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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Many National Learning Network students have received letters stating they will not get the €500 disability support due to be paid on Monday, 14 November. That is people in receipt of disability allowance, invalidity pension, blind pension and carer's grant. When a National Learning Network student enters training, their disability allowance changes to a training allowance for the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Network (10 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I hope the Department conducts that review thoroughly. I accept that the Minister is aware of the stretch of road in question. Perhaps we must look at the modalities and protocols by which we deal with wide stretches of roads with a considerable volume of traffic because of an increased number of people living nearby. Schools in the area are thriving and we must ensure they are safe places...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Network (10 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 6. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the options open to a community (details supplied) in north County Louth, which is campaigning for traffic-calming measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54989/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Network (10 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: What options are open to the parents and community in and around Bellurgan National School in north Louth? These parents have been campaigning for a considerable time for traffic calming measures. There has been back and forth with many elected representatives, including myself, and, in particular, Councillor Antóin Watters, with the local authority and others. We have not been able...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Network (10 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: There is an element of frustration in me raising this issue. The parents have been out campaigning before school starts and alongside elected represented and others, to a degree, stopping traffic and more generally making a point of highlighting the dangers that are there. In fairness, the Minister has set out a number of options. I believe the local authority needs to be more proactive on...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Management (10 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 26. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration is being given to allowing parts of motorway hard shoulders to be used as bus corridors, such as the one going into Belfast; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54990/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Business Supports (10 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 127. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures under consideration to alleviate the huge increases in the cost of energy to small and medium businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54997/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (10 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 151. To ask the Minister for Finance the work being done in his Department to fix the anomaly by which many workers who live in the North and work in the South are precluded from working from home because of the significant revenue implications for their employers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54998/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Business Supports (10 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 195. To ask the Minister for Finance if the newly announced temporary business energy support scheme can be used by companies supplying heat through communal and district heating schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53088/22]

Water Policy: Statements (9 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I refer to the Acting Chair's own interaction with the Ceann Comhairle earlier in the debate. Hopefully, all Ministers responsible heard that it can be incredibly difficult to get decent communications from Irish Water. We have all said that we need to set a date for a referendum to enshrine public ownership of the water system in the Constitution. Beyond that, we want to make sure that...

Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I thank the Regional Group for bringing forward this welcome motion. We need supports for those who are suffering from long Covid. Some of them got Covid doing work society deemed necessary. I received a letter from Mary on behalf of her sister, Liz. It was also sent to me by other people, including friends of Liz. I will read out some of it: My sister, Liz, is a 56-year-old primary...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-UK relations and the implementation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I welcome the witnesses and I apologise if I am ignorant and walk out, but I am meant to be in two or three different places at the same time. I will do all of these very badly. We had Brexit, and I remember at one stage Peter Robinson in a pre-Brexit place talking about how secure the union was and we can make an argument as to whether he was right or wrong. Obviously, Brexit has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-UK relations and the implementation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I will listen back because I am going to run.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-UK relations and the implementation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I am going to go. I think it has changed circumstances, even in relation to some of the people in this room and across this island.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-UK relations and the implementation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I find it deeply offensive that the Senator is to leave when he heard that I was going to speak.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-UK relations and the implementation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I am deeply disappointed that Professor Shirlow has not come round to Irish unity. I thought that would have happened in the interim. In fairness, he-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-UK relations and the implementation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The Irish Government has a piece of work to do on that as well. In fairness, Professor Shirlow named his son very well. On the basis of what I heard and the synopsis, the mood music is better regarding the TCA and protocol. We do not have a crystal ball but Britain has bigger fish to fry at this point in time and Rishi Sunak is likely to be somewhat more pragmatic than previous Prime...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-UK relations and the implementation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Some of it was a general comment. I think that Dr. Petit has given the answer that mood music is better and we will see where we are going.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-UK relations and the implementation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: In relation to Professor Phinnemore, I said that the difficulty with Brexit is the streamlining. We all want to see that happen. The constitutional issue is in play. People vote for political parties for a pile of reasons. There are people who are having conversations now and I said that the possibility of a referendum in Scotland changes everything. Whether a British Government is...