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Anniversary of Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Motion (22 Feb 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: They must be busy.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Risk Assessment (22 Feb 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I am revisiting a question from yesterday. We all welcome the citizens’ assembly on drugs use. The war on drugs is dead and buried and we know we need health-led initiatives. I want to ask specifically about drug debt intimidation. It is a particular issue and we need to ensure it is front and centre in regard to the citizens’ assembly. We then need action afterwards, not...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Feb 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: There has been bad news about 240 job losses in Google's Irish workforce, and there have been constant worries about the tech sector. Like many of my constituents in Dundalk, I am worried about PayPal and its proposed 7% worldwide cut. What is our interaction with the tech sector? We are facing into a period of considerable job losses. While the tech sector will undoubtedly continue, I am...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Feb 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy and investment will next meet. [8145/23]

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: At this point, it has all been said. The position is very obvious. There have been considerable conversations about the absolute need for a ban on evictions. It is not foreseeable that this cannot be put in place. We must accept the situation in which we find ourselves. We can call it what we want but it is difficult not to call it an emergency and a crisis. We are dealing with a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I generally ask for leeway because I am not always great at staying within the parameters, but I will make sure I do not actually ask the Minister a question about the Irish protocol at this stage. The Minister spoke earlier about Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland schemes and the necessity of energy audits for companies. In making my point, I will give an example that is domestic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I am going to bring it back very quickly. We are talking about enterprises. If the system were replaced with a woodchip system, a third-party company could be got in that could avail of the support scheme for renewable heat. There are issues in relation to woodchip and planning law. In fairness to the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, it is involved in a feasibility study on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Have there been any discussions on geothermal energy and grant schemes? What is the possibility of something that would do the equivalent of what the support scheme for renewable heat would do for a company engaging in capital expenditure and putting in a woodchip boiler and all the rest of it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is using waste energy. We have an anomaly. I am thinking about the means of addressing it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Fair enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: No. My question is probably unfair, like many that I ask. All I am saying is that we will need some sort of grant scheme that will facilitate geothermal energy and that the two Departments must consider it. Remote working has been spoken about. There has been a huge increase in it across Europe and across international borders. Some tech-sector jobs are advertised as entailing remote...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: If only there was a solution to that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: And the Department of Social Protection. There are insurance questions and everything else.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I think we are constitutionally restricted from doing that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That was a very specific response to the question. The Minister spoke about modern technologies in house building. Deputy Farrell spoke about moving away from concrete. Since the Minister has entered this particular discussion space, has there been any major look at 3-D concrete printing, not only from the perspective of using less concrete but the science behind using alternatives forms...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Modular.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (21 Feb 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We all welcome the long-awaited citizens' assembly on drugs that is to commence in April. Many of us accept that the war on drugs is well and truly lost and see that our approach should be one of harm reduction and be health-led. We understand that our approach must also be about dealing with the substantial negative impacts on families and communities. However, I want to ensure we deal...