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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Yes. The Chair dealt with my final point. We often have conversations in this forum on Shannon Airport. People talk about the regional imbalances and all the rest of it. Some of it could be down to where certain of the Deputies come from but occasionally there has been decent enough over-and-back, which IATA has probably added to. People generally say unless aviation policy changes we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Yes. Then in the best-case scenario what could be done and what would it take? In very general terms, I cannot count the number of people who have sat where Mr. Walsh is and said Shannon and the regional airports must be built into a new aviation policy. However, I am not sure anybody has specified what that would look like in order to deliver what people would like to see in the sense of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It has to survive on its own, however. It has to go out and sell itself. It is not going to be the Dublin plus or whatever.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: In fairness, the discussion followed on from the points I was making. It was a useful conversation. The big point Mr. Walsh has made is that the European open sky needs to happen as quickly as possible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I might just come in there, if I may.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Most of the issues have been dealt with. A few issues arose in recent years, such as the disaster of people starting to fly again more quickly than had been modelled for and so on. Does Mr. Walsh expect that the majority of those issues we have been dealing with will not arise again next summer?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is the sort of answer and brevity I was looking for. Mr. Walsh referred to training pilots. I am taking up this clientelist issue on the basis that somebody raised it with me. A young fella in Dundalk wants to be a pilot but is worried about the expense and so on. What are the means by which somebody can go about that? What is the cheapest, best and fastest route, for want of a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Are enough people being trained?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: How would somebody get connected to one of those schemes?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cost of Living Issues (15 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The Aire spoke about the electricity credits. In this regard, I would like to bring up an issue. Would it be possible to consider a bespoke solution for communal heating systems? Constituents of mine in Carlinn Hall have a gas-fed communal heating system that presents a particular anomaly. In the long term, the only solution is to change the source, but in the short term we need to...

Retained Firefighters: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I will take the positives from what the Minister said. There was acceptance the model for retained firefighters is not working and that the issues with pay, conditions, rostering and the fact the job is not attractive must be dealt with. That is why the firefighters are watching proceedings from the Gallery at the moment. It is the reason a huge amount of them made the journey to Dublin....

Science Week: Statements (15 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: A number of us in this House were lucky enough to attend a Literary and Historical Society debate in UCD. I will not talk about the result because I was robbed, but that is for somebody else to make a determination on. As I was leaving, a PhD student came up to Deputy Ó Ríordáin and I and spoke about the pressure they were under from a financial point of view. They said that...

Science Week: Statements (15 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Well, I am not the best computer programmer, and we can all agree on that. I would like to mention that transition year students in St. Louis Secondary School in Dundalk, alongside the transition year students in the Dominican College in Drumcondra, are involved in putting on “Science Week Live!”. It is on today, Monday, Wednesday and Friday and they are doing this...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Housing Provision (15 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [51679/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (15 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 132. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there are many Cvil Service pensions that were eligible for the pension increases that took place on 1 October 2022; the number of these pensions that have had the increases applied; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56373/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (15 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 512. To ask the Minister for Health when section 38 organisations, whose workers are entitled to the backdated pay increases awarded under building momentum and detailed under HR circular 025/2022, will be given the extra funding to award this back pay given that without additional funding these organisations cannot afford same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56200/22]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I will speak on amendments Nos. 53 and 54. Deputy Boyd Barrett has dealt with a considerable number of the issues and I will not hold the Minister and everybody else too long. All the witnesses we heard from in regard to the section 481 relief said it is an absolute necessity for ensuring we have a sustainable film industry. The problem is the intellectual property issues as they relate to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We probably did in the previous iteration. I did not want to-----

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Although I believe it would be an excellent end to any evening to have me speak for 20 minutes, I will not subject anyone to that. We have had a considerable amount of conversation on this Bill. We all realise the issues we have in society with regard to hate. I, like many of my Sinn Féin colleagues, welcome this legislation in principle but there are question marks over it. Many...