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach dealt with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (Resumed) (19 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Is Mr. McGarry saying that, at some point in that period, there will be serious wind energy production?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (Resumed) (19 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Ten years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (Resumed) (19 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Yes, in my part of the world.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (Resumed) (19 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: What is the timeline?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (Resumed) (19 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: What will the proposed grid infrastructure be able to deal with? Is it fair to say, as some do, that we are not brave enough here and need to consider greater grid capacity and then a greater level of production? It is very easy to throw out figures.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (Resumed) (19 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: If we are producing a huge amount, we will need the capacity to deliver or sell.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (Resumed) (19 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: With some of the projects, we are talking ten years from now. Some of the projects on the east coast have been in play for a considerable amount of time. Even when nothing was happening, those concerned were keeping local politicians and others updated. In fairness, they have probably done more preplanning than anybody ever has. Some operations will have done it better than others. What...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (Resumed) (19 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is probably a matter of having a conversation with a number of the stakeholders on the plans and even where people envisage bumps on the road in front of us. That is before we talk about planning. What is it that the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, talked about? It was the competitive planning process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (Resumed) (19 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: And getting everyone's ducks in a row.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (Resumed) (19 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That would make sense. Would Mr. McGarry be free to go into detail on that? We are talking about the hiccups and the conversations the port is having. Obviously, we all got afraid when we heard that, beyond Belfast port, no port was fit for purpose as regards delivering. Mr. McGarry is working on the basis that a huge amount of work is being done on getting ducks in a row. Since the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (Resumed) (19 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Mr. McGarry is dealing with EirGrid and the planning process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (Resumed) (19 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Has the change in the state aid rules facilitated this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (Resumed) (19 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: They have been changed slightly recently but I get the point that this is critical infrastructure that relates to energy security matters. This should be a real conversation with the European Commission.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (Resumed) (19 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The committee has work to do on this. Mr. McGarry has laid out three or four issues. The big worry is speed. We needed it faster, quicker and better.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (Resumed) (19 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Will Mr. McGarry document some of this? For want of a better phrase, could we have it in bullet points?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate (Resumed) (19 Apr 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The system can fail to react.