Results 2,541-2,560 of 6,530 for speaker:Ruairí Ó Murchú

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I have to disagree with the Minister on one issue because I am not sure it is great to always have the kids in the back of the car. That statement should probably be struck from the record. I thank the Acting Chairman for his suggestion, which is a solid solution in relation to school transport. We know the service, which falls under the Minister's remit, has always been a mess. In...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: There is a wider issue in that we are looking for 40 temporary workers where the RSA thinks we need 40 permanent workers. It says it has that proposal in front of the Minister too. I think we have to do whatever we can to expedite that.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I do not see the need changing. We have spoken before about rail and electrification. We have been over and back on the matter of the Dublin-Belfast Enterprise service. I welcome that the right moves are being made to deliver this on a yearly basis. I was somewhat worried about the timeline. Can this be delivered at some point this year? Does the Minister have any information on this to...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I accept that with regard to regional development. Better connectivity to the North is finishing that piece of the east coast jigsaw that is absolutely necessary. I have seen this in a number of places. I thought the timeline was going to be longer. Are we talking about potentially delivering the hourly service this year?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I agree with the Minister. We have had a number of interactions about the National Cyber Security Centre, which has probably grown from when the conversation started. Many people were probably unaware of its existence until the HSE cyberattack. I am wondering about our state of readiness and the conversations that need to be had between the NCSC and others, whether critical infrastructure...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I agree. It is a race that one will never finish running. It is about ensuring we have all the required resources. I have an ancillary question. Have we looked into more directed spyware, which is used against high-value targets and has probably been used by a number of questionable regimes across the world? Pegasus is probably the most famous but there is also Predator. Unfortunately,...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is just something that I am putting on the agenda. In fairness, it has been put in the public domain by a number of journalists. The Pegasus issue was dealt with at a European Parliament level. This is obviously dangerous. Someone might target, for example, Deputy Eamon Ryan, take over his phone and, from their point of view, hopefully get information they could use against him. It is...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I have a quick final question. We have been dealing with the ComReg legislation. Particular legislation was brought in. We all accept, in the world we live in, that we need to ensure that communication infrastructure is secure. It is about making sure due diligence is carried out in respect of the information we are reliant on. I have no problem with us securing further assurances in that...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The Minister does not share the worries of some of these companies whereby they might find themselves in that situation of having to remove component A, B or C.

Report on the Summer Programme 2023: Motion [Private Members] (2 Feb 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I thank the Chairman of the committee, Senator Carrigy, for the report and my colleague Deputy Buckley for sponsoring it. I thank all the members of the committee for the work they have done. In particular, I thank them for the room they have made for me. From time to time, I might have overstepped the line regarding the speaking time I took. I will try not to do that today. The point...

Report on the Summer Programme 2023: Motion [Private Members] (2 Feb 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Deputy Canney should not take ten minutes.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Feb 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It was wrong and unfair that households struggling to pay bills were subsidising big business and large energy users. The Commission for Regulation of Utilities, CRU, failed to protect the public interest. That is why Sinn Féin has been pursuing this issue. The reason my colleague, Senator Boylan, submitted freedom of information requests on the issue was to get fairness for...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (2 Feb 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to the use of the rapid prompting method to assist learning for children with autism who are non-verbal in primary and secondary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4387/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (2 Feb 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 55. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the progress being made in the investigation into the death in Lebanon of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4386/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Strategies (2 Feb 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 62. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the progress in relation to plans for the protection of critical State infrastructure in the coming months and years, including against cyber and hybrid attacks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4385/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (2 Feb 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans in place in her Department to deliver a greater number of ASD units in County Louth, particularly to address the issue of creating additional space in a number of schools and other logistical difficulties; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4388/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I must apologise. I could say that I listened to everything from my office but it would not necessarily be the truth as I was trying to be in two or three places at one time and I failed miserably on all of them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I will definitely repeat a lot of what has been said before, so the witnesses should feel free to move through it fairly fast. I presume there has been much discussion on the €55 and on those who should have got the rebate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I have no doubt in that regard. On that, when do we believe we will be able to offer a fit-for-purpose system in regard to the timeline, and what is the timeline on that? When the witnesses were before the committee previously, we were talking about the end of quarter 1.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Is it still that?